Louise D'Arcens

Comic Medievalism

Laughing at the Middle Ages

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First full-length critical study of humour in medievalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Early English Text Society
• Seitenzahl: 219
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9781843844785
• ISBN-10: 1843844788
• Artikelnr.: 47769364

Autorenporträt

Louise D'Arcens

Inhaltsangabe

The Cervantean Paradigm: Comedy, Madness, and Meta-medievalism in Don
Quixote Scraping the Rust from the Joking Bard: Chaucer in the Age of Wit
Medievalist Farce as Anti-totalitarian Weapon: Dario Fo as Modern Guillare
Pre-modern Camp and Faerie Legshows: Travestying the Middle Ages on the
Nineteenth-Century Stage Up the Middle Ages: Performing Tradition in Comic
Medievalist Cinema 'The past is a different and fairly disgusting country':
The Middle Ages in recent British 'jocumentary' Smelling the Past: Medieval
Heritage Tourism and the Phenomenology of Ironic Nostalgia Afterword:
Laughing into the Future Bibliography