Research Catalog

Title

Poetik des Lachens : Untersuchungen zum mittelhochdeutschen Roman um 1200 / von Stefan Seeber.

Author

Seeber, Stefan

Publication

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, c2010.

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Holdings

Details

Description

x, 326 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book deals with the phenomenon of laughter in Middle High German literature around 1200. Whereas the church condemned laughter and shaped poetics and rhetoric of the era with this attitude, the romances developed their own poetics of laughter, which this study seeks to illuminate without recourse to modern comic theory. Based on the analysis of individual examples such as Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven and