عنوان

Logic and humour in the fabliaux :

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1846155649

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9781846155642

Erroneous ISBN

1843841223

Erroneous ISBN

9781843841227

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b749927

Title Proper

Logic and humour in the fabliaux :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

an essay in applied narratology /

First Statement of Responsibility

Roy J. Pearcy.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Rochester, NY :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Boydell & Brewer,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (251 pages).

Series Title

Gallica

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and index.

Text of Note

A theoretically defensible inventory of the fabliaux based on a new structural definition. In response to Bédier's description of the fabliaux as 'funny stories in verse', Roy Pearcy suggests a new structural definition, permitting the creation of a theoretically defensible inventory, which includes and augments the texts admitted by Per Nykrog and discards numerous stories already challenged for authenticity. Joseph Bédier's 1893 definition of the fabliaux as 'funny stories in verse' is still widely accepted as the best brief and general description for a heterogeneous collection of texts. But the heterogeneity creates difficulties and at the periphery of the canon all three of the criteria included in Bédier's definition are open to question. The inventory proposed in the current study is based on a new structural definition, a 'conjointure', akin to that of romance, combining a logical 'episteme' with a rhetorical 'narreme'. The 'episteme' features a contradictory taken from Boolean algebra, and assumes four different forms, depending on whether ambiguity resulting from the contradictory is understood by neither, by both, or by either the sender or the receiver of a message, In the first two instances, a character foreign to the episteme intervenes to resolve confusion in the narreme, or appears as the victim of the sophistical assumption of a contrary-to-fact reality; in the latter instances the sender or the receiver of the message in the episteme triumphs in the narreme. The resulting inventory, including and augmenting the texts admitted by Per Nykrog and discarding numerous stories already challenged for authenticity, is theoretically defensible to a degree not previously achieved. ROY PEARCY is an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of London.

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt1zk4q

Title

Logic and humour in the fabliaux.

International Standard Book Number

9781843841227

Fabliaux-- History and criticism.

French poetry-- To 1500-- History and criticism.

Humorous poetry, French-- History and criticism.

Altfranzösisch

Erzähltechnik

Fablel

Fabliaux.

French poetry.

Humor

Humorous poetry, French.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- French.

POETRY-- Continental European.

Altfranzösisch.

7

LIT004150

POE-- 005030

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Edition

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Book number

Pearcy, Roy.

Date of Transaction

20201204094644.0

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[Book]

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