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By Catherine E. Léglu

ISBN-10: 0271036729

ISBN-13: 9780271036724

ISBN-10: 0271036737

ISBN-13: 9780271036731

The Occitan literary culture of the later center a while is a marginal and hybrid phenomenon, stuck among the preeminence of French courtly romance and the emergence of Catalan literary prose. during this publication, Catherine Léglu brings jointly, for the 1st time in English, prose and verse texts which are composed in Occitan, French, and Catalan-sometimes in a mix of of those languages. This publication demanding situations the centrality of "canonical" texts and attracts realization to the marginal, the complicated, and the hybrid. It explores the numerous ways that literary works within the vernacular composed among the 12th and 15th centuries narrate multilingualism and its obvious opponent, the mummy tongue. Léglu argues that the mummy tongue continues to be a fable, condemned to alienation from linguistic practices that have been, by means of definition, multilingual. As many of the texts studied during this publication are works of courtly literature, those linguistic encounters are frequently narrated in a roundabout way, via literary motifs of affection, rape, incest, hide, and travel.

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