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Pastourelles


  • Old French lyric poems about the courting of a shepherdess by a noble suitor.

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  • Form

    • Pastourelles

  • Variants

    • Pastorelas
    • Pastorellas
    • Pastorelle

  • Broader Terms

    • Lyric poetry
    • Pastoral poetry

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  • Sources

    • found: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, c2012(Pastourelle. A genre of med. lyric poetry most frequently found in OF. In the "classical" type, the narrator, sometimes identified as a knight, recounts his meeting with a shepherdess and his attempt to seduce her)
    • found: Cuddon, J.A. A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory, 1998(Pastourelle: A short narrative poem of the Middle Ages (in Provençal, pastorela) whose typical subject is meeting between a knight and a shepherdess. A kind of 'debate' follows, and the shepherdess may or may not succumb; or she may outwit the knight, or be rescued by shepherds)
    • found: Ruud, J. Encyclopedia of medieval literature, c2006(Pastourelle (pastorela): The pastourelle was a medieval lyric genre that took the form of a dialogue between a shepherdess and a noble suitor (a knight or occasionally a cleric). In the classic form of the genre, the knight recounts his meeting with the shepherdess and his attempts to woo her, but she rebuffs his advances and the suitor generally fails in his attempts to seduce her)
    • found: Beckson, K. Literary terms, 1989(Pastourelle (pastorella): A type of medieval lyric in dialogue form in which a knight or a man of equivalent social rank attempts to court a shepherdess. His suit is usually unsuccessful, though the wooing is sometimes terminated only by the arrival of a father or brother.)
    • found: Pastorelle occitane, c2006.

  • General Notes

    • Old French lyric poems about the courting of a shepherdess by a noble suitor.

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    • 2014-12-01: new
    • 2015-12-21: revised

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