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The Death of the Troubadour - The Late Medieval Resistance to the Renaissance (Hardcover)
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The Death of the Troubadour - The Late Medieval Resistance to the Renaissance (Hardcover)
Series: Anniversary Collection
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The Death of the Troubadour offers new insight into the emergence
of the autonomous "self," which has often been taken as a marker of
the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance.
Gregory B. Stone argues that the anonymity of late medieval texts,
and specifically of the troubadour song, is not a sign of naivete
but rather that of a mature, deliberate resistance to the advent of
individualism. Moreover, this anonymity reveals that medieval
lyric, with a melancholy knowledge of the inevitable triumph of the
specific over the general, of private over public subjectivity,
lurks at the heart of narrative, ready to wield a retributive
violence. Through a series of detailed readings of a colorful
selection of texts which mourn "the death of the
troubadour"-including old French lais, old Provencal vidas and
razos, Italian novella, and Chaucer's Book of the Duchess-Stone
locates various strategies of resistance to bourgeois individualism
and to the emerging notion that literature is the realistic mimesis
of historical fact. He offers brief narratives recounting the
biographies of specifically identified troubadour poets and the
events that led those individuals to compose specific verses for
individual ladies. This narrative birth of the individual is,
indeed, the death of the troubadour. The Death of the Troubadour
will interest students and scholars of medieval and Renaissance
literature, and of literary theory.
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