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- Title
Slips of the Tongue: Some Overlooked Examples of the Misdirected Kiss Storytelling Motif (Thompson K1225).
- Authors
Parsons, Ben; Jongenelen, Bas
- Abstract
This article considers the popular storytelling device of themisdirected kiss, classified in Stith Thompson's index as motif K1225. It argues that the dominance of Chaucer's Miller's Tale over current scholarship has led us to conceptualise the motif in unduly reductive terms. To demonstrate the variability and complexity of the kiss as a narrative element, a number of neglected witnesses are reviewed from medieval and early modern French, English, German and Dutch. The article appends a translation and edition of one of the most eccentric specimens of the kiss from the late medieval period, the "Refereynen vande jonghe Kamer van Haerlem" (1561).
- Subjects
KISSING in literature; STORYTELLING; CHAUCER, Geoffrey, d. 1400; EARLY Modern Period (Literary period); 14TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
Fabula, 2023, Vol 64, Issue 3/4, p282
- ISSN
0014-6242
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/fabula-2023-0016