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Comic Provocations

Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Holly A. Crocker

    1. University of South Carolina, USA

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Part of the book series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures (SACC)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: The Provocative Body of the Fabliaux

    1. Introduction: The Provocative Body of the Fabliaux

      • Holly A. Crocker
      Pages 1-14

  5. Mobile Formations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. “Be Careful What you Wish for”: Folkloric Caution in the Fabliaux

      • Ellen Lorraine Friedrich
      Pages 131-147

    3. Chaucer’s French Accent: Gardens and Sex-Talk in the Shipman’s Tale

      • Peter G. Beidler
      Pages 149-161

    4. Rude Theory: The Rough Trade of the Fabliaux

      • Cary Howie
      Pages 163-174

    5. Creative Choices: Notes on Translating the Old French Fabliaux

      • Nathaniel E. Dubin
      Pages 175-192

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 193-204
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About this book

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 body's unsettling capacity.

Reviews

'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

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of South Carolina, USA

    Holly A. Crocker

About the editor

HOLLY CROCKER is Assistant Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA,

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Comic Provocations

  • Book Subtitle: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux

  • Editors: Holly A. Crocker

  • Series Title: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230601178

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7043-5Published: 06 June 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53210-0Published: 06 June 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60117-8Published: 19 August 2006

  • Series ISSN: 2945-6916

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-6924

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 204

  • Topics: Medieval Literature

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