Stolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French
Author:   Eliza Zingesser
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
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9781501747571


Pages:   258
Publication Date:   15 March 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Eliza Zingesser
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9781501747571


ISBN 10:   1501747576
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   15 March 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Of Birds and Madmen: Occitan Songs in French Songbooks 2. Keeping Up with the French: Jean Renart's Francophile Empire in the Roman de la rose 3. Birdsong and the Edges of the Empire: Gerbert de Montreuil's Roman de la violette 4. From Beak to Quill: Troubadour Lyric in Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour 5. The Rustic Troubadours: Occitanizing Lyrics in France Epilogue

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Demonstrat[ing] a solid knowledge of her corpus and of the narratives she discusses... Eliza Zingesser offers readers a new way of reading Old French literature, looking at the adoption and conversion of materials to new purposes. She makes a strong case that medieval French authors subsumed Occitan. * SPECULUM * Zingesser approaches her carefully designed corpus through a persuasive combination of historical apprehension, manuscript expertise, close reading, and theory. She skillfully guides her readers through a vast amount of data with a clear, always elegant style. * H-France *


Demonstrat[ing] a solid knowledge of her corpus and of the narratives she discusses... Eliza Zingesser offers readers a new way of reading Old French literature, looking at the adoption and conversion of materials to new purposes. She makes a strong case that medieval French authors subsumed Occitan. * SPECULUM *


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Eliza Zingesser is Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University.

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