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[CNRTL](https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/pastourelle//1)", "Look for an exchange of speech that develops the encounter rather than assuming any solitary love complaint belongs to the genre.", "Do not require a successful romance: refusal, rescue, coercion and other endings must remain distinguishable. [An Introduction to Jean Bodel](https://academic.oup.com/florida-scholarship-online/book/58447/chapter-abstract/484807050)", "Require scholarly or textual evidence when classifying village festivities or other departures from the familiar encounter pattern. [CNRTL](https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/pastourelle//1)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Genre attribution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "supported; provisional; disputed; excluded", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a rural setting or catalogue label from becoming conclusive evidence." }, { "name": "Encounter configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "elite suitor and shepherdess; other rural interlocutors; rural group scene; other documented variant; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Records the scenario supporting membership and departures requiring explanation." }, { "name": "Speech distribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "narration with dialogue; predominantly dialogue; reported speech; other; incomplete", "why_it_matters": "Shows whose position is directly voiced and whose is mediated." }, { "name": "Encounter outcome", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "refusal; departure; intervention; agreed encounter; coercion or assault; unresolved; other; 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consent.", "Reading fictional encounters as direct evidence of everyday medieval behaviour can produce misleading historical claims.", "Uncritical presentation of class and gender stereotypes can reproduce the prejudices expressed in the texts." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "No genre-specific standard, law or official classification governs the pastourelle as a poetic form.", "recognition": "A poetic genre is an abstract textual category identified through interpretation rather than physical appearance." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q1360742: pastourelle", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1360742", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Pastourelle", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastourelle", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "genre-membership", "name": "Genre membership", "description": "Establishes which sense and literary tradition justify identifying a candidate as a pastourelle.", "rationale": "The registry has no definition, so classification needs explicit evidence and boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "term-and-tradition", "name": "Term and tradition", "description": "Separates the intended literary genre from homonyms and neighbouring traditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "pastourelle-designation", "name": "Pastourelle designation", "description": "Record who applies the genre name and whether that label belongs to a witness, an editor or a later interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source calls this work a pastourelle, and what passage or catalogue entry supports that designation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "pastourelle-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Does the designation refer to the literary or song genre rather than another meaning of 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"description": "Record the source of any melody, its association with the text and the editorial choices needed to perform it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which witness or documented association supports the melody used for this pastourelle?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "setting-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which elements of rhythm, pronunciation, accompaniment or text underlay are editorial or performative choices?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "setting-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "What must be labelled as reconstruction when preparing a performance?", "kind": "action", "id": "setting-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "witnesses-and-reuse", "name": "Witnesses and reuse", "description": "Connects a pastourelle to its surviving versions, interpretive sources and later uses.", "rationale": "Variant wording can change the encounter's meaning, while modern editions and settings require distinct attribution and reuse assessment.", "layers": [ { "id": "textual-identity", "name": "Textual 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"evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "pastoral", "difference": "Pastoral is a broader literary mode involving shepherds or imagined rural life; a pastourelle characteristically centres on a socially unequal courtship encounter." }, { "name": "pastorela", "difference": "In medieval Occitan literature this names the closely related genre; language and literary tradition distinguish the labels more reliably than a universal formal boundary." }, { "name": "debate poem", "difference": "A debate poem is organized around opposed arguments; a pastourelle is identified primarily by its characteristic encounter and characters, although it can incorporate debate." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of pastourelle this model covers, 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