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Lyric Tactics - Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England (Hardcover)
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Lyric Tactics - Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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What shall we make of medieval English lyrics? They have no fixed
line or meter, no consistent point of view, and their content may
seem misaligned with the other texts in manuscripts in which they
are found. Yet in Lyric Tactics, Ingrid Nelson argues that the
lyric poetry of later medieval England is a distinct genre defined
not by its poetic features-rhyme, meter, and stanza forms-but by
its modes of writing and performance, which are ad hoc,
improvisatory, and situational. Nelson looks at anonymous
devotional and love poems that circulated in manuscripts of
practical, religious, and literary material or were embedded in
popular, courtly, and liturgical works. For her, the poems'
abilities to participate in multiple modes of transmission are
"lyric tactics," responsive and contingent modes of practice that
emerge in opposition to institutional or poetic norms. Working
across the three languages of medieval England (English, French,
and Latin), Nelson examines the tactics of poetic voice in the
trilingual texts of British Library MS Harley 2253, which contains
the well-known English "Harley lyrics." In a study of the English
hymns and French lyrics of the commonplace book of William
Herebert, she unearths the moral implications of lyric tactics for
the friars who produced and disseminated them. And last, she
examines the work of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows how his
introduction of Continental poetic forms such as the balade and the
rondeau suggests continuity with rather than a break from earlier
English lyric. Combining literary analysis, manuscript studies, and
cultural history with modern social theory, Ingrid Nelson
demonstrates that medieval lyric poetry formed a crucial part of
the fabric of later medieval English society.
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