Tricksters and Pranksters: Roguery in French and German Literature of the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceRodopi, 2000 - 236 páginas This volume represents a contribution to comparative scholarship in Medieval and Renaissance studies in its investigation of the ingenious diversity of roguish practices found in Medieval and Renaissance literature and its recognition of the coherent normative function of tales of tricksters and pranksters. The wide variety of works analysed, from those forming part of the established canon of texts on undergraduate degree schemes to lesser-known works, makes the volume of interest to students and researchers alike. The roguish behaviour of women, priests, foxes and outlaws and the knavery of Eulenspiegel and Panurge are used to illustrate how rituals of inversion and humiliation typical of the medieval carnival are reflected in literary accounts of trickery, and to question whether the restorative function attributed to carnival celebration is equally to be found in the intra-textual and extra-textual outcomes of trickery. This analysis is supported by studies into the trickster in mythology, sociological investigations into the role of disorder, Bakhtinian theories of carnival and the carnivalesque, and theories of black humour. |
Contenido
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Women Tricksters | 23 |
The Clergy and Trickery | 49 |
Foxes and Trickery Le Roman de Renart and Reinhart Fuchs | 85 |
Outlaws as Tricksters and Pranksters | 123 |
Eulenspiegel | 143 |
Panurge | 177 |
Conclusion | 209 |
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Términos y frases comunes
actions Aichmayr Amis's Assen association Bakhtin behaviour bien Bote Bote's Branch carnival celebration carnival ritual carnivalesque character characteristics chronotope Church clergy comic victim context costume Count of Boulogne court courtly cuckold deception demonstrates didactic Dindenault disguise disorder duped emphasised episode Eulenspiegel Eustace Eustace the Monk Eustace's exploitation fabliaux and Schwänke farce female fictional figure Fouke Fouke Fitz Waryn Fouke's Fulk Fitzwarin function Göppingen Gorcum grotesque body Hersent humour husband interpretation inversion and humiliation Joies de Mariage Joye Kalenberg King language laughter lover marriage medieval Middle Ages monk moral narrator outlaw Pantagruel Panurge Panurge's Pfaffe Amis physical play position Prestre priest qu'il Rabelais recognise Reinhart Fuchs rituals of inversion role Roman de Renart satire scapegoat scatology Schadenfreude Schalk sexual social society Tiers Livre Till Eulenspiegel transgression trickery tricks and pranks trickster or prankster tricksters and pranksters typical whilst wife Willem Noomen women XV Joies Ysengrin
Pasajes populares
Página 4 - In the literary artistic chronotope, spatial and temporal indicators are fused into one carefully thought-out, concrete whole. Time, as it were, thickens, takes on flesh, becomes artistically visible,- likewise, space becomes charged and responsive to the movements of time, plot, and history.
Página 1 - ... to add disorder to order and so make a whole, to render possible, within the fixed bounds of what is permitted, an experience of what is not permitted.
Página 6 - He hath put down the mighty from their seat : and hath exalted the humble and meek.
Página 5 - ... happier future, of a more just social and economic order, of a new truth. The gay aspect of the feast presented this happier future of a general material affluence, equality, and freedom, just as the Roman Saturnalia announced the return of the Golden Age. Thus, the medieval feast had, as it were, the two faces of Janus. Its official, ecclesiastical face was turned to the past and sanctioned the existing order, but the face of the people of the marketplace looked into the future and laughed,...
Página 10 - It is rather a stepping out of "real" life into a temporary sphere of activity with a disposition all of its own.
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