Poetik des Lachens
Subtitle: Untersuchungen zum mittelhochdeutschen Roman um 1200
By: von Stefan Seeber
Series: Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters -- Bd. 140; Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters -- Bd. 140.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9783110235029
Subjects: Congresses; German literature; History and criticism; Laughter in literature
Description: "This book deals with the phenomenon of laughter in Middle High German literature around 1200. Whereas the church condemned laughter and shaped poetics and rhetoric of the era with this attitude, the romances developed their own poetics of laughter, which this study seeks to illuminate without recourse to modern comic theory. Based on the analysis of individual examples such as Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven and Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, laughter becomes recognizable as a constitutive element of Middle High German epics."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Revised and abridged thesis (doctoral)--Universität Freiburg, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]-320) and indexes.