Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one's own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Towards Modernity
Jonathan Fruoco
Part One: Machaut and Musical Polyphony
Chapter I. The Polyphony of Function: Mixing Text and Music in Guillaume de Machaut
Uri Smilansky
Chapter II. The Multilevel Polyphony of Machaut's Livre dou Voir Dit and its Afterlife
Rosemarie McGerr
Part Two: Polyphony in Medieval Europe
Chapter III. Cemeteries and Tombstones as Polyphonic Places in the French Medieval Quest of Lancelot
Laurence Doucet
Chapter IV. Polyphonic Effects in the Fixed-Form Verse of Eustache Deschamps: A Critical Practice
Laura Kendrick
Chapter V. 'Galeotto fu il libro e chi lo scrisse': Liminal Polyvocality in the Occitan Literary Use of Dante
Paola M. Rodriguez
Chapter VI. Novelistic Perspectivism in Béroul's Roman de Tristan
Teodoro Patera
Chapter VII. Textual Voices in Compilation: Reading the Polyphony of Medieval Manuscripts
Amy Heneveld
Chapter VIII. Wolfram and the Ambiguity of the Religious Question in the Willehalm
Patrick del Duca
Part Three: From Medieval England to the Early Modern
Chapter IX. Chaucer's Speech and Thought Representation in Troilus and Criseyde: Encoded Subjectivities and Semantic Extension
Yoshiyuki Nakao
Chapter X Chaucer and the Streams of Parnassus
Paul Strohm
Chapter XI. " Tis more ancient than Chaucer Himself": Keats and Romantic Polyphony
Caroline Bertonèche
Part Four: Towards Modernity
Chapter XII. Evelina's "Pollyphony"
Anne Rouhette
Chapter XIII. The Whirl of the Red, Green, and Blue: Christopher Anstey and the Particoloured Poem
Peter Merchant
Chapter XIV. Towards Modernity. Nova et Vetera in Paul Claudel's Book of Christopher Colombus
Jean-François Poisson-Gueffier
