The Fabliaux - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0871403579 ISBN 13: 9780871403575

Casa editrice: Liveright Pub Corp, 2013

Riassunto

Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition. Passed down by the anticlerical middle classes of medieval France, The Fabliaux depicts priapic priests, randy wives, and their cuckolded husbands in tales that are shocking even by today’s standards. Chaucer and Boccaccio borrowed heavily from these riotous tales, which were the wit of the common man rebelling against the aristocracy and Church in matters of food, money, and sex. Containing 69 poems with a parallel Old French text, The Fabliaux comes to life in a way that has never been done in nearly eight hundred years.

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Recensione:

The fabliaux are important not only for their approach to humor, but for their focus on sex, class and wealth, and bodily functions like eating and defecating all elements quite absent from more highbrow, courtly, or Church-sanctioned religious texts. Liveright s edition serves as the largest and most complete collection of fabliaux, in English or French, ever published for the general reader " The Fabliaux is a reminder that medieval texts can remain engaging, lively, and, above all, funny. --Charlotte Bhaskar

L'autore:

Nathaniel E. Dubin is a professor of modern classical languages at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University. R. Howard Bloch is the Sterling Professor of French at Yale University.

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• Editore: Liveright Pub Corp
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0871403579
• ISBN 13: 9780871403575
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 982