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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE /180 themselves âas a way to surviveâ (p. 51). The perceived dearth of material, a commonplace among writers of the late Middle Ages, is a continuing thread. Chapter 4, âThe Sadness When All Has Been Said,â elaborates on the theme that authors felt they had nothing original to write about, a âcrisis of subject matterâ (p. 53) expressed in recurring metaphors such as the image of gleaning. Late-medieval authors did write, however, prodigiously and prolifically, as a glance at the appropriate shelves of any research library or manuscript collection will prove. How, then, did they find material? Cerquiglini-Toulet reminds us that in the wake of the Romance of the Rose the literature of the fourteenth century took on a self-reflexive character, often becoming writing about the act of writing itself. She also demonstrates that by Froissartâs day impoverished poets made poetry their currency, filling purses and coffers with texts as a medium of exchange. The fourteenth-century attitude towards subject matter and the production of books often made use of gendered tropes such as incarnation and birthing, or fabrication and organs of speech. The focus on lexicon and metaphor continues in chapter 5, âMatter for Poets,â the
Comparative Literature – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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