Troubadour Poems from the South of France
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1843844087 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 292 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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H-FRANCE REVIEW . (They) are to be commended for helping introduce the original troubadours to modern audiences in this most charming and satisfying work. ENCOMIA A wonderful survey of the regions and cultures comprising that section of France where the langue d'oc was the language of poetry. The Padens offer the general readership, but specialists as well, a work of obvious passion for the troubadours
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William D. Paden is a professor emeritus of French in the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University.
FRANCES FREEMAN PADEN is a Distinguished Senior Lecturer in The Writing Program and Gender Studies, also at Northwestern University.. This collection aims to redress the situation, presenting English verse translations in contemporary idiom and a highly readable form. It includes some 125 poems, with a strong representation of those composed by women, and goes beyond traditional limits in time to feature a sampling of the earliest texts in the Occitan language, written in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and later works from the early fourteenth. The poetry of the troubadours was famous throughout the middle ages, but the difficulty and diversity of the original languages have been obstacles to its appreciation by a wider audience. Genres include love songs, satires, invectives, pastourelles, debates, laments, and religious songs. A comprehensive introduction places the troubadours in their historical context and traces the development of their art; headnotes introduce each poet, and the book ends with a bibliography and suggestions for further reading.BR> WILLIAM D. PADEN is a Professor of French and Italian at Northwestern University, and was recently named a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Acadé