Song in Reverse: The Medieval Prosimetrum and Lyric Theory
- Author / Editor
- Matthews, Ricardo.
Song in Reverse: The Medieval Prosimetrum and Lyric Theory
- Published
- PMLA 133 (2018): 296-313.
- Description
- Treats prosimetrum as "a unique medieval genre that mixes not only prose and verse but also narrative and lyric," and studies its implications for theorizations of the lyric mode, particularly the opposition between the Romantic notion of lyrics as expression of individual subjectivities and the medieval idea of a given "song's unique arrangement" of rhetorical conventions of genre and mode. Links these concerns with the "twelfth-century discovery of self" and explores broad-ranging examples, with recurrent attention to Italian, French, and English writing, including examples from BD and LGWP, with extended explication of Troilus's Petrarchan song embedded in TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Troilus and Criseyde
Book of the Duchess
Legend of Good Women