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Author : William Doremus Paden,Frances Freeman Paden
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Provençal poetry
ISBN : 1843841290
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B3025346
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1879-12-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590993406
Author : Simon Gaunt,Sarah Kay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521574730
The dazzling culture of the troubadours - the virtuosity of their songs, the subtlety of their exploration of love, and the glamorous international careers some troubadours enjoyed - fascinated contemporaries and had a lasting influence on European life and literature. Apart from the refined love songs for which the troubadours are renowned, the tradition includes political and satirical poetry, devotional lyrics and bawdy or zany poems. It is also in the troubadour song-books that the only substantial collection of medieval lyrics by women is preserved. This book offers a general introduction to the troubadours. Its sixteen newly-commissioned essays, written by leading scholars from Britain, the US, France, Italy and Spain, trace the historical development and setting of troubadour song, engage with the main trends in troubadour criticism, and examine the reception of troubadour poetry. Appendices offer an invaluable guide to the troubadours, to technical vocabulary, to research tools and to surviving manuscripts.
Author : Ann Alexander
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781946515179
“Ever wondered what that word meant?” “Oh… that was fancy, how did the speaker choose that word?” “Ah… what a powerful speech, wish I am so spontaneous!” As a matter of fact, it puzzles us when we think how someone can speak so eloquently. In fact, we can do it too! But how? Nope, it’s not easy to memorize a 600-page dictionary. Have you ever tried learning… in a fun way? You’ll be amazed at the tenfold better result. Well, the book you have in your hand is a choicest tool to get started! The Troubadour’s Collection is a promise to take you through an amazing world of inspirational poems, where you get to experience being a weekender, view the splash of colors shooting up your first missile, laugh your heads-off at the emperor’s new clothes and dare to walk with the graveyard’s host… and guess what? You would have already picked up new words, improving your vocabulary in a fun way!
Author : Emma Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086811924
Author : Elizabeth Aubrey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253213894
"The Music of the Troubadours is the first comprehensive critical study of the extant melodies of the troubadours of Occitania. It begins with an overview of their social and political milieu in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, then provides brief biographies of the troubadours whose music survives. The four manuscripts that transmit this music are described in detail, with attention to their genesis in the overlapping roles of composers, singers, and scribes"--Back cover
Author : F. R. P. Akehurst,Judith M. Davis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520913004
This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies. Standing at the beginning of the history of modern European verse, the troubadours were the prime poets and composers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the South of France. No study of medieval literature is complete without an examination of the courtly love which is celebrated in the elaborately rhymed stanzas of troubadour verse, creations whose words and melodies were imitated by poets and musicians all over medieval Europe. The words of about 2,500 troubadour songs have survived, along with 250 melodies, and all have come under intense scholarly scrutiny. This Handbook brings together the fruits of this scrutiny, giving teachers and students an overview of the fundamental issues in troubadour scholarship. All quotations are given in the original Old Occitan and in English. The editors provide a list of troubadour editions and an index, and each chapter includes a list of additional readings.
Author : Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner,Laurie Shepard,Sarah White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135577797
This work offers an edition and translation of some 30 poems by the trobairitz, a remarkable group of women poets from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, who composed in the style and language of the troubadours. Introductory essays and notes by specialists in the field place the poems in literary, linguistic, historical, social and cultural contexts. English versions facing Occitan texts elucidate the original language and themes, while supplying poems that can be enjoyed by contemporary readers . The varied corpus includes love songs (cansos), debate poems (tensos), political satires (sirventes) and other lyrical sub-genres (including dawn-song, lament, ballad, chanson de mal mariee). To represent the range of female voices available in the lyric corpus of the troubadours, the editors have selected songs consistently attributed to historically documented women poets, as well as songs whose authorship is open to question. The latter may be presented by the manuscripts with or without a named woman poet, but all offer female speakers personae characteristic of troubadour poets in general.
