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OverviewToday 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 by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poetry itself. Marisa Galvez analyzes the seminal songbooks representing the vernacular traditions of Occitan, Middle High German, and Castilian, and tracks the process by which the songbook emerged from the original performance contexts of oral publication, into a medium for preservation, and, finally, into an established literary object. Galvez reveals that songbooks—in ways that resonate with our modern practice of curated archives and playlists—contain lyric, music, images, and other nonlyric texts selected and ordered to reflect the local values and preferences of their readers. At a time when medievalists are reassessing the historical foundations of their field and especially the national literary canons established in the nineteenth century, a new examination of the songbook’s role in several vernacular traditions is more relevant than ever. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marisa GalvezPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 1.90cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.30cm Weight: 0.425kg ISBN: 9780226270050ISBN 10: 022627005 Pages: 293 Publication Date: 10 July 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsNumerous works exist on the songbooks of individual vernacular cultures, but none has the comparative range of Marisa Galvez's Songbook. This book is groundbreaking, erudite, elegant, and sophisticated, and it will be of major importance to medieval and Renaissance scholars of lyric poetry. --Sarah Kay, New York University 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) Author InformationMarisa Galvez is assistant professor of French at Stanford University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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