Troubadours in Time
Remembering the Old Occitan Lyric in Catalonia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5694175 |
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| Authors | Emily Kate Price (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 457-472 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1128 • E-ISSN: 1468-2931 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/fs/knx156 |
| OpenAlex | W2758472701 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This article examines the reception of troubadour song in So fo e.l temps , a thirteenth-century Occitan narrative by Catalan author Raimon Vidal. While in this work the Limousin troubadours are revered as authorities, their lyrics and the mistaken reception of them are also subject to scrutiny. In this, So fo e.l temps resembles Raimon's earlier Razos de trobar , a grammar of the troubadour vernacular. In the Razos de trobar , Raimon complains that while the nouns (or substance) of troubadour lyric are good, its verbs (or predication) are faulty. Troubadour lyric therefore needs to be handled with expertise - which his grammar aims to teach to a select few. In So fo e.l temps , Catalan nobleman Uc de Mataplana models this connoisseurship, displaying his dialectical and rhetorical skills as he critiques the use made of troubadour lyric by a lovelorn trio in Limousin. He finds fault with the timeless substance of troubadour love doctrine, which does not translate to the context of lived experience, as the dilemma of the Limousin lovers attests. Uc's surprising resolution of their situation reveals, however, the complexity of a cultural project that seeks to build - and profit from - the prestige of another vernacular culture, and to demonstrate the superiority of a newer, Catalan, one
Antithesis · Art · Art history · Catalan · Humanities · Literature · Lyrics · Narrative · Vernacular · History · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Medieval European Literature and History · Medieval Literature and History
| Highly cited | No |
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