Description: Comic Provocations by H. Crocker This collection explores how Old French fabliaux disrupt literal and figurative bodies. Essays cover theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions and creative formations, to trace the competing consequences that arise from this literary bodys unsettling capacity. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This collection explores how Old French fabliaux disrupt literal and figurative bodies. Essays cover theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions and creative formations, to trace the competing consequences that arise from this literary bodys unsettling capacity. Author Biography HOLLY CROCKER is Assistant Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA, Table of Contents Note on Texts and Translations Foreword; R.H.Bloch Introduction: The Provocative Body of the Fabliaux; H.A.Crocker PART I Literalism and Eunuchs of God in the Fabliaux; J.Tschann The Comic Uses of Torture and Violence in the Fabliaux: When Comedy Crosses the Line; L.Tracy Coprus [sic] Christi: the Scatological Tales of the Old French Fabliaux; S.Nayar PART II Go-Betweens: the Old Woman and the Function of Obscenity in the Old French Fabliau; N. Sidhu Dressing the Undressed: Clothing and Social Structure in Old French Fabliaux; M.Leech The Lewd and the Ludic: Female Pleasure in the Fabliaux; L.Perfetti PART III Creative Choices: Notes on Translating Old French Fabliaux; N.E. Dubin Mobility and Resentment in a World of Flux: Arrogance in the Old French Fabliaux; K.Petkov Conflicting Economies in the Fabliaux; C.Sheridan PART IV Posterity of the Fabliaux: Georges Feydeau and Marcel Proust; S.Bloom Chaucers French Accent: Gardens and Sex-Talk in the Shipmans Tale; P.G.Beidler Be Careful What You Wish For: Folkloric Caution in Les .iiii. Souhais Saint-Martin; E.Friedrich Notes on Contributors Review Comic Provocations provides new readings of an ever-popular genre, combining scholarly rigor with provocatively enjoyable prose that at times rivals the fabliaux themselves. Accessible to fabliaux readers at all levels, these essays are particularly helpful for rethinking the genre in terms of the bodies they describe. A welcome addition to fabliaux studies. Lynn Ramey, Associate Professor of French, Vanderbilt University Promotional Springer Book Archives Long Description This collection explores how Old French fabliaux disrupt literal and figurative bodies. Essays cover theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions and creative formations, to trace the competing consequences that arise from this literary bodys unsettling capacity. Review Quote ""Comic Provocations" provides new readings of an ever-popular genre, combining scholarly rigor with provocatively enjoyable prose that at times rivals the fabliaux themselves. Accessible to fabliaux readers at all levels, these essays are particularly helpful for rethinking the genre in terms of the bodies they describe. A welcome addition to fabliaux studies."--Lynn Ramey, Associate Professor of French, Vanderbilt University Details ISBN134953210X Publisher Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-10 134953210X ISBN-13 9781349532100 Format Paperback Year 2007 Publication Date 2007-06-06 Edition 1st Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 841.03 Pages 204 Short Title Comic Provocations Language English Edited by Crocker, Holly A. Author H. Crocker UK Release Date 2007-06-06 AU Release Date 2007-06-06 NZ Release Date 2007-06-06 Illustrations X, 204 p. Edition Description 1st ed. 2006 Series Arthurian and Courtly Cultures Alternative 9781403970435 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135461441;
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