Faire long

"Medieval amplification, which deeply irrigates the poetics of texts, is generally understood in its sense of 'making long', of 'lengthening'. But amplification is also envisaged, in counterpoint and in complementarity - of after its Latin definition of 'to enhance, to raise the subject' - in its faculty of constriction which, privileging the brevitas instead of the copia, causes the emergence of meaning in its brute force. The different figures which constitute it provide the narrative with protocols descriptive, narrative outlines, lyrical scores, which are a mode of exploration of the world and knowledge and a gradual entry into the intimate of societies. The articles gathered in this volume examine, tested by genre texts and from different registers, periods and backgrounds, the inventive range of practices.These testify to the extraordinary creative and intertextual effervescence of medieval literature, the amplification of which is undoubtedly the essence and 'soul'."--Google Books.