UID:
edocfu_9958353342402883
Format:
1 online resource :
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2 illus.
ISBN:
9781512809442
Series Statement:
The Middle Ages Series
Content:
The Song of Troilus 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, Bocaccio'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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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A Note on Texts and Translations --
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Introduction “Of Making Many Books . . .” --
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1. Sacra Pagina --
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2. Dante’s Divisions: Structures of Authority in the Vita Nuova --
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3. Dante’s Divisions: The History of Division --
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4. The Form of Filostrato --
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5. The Form of Troilus: Boccaccio, Chaucer, and the Picture of History --
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6. Sailing to Charybdis: The Second Canticus Troili and the Contexts of Chaucer’s Troilus --
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Afterword. Looking Back --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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Backmatter
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9781512809442
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512809442
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