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Till Eulenspiegel

His Adventures
Übersetzer: Oppenheimer, Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A classic fable of German literature, "Till Eulenspiegel" is a cheerfully scatological collection of 95 loosely related vignettes depicting the life and times of a famous roving jester. The trickster hero devotes his life to deflating the pompous, the rich, and the smug. The book includes the entire set of 87 sixteenth-century woodcuts, possibly by Albrecht Duerer. It also contains an introduction that establishes the historical context of the tales, discusses the use of satire in the late Medieval and early Renaissance literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 4th edition
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415937634
• ISBN-10: 0415937639
• Artikelnr.: 21676862

Autorenporträt

Paul Oppenheimer is Professor of English and Medieval and Comparative Literature at City College, New York. He is the author of Birth of the Modern Mind, Evil and theDemonic, Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Guilt, and Rubens, A Portrait.

Inhaltsangabe

Selected Contents Introduction Bibliography Foreword 1. How Till
Eulenspiegel was born, how he was baptized three times in one day, and who
his godparents were. 2. How all the farmers and their wives complained
about young Eulenspiegel, saying he was a rogue and a scoundrel; and how he
rode behind his father on a horse, quietly letting the people behind him
see his arse. 3. How Claus Eulenspiegel moved away from Kneitlingen to the
Saale, the river, where his mother was born, where he died; and how his son
Till learned to walk the tightrope. 4. How Eulenspiegel relieved the boys
of 200 pairs of shoes, over which they fought, making young and old tear
their hair over them. 5. How Eulenspiegel's mother tried to convince him to
learn a trade-with which she meant to help him.