Tricksters and Pranksters

Roguery in French and German Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-420-1512-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Women Tricksters
The Clergy and Trickery
Foxes and Trickery
Outlaws as Tricksters and Pranksters
Eulenspiegel
Panurge
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.