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Stolen Song : How the Troubadours Became French /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zingesser, Eliza, 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] Cornell University Press 2020
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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