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The Fabliaux
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language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2013-06-10
The Fabliaux written by and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-10 with Poetry categories.
Winner • Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize for Translation Bawdier than The Canterbury Tales, The Fabliaux is the first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent poetry in Western literature. Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition. Passed down by the anticlerical middle classes of medieval France, The Fabliaux depicts priapic priests, randy wives, and their cuckolded husbands in tales that are shocking even by today’s standards. Chaucer and Boccaccio borrowed heavily from these riotous tales, which were the wit of the common man rebelling against the aristocracy and Church in matters of food, money, and sex. Containing 69 poems with a parallel Old French text, The Fabliaux comes to life in a way that has never been done in nearly eight hundred years.
The Fabliau In English
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Author : John Hines
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1993
The Fabliau In English written by John Hines and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Criticism categories.
Fabliaux constitute one of the most entertaining genres in medieval literature. Most students of the period associate these comic and often licentious tales with Chaucer and Boccaccio, but they form a larger body of literature well worth study in its own right.
The Fabliaux
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Author : Mary Jane Stearns Schenck
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1987-01-01
The Fabliaux written by Mary Jane Stearns Schenck and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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
The Scandal Of The Fabliaux
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Author : R. Howard Bloch
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1986
The Scandal Of The Fabliaux written by R. Howard Bloch and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Fiction categories.
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.
Fabliaux Or Tales
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Author : Legrand (cit.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1815
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Fabliaux Or Tales
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Author : Pierre Jean-Baptiste Legrand d'Aussy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1815
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Fabliaux Or Tales Abridged From French Manuscripts Of The Xiith And Xiiith Centuries
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Author : Legrand (cit.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1796
Fabliaux Or Tales Abridged From French Manuscripts Of The Xiith And Xiiith Centuries written by Legrand (cit.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1796 with English poetry categories.
Logic And Humour In The Fabliaux
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Author : Roy Pearcy
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2007
Logic And Humour In The Fabliaux written by Roy Pearcy and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Humor categories.
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.
Fabliaux Or Tales
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Author : Legrand (cit.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1796
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Boccaccio S Fabliaux
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Author : Katherine A. Brown
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2020-04-02
Boccaccio S Fabliaux written by Katherine A. Brown and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
"A remarkably well-informed and truly innovative study of the way Boccaccio reimagined and rewrote Old French fabliaux in his Decameron."—François Rigolot, Princeton University "Theoretically savvy, and yet jargon-free, philologically impeccable and critically acute, this is a book that shows the author’s unflinching dedication to the highest standards of scholarship."—Simone Marchesi, author of Dante and Augustine "Brown’s attention to codicological contexts coupled with persuasive new interpretations of some of the fabliaux and Decameron stories make this book a pleasure to read for medievalist veterans and novices alike."—Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, author of Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378-1417 Short works known for their humor and ribaldry, the fabliaux were comic or satirical tales told by wandering minstrels in medieval France. Although the fabliaux are widely acknowledged as inspiring Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, the Decameron, this theory has never been substantiated beyond perceived commonalities in length and theme. This new and provocative interpretation examines the formal similarities between the Decameron’s tales of wit, wisdom, and practical jokes and the popular thirteenth-century fabliaux. Katherine Brown examines these works through a prism of reversal and chiasmus to show that Boccaccio was not only inspired by the content of the fabliaux but also by their fundamental design--where a passage of truth could be read as a lie or a tale of life as a tale of death. Brown reveals close resemblances in rhetoric, literary models, and narrative structure to demonstrate how the Old French manuscripts of the fabliaux were adapted in the organization of the Decameron. Identifying specific examples of fabliaux transformed by Boccaccio for his classic Decameron, Brown shows how Boccaccio refashioned borrowed literary themes and devices, playing with endless possibilities of literary creation through manipulations of his model texts. Katherine A. Brown is a specialist of medieval French and Italian literature.