Winner • Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize for Translation
Bawdier than The Canterbury Tales, The Fabliaux is 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 depicts 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 comes to life in a way that has never been done in nearly eight hundred years.
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Over de auteur
R. Howard Bloch is the Sterling Professor of French and Humanities at Yale University. The author of numerous award-winning books on French literature and art, he lives in New York.
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Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● Pagina’s 1024 ● ISBN 9780871406927 ● Bestandsgrootte 0.9 MB ● Vertaler Nathaniel E. Dubin ● Uitgeverij Liveright ● Land US ● Gepubliceerd 2013 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 7470144 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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