The Fabliaux

ISBN 10: 0871403579 / ISBN 13: 9780871403575

Editore: Liveright, 2013

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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.

Informazioni sull?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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Titolo: The Fabliaux
Casa editrice: Liveright
Data di pubblicazione: 2013
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: very_good