Machaut's legacy : the judgment poetry tradition in the later middle ages and beyond / edited by R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- editor.

Kimmelman, Burt, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guillaume, de Machaut, approximately 1300-1377--Criticism and interpretation.

Guillaume.

Guillaume, de Machaut, approximately 1300-1377.

Narrative poetry, French--History and criticism.

Narrative poetry, French.

Middle Ages--Poetry.

Middle Ages.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Poetry.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]

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.

Contents:

Preface: Machaut and the late medieval dit / R. Barton Palmer

Introduction / Burt Kimmelman

Part I. 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

Part II. 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

Part III. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813062419

0813062411

OCLC:

982651137