Allegory and the poetic self : first-person narration in late medieval literature /
The rise of an influential new family of poetry in the Middle Ages This book is the first collective examination of Late Medieval intimate first-person narratives that blurred the lines between author, narrator and protagonist and usually feature personification allegory and courtly love tropes, cre...
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Allegory and the Poetic Self: First Person Narration in Late Medieval Literature / Katharina Philipowski and Julia Rüthemann
- Part I. Authorship and Authorial Identity
- Once Again the Authorship of the Roman de la Rose / David Hult
- The Roles of the "I" in Machaut's Jugement poems, from Narrator to Accused / Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
- René d'Anjou and His Textual Models / Kevin Brownlee
- Polymorphic Self-Narration in Le livre du Chevalier errant of Thomas III of Saluzzo / Rober Fajen
- Part II. Focusing the Narrator
- Narration and Personification Allegory in Machaut's Vergier / R. Barton Palmer
- First-Person Allegory and the Concept of the Unreliable Narrator / Sonja Glauch
- The Heart in the Minnelehre, the Roman de la Poire and the Livre du Cœur d'Amour épris / Julia Rüthemann
- Boundaries of Form and Subject in Fifteenth-Century dits / Helen Swift
- Part III. Love and Desire between Tradition and Subjectivity
- Dueling Models of Desire: Ovid and Boethius in the Rose and the Dit Amoureux / Sylvia Huot
- Boccaccio's Amorosa Visione: The Search for Wholeness in the Spirit of Erotic Pleasure / Friedrich Wolfzettel
- Frustrating Autobiography: The Examples of Libro de buen amor and Cárcel de amor / Laurence de Looze
- The Semantics of Love and Narrative Ground in Guiraut Riquier's Libre / Susanne A. Friede
- Glossing the "Text" of Love: First-Person Narration and the Performative Self in Hadamar von Laber's Jagd / Christian Schneider
- Postscript / R. Barton Palmer.