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The troubadours : an introduction / edited by Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay.

Contributor(s): Gaunt, Simon | Kay, Sarah.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: xii, 330 p. : music, map, facsims. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0521574730.Subject(s): Troubadours | Lyric poetry -- History and criticismDDC classification: 849.104
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The dazzling culture of the troubadours - the virtuosity of their songs, the subtlety of their exploration of love, and the glamorous international careers some troubadours enjoyed - fascinated contemporaries and had a lasting influence on European life and literature. Apart from the refined love songs for which the troubadours are renowned, the tradition includes political and satirical poetry, devotional lyrics and bawdy or zany poems. It is also in the troubadour song-books that the only substantial collection of medieval lyrics by women is preserved. This book offers a general introduction to the troubadours. Its sixteen newly-commissioned essays, written by leading scholars from Britain, the US, France, Italy and Spain, trace the historical development and setting of troubadour song, engage with the main trends in troubadour criticism, and examine the reception of troubadour poetry. Appendices offer an invaluable guide to the troubadours, to technical vocabulary, to research tools and to surviving manuscripts.

Bibliography: p. 306-324 - Includes indexes.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of contributors (p. vii)
  • Preface (p. xi)
  • Map of Occitania and neighbouring Catalonia (p. xiii)
  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • 1 Courtly culture in medieval Occitania (p. 8)
  • 2 Fin'amor and the development of the courtly canso (p. 28)
  • 3 Moral and satirical poetry (p. 47)
  • 4 The early troubadours: Guilhem IX to Bernart de Ventadorn (p. 66)
  • 5 The classical period: from Raimbaut d'Aurenga to Arnaut Daniel (p. 83)
  • 6 The later troubadours (p. 99)
  • 7 The trobairitz (p. 113)
  • 8 Italian and Catalan troubadours (p. 127)
  • 9 Music and versification (p. 141)
  • 10 Rhetoric and hermeneutics (p. 164)
  • 11 Intertextuality and dialogism in the troubadours (p. 181)
  • 12 The troubadours at play: irony, parody and burlesque (p. 197)
  • 13 Desire and subjectivity (p. 212)
  • 14 Orality and writing: the text of the troubadour poem (p. 228)
  • 15 The chansonniers as books (p. 246)
  • 16 Troubadour lyric and Old French narrative (p. 263)
  • Appendix 1 Major troubadours (p. 279)
  • Appendix 2 Occitan terms (p. 292)
  • Appendix 3 Research tools and reference works (p. 295)
  • Appendix 4 The chansonniers (p. 303)
  • Bibliography (p. 306)
  • Index (p. 325)

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