Catherine Gise
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Catherine Gise is the author of “Le Jeu de l’imitation: Un Aspect de la reception des Contes de La Fontaine,” and “The Conte en vers: Expanding Stith Thompson’s X-File of Obscene Motifs.”
On the conte en vers
In the bibliography of conteurs published at the end Catherine Gise's article, “Le Jeu de
l’imitation: Un Aspect de la reception des Contes de La Fontaine,” she reveals that the most common generic expression used by the authors themselves in the titles of their works is contes en vers. Indicative of the hesitation over the nomenclature, however, the 1905-06 Van Bever anthologies of licentious tales in verse were entitled: Les Conteurs libertins du XVIIIe siècle, Conteurs galants du XVIIIe siècle, and Contes et conteurs gaillards au XVIIIe siècle. Folklorists commonly use the term contes en vers to describe this body of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century libertine tales—see Gershon Legman, “Toward a Motif-Index of Erotic Humor” (236-38) and Catherine Gise's article, “The Conte en vers: Expanding Stith Thompson’s X-File of Obscene Motifs.”
