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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"fabliaux"”.
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Shame in the Fabliaux
… I highlight the literary techniques used in fabliaux to understand the power struggles traversed by the characters. This work focuses on methods of avoiding the shame emasculation in scenes from the fabliaux Berangier au lonc Cul, Du Prestre qui fu mis au lardier, Du Prestre crucefié …
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Medieval Hermeneutic Pedagogy: Teaching with and about Signs in Several Didactic Genres
… and vernacular religious drama, French fabliaux, and Spanish exempla--encompassing both the lesson that is taught and the method for teaching it. It is my contention that teaching the proper way to interpret signs is the didactic focus in these genres and that their authors were also …
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Sexual Metaphors in the Fifteenth to Sixteenth Century French Farce
… other literature (Aristophanes, Chaucer, the fabliaux, Poggio, Boccaccio, etc.). Due to the volume of material collected, the dissertation alas was limited to those sexual metaphors which form the basis of the plot of one or more plays (sex as medicine, i.e. the giving of a clystere and …
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Supernatural Visitation in Medieval Literature
… hagiographies, magical grimoires and comic fabliaux composed between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, this thesis argues that medieval Visitation episodes are intimately concerned with notions of human agency. Medieval authors, by employing the inherited conventions of Supernatural …
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Talking Some Sense into Chaucer: Bodies in “The Miller’s Prologue” and “The Miller’s Tale”
… nexus of sounds and sensation, and Chaucer’s fabliaux, through their appropriation of old language sounds into a new Middle English sensibility, become important examples of linguistic friction during the late medieval period. In other words, the sounds Chaucer produces direct attention toward …