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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Despre autor
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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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 1024 ● ISBN 9780871406927 ● Mărime fișier 0.9 MB ● Traducător Nathaniel E. Dubin ● Editura Liveright ● Țară US ● Publicat 2013 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 7470144 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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