The songs of the troubadour poets of the south of France were a
pervasive influence in the development of the European lyric (and
indeed other genres) from the twelfth century to the Renaissance
and beyond. Much troubadour poetry is on the topic of love, and is
composed from a first-person position. This book is a full-length
study of this first-person subject position in its relation to
language and society. Using theoretical approaches where
appropriate, Sarah Kay discusses to what extent this first person
is a 'self' or 'character', and how far it is self-determining. Dr
Kay draws on a wide range of troubadour texts, and provides close
readings of many of them, as well as translating all medieval
quotations into English in order to make the discussion accessible
to the non-specialist. Her book will be of interest both to
scholars of medieval literature, and to anybody investigating
subjectivity in lyric poetry.
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