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Item Number: 111435
Title: Behaving like Fools : Voice, Gesture, and Laughter in Texts, Manuscripts, and Early Books
Author: Perry, Lucy ; Alexander Schwarz (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9782503531571
Description: Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. 24cm., hardcover, 301pp. illus. Contents: Traditions of Simulated Folly in The Canterbury Interlude and Tale of Beryn - GUILLEMETTE BOLENS ; A Fool and a Troubadour: Folly in the Legend of Peire Vidal - SUSANNA NIIRANEN ; An Anglo-Norman Fool in Constantinople: Der Pfaffe Amis - CORDULA BÖCKING-POLITIS ; Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools and its Woodcuts - SIEGRID SCHMIDT ; Eulenspiegel Meets Nasreddin: A Fools' Contest - ALEXANDER SCHWARZ ; After the Laughter: Discipline Through Narration. The Fool's Didactics in Wolfgang Büttner's Jocular Prose Tales (Schwänke) Featuring Claus Narr (1572) - PETER GLASNER ; Playing the Fool: Eccentric Behaviour and Political Acumen in Wace's Roman de Rou - FRANÇOISE LE SAUX ; 'Marcel far to helle; & tel heom þer spelles' (Brut, line 13245): 'Off' Jokes and Crude Behaviour in Lawman's Brut - ROSAMUND ALLEN ; A Small History of Laughter, or When Laughter Has to Be Reasonable - STEFAN BIEßENECKER ; 'Cel neim […] est fols': 'Fool-like' Dwarfs and the Irony of Fictionality in French Texts around 1200 - TANJA-ISABEL HABICHT ; The Issue of Madness in Tristan Romances - PATRIZIA MAZZADI ; 'What kind of fool am I?': The Tragi-comedy of the Love Potion in the Thomas/Gottfried Branch of the Tristan Legend - NEIL THOMAS ; Don't Make Me Laugh! Fooling Around in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - LUCY PERRY. (International medieval research, 17)
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