A Stylistic Analysis of the Poetry of Giraut de Bornelh

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by  Mary Cynthia Corcoran

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A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS
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A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE POETRY OF GIRAUT DE BORNELH
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Professor T.D. La^gan,.Chairperson
Professor G. Bond, External Examine
Professor F. Case
Professor F. Collins -
Professor J. Flinn
Professor R. Frank 7
Professor P. Grillo
Profess.or H. Secor, Internal Appraiser
Professor R. Taylor, Supervisor
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: MARY CYNTHIA CORCORAN
3:00 p,m. , Monday, Noyember 26, 1981+
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A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE POETRY OF GIRAUT DE BORNELH
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Professor T.D. Langan, Chairperson
Professor G. Bond, External Examiner / ;
Professor E. Case . ’ r •
Professor F. Collins ■
Professor J. Flinn
Professor R. Frank;
Professor P. Grillo ■
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ABSTRACT
A Stylistic Analysis of the Poetry of Giraut de Borneih
Giraut de Borneih, a Provengal troubadour who
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composed during the late twelfth century, was an
acknowledged practitioner of trobar clus and trobar -
leu. These two poetic modes have been the subject
; — of much controversy among Giraut's > contemporaries
V and moder’h commentators alike. . in a tenso in, which, v
Giraut debates the merits of trobar clus and trobar leu,
the former is associated with poetry that is difficult :
to understand, the latter, with works that are easy.
While Old Provengal treatises on poetry offer no . : 1
definition of trobar clus and trobar leu, numerous
’ • , modern^commentators have attempted to come, up with,a
definition after interpreting statements on the two *
modes found in certain songs. Yet not one tests •
his definition by a scientific study of the individual
poems. Given the apparent importance of trobar clus
• \. and trobar leu for the appreciation of1 Old provengal
poetic style and the inadequate treatment they, have
,received, the aim of the thesis is to define in as
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objective a way as possible.some of the characteristics
of these two modes in the work of Giraut de Borneih.
At the putset, a test group of six songs was
selected from the whole corpus'of his works based ; .
: on authorial statements of intention: Songs 3, 26 and
27, representing trobar. clus, and Songs 4, 28 and 40,
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f representing trobar leu. In jthe test group, a quanti­
tative analysis was carried out which focused on three
elements: 1) syntax ancl grammar,, 2) difficult vocabulary
and 3) tropes.
It was discovered tjiat the two, groups of songs
were essentially undistinguishable from the point of
view of syntactic and grammatical forms used. However,
the songs in the clus.mode appeared t« have a higher
concentration of difficult vocabulary and tropes,
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'especially metaphors. ( .
The concentration of tropes and difficult vocabulary
was then studied intensively in Giraut1s 70-odd,other
poems, to determine which were in the clus and leu.modes.
It was discovered that, in only Songs 23 and 53 was the
* proportit on of t.h..ese elements as high as in the, sample
clus poems; A few of Giraut' s. work's have some characteris­
tics of both the clus and leu modes (Songs 11, 30, 44 and
4 8). Giraut's other songs appear to be in the leu
mode. , .
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BIOGRAPHY
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Name ' : Mary .Cynthia CORCORAN
Date &•Place of Birth : March 21, 1950 (Toronto).,
Degrees held. • - : B.A., University of Toronto.,
June, 1973
.M.A.* McMaster University,
November, 1975 ‘
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G■-R ADUATE. STr U DIES■ >
Major Subject;
FRE 713 French Arthurian Romance (1150-1300) (McMaster)
FRE 717 The Medieval French Epic (McMaster)
FRE 716 The Literature of French Canada (McMaster)
M.A. Thesis The Non-Aristocratic Characters.of Some
Selected Chansons de Geste ..
FRE 1703 MoliSre (Professor W. Rogers).
t’RE 1004W Edition of a Medieval French Text (Professor R.
Taylor)
FRE 4000XW Independent Study fProfessor R. Taylor)
FRE 1302Y Old Provengal (Professor R. Taylor) . . ‘
FRE 1003XF Methods of Research in Medieval Literature
^ ■ (Professor R. Taylor)
First Minor:
FRE* 1111Y History of the French Language (Prof. E.A,
. . Heinemann)
Second Minor:
MST 1000L Introductory Medieval Latin (Prof. C. McDonough)
Languages: German - Italian ;V
Publication: . . .
Co-editor of an Old French text, "De, la Madelaine. Vie
anonynie de Marie-Madeleine en prose, frangaise de. la fin
du Xlle siScle: Edition critique," Zeitschrift ffir .
romanische Philologie, 98 (1982), 20-42.
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Mary Corcoran
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