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Boccaccio's fabliaux : medieval short stories and the function of reversal / Katherine A. Brown.
LIBRA PQ207 .B76 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Katherine Adams, 1978-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Fabliaux--History and criticism.
- Fabliaux.
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Decamerone.
- Boccaccio, Giovanni.
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375--Criticism and interpretation.
- Poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Poetry.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 226 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
- Summary:
- Provides a new and provocative interpretation of the relationship between medieval French fabliaux and Boccaccio's Decameron, examining their formal similarities.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Fabliaux reversals and La Grue
- The Fabliaux in context: BNF fr. 2173
- Medieval story collections and framing devices
- Boccaccio's Fabliaux: transmission and transformation of the Fabliaux to the Decameron
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813049175
- 0813049172
- OCLC:
- 856518380
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