Figures of Repetition in the Old Provençal Lyric
A Study in the Style of the Troubadours
320 pp., 6 x 9, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-9176-6
Published: January 1976
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Distributed for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies
Nathaniel Smith provides an analysis that draws attention to the esthetics of Provençal troubadour poetry. The esthetic study focuses on poetic craft, knowledge of medieval rhetoric, and the usage of stylistic devices.