L'Age de Parage: Essai Sur le Poetique et le Politique en Occitanie au XIIIE Siecle: 4 (University Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature) - Tapa dura

(Il) volume presentato dalla Ghil, il quale, per l'abbondanza dei riferimenti bibliografici e delle notazioni critiche, per la dottrina provenzalistica in esso profusa, per la finezza di molte osservazioni e l'acribia delle analisi dei testi, infine per il saldo impianto unitario che lo anima, puo senz'altro essere considerato, a parer mio, un serio e lodevole contributo agli studi sulla letteratura occitanica nella prima meta del XIII secolo. (Armando Bisanti, Schede Medievali) This fresh, fluent book fills an important gap for students and specialists alike, offering not only an overview of Occitan poetry during the Albigensian period, together with an impassioned and critically astute defence of its literary qualities, but also a perceptive study of the interplay of politics and literary strategies at a time of crisis. ...this attractively presented book is full of verve and surprising insights. (Linda M. Paterson, French Studies) 'L'Age de Parage' presents interesting and occasionally provocative re-readings of neglected Occitan works. (Catherine M. Jones, Tenso) This book is a splendid achievement in every respect. Its argument is lucid and powerful, its analyses well written, thorough, marvelously perceptive. It is the best work that I know of on the subjects that it treats. (Frederick Goldin, Romance Philology)

L'Age de Parage tente une reevaluation radicale de la poesie medievale du XIIIe siecle. Contrairement a l'opinion repandue dans le passe qui la considere comme une periode de declin poetique en Occitanie, L'Age de Parage redefinit la premiere partie de ce siecle comme le point culminant de la tradition des troubadours. Le lyrisme semble alors plus fort que jamais, specialement dans le genre du sirventes, alors que des oeuvres narratives d'une portee sans precedent font leur apparition, tels l'epopee Canso de la Crozada et le poeme courtois Nova de Flamenca. Des analyses textuelles rigoureuses permettent a l'auteur de prouver la vitalite du Sud medieval a l'Age de Parage, epoque mythique imaginee par les poetes et tres admiree par leur public, aussi bien a cette periode qu'actuellement.