Stolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French

Stolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French

$42.95
$42.95
$42.95
OUT OF STOCK
Shipping calculated at checkout.

Author/Contributor(s): Zingesser, Eliza
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date: 03/15/2020
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: NEW
"This book documents for the first time the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French, and the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history--a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing song"--