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1 online resource (viii, 464 pages) |
Series |
Middle Ages series |
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Middle Ages series
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Provençal literature -- History and criticism
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Troubadour songs -- History and criticism
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Quotations in literature -- History and criticism
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European poetry -- Provençal influences -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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Provençal literature
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Quotations in literature
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Troubadour songs
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Troubadourlyrik
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Altprovenzalisch
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Rezeption
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Lyrik
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Romanische Sprachen
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2013005804 |
ISBN |
0812208382 |
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9780812208382 |
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