Fruoco, Jonathan edt Fruoco, Jonathan oth text xx Taylor & Francis 2021 monographic eng 1 online resource "Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one's own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity. In the Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch showed that each moment in time is potentially fractured: people living in the same country can effectively live in different centuries - some making their alliances with the past and others betting on the future - but all of them, at least technically, enclosed in the temporal moment. But can a claim of modernity also mean something more ambitious? Can an artist, by accident or design, escape the limits of his or her own time, and somehow precociously embody the outlook of a subsequent age? This book sees polyphony as a bridge providing a terminology and a stylistic practice by which the period barrier between Medieval and Early Modern can be breached." Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: general Literature: history and criticism Bakhtin; Chaucer; Dante; Early Modern; Early Modern Literature; Guillaume de Machaut; Lancelot; Medieval Literature; Medieval Europe; Polyphonic; Polyvocality 9780367655150 9781003129837 9781003129837 9781032006642 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69549 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69549 Free-to-read All rights reserved oapen 210506 20260305123947.0 doab69549