Chaucer's Fabliaux as Analogues, Volume 1 ;Volume 19Leuven University Press, 1991 - 290 pages The presence of so many fabliaux in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is intriguing in its own right, given the fact that there are no real fabliaux in Middle English befor Chaucer. But these stories are also interesting as instances of a concept and practice thas has received little critical attention so far, namely 'analogy', the writing and, above all, recognition of 'similar' stories. How to account for the literary practice that enables us to perceive stories as similar, c.q. analogous? This original study sets out to explore this phenomenon, first tentatively vis-?)vis other terms and practices (Translation, Borrowing, Adaptation, Version) and then, in the major part of the book, in a pragmatic-structuralist analysis of four salient components of narrative--Plot, Character, Thematics, and Genre--each illustrated with examples taken from Chaucer's fabliaux and their analogues in various European languages.In each of the four chapters the key-issue is Categorisation and Hertog traces its evolution and usefulness a a concept from Wittgenstein's family resemblances' and Zadeh's 'fuzzy set theory' to E. Rosch's Prototype theory. The conclusion draws attention to two aspects which set Chaucer's fabliaux very much apart from the other analogues: their contextuality within the polylogue of the Canterbury Tales, and secondly, their explicit intertextuality which invites us to look anew at the assumptions of traditional source-criticism. The study ends with some theoretical reflections on analogy and an attempt at definition.The book will interest not only Chaucerians and other medievalists but also scholars in literarry theory and interpretation. |
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... husband is away at a fair , the clerk approaches Margery with fervent 3. I find myself here in large agreement with Benson's definition ( RivCh , p . 7 ) , in what is otherwise a rather disappointing introduction to MilT and the fabliau ...
... husband . And she cannot stop crying over the foolishness of that decision . Margery gets terrified by this tale and “ fright- ened at the possible canine consequences " ( Lewis , 1982 , p . 247 ) she entreats , and pays Sirith to get ...
... Husband is Christ , the Old Woman is Satan and the Suitor the Vanity of the World ; the dog is the unwarranted Hope for a long life ; and of a ' simple ' moralization in the Fasciculus Morum , where the story is used as an illustration ...
... Husband , married to a young ( er ) sexually active Wife , who is wooed by a clever and equally sexually active young Lover , get involved in relations of deceit and trickery , especially by exploiting the Husband's naiveté ( Pearsall ...
... husband's very eyes . As such it recalls , or for some readers may dimly recall the Merchant's Tale , at least a localized instance in the sec- ond half of that tale . But Du Prestre has no marriage - debate , nor the complex metaphoric ...