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The Fabliaux : Tales of Wit and Deception.

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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schenck, Mary Jane Stearns
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987.
Colección:Purdue University monographs in Romance languages ; v. 24.
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  • 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.