TY - ECHAP A1 - Dearnley, Elizabeth TI - “Faisons du con le lai novel” - Parody, Transtextuality and the Breton lai T3 - Medieval civilization, n° 19 in Rencontres M1 - 155 DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-6063-0.p.0235 SN - 978-2-8124-6063-0 SP - 235 EP - 248 AB - This essay explores how the playful Lai du Lecheor works as a parody, using Gerard Genette’s theory of transtextuality to sharpen the understanding of the poem as an active transformation of the lai genre. Genette’s theory provides a helpful framework for thinking about Lecheor’s jaunty overturning of generic expectations and its creation of a lai novel. However, his model may need to be adapted further for use when considering a text’s parodic function within a dynamic manuscript context. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/06/22 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris LA - eng UR - https://shop.staging.classiques-garnier.net/parodies-courtoises-parodies-de-la-courtoisie-faisons-du-con-le-lai-novel-en.html Y2 - 2025/12/07 ER -