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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Manuscript Poetics offers a new perspective on the relationship between textuality and materiality in fourteenth-century Italy and between different kinds of authorial poetics related to the materiality of books and their subsequent publics.” —Laura Banella, author of La “Vita nuova” del Boccaccio
“Manuscript Poetics functions both as a history of medieval manuscript culture and poetry, which will serve as an excellent introduction to and overview of the literary culture of the period for undergraduate students, and as a more focused study of specific texts and authors for specialists.” —Rhiannon Daniels, author of Boccaccio and the Book
Table of ContentsList of Plates
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Materiality and Method
Part 1. Materiality as Narrative in Dante’s Vita nuova
1. Scriptor in Fabula
2. The Author as Scribe
3. The Scribe as Author
Appendix: Pulcra Metaphora de Quaterno et Volumine
Part Two: Materiality and Authority in Boccaccio’s Teseida
4. Picture-Book (without Pictures)
5. The Textual Proliferation of the Teseida
Part Three: Materiality and Poetics in Petrarca’s Sestinas
6. Materiality and Meter
7. Carmina Figurata
Afterword: In Praise of Materiality
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