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Abstract

As a dialectical interaction between inscription and performance, the poetics of enshrinement traces cultural trajectories in the late Middle Ages among visual art, conceptual discourses on representation, and narrative poetic form. But this method of understanding poetic representation also applies itself to a category of verse that dominates poetic culture after the Middle Ages: the lyric. This study will end by investigating the possibility of a specifically lyric poetics of enshrinement for the late Middle Ages. As with other forms of poetry we have examined, medieval lyric similarly negotiates between the modes of inscription and performance. The enshrining dialectic of inscription and performance provides a way of characterizing the nature of lyric voice. And as I shall ultimately argue, this characterization of voice and the lyric self not only has relevance in medieval literary traditions but also contributes usefully to the study of certain postmedieval lyric traditions.KeywordsVisual LanguageLyric SpeakerEarly Modern PeriodLyric TraditionSilent InscriptionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.