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Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 1017 |
Release | : 2013-06-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0871403579 |
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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 | : Katherine A. Brown |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2020-04-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813065615 |
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"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.
Author | : Mary Jane Stearns Schenck |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9027217343 |
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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 | : John Hines |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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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.
Author | : Brian Joseph Levy |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789042004290 |
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Offers a close analysis of the Old French fabliaux, short medieval comic tales in narrative verse noted for their irreverence and sexual content. Examines 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 subject matter and narrative of each tale. Of interest to those studying medieval culture, Old French literature, and the development of the short or comic narrative. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Kristin L. Burr |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2007-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
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This collection of 14 critical essays examines short comedic tales from the 13th and 14th centuries, commonly known as the medieval French fabliaux. Each essay focuses on a different aspect of common fabliaux humor, as illustrated by a scholarly analysis of one or several original texts. Topics covered include the frequent use of bacon as humorous symbolism (in Barat et Haimet, Aloul, and Le Sacristain II), the use of comedic rhyme (in Le Prestre comporte and Le Prestre et le chevalier), and the common "virgin miracle" tale (in La Nonete). Throughout the work, contributors attempt to provide a serious analysis of the fabliaux without losing sight of the tales' original comedic content and appeal.
Author | : Roy Pearcy |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9781843841227 |
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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.
Author | : Mary Jane Stearns Schenck |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9027278873 |
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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
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Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 1017 |
Release | : 2013-06-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0871406926 |
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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.
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Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Fabliaux |
ISBN | : 9781610751179 |
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