Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives

"Explores the ways in which vernacular works composed in Occitan, Catalan, and French between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries narrate multilingualism and its apparent opponent, the mother tongue. These encounters are narrated through literary motifs of love, incest, disguise, and travel"--Provided by publisher.

About the author

Catherine E. Léglu is Reader in French Studies at the University of Reading. She is the author of Between Sequence and Sirventes: Aspects of Parody in the Troubadour Lyric (2000).

Summary

The Occitan literary tradition of the later Middle Ages is a marginal and hybrid phenomenon, caught between the preeminence of French courtly romance and the emergence of Catalan literary prose. This book brings together the prose and verse texts that are composed in Occitan, French, and Catalan - sometimes in a mixture of two of these languages.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine E. Leglu, Catherine E. (Reader Leglu, Catherine E. Léglu
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2010
• EAN: 9780271036724
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03672-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Penn State Romance Studies; Penn State Romance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literary studies: general, catalan