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,
Raimbaut d'Aurenga and Giraut de Borneil, to argue that the courtly
poetry of southern France in the twelfth century was permeated with
irony and that many troubadour songs were playful, laced with
humorous sexual innuendo and far from serious; attention is also
drawn to the large corpus of texts that are not love poems, but
comic or satirical songs.
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