| Description |
A study of this poetry from its purportedly oral origins to its enmeshment in forms of scholasticism. Troubadour songs about love, courtliness, and poetic refinement fired the imagination of audiences across Europe. Desire in lyric quickly becomes desire for desire, desire for lyric, and desire for the knowledge that the lyric brings; it eventually produces desire for the lyric itself as a form of knowledge. Course includes reflections on manuscript culture and theories of poetry, desire and knowledge (by Agamben, Zizek, and others). Students will be able to learn Old Occitan and work on microfilms or facsimiles of manuscripts. Taught in Eng |