Reading in the Renaissance
Amadis de Gaule and the lessons of memory
by Marian Rothstein
"Amadis de Gaule may well have been France's first real best-seller. When it first appeared, in 1540, Amadis attracted the smart crowd - court circles and rich bourgeois. Its early editions are large luxury folios, dedicated to members of the royal family. But some twenty years after the Amadis phenomenon started, it ended. References to it in the last quarter of the sixteenth century tend to be either nostalgic or critical.
This book uses the rise and fall of Amadis de Gaule as a case study of the time-bound nature of readers' reading. The rhetorical, narrative, and memorial techniques of Amadis also appear in other contemporary works where they have received little notice."--BOOK JACKET.
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Amadís de Gaula (Spanish romance), Books and reading, History, History and criticism, Translations into French, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Literature, modern (collections), 15th and 16th centuries, Literature and fiction, history, criticism, etc.Places
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Reading in the Renaissance: Amadis de Gaule and the lessons of memory
1999, University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses
in English
0874136687 9780874136685
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-187) and index.
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