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Research Monographs in French Studies : Aspects of the Parody in the Troubadour Lyric - Catherine Leglu

Research Monographs in French Studies

Aspects of the Parody in the Troubadour Lyric

By: Catherine Leglu

Paperback | 1 December 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Parody marks the troubadour lyric from the outset, informing composition, performance and reception. This ground breaking study moves away from courtliness, the focus of most previous studies, and places troubadour parodic preactice int he context of the social and spiritual debates of 12th and 13th century Occitania. Leglu analyses the complex relationship between troubadour verse and the Aquitanian para-liturgical Latin corpus. She charts the development of a chain of texts linked by a common formal mode derived from this Latin sequence and traces patterns of rewriting, ranging from scurrilous attacks, through playful competition, to recuperation of the sacred content in serious parody.
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Provides a very interesting combination of comparative analysis of musical and textual borrowings, with the discussion of the wider background and referents of the troubadours. This approach enlightens a too-often forgotten corpus of poetry and also provides a fruitful methodological model.--Miriam Cabre "French Studies, LVI.2, 2002, 221-94 "" An interesting study that considerably increases our appreciation of the complex relationships between secular and sacred song and between canons and clerics, troubadours and jongleurs, categories that have too long been separated by different academic disciplines.--Laura Kendrick "Speculum, October, 2003, 1338-40 " An insightful analysis of a series of medieval Occitan parodies... Specialists and graduate students will find themselves doubly served by Leglu s careful research as well as by her patient development of complex issues.--Daniel E. O'Sullivan "French Review, 76.3, 2003, 594-5 "" Die Arbeit halt, was sie eingangs verspricht: Verf. zeigt vielfaltige Aspekte jener miteinander dialogisierenden Texte auf, die sich im Grenzbereich zwischen erbaulicher und weltlicher Dichtung bewegen. Uber die Reihenfolge der jeweils besprochenen Aspekte sowie uber ihre Bedeutung im Einzelfall liesse sich sicherlich diskutieren.--Michael Bernsen "Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, 119, 2003, 355-7 "" Brilliant readings of individual texts, as well as invaluable exposition of liturgical and other ecclesiastical material relevant to troubadour compositions.--Linda M. Paterson "Mediem Aevum, LXXII.1, 2003, 148-9 " Apporte un point de vue qui contribuera a faire progresser notre connaissance des troubadours.--Peter Ricketts "Revue des Langues Romanes, CVII/2, 2003, 501-3 ""

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