{"product_id":"machauts-legacy-r-barton-palmer-9780813062419","title":"Machaut's Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond","description":"\"\u003ci\u003eMachaut's Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e deepens our appreciation of the poet's wide-ranging accomplishments and influences, which span from the Middle Ages to the postmodern era. It stakes out exciting new territories and provocative theses, all of which enhance our understanding of this genius of world literature.\"--Tison Pugh, author of \u003ci\u003eChaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e \"This richly erudite volume contextualizes Machaut as a seminal medieval poet whose work extends its reach well into the modern era. \u003ci\u003eMachaut's Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e pulls the reader through almost 700 years of literary history, illustrating the extraordinary influence that this writer had on his contemporaries, as well as his lasting impact on the modern novel.\"--Lynn T. Ramey, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e \"Truly brilliant. Makes a claim to a paradigm shift in how we envisage the history of literature. Palmer and Kimmelman make an excellent case for Machaut as the major innovator in narrative and that his genre, the \u003ci\u003edit\u003c\/i\u003e, heralds modernism or even postmodernism.\"--William Calin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lily and the Thistle: The French Tradition and the Older Literature of Scotland\u003c\/i\u003e \"An ambitious work that seeks, with great acuity, the origin of the kind of 'novel' in the \u003ci\u003edit\u003c\/i\u003e and not in the \u003ci\u003eromaunt\u003c\/i\u003e. It examines the development of the judgment poetry format through the study of three texts by Machaut, pondering on this intricate form.\"--Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, author of \u003ci\u003eA New History of Medieval French Literature\u003c\/i\u003e A daring rewrite of literary history, contributors to this volume argue that the medieval poet, composer, and musician Guillaume de Machaut was the major influence in narrative craft during the late Middle Ages and long after. Examining Machaut's series of debate poems, part of the French tradition of \u003ci\u003edit amoureux\u003c\/i\u003e (love tales), contributors highlight the genre's authorial self-consciousness, polyvocality, and ambiguity of judgment. They contend that Machaut led the way in developing and spreading these radical techniques and that his innovations in form and content were forerunners of the modern novel. R. Barton Palmer, Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and director of film studies at Clemson University, is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAn Anthology of Medieval Love Debate Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. Burt Kimmelman, professor of English at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. Barton Palmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813062411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813062419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"R. Barton Palmer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136167883007,"sku":"9780813062419","price":89.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b158e73a-68a9-41fa-8dd6-0f6b49917741.jpg?v=1770160963","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/machauts-legacy-r-barton-palmer-9780813062419","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}