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Considering Occitan troubadour, Middle High German Minnesang and Iberian cancionero songbook traditions from the high to late medieval period (ca. 1200-1500), this project charts the rise and persistence of the songbook genre. In this project, I argue that songbooks establish expectations for the nature of the poem and the poet as well as for lyric poetry in general, and describe how as an emergent genre, the songbook is both a product of historical forces and a concrete communal object. By analyzing the songbook from different perspectives-phenomenological, rhetorical, and bibliographical - I propose that as a memorial object it builds national literary traditions and cultural patrimonies, while as a work-in-progress it establishes a system of values for medieval lyric through networks of readers, including national, local, and private readerships. Moreover, this comparative study examines the role of songbooks in poetic attribution, canon formation and the concept of courtliness amidst the assimilation of new historical realities and material practices. The first chapter applies the term "songbook" to the Carmina Burana and the Libro de buen amor. This descriptive experiment sets

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Author

Marisa Galvez

Publisher

Stanford University

Published

2007

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction