Article: Brian J. Levy, The Comic Text: Patterns and Images in the Old French Fabliaux.

Faux Titre 186 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000). vii + 312 pp.; 5 illustrations. ISBN 90-420-0429-0. 33.00 [pounds sterling]

This book, the culmination of many years' work by Brian Levy, develops several earlier articles and adds much new material. It exploits a profound knowledge of the corpus; no fewer than 105 of the 127 texts in the Nouveau Recueil complet des fabliaux (NRCF) are cited, plus 16 analogous texts. Levy's approach is traditional and empirical, based on close textual analysis. He starts with striking instances of a given image before subtly analysing less evident cases, using the first to cast light upon the second. He constantly adduces the medieval ...

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