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Romance and fabliau, as popular genres in late medieval England and France, helped shape popular imagination. These two genres often feature episodes revolving around dance, which in turn influenced the rhetoric around dance in other literature. This chapter explores how the romance and the fabliau genres employ dance to signal uncanny or marvelous events. As a narrative structuring device, dance in popular medieval texts has the opportunity to be an uncanny spectacle in itself and also a gateway to further uncanny marvels in romance and fabliau. Far from occurring in a vacuum, the uncanny and marvelous spectacles in many versions of the tale of the Kolbigk carolers participate in a rhetoric of dance that already existed in these popular late medieval genres. |
