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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 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.
Contents
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
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