Vilain and Courtois: Transgressive Parody in French Literature of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries |
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... comic exam- ination of social regulation and constitute an attempt to deal with social tensions of the time . While the pratfalls of these characters may seem simple burlesque to a modern reader , they signalled an ongoing preoccupation ...
... comic exam- ination of social regulation and constitute an attempt to deal with social tensions of the time . While the pratfalls of these characters may seem simple burlesque to a modern reader , they signalled an ongoing preoccupation ...
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... comic version of a key Ar- thurian scene comes to constitute a narrative cliché in a number of thirteenth - century romances . In Hue de Rotelande's Ipomédon and in the anonymous Aiol , the heroes ' undignified processions through a ...
... comic version of a key Ar- thurian scene comes to constitute a narrative cliché in a number of thirteenth - century romances . In Hue de Rotelande's Ipomédon and in the anonymous Aiol , the heroes ' undignified processions through a ...
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... comic vilain figure in the chanson de geste , a character who is only one of many comic elements in a genre usually taught and read as a " weighty " genre that excludes levity.33 The epic vilain plays the role of faithful servant , the ...
... comic vilain figure in the chanson de geste , a character who is only one of many comic elements in a genre usually taught and read as a " weighty " genre that excludes levity.33 The epic vilain plays the role of faithful servant , the ...
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