The song of Troilus : lyric authority in the medieval book

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The song of Troilus : lyric authority in the medieval book

Title remainder

lyric authority in the medieval book

Statement of responsibility

Thomas C. Stillinger

Creator

• Stillinger, Thomas C

Subject

• Authority in literature
• Authority in literature
• Autorité dans la littérature
• Boccaccio, Giovanni
• Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
• Chaucer, Geoffrey
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, approximately 1340-1400
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Dante (Alighieri)
• Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
• Electronic books
• Guerre de Troie dans la littérature
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Influence littéraire, artistique, etc
• Intertextuality
• Intertextuality
• Intertextualité
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval
• Literature, Medieval
• Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
• Littérature médiévale -- Histoire et critique
• POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Rhetoric, Medieval
• Rhetoric, Medieval
• Rhétorique médiévale
• Troilus (Legendary character) in literature
• Troilus (Legendary character) in literature
• Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
• Trojan War
• Trojan War -- Literature and the war
• Troïlos (Personnage légendaire) dans la littérature
• Vita nuova (Dante Alighieri)
• Auctoritas

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

The Song of Troilis traces the origins of modern authorship in the formal experimentation of medieval writers. Thomas C. Stillinger analyzes a sequence of narrative books that are in some way constructed around lyric poems: Dante's Vita Nuova, Boccaccio's Filostrato, and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. The shared aim of these texts, he argues, is to imagine and achieve an unprecedented auctoritas: a "lyric authority" that combines the expressive subjectivity of courtly love poetry with the impersonal authority of Biblical commentary. Each of the three establishes its own formal and intertextual dynamics; in complex and unexpected ways, the hierarchies of Latin learning are charged with erotic force, allowing the creation of a new vernacular Book of Love. The Song of Troilus is a linked series of incisive close readings. Each chapter defines and investigates a range of philological, intertextual, and theoretical problems: in addition to explicating his three principal texts, Stillinger offers important insights into a range of medieval traditions, from Psalm commentary to Trojan historiography to Ricardian political satire. At the same time, the Song of Troilus is a sophisticated narrative of cultural change and a searching meditation on history, desire, and writing. The Song of Troilus is an original and highly readable study of three major medieval texts; it will be of compelling interest to students and scholars of medieval literature, and to all those exploring the history of authorship and the implications of literary form

Member of

• Middle Ages series

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Middle Ages series