Date/Time
Date(s) - 23 Feb 2016
6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Altschul Hall 530, Barnard College
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The Columbia Graduate Student Medieval Colloquium invites you to a talk by Prof. Eliza Zingesser (Columbia).
Bird Talk: Avian Poetics in Medieval France and Occitania
Tuesday, Feb 23, 6pm
Altschul Hall 530, Barnard College
All welcome! Refreshments will be provided.
Focusing on songs by the troubadour Marcabru and the trouvère Richard de Fournival, I argue that medieval French and Occitan poets used song as a means to bridge the divide between, on the one hand, human and avian language, and, on the other, vox articulata and inarticulata (meaningful and meaningless voice). Marcabru’s sturnine and Richard’s psittacine zoopoetics foreground the recursive acoustic structures that are the constitutive feature of rhymed poetry.