Medieval Comic Tales - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0859914305 ISBN 13 : 9780859914307

Editeur : D.S. Brewer, 1973

Synopsis

During the middle ages, a common fund of comic tales circulated throughout Europe. Writers such as Boccaccio, Chaucer, Rabelais and Cervantes drew on this material, and used it for their own purposes, but the brilliant medieval versions also deserve to be known in their own right. They are of great cultural interest and considerable entertainment value, varying from humour to farce, from sophisticated literary parody to blunt crudeness. Piety jostles blasphemy, and sex and death are everywhere good for a joke. The tales presented here, translated into clear modern English by experts in their fields, are from French, Spanish, Dutch, German, medieval Latin, Italian and English. This second edition contains more comic tales and has benefitted from recent scholarship; there is a substantial new introduction by Derek Brewer. Scholars and students in many disciplines, and general readers, will find the book accessible, useful and enjoyable. DEREK BREWER is Professor Emeritus of English Literature, University of Cambridge.The contributors are: PETER RICKARD, ALAN DEYERMOND, DAVID JOHNSON, DAVID BLAMIRES, MICHAEL LAPIDGE, DEREK BREWER

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D.S. Brewer
• Date d'édition: 1973
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0859914305
• ISBN 13: 9780859914307
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Brewer Derek S
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