Overview

From the Middle Ages onwards, writers, artists and composers became self-consciously aware of the vast potential for external references to enrich their works. By evoking canonical texts and their producers from the distant or more recent past, authors demonstrated their respect for tradition while showcasing their own merits. In so doing they also manipulated the memory of their readers. This volume represents a multidisciplinary approach to the themes of citation and intertextual play. It is also an exploration of the role of memory in the cultural production of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The essays investigate work by renowned authors, composers and artists, as well as less familiar sources, from France, England and Italy.

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Author:   Yolanda Plumley (Department of History, University of Exeter (United Kingdom)) ,  Giuliano Di Bacco (Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature, Indiana University (United States)) ,  Stefano Jossa (School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Royal Holloway University of London (United Kingdom))
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   University of Exeter Press
Volume:   v. 1
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780859898515

ISBN 10:   0859898512
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   22 July 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction by Lina Bolzoni (scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy) 1. Benjamin Albritton (Washington State University, USA) Translation and Parody: Responses to Machaut's Lay de confort 2. Jacques Boogaart (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Folie couvient avoir. Citation and Transformation in Machaut's Musical Works: Gender Change and Transgression 3. Ardis Butterfield (University College London) The Construction of Textual Form: Cross-Lingual Citation in the Medieval Lyric 4. Monica Calabritto (City University of New York, USA) Examples, References and Quotations in Sixteenth-Century Medical Texts 5. Alessandro Daneloni (University of Messina, Italy) Auctores and Auctoritas in the Preface to Angelo Poliziano's Miscellaneorum Centuria Prima 6. Stefano Jossa (Royal Holloway University of London) Classical Memory and Modern Poetics in Ariosto's Orlando furioso 7. Domenic Leo (Youngstown State University, USA) The Beginning is the End: Guillaume de Machaut's Illuminated Prologue 8. Anthony Musson (University of Exeter) The Power of Image: Allusion and Intertextuality in Illuminated English Law books 9. R. Barton Palmer (Clemson University, USA) Self-Allusion and the Poetics of Metafictionality in Guillaume de Machaut's Voir-Dit 10. Kathleen Palti (University College London) Representations of Voices in Middle English Lyrics 11. Jan Stejskal (University of Olomouc, Czech Republic) Memory and Heresy: Perception of the Hussite Reformation in 15th-century Tuscany 12. Anne Stone (City University of New York, USA) Machaut Sighted in Modena 13. Karel Thein (University of Prague, Czech Republic) Image, Memory and Judgement. On Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Good Government frescoes and his Allegory of Redemption Bibliography Index

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Butterfield and Palti provide wonderful and complementary reflections on English lyric...Collectively, these studies show how varied and dynamic an author/artist's engagement with traditions and predecessors, as with reader/viewers, can be...Readers will find much to admire in the insightful essays gathered in this volume.

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Yolanda Plumley is Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Exeter and Reader in Medieval Music and Culture. Giuliano di Bacco is Research Fellow in Medieval Studies at the University of Exeter. Stefano Jossa is Lecturer in Italian at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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