Author : John Frederick Rowbotham
Publisher : London : New York : S. Sonnenschein ; Macmillan
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : IND:30000126311202
Author : Robert A Taylor
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580442084
Although it seemed in the mid-1970s that the study of the troubadours and of Occitan literature had reached a sort of zenith, it has since become apparent that this moment was merely a plateau from which an intensive renewal was being launched. In this new bibliographic guide to Occitan and troubadour literature, Robert Taylor provides a definitive survey of the field of Occitan literary studies - from the earliest enigmatic texts to the fifteenth-century works of Occitano-Catalan poet Jordi de Sant Jordi - and treats over two thousand recent books and articles with full annotations. Taylor includes articles on related topics such as practical approaches to the language of the troubadours and the musicology of select troubadour songs, as well as articles situated within sociology, religious history, critical methodology, and psychoanalytical analysis. Each listing offers descriptive comments on the scholarly contribution of each source to Occitan literature, with remarks on striking or controversial content, and numerous cross-references that identify complementary studies and differing opinions. Taylor's painstaking attention to detail and broad knowledge of the field ensure that this guide will become the essential source for Occitan literary studies worldwide.
Author : Lauren St John
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007161255
If Steve Earle weren't a living, breathing person, he'd be a character in a blues song -- a raucous ballad about a gifted rebel who drank too much, lost most of his women in a blizzard of crack and cocaine addiction, and always came out on the wrong side of the law. Somewhere in the midst of all this, he also managed to weld rock to country, the Beatles to Springsteen, and bluegrass to punk, establishing himself among the most thoroughly original and politically astute musicians of his generation. Granted unrestricted access to Steve and his family and friends, Lauren St John has given us a sometimes shocking, often moving, and completely unvarnished biography of one of America's most talismanic sons.
Author : Rosemary Rogers
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460364284
A tale of human emotion that lays bare the heights and depths of love, passion and desire in old and new worlds…as we follow Virginia Brandon, beautiful, impudent and innocent, from the glittering ballrooms of Paris to the sensuality of life in New Orleans to the splendor of intrigue-filled Mexico. A tale of unending passion, never to be forgotten…the story of Virginia's love for Steven Morgan, a love so powerful that she will risk anything for him…even her life.
Author : Martin Walker
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593313985
When a musician’s new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish nationalists’ ire, and it’s up to Bruno to track down the extremists who seem ready to take deadly measures, in another delightful installment of the internationally acclaimed series featuring Bruno, Chief of Police. Les Troubadours, a folk music group that Bruno has long supported, go viral with their new number, “Song for Catalonia,” when the Spanish government suddenly bans the song. The songwriter, Joel Martin, is a local enthusiast for the old Occitan language of Périgord and the medieval troubadours, and he sympathizes with the Catalan bid for independence. The success of his song provokes outrage among extreme Spanish nationalists. Then, in a stolen car found on a Périgord back road, police discover a distinctive bullet for a state-of-the-art sniper's rifle that can kill at three kilometers, and they fear that Joel might be the intended target. The French and Spanish governments agree to mount a joint operation to stop the assailants, and Bruno is the local man on the spot who mobilizes his resources to track them down. While Bruno tries to keep the peace, his friend Florence reaches out for help. Her abusive ex-husband is about to be paroled from prison and she fears he will return to reclaim their children. Will Bruno and Florence be able to prevent this unwanted visit? Despite the pressures, there is always time for Bruno to savor les plaisirs of the Dordogne around the table with friends.
Author : Eliza Zingesser
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501747632
Stolen Song documents 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. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history—a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing songs. Most scholars would find the claim that troubadour poetry is the origin of French literature uncomplicated and uncontroversial. However, Stolen Song shows that the "Frenchness" of this tradition was invented, constructed, and confected by francophone medieval poets and compilers keen to devise their own literary history. Stolen Song makes a major contribution to medieval studies both by exposing this act of cultural appropriation as the origin of the French canon and by elaborating a new approach to questions of political and cultural identity. Eliza Zingesser shows that these questions, usually addressed on the level of narrative and theme, can also be fruitfully approached through formal, linguistic, and manuscript-oriented tools.
