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The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona

The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona

Kimmelman, Burt
Mermier, Guy R.

Paperback

Series: Studies in the Humanities, Book 21

Literary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0820445673
ISBN13: 9780820445670
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc Intl Academic P
Published: Sep 1 1999
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Literary individualism first manifests itself in the twelfth century in word puzzles and overt self-naming, as well as in discussions about the nature of writing and the role of the poet in the world. Guillem IX, Marcabru, Dante, Chaucer, and Langland were poets and intellectuals. This engaging study traces their claims of authorship, not to a need for what modernity views as self-promotion, but rather to their interests in contemporary philosophical debates. Yet in their creations of both history and fiction, these poets anticipated modern narrative and its literary persona.

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