Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux

By Holly A. Crocker

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403970432
• ISBN13: 9781403970435
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.4"