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__The Song of Troilus__ 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__, Bocaccio'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 Troi
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- Author
- Stillinger, Thomas C.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812231441
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism
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