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oapen-20.500.12657-484842021-05-05T08:51:40Z Polyphony and the Modern Fruoco, Jonathan Bakhtin; Chaucer; Dante; Early Modern; Early Modern Literature; Guillaume de Machaut; Lancelot; Medieval Literature; Medieval Europe; Polyphonic; Polyvocality bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: classical, early & medieval bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general "Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity. In the Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch showed that each moment in time is potentially fractured: people living in the same country can effectively live in different centuries – some making their alliances with the past and others betting on the future – but all of them, at least technically, enclosed in the temporal moment. But can a claim of modernity also mean something more ambitious? Can an artist, by accident or design, escape the limits of his or her own time, and somehow precociously embody the outlook of a subsequent age? This book sees polyphony as a bridge providing a terminology and a stylistic practice by which the period barrier between Medieval and Early Modern can be breached." 2021-05-05T08:47:04Z 2021-05-05T08:47:04Z 2021 book 9780367655150 9781032006642 9781003129837 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48484 eng Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003129837 10.4324/9781003129837 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 3e691e7f-668e-4ef6-8606-aca9fbefe95c 9780367655150 9781032006642 9781003129837 Routledge open access
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"Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity.
In the Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch showed that each moment in time is potentially fractured: people living in the same country can effectively live in different centuries – some making their alliances with the past and others betting on the future – but all of them, at least technically, enclosed in the temporal moment. But can a claim of modernity also mean something more ambitious? Can an artist, by accident or design, escape the limits of his or her own time, and somehow precociously embody the outlook of a subsequent age?
This book sees polyphony as a bridge providing a terminology and a stylistic practice by which the period barrier between Medieval and Early Modern can be breached."
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