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Comic medievalism : laughing at the Middle Ages
- Title
- Comic medievalism : laughing at the Middle Ages / Louise D'Arcens.
- Author
- D'Arcens, Louise.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- x, 209 p. : ill.; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Medievalism (Series) ; IV
- Uniform Title
- Medievalism (Series) ; v.4.
- Alternative Title
- Laughing at the Middle Ages
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index.
- Contents
- I. The set up -- Introduction: Laughing at, with and in the Middle Ages -- The Cervantean paradigm: comedy, madness and meta-medievalism in Don Quixote -- II. Oldies but goodies: comic recovery -- Scraping the rust from the joking bard: Chaucer in the age of wit -- Medievalist farce as anti-totalitarian weapon: Dario Fo as modern Giullare -- III. Hit and myth: performing and parodying medievalism -- Pre-modern camp and faerie legshows: travestying the Middle Ages on the nineteenth-century stage -- Up the Middle Ages: performing tradition in comic medievalist cinema -- IV. That's edutainment: comedy and history -- 'The past is a difficult and fairly disgusting country': the Middle Ages in recent British 'jocumentary' -- Smelling the past: medieval heritage tourism and the phenomenology of ironic nostalgia -- Afterword: Laughing into the future.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-6586
- ISBN
- 9781843843801
- 1843843803
- LCCN
- 2013497468
- OCLC
- 869775708
- Author
- D'Arcens, Louise.
- Title
- Comic medievalism : laughing at the Middle Ages / Louise D'Arcens.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Medievalism (Series) ; IVMedievalism (Series) ; v.4.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index.
- Note
- Laughing at the Middle Ages
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-6586