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.

Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux (Arthurian and Courtly Cultures)

Literature & Fiction

Crocker, H.

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

<p>This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional gender binary.</p>

Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood (The New Middle Ages)

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Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux (Arthurian and Courtly Cultures)

Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood (The New Middle Ages)

Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux (Arthurian and Courtly Cultures)

Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood (The New Middle Ages)