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Marie de France and the Poetics of Memory presents the first exhaustive treatment of the rhetorical use of description and memory in all the narrative works of the late 12th-century poet, Marie de France--the first woman to compose literary texts in French.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. p. vii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-7
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  1. 1. Marie de France’s Rhetorical Foundation
  2. pp. 9-33
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  1. 2. The Prologues and the Epilogues
  2. pp. 35-60
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  1. 3. The Lais
  2. pp. 61-101
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  1. 4. The Fables
  2. pp. 103-135
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  1. 5. The Espurgatoire seint Patriz and La vie seinte Audree
  2. pp. 137-173
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  1. Conclusion
  2. pp. 175-179
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  1. Appendix A. Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae and Praeexercitamina
  2. pp. 181-183
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  1. Appendix B. Table of Extant Medieval Manuscripts of Marie de France’s Isopet
  2. pp. 184-185
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 187-198
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 199-208
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