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University Press of Florida, Gainesville
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...
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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 -- From the Narrating to the Accused "I" in Machaut's Jugement poems / Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet -- Ren' d'Anjou and His Textual Models / Kevin Brownlee -- Polymorphic Self-Narration in Le livre du Chevalier errant by Thomas III of Saluzzo / Rober Fajen -- Part II. Focusing the Narrator -- I-Narration and Allegorical Dialogue in Machaut's Dit dou Vergier and Prologue / 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 C'ur d'Amour pris / 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 El Libro de buen amor and Cárcel de amor -- 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. "This book examines the rise of an influential new family of poetry in the late Middle Ages, analyzing why the allegorical first-person romance embedded itself in the vernacular literature of Western Europe and remained popular for more than two centuries"-- "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, creating an experimental new family of poetry. In this volume, contributors analyze why the allegorical first-person romance embedded itself in the vernacular literature of Western Europe and remained popular for more than two centuries. The editors identify and discuss three predominant forms within this family: debate poetry, dream allegories, and autobiographies. Contributors offer textual analyses of key works from late medieval German, French, Italian, and Iberian literature, with discussion of developments in England, as well. Allegory and the Poetic Self offers a sophisticated, theoretically current discussion of relevant literature. This exploration of medieval "I" narratives offers insights not just into the premodern period but also into Western literature's subsequent traditions of self-analysis and identity crafting through storytelling"--
