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Author:

Zingesser, Eliza, 1984- author.

Title:

Stolen song : how the troubadours became French / Eliza Zingesser.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xv, 238 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Troubadour songs--Influence.
Literature, Medieval--Provençal influences.
Poetry, Medieval--History and criticism.
Provençal poetry--History and criticism.
French literature--To 1500--History and criticism.
Troubadours.
Quotations in literature--History and criticism.
French literature.
Poetry, Medieval.
Provençal poetry.
Quotations in literature.
Troubadours.
To 1500
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Of birds and madmen : Occitan songs in French songbooks -- Keeping up with the French : Jean Renart's francophile empire in the Roman de la rose -- Birdsong and the edges of the empire : Gerbert de Montreuil's Roman de la violette -- From beak to quill : troubadour lyric in Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour -- The rustic troubadours : Occitanizing lyrics in France.

Summary:

"This book documents for the first time the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French, and the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history--a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing song"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1501747576
9781501747571

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1098222613

LCCN:

2019017308

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)