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	FABLIAU - LoveToKnow Article on FABLIAU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In a poem of the 12th century a clear distinction is drawn between songs of chivalry, war or love, and fabliaux, which are recitals of laughter.
		A fabliau always related an event; it was usually brief, containing not more than 400 lines; it was neither sentimental, religious nor supernatural, but comic and gay.
		An instance of the pathetic fabliau is Housse Partie, a kind of primitive version of the story of King Lear.
	20.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FA/FABLIAU.htm (1308 words)

	Fabliau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fabliau (plural fabliaux) is a comic, usually anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France circa the 13th Century.
		The status of peasants appears to vary based on the audience that the fabliau was being written for.
		The fabliau gradually disappeared at the beginning of the 16th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fabliau (369 words)

	Literature Film Quarterly: Chaucerian Fabliaux, Cinematic Fabliau: Pier Paolo Pasolini's I racconti di Canterbury
		The fabliau, which flourished in thirteenth-century France and which Chaucer used as the basis for many of his tales, candidly and hilariously depicts a world of erotic obscenity, scatological excess, earthy pleasure, and sexual betrayal.
		The fabliau is ideally suited to express antagonism due to its origins in the French courtly world, where its valence as entertainment derived primarily from its mocking jabs at the bourgeoisie and the clergy; the genre thus appears to be a joke that the aristocracy shared at the commoners' expense.
		Fabliau exists in a sort of adversarial relationship to romance, borrowing some of its trappings to make the kinship clearer: the same versification, the love-triangle, a judicious sprinkling of love vocabulary and conventional description, an occasional very specific parody of authorial boasts in prologues and concluding lines.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_200401/ai_n9377439 (1121 words)

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		Although its audience is normally thought of as middle class, it seems that the fabliau was also widely enjoyed in courtly circles, and may even have been written by courtly authors.
		The fabliau ingredients continue with the theft of the meal and its baking into a cake by the miller's wife while the students are off chasing the rampant stallion.
		All the staple ingredients are there, but Chaucer invigorates the tradition with elements of social satire so that it becomes, at one and the same time, an indulgent and celebratory glimpse into a different kind of world for a courtly audience and a telling critique and mockery of the follies of those who inhabit it.
	www.geocities.com /growonder/chaucerreeve.html (1883 words)

	FRENCH LITERATURE - LoveToKnow Article on FRENCH LITERATURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The fabliau, on the other hand, according to the best definition of it yet achieved, is the recital, generally comic, of a real or possible incident occurring in ordinary human life.
		The prose-tale and the farce are the direct outcomes of the fabliau, and the prose-tale and the farce once given, the novel and the comedy inevitably follow.
		This poem, half fabliau and half romance, is not so much an instance of the heroi-comic poems which afterwards found so much favor in Italy and elsewhere, as a direct and ferocious parody of the Carlovingian epic.
	21.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FRENCH_LITERATURE.htm (20806 words)

	fabliaux
		In fact, the range of fabliau subjects and methods is extraordinarily wide, varying from linguistic playfulness and complex comic developments to unsubtle anecdotes and simple dirty jokes.
		The inspiration or purpose of a fabliau is not always easy to define, and it is in any case of questionable value as a generic determinant.
		Whether or not the fabliau is taken as a bourgeois genre, it is true that the characters most often belong to the middle class or to peasant society.
	www.personal.psu.edu /njl2/fabliaux.html (2287 words)

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		They are peopled by stereotypical characters such as the duped husband (often old and jealous), the faithless wife (often young and sexually active), the cunning friend or acquaintance (frequently inspired by mercenary and/or sexual motives; sometimes a student or a member of a religious order).
		Fabliau plots are fast moving and their resolution involves trickery and neat twists of fate.
		The fabliau is essentially an amoral genre, and any ÒmoralityÓ usually consists of proverbial comments or moral truisms, offered by one of the characters or by the narrative voice as a judgement (often partial or inadequate) on the action.
	www.qub.ac.uk /en/subject-areas/medieval/docs/CT_3.doc (495 words)

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		A fabliau is a short story that is usually written in verse about low or middle class people.
		(Muscatine 568-570) Benson describes the fabliau as, “a brief comic tale in verse, usually scurrilous and often scatological or obscene.
		Also, another trait of fabliaux is that the humor is “attached to the structure itself” rather than in “the way in which the story is told.” (Vaszily) One common plot for a fabliau is a love triangle.
	depts.loras.edu /eng/LWChaucerFabliauResearch.doc (1676 words)

