Chapter 2
Estudo literário das cantigas de Martim Codax
Martin Codax’s cantigas aroused interest from the very moment they started to become well-known. Their thematic and narrative unity was pointed out by early scholars (Vesteiro Torres 1876, Vindel 1915, Oviedo Arce 1917, Nunes 1973 [1926]), although such unity was questioned by others (Vasconcelos 1915). From the 1950s onwards, the study of form gained preeminence (Asensio 1957, Jakobson 1970), giving rise to many studies from a structuralist perspective (Reckert e Macedo 1996 [1976], Spaggiari 1980b). Alternative approaches emphasized the ‘marked seriality’ of the parallelistic cantigas, according to which they constitute organic series endowed with ‘narrative progression’ (Tavani 1988 [1973]), or based on rhetorical dispositio (Ferreira 1986). Formal ‘markers’ were identified in cantigas by Cohen (2016). The present chapter revisits these proposals, their presuppositions, challenges and contributions, but also emphasizes Martin Codax’s creativity, even within the narrow limits imposed by parallelistic form.
Article outline
- 1.Um único poema, um poema musical
- 2.Um olhar sobre a forma
- 3.As séries orgânicas
- 4.Modelo e modelagem
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