Miraculous Rhymes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Miraculous Rhymes write by Tony Hunt. This book was released on 2007. Miraculous Rhymes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first published general study of an unduly neglected writer whose stylistic legacy remains unique in the Middle Ages. The well-connected, northern-French monk and musician Gautier de Coinci (1177/8-1236) occupies an unassailable position as one of the most exceptional vernacular writers of the Middle Ages, concerning whom there is nevertheless nofull length study in English. In a meticulously planned and supervised collection of miracles of Our Lady, which survive in a remarkable number of manuscripts, some beautifully illustrated, Gautier deploys his outstanding talentsas a composer of songs, an acerbic satirist, an audacious inventor of rich and equivocal rhymes (of a virtuosity unparalleled before the "Grands Rhetoriqueurs" on the eve of the Renaissance), a confident lexical innovator, an exuberant exponent of rhetorical wordplay, an incisive observer of contemporary society, and a man of profound personal piety. This study of word-patterning in Gautier seeks to compensate for the dearth of stylistic studies ofOld French and to examine in detail the relationship between rhetoric and religion, "courtoisie" and Mariolatry, aristocratic tastes and the way to spiritual renewal. Gautier's writing strategy is shown to be a means to rise beyond secular, aristocratic values by building on them and transcending them rather than opposing and rejecting them. TONY HUNT is a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford.
The Medieval Literary
The Medieval Literary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Medieval Literary write by Robert J. Meyer-Lee. This book was released on 2018. The Medieval Literary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays studying the relationship between literariness and form in medieval texts.
Lyric Tactics
Lyric Tactics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lyric Tactics write by Ingrid Nelson. This book was released on 2017-01-13. Lyric Tactics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Lyric Tactics, Ingrid Nelson argues that the lyric poetry of later medieval England is a distinct genre defined not by its poetic features—rhyme, meter, and stanza forms—but by its modes of writing and performance, which are ad hoc, improvisatory, and situational.
Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries
Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries write by Helen Hickey. This book was released on 2018-10-18. Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The chapters are linked by the organic and naturally occurring affinities that emerge from Trigg's ongoing legacy; containing diverse methodological approaches and themes, they engage with Chaucer through ecocriticism, medieval literary and historical criticism, and medievalism. The contributors, trailblazing international specialists in their respective fields, honour Trigg's distinctive and energetic mode of enquiry (the symptomatic long history) and intellectual contribution to the humanities. At the same time, their approaches exemplify shifting trends in Chaucer scholarship. Like Chaucer's pilgrims, these scholars speak to and alongside each other, but their essays are also attentive to 'hearing Chaucer speak' then, now and in the future.
The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry
The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry write by Jennifer Saltzstein. This book was released on 2013. The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A survey of the use of the refrain in thirteenth and fourteenth-century French music and poetry, showing how it was skilfully deployed to assert the validity of the vernacular. The relationship between song quotation and the elevation of French as a literary language that could challenge the cultural authority of Latin is the focus of this book. It approaches this phenomenon through a close examination of the refrain, a short phrase of music and text quoted intertextually across thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century musical and poetic genres. The author draws on a wide range of case studies, from motets, trouvère song, plays, romance, vernacular translations, and proverb collections, to show that medieval composers quoted refrains as vernacular auctoritates; she argues that their appropriation of scholastic, Latinate writing techniques workedto authorize Old French music and poetry as media suitable for the transmission of knowledge. Beginning with an exploration of the quasi-scholastic usage of refrains in anonymous and less familiar clerical contexts, the book goeson to articulate a new framework for understanding the emergence of the first two named authors of vernacular polyphonic music, the cleric-trouvères Adam de la Halle and Guillaume de Machaut. It shows how, by blending their craftwith the writing practices of the universities, composers could use refrain quotation to assert their status as authors with a new self-consciousness, and to position works in the vernacular as worthy of study and interpretation. Jennifer Saltzstein is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Oklahoma.
