Allegory and the Poetic Self: First-Person Narration in Late Medieval Literature, ed R. Barton Palmer, Katharina Philipowski, and Julia Rüthermann. Gainesville, Tallahasse, et al.: University Press of Florida, 2022, vii, 316 pp.

Narratologically speaking, the emergence of the poetic “I” in late medieval and early modern European literature constitutes a major benchmark of a long-term paradigm shift which ultimately transcended into the Baroque novel written entirely from the first-person perspective, such as the anonymous Spanish