Medieval lyric
Subtitle: genres in historical context
By: edited by William D. Paden.
Contributors: Paden, William D. 1941-
Series: Illinois medieval studies
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Poetry, Medieval -- History and criticism.; Lyric poetry -- History and criticism.
Description: "Medieval genres of lyric poetry have long been accepted as self-evident categories that define the literature. Medieval Lyric reveals the importance of investigating the historicity of genres themselves as a means of coming to grips with the evolution of the poems they were meant to characterize and the cultures they attempted to serve.".

"An essential volume for medievalists and scholars of comparative literature, Medieval Lyric opens up a reconsideration of genre in medieval European lyric. Departing from a perspective that asks how medieval genres correspond with twentieth-century ideas of structure or with the evolution of poetry, this collection argues that the development of genres should be considered as a historical phenomenon, embedded in a given culture and responsive to social and literary change.".

"An array of widely respected scholars draw from French, Italian, German, Latin, Catalan, Spanish, Galician-Portuguese, Arabic, and Hebrew literature to address questions about what genre could have meant to medieval poets and poet-musicians and what distortions result when modern ideas of genre are applied to medieval lyric. Essays explore the relations of medieval lyric genres, such as love songs and satires, to their historical contexts and consider genres in relation to rhetoric and music.

Contributors also challenge the concept of genre itself, clarifying what we do when we read in genres and demonstrating the hazards of applying concepts of genre to an age that did not think in those terms."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The system of genres in troubadour lyric / William D. Paden; title: "Cobleiarai, car mi platz": the role of the Cobla in the Occitan lyric tradition / Elizabeth W. Poe; title: The place of secular Latin lyric / Winthrop Wetherbee; title: On the conventionality of the Cantigas d'amor / Julian Weiss; title: Traditional genres and poetic innovation in thirteenth-century Italian lyric poetry / Michelangelo Picone; title: Decir canciones: the question of genre in fifteenth-century Castilian cancionero poetry / Ana María Gómez-Bravo; title: The poem as art of poetry: the rhetoric of imitation in the Grand chant courtois / Douglas Kelly; title: The old Occitan arts of poetry and the early troubadour lyric / Rupert T. Pickens; title: Genre and demonstrative rhetoric: praise and blame in the Razos de Trobar and the Doctrina de compondre dictats / John Dagenais; title: "Wa-hiya taklifu ghannat": genre and gender in Hispano-Arabic poetry / Vicente Cantarino; title: Genre as a determinant of melody in the songs of the troubadours and the trouvères / Elizabeth Aubrey; title: Intergeneric play: the pastourelle in thirteenth-century French motets / Sylvia Huot; title: "The fire of love poetry has kissed me, how can I resist?" the Hebrew lyric in perspective / Ross Brann; title: Thwarted expectations: medieval and modern views of genre in Germany / Hubert Heinen.