2024 | Isabelle Delage-Béland
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Description:
This study proposes to bring medieval and modern thoughts into dialogue to reread the fabliaux and make them participate in contemporary reflections on the poetics of the literary genre and the reconsideration of the powers of fiction. By testing an unstable mixture of truth and fiction, these brief stories from the central Middle Ages invite nuance and create a middle path where doubt and the refusal of binary oppositions prevail. When placed in their literary and manuscript context, the fabliaux prove to be particularly rich terrain for anyone interested in the ever-relevant questions of truth, lies and plausibility.
