Manuscript poetics : materiality and textuality in medieval Italian literature /

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Author / Creator:	Aresu, Francesco Marco, author.
Imprint:	Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2023] ©2023
Description:	xviii, 509 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and medieval Italian literature ; volume 22 William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and medieval Italian literature ; v. 22.
Subject:	Italian literature -- To 1400 -- History and criticism. Manuscripts, Italian. Italian literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13475219

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ISBN:	9780268206482 0268206481 9780268206499 026820649X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-489) and index.
Summary:	"This original study is both an investigation into the material foundations of literature and a reflection on notions of textuality, writing, and media in late medieval and early modern Italy. Francesco Marco Aresu examines the book-objects of manuscripts and early printed editions, asking questions about the material conditions of production, circulation, and reception of literary works. He invites scholars to reconcile reading with seeing (and with touching) and to challenge contemporary presumptions about technological neutrality and the modes of interfacing and reading. Manuscript Poetics investigates the correspondences between textuality and materiality, content and medium, and visual-verbal messages and their physical support through readings of Dante Alighieri's Vita nova, Giovanni Boccaccio's Teseida, and Francesco Petrarca's canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta). Aresu shows that Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarca evaluated and deployed the tools of scribal culture to shape, signal, or layer meanings beyond those they conveyed in their written texts. Medieval texts, Aresu argues, are uniquely positioned to provide this perspective, and they are foundational to the theoretical understanding of new forms and materials in our media-saturated contemporary world."--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Materiality and Method
Part I: Materiality as Narrative in Dante's Vita nova. Scriptor in Fabula
The Author as Scribe
The Scribe as Author
Appendix to Part I. Pulcra metaphora de quaterno et volumine
Part II: Materiality and Authority in Boccaccio's Teseida. Picture-Book (without Pictures)
The Textual Proliferation of the Teseida
Part III: Materiality and Poetics in Petrarca's Sestinas. Materiality and Meter
Carmina Figurata
Afterword: In Praise of Materiality.

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