Polyphony and the Modern

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Introduction: Towards Modernity
	Notes
Part One Machaut and Musical Polyphony
	1 The Polyphony of Function: Mixing Text and Music in Guillaume de Machaut
		Structural Polyphonies in Fourteenth-Century Music
		The Polyphonies of Performance
		Words Set to Music
		Notes
		Works Cited
	2 The Multilevel Polyphony of machaut’s Livre Dou Voir Dit and Its Afterlife
		The Voir Dit and Dialogism in Medieval Lyric Genres
		The Voir Dit and the Letters of Peter Abelard and heloise d’Argenteuil
		The Voir Dit and the Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
		The Voir Dit and Bakhtin’s Concept of Narrative Polyphony
		Notes
		Works Cited
Part Two Polyphony in Medieval europe
	3 Cemeteries and Tombstones As Polyphonic Places in the French Medieval Quest of Lancelot
		Tombs as Social Places
		An Opening in the Afterlife: The Presence of Death in the Poem
		Epitaph Revealing the Future
		Lancelot Enters in the World of the Dead
		The Prose Narration
		The Test of the Painful Guard
		The Holy Cemetery
		Ban of Benoic’s Tomb
		The Language and the Authors
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	4 Polyphonic Effects in the Fixed-Form Verse of Eustache Deschamps: A Critical Practice
		Contradictory Dialogue or Debate Between a First-Person Speaker and an Externalised “Other”
		Dialogic Monologue by an “other” Different From the poet in Gender, Social Status, or Culture
		Dialogical Monologue that Combines Two Languages, Speech Registers, or Dialects
		Bivocal Effects of Verbal Irony
		Polyvocal Parody
		Pastoral Discussions and Debates
		Notes
		Works Cited
	5 “Galeotto Fu il Libro E chi Lo Scrisse”: Liminal Polyvocality in the Occitan Literary Use of Dante
		Notes
		Works Cited
	6 Novelistic Perspectivism in béroul’s Roman De Tristan
		Perspectivism: Telling One’s Own Story
		Narrative Conflicts
		Notes
		Works Cited
	7 Textual Voices in Compilation: Reading the Polyphony of Medieval Manuscripts
		From “novele” to the Modern: Polyphony As Practice
		Polyphony As Thought Process
		The Medieval Book As Polyphonic
		BnF f. fr. 837
		BnF f. fr. 25566
		Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Codex 82
		Polyphonic Reading, Polyphonic Listening
		Notes
		Works Cited
	8 Wolfram and the Ambiguity of the Religious Question in the Willehalm
		Religious Dialogue and the Notion of Tolerance in the Middle Ages
		The Different Voices of the Willehalm
		The Ambivalence of Wolfram’s Romance
		Notes
		Works Cited
Part Three From Medieval England to the Early Modern
	9 Chaucer’s Speech and Thought Representation in Troilus and Criseyde: Encoded Subjectivities and semantic Extension
		Introduction
		Previous Scholarship and Research Question
			Previous Scholarship
		Method
			A Hierarchy of Subjectivities Encoded in Chaucer’s STR
			Types of Chaucer’s STR
		Data and Discussion
			Criseyde and Pandarus: Criseyde’s Speech On the “The Siege of Thebes”
			Narrator and Criseyde: the Narrator’s Description of Troilus’s triumphant Return to Troy
			Narrator and Pandarus: The Narrator’s Description of “a Reyn From Heven”
			Narrator and Criseyde: The Narrator’s Description of How criseyde Is to Accept Troilus Into Bed
			Criseyde’s Monologue: Criseyde’s Betrayal of Troilus and her Divided Subjectivities
			Troilus and Pandarus: Troilus’s and Pandarus’s Seeing One thing But in Different Ways
			Narrator and Troilus: Troilus’s Dream of a Boar and Criseyde Holding and Kissing Each Other
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	10 Chaucer and the Streams of Parnassus
		“Modern” Chaucer
		Shutting the Door On Chaucer
		Sealed in Lead
		Early Modern (That is, Polyphonic) Chaucer
		Chaucer’s Polyphony
		Notes
		Works Cited
	11 “‘tis More Ancient Than Chaucer Himself”: Keats and Romantic Polyphony
		Sleep and Polyphony: Waking Up With Chaucer
		Polyphony and Englishness: At the Crossroads of European Influences (Italy, France)
		The “Polyphonic Poem”, the Privilege of Romanticism?
		Notes
		Works Cited
Part Four Towards Modernity
	12 Evelina’s “Pollyphony”
		Notes
		Works Cited
	13 The Whirl of the Red, Green, and Blue: Christopher Anstey and the Particoloured Poem
		Works Cited
	14 Towards Modernity: Nova Et Vetera in Paul Claudel’s Book of Christopher Colombus
		Notes
		Works Cited
Contributors
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