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The fabliaux : tales of wit and deception / Mary Jane Stearns Schenck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schenck, Mary Jane Stearns.
- Series:
- Purdue University monographs in Romance languages ; 24.
- Purdue University monographs in Romance languages, 0165-8743 ; v. 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fabliaux--History and criticism.
- Fabliaux.
- Tales, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Tales, Medieval.
- French poetry--To 1500--History and criticism.
- French poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is an interesting book that provides a sane analysis of the relation between form and meaning in the fabliaux. It will henceforth be standard reading for those dealing with what nevertheless remains one of the most problematic genres of Old French Literature for the modern scholar. Keith Busby, Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies, Jan. 1990
- Contents:
- THE FABLIAUX Tales of Wit and Deception; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Genre and Its History; 2. The Didacticism of the Fabliau; 3. Deception and Misdeed: The Morphology of the Fabliau; 4. Victims and Dupers: The Fabliau Dynamic; 5. Irony as Trope and Myth in the Fabliau; 6. A Tale of the People: Conclusions on the Fabliau Ethos; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Notes; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-35887-5
- 9786613358875
- 90-272-7887-3
- OCLC:
- 769342195
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