Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Enders, Jody

Titel

The Dramatic Violence of Invention

Ist Teil von

• The Medieval Theater of Cruelty, 2018, p.25-62

Ort / Verlag

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The skill of invention, writes Geoffrey of Vinsauf in the thirteenth-centuryPoetria nova, “does not come easily or without labor.” In a treatise that fashions literature as a rhetorical enterprise and rhetoric as a literary one, he explains that poetry, rhetoric, and rhetorical poetics are generated brutally through a kind of self-torture in which the poet/rhetor is both agent and victim: Non venit ex facili res ista nee absque labore: Sed mens quando studet, tanquam pugil, anxia pugnat. Pugnat enim secum. Petit ut sibi consulat, et non Consulit ipsa sibi. Repetit patiturque repulsam Ipsa secunda sibi: ferventius instat et ipsa