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Comic Provocations
Holly Crocker
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Description for Comic Provocations
Paperback. A study of how the Old French fabliaux disrupt the literal and figurative bodies with which they come into contact. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This collection explores how Old French fabliaux disrupt literal and figurative bodies. Essays cover theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions and creative formations, to trace the competing consequences that arise from this literary body's unsettling capacity.
This collection explores how Old French fabliaux disrupt literal and figurative bodies. Essays cover theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions and creative formations, to trace the competing consequences that arise from this literary body's unsettling capacity.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Series
Arthurian and Courtly Cultures
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349532100
SKU
V9781349532100
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Ref
99-15
About Holly Crocker
HOLLY CROCKER is Assistant Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA,
Reviews for Comic Provocations
'Comic Provocations provides new readings of an ever-popular genre, combining scholarly rigor with provocatively enjoyable prose that at times rivals the fabliaux themselves. Accessible to fabliaux readers at all levels, these essays are particularly helpful for rethinking the genre in terms of the bodies they describe. A welcome addition to fabliaux studies.' Lynn Ramey, Associate Professor of French, Vanderbilt University ... Read more