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Proseminar
WiSe 19/20: PS-Medieval English Literatures: Fabliau
Wolfram Keller
Kommentar
According to Wikipedia, fabliaux are “comic” tales that are “characterized by sexual and scatological obscenity, and by a set of contrary attitudes—contrary to the church and to the nobility” (Wikipedia, s.v. “fabliau,” last modified June 12, 2019, 11:36). The genre of fabliau flourished in thirteenth-century France and was revived in the fourteenth century by Geoffrey Chaucer. At the beginning of the semester, we shall look at several French fabliaux (in English translation) to get a sense of what constitutes the genre (characters, recurring themes, narratological aspects, etc.). We will then turn to several of Chaucer’s fabliau narratives in the Canterbury Tales, including the Miller’s Tale, the Reeve’s Tale, the Shipman’s Tale, and the Summoner’s Tale, with a view to how Chaucer transforms his sources/the genre and what these transformations tell us about Chaucer’s poetics.
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