	Chaucer: Class Mini Reports, December (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The tradition of the fabliau is generally accepted to have begun during the 12th and 13th Centuries and the pieces, of which there are about 160, were composed in French.
		Bédier simply defines the Fabliau as, "les fabliaux sont des contes à rire en vers," which translates as "fabliaux are funny tales in verse." Bédier’s definition has been subject to violent scrutiny, particularly of late, with a great deal of literature surfacing in the past decade or so that attempts to deal with the fabliau.
		To combat this symptom of length comes one of the only shortcomings of the fabliau and that is the employment of what usually reduce to stock characters to move the action.
	individual.utoronto.ca /jensutherl/minireportjanuary.html (2870 words)

	Fabliau -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The fabliau (plural fabliaux) is a comic, usually anonymous tale written by (A singer of folk songs) jongleurs in northeast (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France circa the (Click link for more info and facts about 13th Century) 13th Century.
		They are generally bawdy in nature, and several of them were reworked by (English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)) Geoffrey Chaucer for his (An uncompleted series of tales written after 1387 by Geoffrey Chaucer) Canterbury Tales.
		Poems that were presumably written for the nobility portray peasants (vilains in (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French) as stupid and vile, whereas those written for the lower classes often tell of peasants getting the better of the clergy.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fa/Fabliau.htm (398 words)

	Annotated Chaucer Bibliographies, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2001
		Vaszily’s final point before reaching the main theme of his paper is that Chaucer uses fabliau elements as a socially subversive force in his work: “We will see that the idealizing language of courtly romance in the Knight’s Tale is indeed momentarily desublimated in one of two fabliau ‘interludes’ in the tale” (530).
		If Chaucer employs fabliau elements in romantic or more dramatic plots in one instance, he may well use it in several other tales, especially if it is more a reflection of his own predilections than those of his ostensive narrators.
		A fabliau’s humor, then, and the key to its success, seems to come from “charivari,” from a public awareness and ridiculing of cuckoldry, one that makes the audience laugh at rather than deride a character.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng330/annotated_chaucer_bibliographies.htm (17933 words)

	fabliaux
		Initially, the Fabliau was thought to be of bourgeois origin because of its sharp contrast to the popular upper-class Romances of the time as well as on the assumption that the dirty, lowly aspects of these tales would appeal only to those of the lowliest classes.
		Most modern men with average schooling maintain a view of the Middle Ages in which handsome, unfailing knights saved beautiful virtuous damsels, and peasants, despite working in the shit and muck were nobly tied to the earth, and humble monks went door to door for alms to fix a dilapidated church.
		The Fabliau plays the important role of exposing the warty side of this time period, providing us with an understanding of culture, of values, and of social structure without all that high-falutinítalk of the more respected literary forms.
	www.haverford.edu /engl/chaucer/students/fabliaux.htm (730 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: General Information (F-Fd) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Fabian Society is a socialist association founded in London in 1883 which aims at the reorganisation of society by the emancipation of land and capital from individual and class ownership, and the vesting of them in the community for the general benefit.
		Fabliau is a form of early French literature consisting of short versified tales, comic in spirit and intended primarily for recitation.
		They were mainly written between the 12th and 14th centuries in northern France, and caricature every subject, but particularly women.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /A6.HTM (918 words)

	Style Journal
		Roy J. Pearcy has defined the Old French fabliau genre in terms of a few characteristic story-structures, all involving the misinterpretation of ambiguous signs.
		These interludes evoke attitudes commonly associated with fabliau and play them off against the more typical romance attitutdes that predominate in the Knight's Tale, as the more widely recognized allusions to courtly romance in Chaucer's fabliaux evoke romance attitudes.
		The effect of the fabliau interludes is mainly to reinforce the questioning of romance attitudes that critics like Charles Muscatine and Donald R. Howard have already pointed out in the Knight's Tale.
	www.engl.niu.edu /style/archives/vol31n3.html (1035 words)

	Chaucer: January Minutes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Reeve’s Tale is in typical fabliau style in that it uses few words, its details are concise, and each detail is meaningful to the story.
		Other Fabliau symbols include the snoring scenes found in both the Reeve’s Tale and Miller’s Tale and the lack of any type of moralizing as with the rape of the Miller’s daughter.
		The pretension’s of the Miller, which are undermined by his wife’s tarnished background and the promiscuity of his daughter are good use of satire within the fabliau.
	individual.utoronto.ca /jensutherl/january2.html (682 words)

