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23 janvier 2018
- doi: 10.4000/books.pum.7383
- isbn: 9782760627093
- eisbn: 9791036500985
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
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littérature courtoise littérature médiévale culture populaire amour courtois LIT004080 Medieval & Renaissance Studies DSBSujets proches
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Noah G. Peterson, « The Courtly Fabliau Debate: Subversion of Genre in “The Merchant’s Tale” », Presses de l’Université de Montréal, ID : 10.4000/books.pum.7383
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Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is full of a wide variety of stories, especially in terms of the number of genres presented. In The Canterbury Tales, we find almost every genre: from courtly literature to debate and from beast fables to Breton lays. The fabliau is one of the most studied genres in which Chaucer wrote. It is generally agreed upon that Chaucer wrote fabliaux, but the list of what tales qualify as fabliaux varies. Almost always included in lists of Chaucer’s fabliaux are “The Miller’...