Author: Walter BesantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Studies in Early French Poetry
Author: Walter BesantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Poets as Players
Author: Leonard W. JohnsonPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804718288
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In close readings of a wide range of texts significant during their own time but little studied today, the author presents a new view of late medieval French poetry in all its subtle variety: its quirkiness, its sumptuous and acrobatic rhyming, its frequent moral seriousness, its occasional bawdiness, and the ambiguities of its authorial 'I'. The book is centered on the rich metaphor of poetry as play - a joyous activity, a game in which both the poet and the public may be players. The number of word games is legion, and the late medieval poets play different kinds involving puns, rhymes, riddles, sexual jokes, irony, and ambiguity. Sometimes the game is blindman's buff, where the poet's identity is hidden, changed, multiplied. Some poems are farces or high comedy; others are morality plays, in which the poet casts himself as a player. Identifying the role played by the poet, the place of his or her 'I' in its various embodiments, is a major concern in the reading of the texts. Guillaume de Machaut serves as the first player of the poetic game and, particularly in his ballades, as a kind of magister ludi, who is the source of the rules.
Poetry and Music in Medieval France
Author: Ardis ButterfieldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521622196
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
This book, first published in 2003, examines the relationship between poetry and music in medieval France.
The Old French Tristan Poems
Author: David J. ShirtPublisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9780729300889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.
The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry
Author: Jennifer SaltzsteinPublisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 1843843498
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A survey of the use of the refrain in thirteenth and fourteenth-century French music and poetry, showing how it was skilfully deployed to assert the validity of the vernacular. The relationship between song quotation and the elevation of French as a literary language that could challenge the cultural authority of Latin is the focus of this book. It approaches this phenomenon through a close examination of the refrain, a short phrase of music and text quoted intertextually across thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century musical and poetic genres. The author draws on a wide range of case studies, from motets, trouvère song, plays, romance, vernacular translations, and proverb collections, to show that medieval composers quoted refrains as vernacular auctoritates; she argues that their appropriation of scholastic, Latinate writing techniques workedto authorize Old French music and poetry as media suitable for the transmission of knowledge. Beginning with an exploration of the quasi-scholastic usage of refrains in anonymous and less familiar clerical contexts, the book goeson to articulate a new framework for understanding the emergence of the first two named authors of vernacular polyphonic music, the cleric-trouvères Adam de la Halle and Guillaume de Machaut. It shows how, by blending their craftwith the writing practices of the universities, composers could use refrain quotation to assert their status as authors with a new self-consciousness, and to position works in the vernacular as worthy of study and interpretation. Jennifer Saltzstein is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Oklahoma.
Cinepoetry: Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry
Author: Christophe Wall-RomanaPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823245489
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to incorporate the idea, technique, and experience of cinema into writing, Wall-Romana documents the long history of cross-media concepts and practices often thought to emerge with the digital.In showing the cinematic consciousness of Mallarm? and Breton and calling for a reappraisal of the influential poetry theory of the early filmmaker Jean Epstein, Cinepoetry reevaluates the bases of literary modernism. The book also explores the crucial link between trauma and trans-medium experiments in the wake of two world wars and highlights the marginal identity of cinepoets who were often Jewish, gay, foreign-born, or on the margins.What results is a broad rethinking of the relationship between film and literature. The episteme of cinema, the book demonstates, reached the very core of its supposedly highbrow rival, while at the same time modern poetry cultivated the technocultural savvy that is found today in slams, e-poetry, and poetic-digital hybrids.
Troubadour Poems from the South of France
Author: William Doremus PadenPublisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843841296
Category : Provençal poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Finding-list of Books in the Classes of Poetry and the Drama
Author: Indianapolis Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Finding List of Books in the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton CountyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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Cincinnati Public Library
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 980
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