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fabliau

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fab·li·au  (fbl-)
n. pl. fab·li·aux (-l-, -z)
A medieval verse tale characterized by comic, ribald treatment of themes drawn from life.
[French, from Old North French, from Old French fablel, diminutive of fable, fable; see fable.]
fabliau [ˈfæblɪˌəʊ (French) fɑblijo]
n pl fabliaux [ˈfæblɪˌəʊz (French) fɑblijo]
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a comic usually ribald verse tale, of a kind popular in France in the 12th and 13th centuries
[from French: a little tale, from fable tale]
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She discusses his belief that three medieval forms: the epic, the fabliau and the Arthurian cycles came from three different traditions.
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The second part of the book is entitled "the stories (cuentos) inserted in the treatises on magic," but before dealing with the stories themselves Zamora Calvo discusses at some length the terminology for story--cuento, fabliella, estoria, novella, and so on--and defines the categories exempla, nova, lai, fabliau, myth, miracle, and novellae.
Ensuenos de Razon: El cuento inserto en tratados de magia (Siglos XVI ... by Burnett, Charles / Renaissance Quarterly
In pardoning the knights and constructing the amphitheater, Theseus experiences (and the Knight narrator indulges in) a manner of wish-fulfillment, of the kind we observe in the French fabliau of the Butcher of Abbeville and in the Friar's exemplum of the widow and the summoner.
Anger and community in the knight's tale by Griffith, John Lance / Fu Jen Studies: literature & linguistics
 
 
 
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