单词 | chantefable |
释义 | chantefablen. 1. A medieval French ballad, consisting of parts of spoken prose alternating with parts of sung verse; this type of ballad as a literary genre. Cf. cantefable n. 1.Often with reference to the 13th-cent. text Aucassin et Nicolette; see note at cantefable n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > ballad > types of ballad romance?1548 riding ballad1800 derry1860 chantefable1879 cantefable1883 1879 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 378 This novel, or, as M. Bida calls it, this Chantefable, half prose, half verse, is one of the gems of the French literature of the thirteenth century. 1880 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 4 Dec. 11/4 A chant-fable or song-story of the troubadours. 1915 Times 7 May 9/5 She [sc. France] gave to the medieval world its chansons and chante-fables, its fabliaux and romaunts. 1940 G. Reese Mus. Middle Ages vii. 204 The chante-fable, part prose and part verse, differed in form from the chanson de geste. 1995 Lit. & Ling. Computing 10 35/1 The texts in the current version of Med French..[include] a comic fabliau..and an extract form the ‘chantefable’ Aucassin et Nicolette. 2. Any text, work, or performance consisting partly of prose and partly of (sung or recited) verse; = cantefable n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > other spec. defence1546 paradox1594 secret history1650 pentaglot1727 morceau1748 murdering piece1797 pièce de circonstance1830 national epic1841 scholarly edition1850 cantefable1903 chantefable1937 1937 Dial. Notes 6 592 The songs of Lead Belly here include a series of chantefables which he calls ‘Talkin' Blues’. 1976 D. S. Blair Afr. Lit. in French i. 67 The different kinds of traditional Beti tale: the nlan,..and the nkana, a kind of chante-fable, to which the sung refrain was inherent. 1991 H. Shields in J. Harris Ballad & Oral Lit. 47 For the Irish treatment of certain international ballads I was unable to find a better term than chantefable to indicate ‘any combination of prose storytelling with sung verses’. 2014 J. Kieschnick & M. Shahar India in Chinese Imagination 2 The Chinese performing arts—storytelling and drama—adopted the Indian modes of the chantefable (alternating prose and verse). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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