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Songbook: How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe
Marisa Galvez
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Description for Songbook: How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe
Paperback. Shows what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category "poetry": that is, how vernacular songbooks of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poetry itself. Num Pages: 293 pages, 7 colour plates, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 179 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was once communally produced and received - a collaboration of artists, performers, live audiences, and readers stretching across languages and societies. The only comparative study of its kind, Songbook treats what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category "poetry": that is, how vernacular songbooks of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry ... Read more
Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was once communally produced and received - a collaboration of artists, performers, live audiences, and readers stretching across languages and societies. The only comparative study of its kind, Songbook treats what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category "poetry": that is, how vernacular songbooks of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
293
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226270050
SKU
V9780226270050
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About Marisa Galvez
Marisa Galvez is assistant professor of French at Stanford University.
Reviews for Songbook: How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe
"A book distinguished not only by clarity of presentation and learning but also by impressive comparative scope." (Speculum) "Songbook is written in an eloquent, confident, elegant style, clearly argued and exceptionally well designed and edited." (Times Literary Supplement)