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Joaquín Martínez Pizarro.
A Rhetoric of the Scene: Dramatic Narrative in the Early Middle Ages.
Publisher: Toronto U.P., 1989.
ISBN 0802057543;
ISBN-13 9780802057549.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in Canada.
Size: 156x234x27mm.
Page count: viii,280pp.
Main language: English; quotations generally given with a following translation.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild scuffs on the dustjacket, some wear on its edges and corners; boards starting to warp a bit, some foxing on the page edges; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 614g.

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Traces the development of the scene as a narrative element, drawing especially on early historiographical writing such as that of Gregory of Tours, Paul the Deacon, Agnellus of Ravenna, Notker Balbulus, and Byzantine narrative, and suggests how this interracts with the development of more specifically literary texts.

Contents: Sources & models; Scenes & speeches; Gestures; Things; Conclusion — posterity of a style.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 3, monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 22pp
Index: yes

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