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The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure? - Deborah McGrady

The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure?

The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France

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Buch | Hardcover
366 Seiten
2019
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0365-9 (ISBN)
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The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure? argues that the French King Charles V’s unprecedented enthusiasm for the literary commission triggered a crucial, multi-generational debate within the book community about how a work’s status as solicited or unsolicited affected its value and purpose.
The Writer’s Gift or the Patron’s Pleasure? introduces a new approach to literary patronage through a reassessment of the medieval paragon of literary sponsorship, Charles V of France. Traditionally celebrated for his book commissions that promoted the vernacular, Charles V also deserves credit for having profoundly altered the literary economy when bypassing the traditional system of acquiring books through gifting to favor the commission. When upturning literary dynamics by soliciting works to satisfy his stated desires, the king triggered a multi-generational literary debate concerned with the effect a work’s status as a solicited or unsolicited text had in determining the value and purpose of the literary enterprise.

Treating first the king's commissioned writers and then canonical French late medieval authors, Deborah McGrady argues that continued discussion of these competing literary economies engendered the concept of the “writer’s gift,” which vernacular writers used to claim a distinctive role in society based on their triple gift of knowledge, wisdom, and literary talent.

Deborah McGrady is an associate professor of French at the University of Virginia.

Introduction: Rethinking Literary Patronage in a Medieval Context

1. King Charles V’s Sapientia Project: From the Construction of the Louvre Library to the Books He Commissioned
2. The Writer’s Work: Translating Charles V’s Literary Clientelism into Learned Terms
3. Guillaume de Machaut’s Fictions of Engagement
4. Eustache Deschamps on the Duties and Dues of Poetry
5. The Pursuit of Sponsorship: From Christine de Pizan’s Troubled Dealings with Louis of Orléans to Marketing Nostalgia
6. The Curse of the Commission: Christine de Pizan on Sacrificing Charles V’s Biography

Conclusion
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 640 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft Bewerbung / Karriere
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Familie / Erziehung
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 1-4875-0365-2 / 1487503652
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-0365-9 / 9781487503659
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