Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux: An Essay in Applied Narratology
Joseph Bédier's 1893 definition of the fabliaux as 'funny stories in verse' is still widely accepted as the best brief and general description for a heterogeneous collection of texts. But the heterogeneity creates difficulties and at the periphery of the canon all three of the criteria included in Bédier's definition are open to question. The inventory proposed in the current study is based on a new structural definition, a conjointure, akin to that of romance, combining a logical episteme...
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A theoretically defensible inventory of the fabliaux based on a new structural definition.
Acknowledgements viiAbbreviations viiiIntroduction 1Origins: Fable to Fabliau: Cele qui se fist foutre sur la Fosse de son Mari 11Outline of a Methodology Part 1: The Logical Contradictories 34Outline of a Methodology Part 2: Episteme and Narreme 52Origins: Fabliau to Fable The Paris B.N. fr. 12603 version of Auberee 77The Fabliau Canon 123Fabliau Structures Part 1: Single Narreme Fabliaux 148Fabliau Structures Part 2: Multiple Narreme Fabliaux 176Fabliau Aesthetic 197Conclusion 210Varia: Appendices A-F 215Fabliau Inventory 233Bibliography 237
