UID:
almahu_9949707704602882
Format:
1 online resource (325 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780813070254
Content:
This book examines the rise of an influential new family ofpoetry in the late Middle Ages, analyzing why the allegorical first-personromance embedded itself in the vernacular literature of Western Europe andremained popular for more than two centuries.
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Allegory and the Poetic Self -- First-Person Narration in Late Medieval Literature -- Part I. Authorship and Authorial Identity -- 2. Once Again the Authorship of the Roman de la Rose -- 3. The Roles of the "I" in Machaut's Jugement Poems, from Narrator to Accused -- 4. René d'Anjou and His Textual Models -- 5. Polymorphic Self-Narration in Le livre du Chevalier errant of Thomas III of Saluzzo -- Part II. Focusing the Narrator -- 6. Narration and Personification Allegory in Machaut's Vergier -- 7. First-Person Allegory and the Concept of the Unreliable Narrator -- 8. The Heart in the Minnelehre, the Roman de la Poire, and the Livre du Cœur d'amour épris -- 9. Boundaries of Form and Subject in Fifteenth-Century Dits -- Part III. Love and Desire between Tradition and Subjectivity -- 10. Dueling Models of Desire: Ovid and Boethius in the Rose and the Dit Amoureux -- 11. Boccaccio's Amorosa Visione: The Search for Wholeness in the Spirit of Erotic Pleasure -- 12. Frustrating Autobiography: The Examples of Libro de buen amor and Cárcel de amor -- 13. The Semantics of Love and Narrative Ground in Guiraut Riquier's Libre -- 14. Glossing the "Text" of Love: First-Person Narration and the Performative Self in Hadamar von Laber's Jagd -- 15. Postscript -- Primary Source Dates -- Select Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Palmer, R. Barton Allegory and the Poetic Self Gainesville : University Press of Florida,c2022 ISBN 9780813069517
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
