Comic Provocations : Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux

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Author(s): Holly A. Crocker
Series: Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2006

Language: English
Pages: 205
City: NY
Tags: medieval, fabliaux, french poetry, bodies

Cover
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Note on Texts and Translations
Introduction: The Provocative Body of the Fabliaux
Part 1 Imaginative Generation
1 The Lewd and the Ludic: Female Pleasure in the Fabliaux
2 Of Monsters and Men: The Power of Female Imagination in Les quatre Sohais Saint Martin
3 Go-Betweens: The Old Woman and the Function of Obscenity in the Fabliaux
Part 2 Anxious Circulations
4 Coprus [sic] Christi: The Scatological Tales of the Fabliaux
5 Dressing the Undressed: Clothing and Social Structure in Old French Fabliaux
6 Conflicting Economies in the Fabliaux
7 Mobility and Resentment in a World of Flux: Arrogance in the Old French Fabliaux
Part 3 Mobile Formations
8 "Be careful what you wish for": Folkloric Caution in the Fabliaux
9 Chaucer's French Accent: Gardens and Sex-Talk in the Shipman's Tale
10 Rude Theory: The Rough Trade of the Fabliaux
11 Creative Choices: Notes on Translating the Old French Fabliaux
Notes on Contributors
Index of Fabliaux
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Index
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