Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux

1. Introduction: The Provocative Body of the Fabliaux
Holly A. Crocker

Part 1. Imaginative Generation

2. The Lewd and the Ludic: Female Pleasure in the Fabliaux
Lisa Perfetti

3. Of Monsters and Men: The Power of Female Imagination in Les Quatre Sohais Saint Martin
Susanne Hafner

4. Go-Betweens: The Old Woman and the Function of Obscenity in the Fabliaux
Nicole Nolan Sidhu

Part 2. Anxious Circulations

5. Coprus [SIC] Christi: The Scatological Tales of the Fabliaux
Sheila J. Nayar

6. Dressing the Undressed: Clothing and Social Structure in Old French Fabliaux
Mary E. Leech

7. Conflicting Economies in the Fabliaux
Christian Sheridan

8. Mobility and Resentment in a World of Flux: Arrogance in the Old French Fabliaux
Kiril Petkov

Part 3. Mobile Formations

9. “Be Careful What you Wish for”: Folkloric Caution in the Fabliaux
Ellen Lorraine Friedrich

10. Chaucer’s French Accent: Gardens and Sex-Talk in the Shipman’s Tale
Peter G. Beidler

11. Rude Theory: The Rough Trade of the Fabliaux
Cary Howie

12. Creative Choices: Notes on Translating the Old French Fabliaux
Nathaniel E. Dubin

Avainsanat: Literature, Medieval Literature