Vilain and Courtois: Transgressive Parody in French Literature of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries |
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Page 47
... sang ne peut mentir , " because Guillaume le Clerc frequently recalls Soumilloit , even as he allows the hero's noble mother to be forgotten . Fergus consistently iden- tifies himself as " fils au vilain " : " Chevaliers sui je , par ma ...
... sang ne peut mentir , " because Guillaume le Clerc frequently recalls Soumilloit , even as he allows the hero's noble mother to be forgotten . Fergus consistently iden- tifies himself as " fils au vilain " : " Chevaliers sui je , par ma ...
Page 57
... sang ; from within one heard a she - ass singing out of tune , an old bitch commenced to howl , and a one - eyed cat brayed with hunger . While nightingales and cats are not absurd in themselves , they be- come comic when juxtaposed ...
... sang ; from within one heard a she - ass singing out of tune , an old bitch commenced to howl , and a one - eyed cat brayed with hunger . While nightingales and cats are not absurd in themselves , they be- come comic when juxtaposed ...
Page 62
... sang to them of Audain . Arbitrary mathematical specifications often render the scatologi- cal objects more absurd : “ a fart and a half ” ( FA II , 6 ) ; “ four farts on his face " ( Audigier 77 ) ; " three turds and one half ...
... sang to them of Audain . Arbitrary mathematical specifications often render the scatologi- cal objects more absurd : “ a fart and a half ” ( FA II , 6 ) ; “ four farts on his face " ( Audigier 77 ) ; " three turds and one half ...
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