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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Other Authors: Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- (Editor), Philipowski, Katharina-Silke (Editor), Rüthemann, Julia (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2022].
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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.