Laughter and narrative in the later Middle Ages
Subtitle: German comic tales 1350-1525
By: Sebastian Coxon.
Publisher: Legenda; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781905981830
Subjects: German literature -- Middle High German, 1050-1500 -- History and criticism; Laughter in literature; Humor in literature
Description: "Short 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 recipients for think, learn and above all to laugh in a number of different ways."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-210) and index.