Troubadours and Irony (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 3) - Softcover

Gaunt, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521058481 ISBN 13: 9780521058483

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

From Petrarch and Dante to Pound and Eliot, the influence of the troubadours on European poetry has been profound. They have rightly stimulated a vast amount of critical writing, but the majority of modern critics see the troubadour tradition as a corpus of earnestly serious and confessional love poetry, with little or no humour. Troubadours and Irony re-examines the work of five early troubadours, namely Marcabru, Bernart Marti, Peire d'Alvernha, Raimbaut d'Aurenga and Giraut de Borneil, to argue that the courtly poetry of southern France in the twelfth century was permeated with irony and that many troubadour songs were playful, laced with humorous sexual innuendo and far from serious; attention is also drawn to the large corpus of texts that are not love poems, but comic or satirical songs.

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Book Description:

Troubadours and Irony re-examines the work of five early troubadours, namely Marcabru, Bernart Marti, Peire d'Alvernha, Raimbaut d'Aurenga and Giraut de Borneil, to argue that the courtly poetry of southern France in the twelfth century was permeated with irony and that many troubadour songs were playful, laced with humorous sexual innuendo and far from serious.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521058481
• ISBN 13: 9780521058483
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244