Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The work of a
troubadour ;itinerant composition andperformance ofsongs .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word troubadourism.
Examples
-
What seems to him a duplicitous unmanning of poethood by those who exploit the unnatural aspects of troubadourism — its false attachments between poet and beloved, its mockery of meaning-making — threatens the sincerity of his own project.
-
But whereas medieval courtly love poetry played with the idea of manliness as subservience or fealty crossed by desire — both of which place the man at the mercy of the lady — Wordsworth interprets Della Cruscan troubadourism as effeminacy, an unmanly (and thus a superficially and deeply insincere) relation to Nature.
-
Our pretensions to troubadourism have never been abandoned.
French and Oriental Love in a Harem Mario Uchard
-
By-the-numbers troubadourism that wants desperately to be deeper than it is.
Latest stories 2010
-
On his first solo CD in a decade, the former Hüsker Dü drummer and Nova Mob singer-guitarist widens his horizons, sweetening some of his ramshackle post-punk troubadourism and glammy vocals with the lush orch-rock strings and epic production of Montreal's Godspeed!
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.