Troubadours and Irony

(Book #3 in the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series)

by Simon Gaunt

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521058481

ISBN13:9780521058483

Release Date:January 2008

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:244 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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