Sexuality, Obscenity, and Genre in the "Merchant's Tale": The Case of Fabliau.

Author / Editor
Turner, Marie.

Title
Sexuality, Obscenity, and Genre in the "Merchant's Tale": The Case of Fabliau.

Published
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017.

Physical Description
[12 pp.]

Description
Describes the generic features of the fabliau, and explores how and what extent the MerT fulfills and overturns these features in its plot, diction, biblical allusion, and courtly conventions, also commenting on interpolations in two manuscripts. Designed for pedagogical use, includes several questions for discussion and suggestions for further reading.

Alternative Title
The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale
Style and Versification
Language and Word Stduies
Manuscripts and Textual Studies