By Andreas Capellanus, John Jay Parry
After turning into popularized through the troubadours of southern France within the 12th century, the social process of 'courtly love' quickly unfold. facts of the impact of courtly love within the tradition and literature of such a lot of western Europe spans centuries. This unabridged version of codifies existence at Queen Eleanor's courtroom at Poitiers among 1170 and 1174 into 'one of these capital works which replicate the idea of an excellent epoch, which clarify the key of a civilization.' This translation of a piece which may be considered as didactic, mocking, or in simple terms descriptive, preserves the attitudes and practices that have been the root of a protracted and important culture in English literature.
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Atribuir algo a la propia opinión. —Evitar apostrofes e hipóstrofes. —Cortos. C. —Poco cuidadosa del hiato. —Dactilicas, anapésticas, peónicas, yámbicas y espondaicas. INTRODUCCIÓN 59 —Evitar las trocaicas y jónicas. —En pie no cataléctico. R. —Estable: debe terminar en nombre o expresión nomi nal de no menos de tres sílabas. —Doble espondeo o un epitrito en la pausa. —Vocal abierta en el último o penúltimo pie. 2. Aspereza (254-60) —Su contrario es la Dulzura. P. —Los que contienen abierta reprensión de personas su periores por parte de inferiores.
La preterición, explícita o sin mención expresa. —Hablar de forma muy simple, como en la Pureza y Simplicidad. D. —La pura y simple. —Como en Pureza y Simplicidad, si es que estos componentes son pertinentes. INTRODUCCIÓN 65 VI. S in c er id a d (352-63) P. —Los simples y, tal vez, los equitativos. —Los que expresan indignación. T. —Expresar las emociones directamente mediante el dis curso, sin anunciarlas de antemano. —Dar respuestas rápidas sin establecer un anuncio for mal. —Aparentar que se habla impulsado por el momento.
También se une a ella el concepto de elevación (díarma). Ónkos aparece con ese sentido ya en la Retórica de Aristóteles. Semnótes o semnós aparecían también en Isócrates. Aristóteles la cita en relación con lo heroico y lo megaloprepés. Teofrasto la cita junto a megaloprépeia y kallilogía, esto es, grandiosidad y belleza expresiva, pero no tiene en estos autores el valor específico de forma estilística. La citan también Demetrio, Longino y Ps. Aristides. Este último autor hace mención asimismo de sphodrótës y trachytes, pero sus caracteres aparecen asimilados, de modo que la segunda no tiene desarrollo, y habla sólo INTRODUCCIÓN 45 de la primera, que coincide con la trachytes de Hermó genes 9S.