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Release : 2013-06-10
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 579/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Fabliaux by :
Download or read book The Fabliaux written by . This book was released on 2013-06-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bawdier than "The Canterbury Tales, " this is the first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent poetry in Western literature. Contains 69 poems with a parallel Old French text.
Author : Mary Jane Stearns Schenck
Release : 1987-01-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 343/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Fabliaux by : Mary Jane Stearns Schenck
Download or read book The Fabliaux written by Mary Jane Stearns Schenck. This book was released on 1987-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an interesting book that provides a sane analysis of the relation between form and meaning in the fabliaux. It will henceforth be standard reading for those dealing with what nevertheless remains one of the most problematic genres of Old French Literature for the modern scholar.Keith Busby, "Speculum A Journal of Medieval Studies," Jan. 1990
Author : R. Howard Bloch
Release : 1986
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 754/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Scandal of the Fabliaux by : R. Howard Bloch
Download or read book The Scandal of the Fabliaux written by R. Howard Bloch. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. Howard Bloch argues that medieval French comic tales are shocking not so much for their dirty words, scatology, and celebration of the body in all its concavities and protrusions, but moreso for their insistent exposure of the scandal of their own production. Looking first at fabliaux about poets, Bloch demonstrates that the medieval comic poet was highly conscious of the inadequacy of language and pushed this perception to its logical, scandalous limit. The comic function of the fabliaux was intentionally disruptive: anticlerical, antifeminist, and antiestablishment, these tales were part of a sophisticated culture's critical perspective on itself. By showing how the medieval poet's obsession with the outrageous, the low, and the lewd was intimately bound to poetry, Bloch forces a revision of traditional approaches to Old French literature. His final chapter, on castration anxiety, fetishism, and the comic, links the fabliaux with the development of modern notions of the self and makes a case for the medieval roots of our own sense of humor.
Author : Brian J. Levy
Release : 2021-11-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 054/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Comic Text by : Brian J. Levy
Download or read book The Comic Text written by Brian J. Levy. This book was released on 2021-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a close analysis of the Old French fabliaux, that medieval corpus of short comic tales in narrative verse celebrated (sometimes notorious) for their irreverence and sexual content. It picks out certain key images - such as gambling, illness, and damnation - which develop into themes and motifs running through all the texts, and which add layers of ironic patterning to the essential subject-matter and narrative of each fabliau. These elements, in many respects the 'small print' of the joke, furnish the comic text with many rhythms and echoes, all contributing to the ludic, adversarial nature of the text. They are extremely flexible, serving as a rhetoric of depiction that extends from broad comic motif to the lightest triggering of a mocking smile. This volume will be of interest to all students of medieval culture, Old French literature, and the development of the short or comic narrative.
Author : Roy Pearcy
Release : 2007
Genre : Humor
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Book Synopsis Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux by : Roy Pearcy
Download or read book Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux written by Roy Pearcy. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretically defensible inventory of the fabliaux based on a new structural definition. Joseph Bédier's 1893 definition of the fabliaux as 'funny stories in verse' is still widely accepted as the best brief and general description for a heterogeneous collection of texts. But the heterogeneity creates difficulties and at the periphery of the canon all three of the criteria included in Bédier's definition are open to question. The inventory proposed in the current study is based on a new structural definition, a conjointure, akin to that of romance, combining a logical episteme with a rhetorical narreme. The episteme features a contradictory taken from Boolean algebra, and assumes four different forms, depending on whether ambiguity resulting from the contradictory is understood by neither, by both, or by either the sender or the receiver of a message, In the first two instances, a character foreign to the episteme intervenes to resolve confusion in the narreme, or appears as the victim of the sophistical assumption of a contrary-to-fact reality; in the latter instances the sender or the receiver of the message in the episteme triumphs in the narreme. The resulting inventory, including and augmenting the texts admitted by Per Nykrog and discarding numerous stories already challenged for authenticity, is theoretically defensible to a degree not previously achieved. ROY PEARCY is anHonorary Research Fellow of the University of London.
