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Polyphony and the Modern (Hardcover)
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Polyphony and the Modern (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
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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. Chapter 1 of this book
is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0
license available at
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003129837
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