Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry

Sarah Kay

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2014

Parrots and Nightingales

Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry

Sarah Kay

In the series The Middle Ages Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208382

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About this book

Studying the medieval tradition of quoting verbatim from troubadour songs, Sarah Kay explores works produced along the arc of the northern Mediterranean in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, illuminating how this tradition influenced medieval literary history and the development of European subjectivity.

Author / Editor information

Sarah Kay is Professor of French at New York University and author of several books, including The Place of Thought: The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"Sarah Kay's work is erudite, fascinating, timely, and useful. Parrots and Nightingales will become an important point of reference for scholarship on medieval literatures."—Karla Mallette, University of Michigan

"Written with clarity, grace, and wit, Parrots and Nightingales is an important book that will illuminate our understanding of the troubadours, the art of quotation, and the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance."—William Paden, Northwestern University

"In this erudite, closely documented book Sarah Kay traces the ways in which quotations of troubadour poetry circulated around the Western Mediterranean basin from the late twelfth century to the 1350s."—SHARP News

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Note on References, Translations, and Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Quotation, Knowledge, Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. PIONEERING TROUBADOUR QUOTATION
Chapter 1. Rhyme and Reason: Quotation in Raimon Vidal de Besalú’s Razos de trobar and the Grammars of the Vidal Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter 2. Quotation, Memory, and Connoisseurship in the Novas of Raimon Vidal de Besalú Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Chapter 3. Starting Afresh with Quotation in the Vidas and Razos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Chapter 4. Soliciting Quotation in Florilegia: Attribution, Authority, and Freedom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
PART II. PARROTS AND NIGHTINGALES
Chapter 5. The Nightingales’ Way: Poetry as French Song in Jean Renart’s Guillaume de Dole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 6. The Parrots’ Way: Th e Novas del papagai from Catalonia to Italy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
PART III. TRANSFORMING TROUBADOUR QUOTATION
Chapter 7. Songs Within Songs: Subjectivity and Per for mance in Bertolome Zorzi (74.9) and Jofre de Foixà (304.1) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 8. Perilous Quotations: Language, Desire, and Knowledge in Matfre Ermengau’s Breviari d’amor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Chapter 9. Dante’s Ex- Appropriation of the Troubadours in De vulgari eloquentia and the Divina commedia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 10. The Leys d’amors: Phasing Out the antics troubadors and Ushering in the New Toulousain Poetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Chapter 11. Petrarch’s “Lasso me”: Changing the Subject Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Appendices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
Bibliography of Printed and Electronic Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 472
Illustrations
- Other: 9 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: August 22, 2013
ISBN: 9780812208382