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Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures)
Holly Crocker
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Description for Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures)
Hardcover. Series: Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 359.
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
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403970435
SKU
V9781403970435
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About Holly Crocker
HOLLY CROCKER is Assistant Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA,
Reviews for Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures)
'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