Titlebook: Comic Provocations; Exposing the Corpus Holly A. Crocker (Assistant Professor of English) Book 2006 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Natu

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: The Scatological Tales of the Fabliaux value of cunning or the comic eroticism of voyeurism. Nor do these fabliaux attract much critical attention, as if the very nature of their “business” negates their being discussed with a comparable urgency or agency. While other bodily parts find themselves tackled with theoretical vigor, the same cannot be said for shit.

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Social Entrepreneurship and Social Businesshis essay to rehash the debate over the fabliaux’ presumed antifeminism. Rather, I propose to look at the intersection of the lewd and the ludic to ask what other kinds of female pleasure besides sexual pleasure are evoked in the Fabliaux and to consider the range of attitudes toward those pleasures.

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Benjamin Huybrechts,Alex Nicholls the generic boundaries that provide recognizable shape to other poetic bodies.. Unstable in terms of authorship, audience, purpose, even effect, the fabliaux are almost impossible to see as a coherent creative corpus. Yet in simplest terms, it is the incoherence of corporeal coalescence that these

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Ashok Prasad,Mathew J. Manimalaress the stability of social order. Although these stories maintain a superficial allegiance to patriarchal cultural control, the ways in which women circulate clothing reveals that gender hierarchy is a costume that women manipulate to hide and therefore maintain their agency.

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Sangita Dutta Gupta,Susmita Chatterjeeux are populated with prosperous peasants marrying into the nobility, independent wives, indulging clerics, hard-working bourgeois busy at amassing riches, and knights trading their arms for wit and shrewdness. They shed light on a key problem, of crucial significance both for contemporaries and mod

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Pauline J. Sheldon,Roberto DanieleBoccaccio’s ., Spargo confidently declared that ., while the closest analogue, was not the source of the .. Many scholars, myself included, are now taking seriously the idea that Chaucer’s primary source was indeed the first tale of the eighth day of the ...