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Author Kay, Sarah, author.

Title Parrots and nightingales : troubadour quotations and the development of European poetry / Sarah Kay
Edition 1st ed
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 464 pages)
Series Middle Ages series
Middle Ages series
Contents Note on References, Translations, and Abbreviations -- Introduction : Quotation, Knowledge, Change -- Pioneering Troubadour Quotation. Rhyme and Reason : Quotation in Raimon Vidal de Besalú's Razos de trobar and the Grammars of the Vidal Tradition ; Quotation, Memory, and Connoisseurship in the Novas of Raimon Vidal de Besalú ; Starting Afresh with Quotation in the Vidas and Razos ; Soliciting Quotation in Florilegia : Attribution, Authority, and Freedom -- Parrots and Nightingales. The Nightingales' Way : Poetry as French Song in Jean Renart's Guillaume de Dole ; The Parrots' Way : The Novas del papagai from Catalonia to Italy -- Transforming Troubadour Quotation. Songs Within Songs : Subjectivity and Performance in Bertolome Zorzi (74.9) and Jofre de Foixà (304.1) ; Perilous Quotations : Language, Desire, and Knowledge in Matfre Ermengau's Breviari d'amor ; Dante's Ex-Appropriation of the Troubadours in De vulgari eloquentia and the Divina commedia ; The Leys d'amors : Phasing Out the antics troubadors and Ushering in the New Toulousain Poetics ; Petrarch's "Lasso me" : Changing the Subject
Summary The love songs of Occitan troubadours inspired a rich body of courtly lyric by poets working in neighboring languages. For the author, these poets were nightingales, composing verse that is recognizable yet original. But troubadour poetry also circulated across Europe in a form that is less well known but was more transformative. Writers outside Occitania quoted troubadour songs word for word in their original language, then commented upon these excerpts as linguistic or poetic examples, as guides to conduct, and even as sources of theological insight. If troubadours and their poetic imitators were nightingales, these quotation artists were parrots, and their practices of excerption and repetition brought about changes in poetic subjectivity that would deeply affect the European canon
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Provençal literature -- History and criticism
Troubadour songs -- History and criticism
Quotations in literature -- History and criticism
European poetry -- Provençal influences -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Provençal literature
Quotations in literature
Troubadour songs
Troubadourlyrik
Altprovenzalisch
Rezeption
Lyrik
Romanische Sprachen
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013005804
ISBN 0812208382
9780812208382