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Article: Douglas Kelly, The Conspiracy of Allusion: Description, Rewriting and Authorship from Macrobius to Medieval Romance.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2002
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Studies in the History of Christian Thought 97 (Leiden: Brill, 1999), xiv + 313 pp. ISBN 90-04-11560-0. $100.00.
This latest book from one of the great authorities on French romance makes a dense, illuminating, but at times somewhat disjointed contribution to the expanding literature on medieval intertextuality (although the word `intertextuality' itself is rarely used, Kelly preferring to refer to the phenomenon in medieval rather than in modern terms). Its central argument is that Chretien de Troyes and his fellow romanciers practised an art of description derived from Macrobius, expounded in commentaries on Horace's Ars poetica, and learned through classroom ...
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