This book offers a close analysis of the Old French fabliaux , that medieval corpus of short comic tales in narrative verse celebrated (sometimes notorious) for their irreverence and sexual content. It picks out certain key images - such as gambling, illness, and damnation - which develop into themes and motifs running through all the texts, and which add layers of ironic patterning to the essential subject-matter and narrative of each fabliau . These elements, in many respects the 'small print' of the joke, furnish the ...
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This book offers a close analysis of the Old French fabliaux , that medieval corpus of short comic tales in narrative verse celebrated (sometimes notorious) for their irreverence and sexual content. It picks out certain key images - such as gambling, illness, and damnation - which develop into themes and motifs running through all the texts, and which add layers of ironic patterning to the essential subject-matter and narrative of each fabliau . These elements, in many respects the 'small print' of the joke, furnish the comic text with many rhythms and echoes, all contributing to the ludic, adversarial nature of the text. They are extremely flexible, serving as a rhetoric of depiction that extends from broad comic motif to the lightest triggering of a mocking smile. This volume will be of interest to all students of medieval culture, Old French literature, and the development of the short or comic narrative.
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Add this copy of The Comic Text: Patterns and Images in the Old French to cart. $27.00, good condition, Sold by Calliopebooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rockville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Brill Rodopi.
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Very Good++ Size: 6x1x8; Rodopi About 20 pages have a line or two neatly underlined else book is clean tight and bright, spine is smooth and not creased. Cover is clean and strong. NOT ex-lib.
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Volume 186. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 9789042004290.
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