	The OED define a fabliau as "a metrical tale, often coarsely humourous. Is this an adequate description of the miler's ...
		The OED define a fabliau as "a metrical tale, often coarsely humourous.
		Coursework and Essays: By Level: GCSE: Literature: The OED define a fabliau as "a metrical tale, often coarsely humourous.
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	Langue du XIXe siècle: La Curne de Sainte-Palaye
		Fabliau du Vilain de Bailleul, même Mss.; 6.
		Fabliau de Sire Hain et de Dame Anieuse, Mss.
		Fabliau du Testament de l'Asne, n° 7633; 54.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/langueXIX/lacurne (12095 words)

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		Characters: The riotous apprentice, Perkyn Reveler, his master, who wises up rather late in the game, various members of Perkyn's band of followers, his "peer," another apprentice who has lost his place, and his "peer’s” wife, the only openly identified prostitute.
		Chaucer uses of Fabliau in the Cook's tale.
		Fabliau: A short tales that mocks human weaknesses and shows savage disrespect for authority.
	www.fortunecity.com /campus/dana/96/med/cook.doc (442 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer's "Miller's Tale"
		A fabliau is a special type of short story that was very popular in Chaucer’s time.
		Fabliau were, frankly, dirty little stories in which women were generally portrayed as lusty wenches and men as ready if foolish partners.
		But its serious literary value is the preservation of an example of the “fabliau” genre for audiences in our own day to enjoy, and the knowledge that in six hundred years, our sense of humor has not changed.
	www.storybites.com /Chaucermiller.htm (1143 words)

	Fabliau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		They are generally bawdy in nature, and several of them were reworked by Geoffrey Chaucer for his Canterbury Tales.All but one of the fabliaux are in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.
		Longer medieval poems such as Le Roman de Renart and those found in The Canterbury Tales have their origin in one orseveral fabliaux.
		FamousFrench writers such as Molière, Jean de La Fontaine and Voltaire owe much to thetradition of the fabliau, in their prose works as well as in their poetry.
	www.therfcc.org /fabliau-129837.html (207 words)

	Early Chaucer Notes
		The fabliau demonstrates the upheaval of traditional societal estates and traditionally defined societal roles by exposing and punishing the dupe, a character of liminal social standing.
		Antithetical to the conventional knight of the romance, fabliau knights are typically destitute and drunk; poor lovers and worse fighters.
		Fabliau clerks neglect their clerical duties and devote their energies to such self-indulgent endeavors as lovemaking and eating.
	www.llp.armstrong.edu /5800/earlychno.html (2741 words)

	fabliau on Encyclopedia.com
		The Gelded Lady, an Old French Fabliau: new views and a new translation.(Essays)
		Fabliau plotting against romance in Chaucer's 'The Knight's Tale.' (Geoffrey Chaucer)
		FROM FRENCH `FABLIAU MANUSCRIPTS' AND MS HARLEY 2253 TO THE DECAMERON AND THE CANTERBURY TALES.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/f1/fabliau.asp (301 words)

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	A Brief History of Raunch
		The “Miller’s Tale”, and “Reeve’s Tale” are often identified as fabliau.
		The fabliaux, which rose to popularity in the fourteenth century in England, is often associated with ribaldry, and, according to M. Abrams, “its favorite theme is the cuckolding of a stupid husband” (86).
		Chaucer’s fabliaux clearly emphasizes the materiality of the body: his characters fart, fornicate, and urinate; they are creatures of the flesh, rather than idealized figures of high romance.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/6361wells.htm (1044 words)

	Grades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A fabliau is a medieval tale characterized by comic, ribald treatment of themes drawn from life.
		The story often turns around some bodily noise or function, and is considered a comedy.
		Consider comic timing, plot intricacy and the cast of characters when proving your thesis - that both tales are fabliaux.
	www.msmoran.com /fabliau.html (69 words)

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		Le tavernier, pour une fois, est tombé sur plus malhonnête que lui et le fabliau se termine de la manière la plus inattendue qui soit pour le lecteur, avec un tavernier qui se voit sans le moindre recours pour récupérer l’argent que lui doit le clerc.
		La première partie du fabliau réunit ainsi, sur le mode joyeux, toutes les formes du plaisir de la bouche : goinfrerie et ivrognerie, mais aussi délicatesse de l’amateur qui sait mâcher le vin pour en apprécier toutes les qualités.
		On peut donc vraiment parler, pour ce fabliau, d’un descente aux Enfers.
	www.chez.com /littmedievale/Lm034.htm (4633 words)

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