Title: Laughter and narrative in the later Middle Ages
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.
Subjects: German literature, history and criticism, German literature, History and criticism, Laughter in literature, Humor in literature, Germanic literature, Littérature allemande, Histoire et critique, Rire dans la littérature, Middle High German