Between Sequence and Sirventes: Aspects of the Parody in the Troubadour Lyric

ISBN-13: 9781900755443 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 160 str.

Catherine Leglu

Opis

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 practice in the context of the social and spiritual debates of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Occitania. LEglu analyses the complex relationship between troubadour verse and the Aquitainian para-liturgical Latin corpus. She charts the development of a chain of texts linked by a common formal model 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.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1: Parodic Sequences and Peire Cardenal; 2: Metrical Structures and Formal Recognition; 3: Recognition and Recollection of Form and Content; 4: Rewriting and the Role of Serious Parody; 5: Between Preacher and Jester: Singing a Sermon; Conclusion

O autorze

Catherine Leglu