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Machaut's legacy the judgment poetry tradition in the later middle ages and beyond

Title
Machaut's legacy [electronic resource] : the judgment poetry tradition in the later middle ages and beyond / edited by R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman.
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2017.

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Additional Authors
  • Palmer, R. Barton, 1946-
  • Kimmelman, Burt.
Description
1 online resource (xxvii, 308 pages) : illustrations.
Summary
Machaut's Legacy offers the first comprehensive discussion of the artistic legacy of Guillaume de Machaut, the most important poet and musician of the later Middle Ages, with the book offering twelve chapters detailing his influence on and connection to writers from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Roth.
Uniform Title
Machaut's legacy (Online)
Subject
  • Guillaume, de Machaut, approximately 1300-1377 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Narrative poetry, French > History and criticism
  • Middle Ages > Poetry
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Preface: Machaut and the late medieval dit / R. Barton Palmer -- Introduction / Burt Kimmelman -- Political and literary authorities: the place of judgment -- Judgment at court: open thought and prudent dissimulation in the anonymous Livre du Tresor Amoureux / Douglas Kelly -- "Le contraire effacies": challenging literary and political authority in Guillaume de Machaut, Alain Chartier, and medieval French debate poetry / Emma Cayley -- Courting controversy? Poetic manipulations of politics in the mid-fifteenth century / Helen Swift -- Adaptations and appropriations -- The Machaut map: Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, the diegetic self, and pre-renaissance individualism in Northern Europe / Burt Kimmelman -- True colors: the significance of Machaut's and Chaucer's use of blue to represent fidelity / Elizaveta Strakhov -- The judge as reader, the reader as judge: literary and legal judgment in Dante, Machaut, and Gower / Rosemarie McGerr -- Bohemian Gower: Confessio Amantis, Queen Anne, and Machaut's judgment poems / Linda Burke -- Polarized debates, ambivalent judgments: the jugement behaigne and the confessio amantis / Lewis Beer -- Lasting influence -- Proust and the amorous fountain: secret architecture or suppressed source? / Camille Naish -- Authorial second lives: Machaut, Chaucer, and Philip Roth / R. Barton Palmer.
LCCN
2017030434
OCLC
ssj0001872084
Title
Machaut's legacy [electronic resource] : the judgment poetry tradition in the later middle ages and beyond / edited by R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman.
Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2017.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Palmer, R. Barton, 1946-
Kimmelman, Burt.
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