Nicolas Garnier, Dynamiques du récit comique bref : le Roman de Renart et les fabliaux

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to compare the Roman de Renart with the fabliaux, which are often brought together by critics, particularly because of their comical nature. While the common themes of these texts have often been described, no study has ever really analyzed the divergences that occurred in these themes, especially in the way they are used in two genres whose organization is very different, since we have a serial narrative on one hand, and independent stories on the other hand. If we want to consider that both of them belong to the same type of story, then we must interpret their narrative dynamics. We can define the notion as movements that contribute to a process, that is to say, to examine their classification as comical short narratives, whether convergent or divergent. In fact, brevity turns out to be a problematic notion, the Roman de Renart and the fabliaux having a different relationship with the question. What unites them is more a narrative tension of the plot created by effects of surprise, reversals, deviations, but especially the dynamics of the intra- and extra-textual echoes.

Keywords

• Parody
• Narrative
• Brevity
• Carnivalesque
• Comic
• Fabliaux