
The Legacy of Apollo
Antiquity, Authority, and Chaucerian Poetics
Jamie Fumo(Author)
University of Toronto Press
Published on 4. September 2010
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-1-4426-4170-9 (ISBN)
Description
Apollo, the classical god of poetry, truth, light, and the healing arts, held a special fascination for poets and scholars in the late-medieval period. As the English vernacular gained literary prestige in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, poets harnessed the precedent and authority of classical antiquity in order to grant themselves historical legitimacy. Uniquely positioned at the junctures of Latin and vernacular, pagan and Christian, human and divine, the figure of Apollo emerged as an impetus for change in the period's creative re-conceptualization of artistic identity and poetic inheritance.
In The Legacy of Apollo, Jamie C. Fumo presents a series of connected readings of classical and medieval texts that shape the god's pre-modern legacy. By examining Ovid's Metamorphoses and its commentaries, Virgil's Aeneid, mythographic manuals and iconography, popular sermons, saints' lives, and a range of Chaucerian works, Fumo innovatively brings the fruits of current scholarly practices of intertextuality to a body of medieval subject matter. This wide-ranging work traces the resonances of Apollo up to the cusp of the early modern period and reveals the medieval development of a newly self-conscious poetics of inspiration in England.
In The Legacy of Apollo, Jamie C. Fumo presents a series of connected readings of classical and medieval texts that shape the god's pre-modern legacy. By examining Ovid's Metamorphoses and its commentaries, Virgil's Aeneid, mythographic manuals and iconography, popular sermons, saints' lives, and a range of Chaucerian works, Fumo innovatively brings the fruits of current scholarly practices of intertextuality to a body of medieval subject matter. This wide-ranging work traces the resonances of Apollo up to the cusp of the early modern period and reveals the medieval development of a newly self-conscious poetics of inspiration in England.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
8 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-4170-9 (9781442641709)
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Person
Jamie C. Fumo is an associate professor in the Department of English at McGill University.
Content
Introduction
Apollo as Human God: Ovid and Medieval Ovidianism
The Medieval Apollo: Classical Authority and Christian Hermeneutics
Imperial Apollo: From Virgil's Rome to Chaucer's Troy
Fragmentary Apollo: The Squire's Tale, The Franklin's Tale, and Chaucerian Self-Fashioning
Domestic Apollo: Crises of Truth in the Manciple's Tale
Apollo as Human God: Ovid and Medieval Ovidianism
The Medieval Apollo: Classical Authority and Christian Hermeneutics
Imperial Apollo: From Virgil's Rome to Chaucer's Troy
Fragmentary Apollo: The Squire's Tale, The Franklin's Tale, and Chaucerian Self-Fashioning
Domestic Apollo: Crises of Truth in the Manciple's Tale