The Scandal of the Fabliaux

by R. Howard Bloch

Book Overview

R. Howard Bloch argues that medieval French comic tales are shocking not so much for their dirty words, scatology, and celebration of the body in all its concavities and protrusions, but moreso for their insistent exposure of the scandal of their own production. Looking first at fabliaux about poets, Bloch demonstrates that the medieval comic poet was highly conscious of the inadequacy of language and pushed this perception to its logical, scandalous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226059766
• ISBN13: 9780226059761
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.