History of English literature
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fatalistic outlook is gradually replaced by a sense of brightness and joy, it is the first sign of
the changes to come. Also, for the first time, some elements of human psychology can be
seen.
As the cities grew and more citizens became more educated, new genres appeared the fable
and the (fablio) fabliau(x).
Fables are short stories with animals for characters and usually a moral at the end. The most
famous fable-writer Aesop.
Fabliaux a comic, often has excessive sexual and scatological obscenity. Burghers,
cuckolding (a cuckold a man who's wife cheated on him).
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