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 use and misuse of metaphorical language, the trickster figure, humorous treatments of subjects ranging from seduction to physical violence, and numerous fabliau examples of scheming and deception, whether for purposes of revenge or sexual conquest or for the simple pleasure of…mehr
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 use and misuse of metaphorical language, the trickster figure, humorous treatments of subjects ranging from seduction to physical violence, and numerous fabliau examples of scheming and deception, whether for purposes of revenge or sexual conquest or for the simple pleasure of successful deceit. Throughout the work, contributors provide a serious analysis of the fabliaux without losing sight of the tales' original comedic content and appeal.
Kristin L. Burr is an associate professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. John F. Moran is a clinical assistant professor and the Director of Language programs in the Department of French at New York University in New York. Norris J. Lacy is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French and Medieval Studies at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania.
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Table of Contents Introduction Hamming It Up: Porcine Humor in the Old French Fabliaux KRISTIN L. BURR Fabliaux as Fair Exchange: Boivin de Provins and La Bourse pleine de sens
ELIZABETH W. "So This Vilain Walks into a Bar...": The Fabliau as Stand-up Comedy JOHN F. MORAN Customary Law in the Old French Fabliau F.R.P. AKEHURST Rhetorical Reasoning, Authority, and the Impossible Interlocutor in Le Vilain qui conquist paradis par plait ELIZABETH KINNE L'Esquiriel, or What's in a Tail? CAROLINE JEWERS Trickery, Trubertage, and the Limits of Laughter NORRIS J. LACY "No, No, Nonete!": Reciting Jean de Condé's Virgin-less and Miracle-less Virgin Miracle ADRIAN P. TUDOR Rhyme or Reason: Le Prestre comporté and Le Prestre et le chevalier ANNE COBBY The Non-Conformist Fabliau Genre and Its Transgressions: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Two Old French Fabliaux JEAN E. JOST The "Fin Humour" of Guillaume au faucon JOAN TASKER GRIMBERT Modern Dirty Jokes and the Old French Fabliaux LOGAN E. WHALEN Esprit gaulois for the English: The Humor of the Anglo-Norman Fabliau KEITH BUSBY Marie de France in the Manuscripts: Lai, Fable, Fabliau RUPERT T. PICKENS About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Introduction Hamming It Up: Porcine Humor in the Old French Fabliaux KRISTIN L. BURR Fabliaux as Fair Exchange: Boivin de Provins and La Bourse pleine de sens
ELIZABETH W. "So This Vilain Walks into a Bar...": The Fabliau as Stand-up Comedy JOHN F. MORAN Customary Law in the Old French Fabliau F.R.P. AKEHURST Rhetorical Reasoning, Authority, and the Impossible Interlocutor in Le Vilain qui conquist paradis par plait ELIZABETH KINNE L'Esquiriel, or What's in a Tail? CAROLINE JEWERS Trickery, Trubertage, and the Limits of Laughter NORRIS J. LACY "No, No, Nonete!": Reciting Jean de Condé's Virgin-less and Miracle-less Virgin Miracle ADRIAN P. TUDOR Rhyme or Reason: Le Prestre comporté and Le Prestre et le chevalier ANNE COBBY The Non-Conformist Fabliau Genre and Its Transgressions: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Two Old French Fabliaux JEAN E. JOST The "Fin Humour" of Guillaume au faucon JOAN TASKER GRIMBERT Modern Dirty Jokes and the Old French Fabliaux LOGAN E. WHALEN Esprit gaulois for the English: The Humor of the Anglo-Norman Fabliau KEITH BUSBY Marie de France in the Manuscripts: Lai, Fable, Fabliau RUPERT T. PICKENS About the Contributors Index
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