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Note publique d'information : This long tradition would certainly not be a reason in itself to keep or restore the
subject, had it not something to do with the subject itself. All of the associations
between the past and literature, all of the signs that point towards an essential
link between the notion of literature and a feeling for the past, are crystallized
in medieval literature. The curiosity that medieval literature has aroused since it
was rediscovered at the dawn of Romanticism presupposes such associations. The very
forms of this literature bear indications of them. They encourage us to consider jointly
the interest of modern times in the medieval past and the signs of the past with which
the Middle Ages marked its own literature. Even more, they invite us to seek in the
relationship with the past a defining criterion for literature, a most necessary task
with reference to a time when words are not understood in their modern sense, and
there is no guarantee that a corresponding notion exists. The best reason to continue
with this hundred-and-fifty-year-old teaching is that its object may not even exist
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