The fabliaux : a new verse translation /
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Imprint: | New York ; London : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2013] |
Description: | xxxi, 982 pages : map ; 21 cm |
Language: | English Old French |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9136230 |
Other uniform titles: | Fabliaux. English. |
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Other authors / contributors: | Dubin, Nathaniel E., translator. Bloch, R. Howard. |
ISBN: | 9780871403575 (hardcover) 0871403579 (hardcover) |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references. Poems in English with parallel Old French text. |
Summary: | The first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent poetry in Western literature. Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition. Passed down by the anticlerical middle classes of medieval France, the Fabliaux depict priapic priests, randy wives, and their cuckolded husbands in tales that are shocking even by today's standards. Chaucer and Boccaccio borrowed heavily from these riotous tales, which were the wit of the common man rebelling against the aristocracy and Church in matters of food, money, and sex. Containing 69 poems with a parallel Old French text, The Fabliaux reproduces the world and feeling of the medieval tale.--From publisher description. |
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