The Legacy of Apollo Antiquity Authority and Chaucerian Poetics 1st Edition by Jamie Fumo ISBN 1442689900 9781442689909

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ISBN 10: 1442689900 

ISBN 13: 9781442689909

Author: Jamie Fumo 

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.

Table of contents:

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Apollo as Human God: Ovid and Medieval Ovidianism
2 The Medieval Apollo: Classical Authority and Christian Hermeneutics
3 Imperial Apollo: From Virgil’s Rome to Chaucer’s Troy
4 Fragmentary Apollo: The Squire’s Tale, The Franklin’s Tale, and Chaucerian Self-Fashioning
5 Domestic Apollo: Crises of Truth in the Manciple’s Tale
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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