Bodytalk
Subtitle: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (New Cultural Studies Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: February 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780812214055
Subjects: Literary studies: general; World history: c 500 to C 1500; History and criticism; France; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Literary Criticism; To 1500; European - French; Body, Human, in literature; Civilization, Medieval, in lit; French literature; Women and literature
First sentence: Among the genres of Old French literature, the fabliau holds the distinction of focusing repeatedly, even obsessively, on the body.