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Capital, Value, and Exchange in the Old Occitan and Old French Tenson (Including the Partimen and the Jeu-Parti)
Abstract
dc:descriptionThis dissertation examines the genre of lyric debate poetry in Old Occitan and Old French known as the tenson. It evaluates the creation, performance, and diffusion of tensons from the perspective of capital--cultural, social, and economic capital. It views tensons as negotiations between poets for various types of capital. It also briefly uses game theory to analyze certain types of tensons as formal games.
Author and committee
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- Matheis, Eric
Subjects
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- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
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- https://doi.org/10.7916/D8V69GJ7
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- oai:academiccommons.columbia.edu:10.7916/D8V69GJ7