Promiscuous Fictions : Medieval Bawdy Tales and Their Textual Liaisons
- Author / Editor
- Nolan, Barbara.
Promiscuous Fictions : Medieval Bawdy Tales and Their Textual Liaisons
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1999), pp. 79-105.
- Description
- Comments on similarities between the mixture of bawdy and sublime in CT and in other medieval tales, collections, and contexts, exploring how bawdiness challenges official discourse. Examines at length Henri d'Andeli's aristocratic fabliau, "Aristote," and its occurrences in various kinds of anthologies.
- Alternative Title
- Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.