Illicit speech, unsayable bodies, and eighteenth-century medievalism: "Nocrion: conte allobroge"

Leglu, C. (2019) Illicit speech, unsayable bodies, and eighteenth-century medievalism: "Nocrion: conte allobroge". Forum for Modern Language Studies, 55 (2). pp. 171-186. ISSN 1471-6860 doi: 10.1093/fmls/cqz001

Abstract/Summary

The scabrous eighteenth-century 'conte'"Nocrion" adapts an Old French fabliau to explore the unsayable and the feminine body via a series of distancing devices: antiquarianism, euphemism, and other languages. This article highlights the fidelity shown by one of its presumed authors (the Comte de Caylus) to the medieval sources, with reference to another, similar, work, "Les Manteaux". Adapting comic medieval sources is a means of exploring the nascent concerns of philology.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/75315
Identification Number/DOI	10.1093/fmls/cqz001
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies (GCMS) Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > Languages and Cultures > French
Publisher	Oxford University Press
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