Laughter and narrative in the later Middle Ages

Description:

"Short comic tales in verse flourished in late medieval Germany, providing bawdy entertainment for larger audiences of public recitals as well as for smaller numbers of individual readers. In a sustained close analysis Sebastian Coxon explores both the narrative design and fundamental thematic preoccupations of these short texts. A distinctively performative tradition of pre-modern narrative literature emerges which invited recipients for think, learn and above all to laugh in a number of different ways."--Jacket.

subjects: German literature, history and criticism,  German literature,  History and criticism,  Laughter in literature,  Humor in literature,  Germanic literature,  Littérature allemande,  Histoire et critique,  Rire dans la littérature,  Middle High German