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- Title
Trubert: Transgression, Revolution, Abjection.
- Authors
Burrows, Daron
- Abstract
With its notoriously graphic scenes of torture and murder, often of apparent innocents, the fabliau of Trubert poses an aesthetic and interpretative challenge to the modern reader. Yet amidst the chaos, Trubert's seemingly random acts can be seen as a programmatic assault on the boundaries of a range of ideological and physical structures which thereby calls into question the very identity of the constructs that they contain and define. While this process of transgression and destabilisation can be viewed as carnivalesque or even as reflective of social revolutionary sympathies, it is also possible to consider the concentration on the individual degeneration of the duke for whom Trubert causes the distinction between subject and object to collapse in the context of Kristeva's theory of abjection.
- Subjects
FRENCH fables; TORTURE in literature; MURDER in literature; POLITICAL stability; REVOLUTIONS; ABJECTION in literature
- Publication
Reinardus, 2006, Vol 19, p37
- ISSN
0925-4757
- Publication type
Article