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Thematology --- French literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- Irony in literature. --- Romanticism --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism

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Ironie --- Irony --- German literature --- -Literature --- -Irony in literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- History and criticism --- Irony in literature --- Literature --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Appraisal --- Evaluation

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From Petrarch and Dante to Pound and Eliot, the influence of the troubadours on European poetry has been profound. They have rightly stimulated a vast amount of critical writing, but the majority of modern critics see the troubadour tradition as a corpus of earnestly serious and confessional love poetry, with little or no humour. Troubadours and Irony re-examines the work of five early troubadours, namely Marcabru, Bernart Marti, Peire d'Alvernha, Raimbaut d'Aurenga and Giraut de Borneil, to argue that the courtly poetry of southern France in the twelfth century was permeated with irony and that many troubadour songs were playful, laced with humorous sexual innuendo and far from serious; attention is also drawn to the large corpus of texts that are not love poems, but comic or satirical songs.

Poetry --- Provençal, Occitan literature --- Provencal poetry --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- Courtly love in literature. --- Irony in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Troubadours. --- History and criticism. --- Provençal poetry --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Provencal poetry - History and criticism. --- Jongleurs --- Troubadors --- Musicians --- Poets --- Courtly love --- Trouvères