Publications
Author
Eirín García, LeticiaResearch lines
Medieval Galician-Portuguese literatureTextual criticism and editing in Galician and Portuguese
ISBN
978-84-8487-275-7Editorial
Edicións LaioventoDate of publishment
2015Number of pages
286Description
A visión do amor no cancioneiro de Don Denis examines references to a female vision in thirty-three love songs (or cantigas) by Denis of Portugal (1260-1325), the Portuguese troubadour poet and king. The book focuses on the idea of troubadour love and the classical motif of a woman who appears to the poet in a vision, exploring the feeling of love described by the male poetic voice in direct response to that vision. The work also includes a critical analysis of the rhetorical and literary aspects of each cantiga, a detailed account of the critical editing process, and a description of the neo-Lachmannian approach used and other important advances in textual analysis studies.
The thirty-three love cantigas in the Dom Denis songbook make it the largest corpus of troubadour song poems by a single author. Just as remarkable as the number of songs, however, is the quality of the compositions, in which the poet unites traditional and innovative elements, and establishes a dialogue with other schools of troubadour poetry, most notably the Provençal.
The book highlights the unique character of Dom Denis’s work within the more formally homogeneous genre of medieval Galician-Portuguese poetry, his role as the last great king to form part of the Galician-Portuguese school of troubadour poetry, and the importance of that role in relation to the recognition, revival and re-evaluation of the cultural and literary heritage of Galicia.
Links
Recensión de Elena Veiga, publicada no número 209 da Revista Grial, pp. 100-101
Recensión de Lênia Márcia Mongelli, publicada no número 17 da Revista Signum, pp. 150-155
Recensión de Ramón Nicolás, publicada en Caderno da Crítica (17/02/2016)
Recensión de Ricardo Pichel, publicada no número 18 da Revista Galega de Filoloxía, pp. 165-168