Stolen song : how the troubadours became French /
This book documents for the first time 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, and the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of ori...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | This book documents for the first time 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, and the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history, a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing song. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 238 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501747571 1501747576 |