Polyphony and the Modern

Herausgeber: Fruoco, Jonathan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one's own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781032006642
• ISBN-10: 1032006641
• Artikelnr.: 67823650

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Fruoco is an independent scholar. His research focuses on the linguistic and cultural evolution of medieval England, with a particular interest in the work of Geoffrey Chaucer and its connection with French and Italian courtly poetry. He has recently published Les faits et gestes de Robin des Bois (2017) and Chaucer's Polyphony: The Modern in Medieval Poetry (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Towards Modernity
Jonathan Fruoco
Part One: Machaut and Musical Polyphony
Chapter I. The Polyphony of Function: Mixing Text and Music in Guillaume de
Machaut
Uri Smilansky
Chapter II. The Multilevel Polyphony of Machaut's Livre dou Voir Dit and
its Afterlife
Rosemarie McGerr
Part Two: Polyphony in Medieval Europe
Chapter III. Cemeteries and Tombstones as Polyphonic Places in the French
Medieval Quest of Lancelot
Laurence Doucet
Chapter IV. Polyphonic Effects in the Fixed-Form Verse of Eustache
Deschamps: A Critical Practice
Laura Kendrick
Chapter V. 'Galeotto fu il libro e chi lo scrisse': Liminal Polyvocality in
the Occitan Literary Use of Dante
Paola M. Rodriguez
Chapter VI. Novelistic Perspectivism in Béroul's Roman de Tristan
Teodoro Patera
Chapter VII. Textual Voices in Compilation: Reading the Polyphony of
Medieval Manuscripts
Amy Heneveld
Chapter VIII. Wolfram and the Ambiguity of the Religious Question in the
Willehalm
Patrick del Duca
Part Three: From Medieval England to the Early Modern
Chapter IX. Chaucer's Speech and Thought Representation in Troilus and
Criseyde: Encoded Subjectivities and Semantic Extension
Yoshiyuki Nakao
Chapter X Chaucer and the Streams of Parnassus
Paul Strohm
Chapter XI. "¿Tis more ancient than Chaucer Himself": Keats and Romantic
Polyphony
Caroline Bertonèche
Part Four: Towards Modernity
Chapter XII. Evelina's "Pollyphony"
Anne Rouhette
Chapter XIII. The Whirl of the Red, Green, and Blue: Christopher Anstey and
the Particoloured Poem
Peter Merchant
Chapter XIV. Towards Modernity. Nova et Vetera in Paul Claudel's Book of
Christopher Colombus
Jean-François Poisson-Gueffier