Polskie poranne pieśni miłosne XVI-XVII wieku w świetle typologii podgatunków chansons de femme
Polish Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Morning Love Songs and the Sub-Genres of Chansons de Femme

Summary/Abstract: Grażyna Urban-Godziek proposes a new genre classification based on the work of French medievalists to be applied to Polish love poetry from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The theoretical introduction presents thematic variants of a basic genre of popular Romance lyric poetry, namely the chanson de femme (a woman’s mournful love song). Urban-Godziek then examines a series of old-Polish works linked by descriptions of dawn (typical of the Old Occitan alba being a trobarique version of the chanson de malmariée); what is more, each one of them seems to be a variant of the chanson d’ami: chanson de délaissée and chanson de départie or chanson de malmariée. Examples of alba de séparation and alba formelle érotique are also presented.

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