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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Eliza ZingesserPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9781501747571ISBN 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 Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 EpilogueReviewsDemonstrat[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 * Author InformationEliza Zingesser is Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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