Representing "Women's Songs" in Stories: Lyric Interpolations and Female Characters in Guillaume de Dole and the Roman de la Violette.

An essay is presented on the relationship of the romances of the lyrics of the troubadours and trouvéres, a repertory central to the contemporary courtly ideology. It offers the female characters that the authors have developed directly from the ladies of the lyric world. It examines the representat...

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Publicado en:Essays in Medieval Studies Vol. 27; pp. 33 - 45
Autor principal: Grau, Anna Kathryn
Formato: Essay
Publicado: West Virginia University Press Mar2011
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Sumario:An essay is presented on the relationship of the romances of the lyrics of the troubadours and trouvéres, a repertory central to the contemporary courtly ideology. It offers the female characters that the authors have developed directly from the ladies of the lyric world. It examines the representation of the song to explain the effects of preexisting lyrics on the narrative to which the songs are appended. The author states that the male characters look autonomous creations of the author.