Comic medievalism : laughing at the Middle Ages /

The role of laughter and humour in the postmedieval citation, interpretation or recreation of the middle ages has hitherto received little attention, a gap in scholarship which this book aims to fill. Examining a wide range of comic texts and practices across several centuries, from Don Quixote and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: D'Arcens, Louise (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] : D.S. Brewer, 2014.
Colección:Medievalism (Series) ; Volume IV.
Temas:
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Humor in literature.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature, Medieval.
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Humor
Litteratur > historia.
Humor i litteraturen.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. The set up
  • Introduction: Laughing at, with and in the Middle Ages
  • The Cervantean paradigm: comedy, madness and meta-medievalism in Don Quixote
  • II. Oldies but goodies: comic recovery
  • Scraping the rust from the joking bard: Chaucer in the age of wit
  • Medievalist farce as anti-totalitarian weapon: Dario Fo as modern Giullare
  • III. Hit and myth: performing and parodying medievalism
  • Pre-modern camp and faerie legshows: travestying the Middle Ages on the nineteenth-century stage
  • Up the Middle Ages: performing tradition in comic medievalist cinema
  • IV. That's edutainment: comedy and history
  • 'The past is a difficult and fairly disgusting country': the Middle Ages in recent British 'jocumentary'
  • Smelling the past: medieval heritage tourism and the phenomenology of ironic nostalgia
  • Afterword: Laughing into the future.

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