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

by Catherine Léglu

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 L glu 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271036737
• ISBN13: 9780271036731
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"