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The old French fabliaux : essays on comedy and context
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- Creator
- edited by Kristin L. Burr, John F. Moran, and Norris J. Lacy
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., 2008
- Physical Details
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- vi, 194 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780786432905, 078643290X
- OCLC
- ocn156823169
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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. Poe -- "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, truberrage, 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