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Cited refrains wandered through nearly every thirteenth-century French musical and poetic genre, connecting and disrupting works. These refrains have long been viewed as central to poetic practice, creating productive tensions between lyric and narrative poetry, evidencing the orality behind many medieval texts, and articulating social difference by mixing poetic registers. This dissertation resituates refrain citation within a rich context of medieval reading and writing practices, as well as crucial notions of auctoritas, or the use of citation to create authority in medieval literature. It offers a new view of the refrain as a vital part of these strategies of authorization: a tradition typified by the Roman de la Rose. Refrain citation is not only a technique but a repertory as well. Assembling the families of musical and poetic works that are connected through refrain citation is a necessary starting point. In taking on the long-established idea that refrains are representations of an oral song culture, I offer the first comprehensive account of their musical transmission and establish that the practice of refrain citation is in fact writerly. Understanding the refrain as writ

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Author

Jennifer Saltzstein

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Published

2007

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction