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

Leglu, Catherine

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

Leglu, Catherine

2019 • In Forum for Modern Language Studies, 55 (2), p. 171--186

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Medievalism; Translation; Gender; ealrly modern literature; french literature

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[en] The 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.

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Leglu, Catherine ; University of Luxembourg > Rectorate

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

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2019

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Forum for Modern Language Studies

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0015-8518

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Oxford University Press

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171--186

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Peer reviewed

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