The Death of the Troubadour - The Late Medieval Resistance to the Renaissance by Gregory B. Stone
Through a series of detailed readings of a colorful selection of texts which mourn "the death of the troubadour"—including old French lais, old Provençal 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.
This hardcover book is in very good condition with minor imperfections to the cover. Pages in very good condition.
ISBN 10: 0812232143 / ISBN 13: 9780812232141
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Date: 1994
