Noël du Fail played a unique role in defining the genre of the short story. An avid reader of François Rabelais and medieval literature, he vouched for his novelty by giving the floor to the “rustics.” This polyphonic work offers a reading of the meeting of popular and scholarly cultures.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-16676-4
EAN:9782406166764
ISSN: 1164-6152
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-37312-225-1
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 04-04-2007
Language: French
Keyword: Facétie, self-writing, proverb, collective memory, reading pact, comic, mimesis, intertextuality, Giovanni Boccaccio, sixteenth-century literature
