Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages

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Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages

Author	: Sebastian Coxon
File Size	: 52,5 Mb
Publisher	: Routledge
Language	: English
Release Date	: 05 July 2017
ISBN	: 9781351560832
Pages	: 226 pages

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Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages by Sebastian Coxon Book PDF Summary

In contrast to the vernacular literary traditions of France, Italy and England, comic tales in verse flourished in late medieval Germany, providing bawdy entertainment for larger audiences of public recitals as well as for smaller numbers of individual readers. In a sustained close analysis Sebastian Coxon explores both the narrative design and fundamental thematic preoccupations of these short texts. A distinctively performative tradition of pre-modern narrative literature emerges which invited its recipients to think, learn and above all to laugh in a number of different ways.

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