Parrots and Nightingales : : Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry /

Parrots and Nightingales : : Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry / / Sarah Kay.

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The love songs of Occitan troubadours inspired a rich body of courtly lyric by poets working in neighboring languages. For Sarah Kay, 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 know...

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Kay, Sarah,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (472 p.) :; 9 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on References, Translations, and Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Quotation, Knowledge, Change
  • PART I. PIONEERING TROUBADOUR QUOTATION
  • Chapter 1. Rhyme and Reason: Quotation in Raimon Vidal de Besalú's Razos de trobar and the Grammars of the Vidal Tradition
  • Chapter 2. Quotation, Memory, and Connoisseurship in the Novas of Raimon Vidal de Besalú
  • Chapter 3. Starting Afresh with Quotation in the Vidas and Razos
  • Chapter 4. Soliciting Quotation in Florilegia: Attribution, Authority, and Freedom
  • PART II. PARROTS AND NIGHTINGALES
  • Chapter 5. The Nightingales' Way: Poetry as French Song in Jean Renart's Guillaume de Dole
  • Chapter 6. The Parrots' Way: Th e Novas del papagai from Catalonia to Italy
  • PART III. TRANSFORMING TROUBADOUR QUOTATION
  • Chapter 7. Songs Within Songs: Subjectivity and Per for mance in Bertolome Zorzi (74.9) and Jofre de Foixà (304.1)
  • Chapter 8. Perilous Quotations: Language, Desire, and Knowledge in Matfre Ermengau's Breviari d'amor
  • Chapter 9. Dante's Ex- Appropriation of the Troubadours in De vulgari eloquentia and the Divina commedia
  • Chapter 10. The Leys d'amors: Phasing Out the antics troubadors and Ushering in the New Toulousain Poetics
  • Chapter 11. Petrarch's "Lasso me": Changing the Subject
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Bibliography of Printed and Electronic Sources
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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