The song of Troilus : lyric authority in the medieval book /
The Song of Troilis traces the origins of modern authorship in the formal experimentation of medieval writers. Thomas C. Stillinger analyzes a sequence of narrative books that are in some way constructed around lyric poems: Dante's Vita Nuova, Boccaccio's Filostrato, and Chaucer's Tro...
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| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©1992.
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| Loạt: | Middle Ages series.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt17mvh7f |
| Tóm tắt: | The Song of Troilis traces the origins of modern authorship in the formal experimentation of medieval writers. Thomas C. Stillinger analyzes a sequence of narrative books that are in some way constructed around lyric poems: Dante's Vita Nuova, Boccaccio's Filostrato, and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. The shared aim of these texts, he argues, is to imagine and achieve an unprecedented auctoritas: a "lyric authority" that combines the expressive subjectivity of courtly love poetry with the impersonal authority of Biblical commentary. Each of the three establishes its own formal and intertextual dynamics; in complex and unexpected ways, the hierarchies of Latin learning are charged with erotic force, allowing the creation of a new vernacular Book of Love. The Song of Troilus is a linked series of incisive close readings. Each chapter defines and investigates a range of philological, intertextual, and theoretical problems: in addition to explicating his three principal texts, Stillinger offers important insights into a range of medieval traditions, from Psalm commentary to Trojan historiography to Ricardian political satire. At the same time, the Song of Troilus is a sophisticated narrative of cultural change and a searching meditation on history, desire, and writing. The Song of Troilus is an original and highly readable study of three major medieval texts; it will be of compelling interest to students and scholars of medieval literature, and to all those exploring the history of authorship and the implications of literary form. |
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| Mô tả sách: | Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis, Cornell University. |
| Mô tả vật lý: | 1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations |
| Định dạng: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Thư mục: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index. |
| số ISBN: | 0585172919 9780585172910 9781512809442 1512809446 0812231449 9780812231441 |