The Song of Troilus : Lyric Authority in the Medieval Book /

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The Song of Troilis traces the origins of modern authorship in the formal experimentation of medieval writers. Thomas C. Stillinger analyzes a sequence of narrative books that are in some way constructed around lyric poems: Dante's Vita Nuova, Boccaccio's Filostrato, and Chaucer's Tro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stillinger, Thomas C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey. > Troilus and Criseyde.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. > Filostrato.
Dante (Alighieri). > Vita nuova.
Dante Alighieri, > 1265-1321. > Vita nuova.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, > 1313-1375. > Filostrato.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > approximately 1340-1400. > Troilus and Criseyde.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Troilus and Criseyde.
Vita nuova (Dante Alighieri)
Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Auctoritas
Troilus (Legendary character) in literature.
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Literature, Medieval.
Intertextuality.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Authority in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Autorite dans la litterature.
Guerre de Troie dans la litterature.
Troïlos (Personnage legendaire) dans la litterature.
Intertextualite.
Rhetorique medievale.
Influence litteraire, artistique, etc.
Litterature medievale > Histoire et critique.
Trojan War > Literature and the war.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • IntroductioN. "Of Making Many Books."
  • Sacra pagina
  • Dante's divisions: structures of authority in the Vita nuova
  • Dante's divisions: the history of division
  • The form of Filostrato
  • The form of Troilus: Boccaccio, Chaucer, and the picture of history
  • Sailing to Charybdis: the second Canticus Troili and the contexts of Chaucer's Troilus
  • Afterword. Looking Back.

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