Cantar De Mio Cid - Poetic Creation in Its Economic and Social Contexts

Klappentext Joseph Duggan interprets the Cantar as a work that transmutes moral values first into the economic values of a gift economy! then into genealogical values. Zusammenfassung In this study! Joseph Duggan interprets the Cantar de mio Cid as a work that transmutes moral values first into the economic values of a gift economy! then into genealogical values. He maintains that the Cantar de mio Cid was composed around the year 1200 in substantially the form in which we have it now! in the course of a singer's performance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Modern equivalents to names in the maps; Maps; 1. Historical and theoretical framework; 2. The acquisition of wealth; 3. Economy and gift-giving; 4. Social status, legitimacy and inherited worth; 5. The poet's milieu; 6. Geography and history; 7. The Cantar de mio Cid and the French epic tradition; 8. Mode of composition; 9. Conclusion; Notes; List of references; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Joseph J. Duggan, Joseph J. (University of California Duggan
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.05.2008
• EAN: 9780521062978
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06297-8
• Seiten: 192
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Romanische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft