Boundaries of form and subject in fifteenth-century dits

There is significant continuity in the late-medieval dit, the most popular form of first-person narrative courtly poetry in French. There are also, however, certain fifteenth-century developments that raise in new ways important questions about boundaries of selfhood and self-definition in the dit:...

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Autore principale: Swift, H
Altri autori: Palmer, RB
Natura: Book section
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: University of Florida Press 2022
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description There is significant continuity in the late-medieval dit, the most popular form of first-person narrative courtly poetry in French. There are also, however, certain fifteenth-century developments that raise in new ways important questions about boundaries of selfhood and self-definition in the dit: What constitutes the borders of a first-person subject? What are the parameters of “narrative” as an operable category in relation to “lyric” and “discursive”? These developments lie in “arguably the most significant courtly poetic phenomenon in the fifteenth century” (Hult 779): Alain Chartier’s 1424 work La Belle Dame sans Mercy (BDSM), the poetic debate that it generated over...
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