Polyphony and the Modern

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Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction: Towards Modernity
Notes
Part One Machaut and Musical Polyphony
1 The Polyphony of Function: Mixing Text and Music in Guillaume de Machaut
Structural Polyphonies in Fourteenth-Century Music
The Polyphonies of Performance
Words Set to Music
Notes
Works Cited
2 The Multilevel Polyphony of machaut’s Livre Dou Voir Dit and Its Afterlife
The Voir Dit and Dialogism in Medieval Lyric Genres
The Voir Dit and the Letters of Peter Abelard and heloise d’Argenteuil
The Voir Dit and the Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Voir Dit and Bakhtin’s Concept of Narrative Polyphony
Notes
Works Cited
Part Two Polyphony in Medieval europe
3 Cemeteries and Tombstones As Polyphonic Places in the French Medieval Quest of Lancelot
Tombs as Social Places
An Opening in the Afterlife: The Presence of Death in the Poem
Epitaph Revealing the Future
Lancelot Enters in the World of the Dead
The Prose Narration
The Test of the Painful Guard
The Holy Cemetery
Ban of Benoic’s Tomb
The Language and the Authors
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
4 Polyphonic Effects in the Fixed-Form Verse of Eustache Deschamps: A Critical Practice
Contradictory Dialogue or Debate Between a First-Person Speaker and an Externalised “Other”
Dialogic Monologue by an “other” Different From the poet in Gender, Social Status, or Culture
Dialogical Monologue that Combines Two Languages, Speech Registers, or Dialects
Bivocal Effects of Verbal Irony
Polyvocal Parody
Pastoral Discussions and Debates
Notes
Works Cited
5 “Galeotto Fu il Libro E chi Lo Scrisse”: Liminal Polyvocality in the Occitan Literary Use of Dante
Notes
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6 Novelistic Perspectivism in béroul’s Roman De Tristan
Perspectivism: Telling One’s Own Story
Narrative Conflicts
Notes
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7 Textual Voices in Compilation: Reading the Polyphony of Medieval Manuscripts
From “novele” to the Modern: Polyphony As Practice
Polyphony As Thought Process
The Medieval Book As Polyphonic
BnF f. fr. 837
BnF f. fr. 25566
Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Codex 82
Polyphonic Reading, Polyphonic Listening
Notes
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8 Wolfram and the Ambiguity of the Religious Question in the Willehalm
Religious Dialogue and the Notion of Tolerance in the Middle Ages
The Different Voices of the Willehalm
The Ambivalence of Wolfram’s Romance
Notes
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Part Three From Medieval England to the Early Modern
9 Chaucer’s Speech and Thought Representation in Troilus and Criseyde: Encoded Subjectivities and semantic Extension
Introduction
Previous Scholarship and Research Question
Previous Scholarship
Method
A Hierarchy of Subjectivities Encoded in Chaucer’s STR
Types of Chaucer’s STR
Data and Discussion
Criseyde and Pandarus: Criseyde’s Speech On the “The Siege of Thebes”
Narrator and Criseyde: the Narrator’s Description of Troilus’s triumphant Return to Troy
Narrator and Pandarus: The Narrator’s Description of “a Reyn From Heven”
Narrator and Criseyde: The Narrator’s Description of How criseyde Is to Accept Troilus Into Bed
Criseyde’s Monologue: Criseyde’s Betrayal of Troilus and her Divided Subjectivities
Troilus and Pandarus: Troilus’s and Pandarus’s Seeing One thing But in Different Ways
Narrator and Troilus: Troilus’s Dream of a Boar and Criseyde Holding and Kissing Each Other
Conclusion
Notes
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10 Chaucer and the Streams of Parnassus
“Modern” Chaucer
Shutting the Door On Chaucer
Sealed in Lead
Early Modern (That is, Polyphonic) Chaucer
Chaucer’s Polyphony
Notes
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11 “‘tis More Ancient Than Chaucer Himself”: Keats and Romantic Polyphony
Sleep and Polyphony: Waking Up With Chaucer
Polyphony and Englishness: At the Crossroads of European Influences (Italy, France)
The “Polyphonic Poem”, the Privilege of Romanticism?
Notes
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Part Four Towards Modernity
12 Evelina’s “Pollyphony”
Notes
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13 The Whirl of the Red, Green, and Blue: Christopher Anstey and the Particoloured Poem
Works Cited
14 Towards Modernity: Nova Et Vetera in Paul Claudel’s Book of Christopher Colombus
Notes
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Contributors
Index