Tricksters and Pranksters : Roguery in French and German Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Alison Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Alison, author.

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 49.

Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carnival in literature.

Comparative literature--French and German.

Comparative literature.

French literature--History and criticism.

French literature.

German literature--History and criticism.

German literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages)

Other Title:

Roguery in French and German Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2000.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Women Tricksters

The Clergy and Trickery

Foxes and Trickery

Outlaws as Tricksters and Pranksters

Eulenspiegel

Panurge

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Williams, Alison Tricksters and Pranksters

ISBN:

9789004488793

OCLC:

606573211

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004488793 DOI