The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages
The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona
©1996
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XII,
290 Pages
Series:
Studies in the Humanities, Volume 21
Summary
Literary individualism first manifests itself in the twelfth century in word puzzles and overt self-naming, as well as in discussions about the nature of writing and the role of the poet in the world. Guillem IX, Marcabru, Dante, Chaucer, and Langland were poets and intellectuals. This engaging study traces their claims of authorship, not to a need for what modernity views as self-promotion, but rather to their interests in contemporary philosophical debates. Yet in their creations of both history and fiction, these poets anticipated modern narrative and its literary persona.
Details
- Pages
- XII, 290
- Publication Year
- 1996
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9780820445670
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- individualism self-promotion history
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1996, 1999. XII, 290 pp.
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