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

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Catherine E. Leglu

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Penn State Romance Studies

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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. In this book, Catherine Leglu brings together, for the first time in English, prose and verse texts that are composed in Occitan, French, and Catalan - sometimes in a mixture of two of these languages. This book challenges the centrality of 'canonical' texts and willfully draws attention to the marginal, the complex, and the hybrid. It explores the varied ways in which literary works in the vernacular composed between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries narrate multilingualism and its apparent opponent, the mother tongue. Leglu argues that the mother tongue remains a fantasy, condemned to alienation from linguistic practices that were by definition multilingual. As most of the texts studied in this book are works of courtly literature, these linguistic encounters are often narrated indirectly, through literary motifs of love, rape, incest, disguise, and travel.

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Catherine E. Leglu 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).

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May 28th, 2010

Author

Catherine E. Leglu

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Undergraduate

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5 Halftones, black and white

Pages

216

Series

Penn State Romance Studies

Dimensions

152x229x22

ISBN-13

9780271036724

Product ID

4728410

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