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1 online resource (ix, 853 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture,
1864-3396 ;
5
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Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Laughter as an expression of human nature in the Middle Ages and the early modern period: literary, historical, theological, philosophical, and psychological reflections. Also an introduction / Albrecht Classen -- Laughter in Procopius's Wars / Judith Hagen -- "Does God really laugh?": appropriate and inappropriate descriptions of God in Islamic traditionalist theology / Livnat Holtzman -- Laughter in Beowulf: ambiguity, ambivalence, and group identity formation / Daniel F. Pigg -- The parodia sacra problem and medieval comic studies / Mark Burde -- Women's laughter and gender politics in medieval conduct discourse / Olga V. Trokhimenko -- Pushing decorum: uneasy laughter in Heinrich von Dem Türlîn's Diu crône / Madelon Köhler-Busch -- Laughter and the comic in a religious text: example of the Cantigas de Santa Maria / Connie L. Scarborough -- The son rebelled and so the father made man alone: ridicule and boundary maintenance in The Nizzahon vetus / John Sewell -- Laughing at the beast: the Judensau: anti-Jewish propaganda and humor from the Middle Ages to the early modern period / Birgit Wiedl -- Yes ... but was it funny? Cecco Angiolieri, Rustico Filippi and Giovanni Boccaccio / Fabian Alfie -- Curses and laughter in medieval Italian comic poetry: the ethics of humor in Rustico Filippi's invectives / Nicolino Applauso -- Tromdhámh guaire: a context for laughter and audience in early modern Ireland / Feargal Ó Béarra -- Humorous transgression in the non-conformist fabliaux: a Bakhtinian analysis of three comic tales / Jean E. Jost -- Chaucerian comedy: Troilus and Criseyde / Gretchen Mieszkowski -- Laughing and eating in the fabliaux / Sarah Gordon -- Laughter and medieval stalls / Christine Bousquet-Labouérie -- Vox populi e voce professionis: Processus juris joco-serius. Esoteric humor and the incommensurability of laughter / Scott L. Taylor -- "So I thought as I stood, to mirth us among": the function of laughter in The second shepherds' play / Jean N. Goodrich -- Laughing in late-medieval verse (mæren) and prose (Schwänke) narratives: epistemological strategies and hermeneutic explorations / Albrecht Classen -- The workings of desire: Panurge and the dogs / Rosa Alvarez Perez -- Laughing out loud in the Heptaméron: a reassessment of Marguerite de Navarre's ambivalent humor / Elizabeth Chesney Zegura -- You had to be there: the elusive humor of the Sottie / Lia B. Ross -- Sacred parody in Robert Greene's Groatsworth of wit (1592) / Kyle Diroberto -- The comedy of the shrew: theorizing humor in early modern Netherlandish art / Martha Moffitt Peacock -- The comic personas of Milton's Prolusion VI: negotiating masculine identity through self-directed humor / Jessica Tvordi -- Ridentum dicere verum (using laughter to speak the truth): laughter and the language of the early modern clown "pickelhering" in German literature of the late seventeenth century (1675-1700) / Robert J. Alexander -- Andreae's ludibrium: Menippean satire in the Chymische hochzeit / Thomas Willard -- The comic power of illusion-allusion: laughter, La devineresse, and the scandal of a glorious century / Diane Rudall -- Laughing at credulity and superstition in the long eighteenth century / Allison P. Coudert. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Laughter in literature.
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Laughter in literature. |
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Humor in literature.
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Humor in literature. |
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Laughter -- History.
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Laughter. |
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History. |
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Wit and humor -- History.
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Wit and humor. |
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Laughter -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Laughter -- Religious aspects.
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Laughter -- Religious aspects. |
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Wit and humor, Medieval.
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Wit and humor, Medieval. |
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Wit and humor -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Classen, Albrecht.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Laughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times. New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2010 9783110245479 (DLC) 2010011924 (OCoLC)574971139 |
| ISBN |
9783110245486 (electronic book) |
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3110245485 (electronic book) |
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9783110245479 |
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3110245477 |
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3110245485 |
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