Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux
This interdisciplinary collection explores the ability of Old French fabliaux to disrupt the literal and figurative bodies with which they come into contact. Essays in this volume address theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions and creative formations, to trace the competing consequences that result from this literary body's unsettling capacity. Resisting the impulse to see the fabliaux as either...
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A study of how the Old French fabliaux disrupt the literal and figurative bodies with which they come into contact.
Introduction : the provocative body of the fabliaux11The lewd and the ludic : female pleasure in the fabliaux172Of monsters and men : the power of female imagination in Les quatre Sohais Saint Martin333Go-betweens : the old woman and the function of obscenity in the fabliaux454Coprus [sic] Christi : the scatological tales of the fabliaux635Dressing the undressed : clothing and social structure in old French fabliaux836Conflicting economies in the fabliaux977Mobility and resentment in a world of flux : arrogance in the old French fabliaux1138"Be careful what you wish for" : folkloric caution in the fabliaux1319Chaucer's French accent : gardens and sex-talk in the Shipman's tale14910Rude theory : the rough trade of the fabliaux16311Creative choices : notes on translating the old French fabliaux175
