Polyphony and the Modern Paperback / softback
Edited by Jonathan Fruoco
Part of the Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:266 pages, 5 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2023
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- ISBN:9781032006642
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:266 pages, 5 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032006642
