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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819556103321

Autore

Holmes Olivia

Titolo

Assembling the lyric self : authorship from Troubadour song to Italian poetry book / / Olivia Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis ; ; London, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8166-9024-3

0-8166-5301-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Medieval cultures ; ; v. 21

Disciplina

808.1

851/.109

Soggetti

Italian poetry - To 1400 - History and criticism

Poetry - Authorship

Provençal poetry - Influence

Troubadours - Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Manuscripts; Acknowledgments; 1. Assembling the Book and Its Author; 2. Uc de Saint Circ; 3. Guittone d'Arezzo; 4. "De' varie romanze volgare"; 5. Guiraut Riquier; 6. Dante's "Vita nova"; 7. Nicolò de' Rossi; 8. Petrarch's "Canzoniere"; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Assembling the Lyric Self investigates the transition in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries from the first surviving Provençal and Italian manuscripts (mostly multiauthor lyric anthologies prepared by scribes) to the single-author codex-that is, to the form we now think of as the book of poems. Working from extensive archival and philological research, Olivia Holmes explores the efforts of individual poets to establish poetic authenticity and authority in the context of expanding vernacular literacy.