We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Marcabru's Estornel: On Ventriloquists, or, The Art of Putting Words in your Belly.
- Authors
Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn
- Abstract
Marcabru's ‘starling songs’, Estornel, cueill ta volada and Ges l'estornels no·n s'ublida, set up a dialogue among multiple speakers — animal and human — who interact with the troubadour's own plural identity as poet, composer, performer, and persona. Focusing on his ventriloquistic acrobatics, I examine how Marcabru's piebald art, embedded in the interplay between performance and reception, mixes courtly seduction and sexual innuendo to stage a burlesque morality play that slips comically among shifting and elusive identities.
- Subjects
MARCABRU; VENTRILOQUISM; OLD French literature; FRENCH moralities; ESTORNEL, cueill ta volada (Music); GES l'estornels no·n s'ublida (Music); TROUBADOURS; PERFORMANCE; BIRDS in literature; FRENCH literature; LITERARY criticism
- Publication
French Studies, 2014, Vol 68, Issue 4, p451
- ISSN
0016-1128
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1093/fs/knu156