César Domínguez. El concepto de materia en la teoría literaria del medievo. Creación, interpretación y transtextualidad. Anejos de Revista de Literatura, nº 62. Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Instituto de la Lengua Española, 2004

Abstract

César Domínguez somewhat breaks the rigid structuring schemes of French medieval literature and with his book manages to make the reader understand the processes of creation and reception of this literature. He focuses on matter, something that hasn't been given much prominence in this context until now. He develops the concept of matter in two phases: the main and the secondary, and affirms that it is part of the invention. In his book, Domínguez reviews other related terms, such as dispositio, elocutio, thema, archetypus, etc., and each chapter breaks down the importance of these and of the subject within Gallic medieval literature until all the arguments are gathered at the end from the book.