Between Sequence and Sirventes
Aspects of Parody in the Troubadour Lyric
Catherine Léglu
Click cover to enlarge | Research Monographs in French Studies 8 Legenda 1 December 2000 • 160pp ISBN: 1-900755-44-0 (paperback) • RRP £75, $99, €85 Parody marks the troubadour lyric from the outset, informing composition, performance and reception. This ground-breaking study moves away from courtliness, the focus of most previous studies, and places troubadour parodic practice in the context of the social and spiritual debates of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Occitania. Léglu analyses the complex relationship between troubadour verse and the Aquitainian para-liturgical Latin corpus. She charts the development of a chain of texts linked by a common formal model derived from this Latin sequence and traces patterns of rewriting, ranging from scurrilous attacks, through playful competition, to recuperation of the sacred content in serious parody. Catherine Léglu is a Lecturer in French at the University of Bristol. She has written on troubadour satirical poetry and is editing Simone de Beauvoir's only play, Les Bouches inutiles. Reviews:
Bibliography entry: Léglu, Catherine, Between Sequence and Sirventes: Aspects of Parody in the Troubadour Lyric, Research Monographs in French Studies, 8 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2000) First footnote reference: 35 Catherine Léglu, Between Sequence and Sirventes: Aspects of Parody in the Troubadour Lyric, Research Monographs in French Studies, 8 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2000), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Léglu, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Léglu, Catherine. 2000. Between Sequence and Sirventes: Aspects of Parody in the Troubadour Lyric, Research Monographs in French Studies, 8 (Cambridge: Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Léglu 2000: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Léglu 2000: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.)
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