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Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures)

By Holly A. Crocker

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
1403970432, 9781403970435, 9780230601178
LCC
PQ207 .C63 2006
Open Library ID
OL22754210M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
847 kB (867831 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
216\215
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This interdisciplinary collection explores the ability of Old French fabliaux to disrupt the literal and figurative bodies with which they come into contact. Essays in this volume address theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions and creative formations, to trace the competing consequences that result from this literary body's unsettling capacity. Resisting the impulse to see the fabliaux as either liberatory or restrictive, comic or satiric, didactic or immoral, contributors assess the ways in which Old French fabliaux expose bodily relations that elude binary classifications. As a gathering of scholars in French, English, and History, this volume suggests that the Old French fabliaux form a corpus that is provocative across medieval studies.

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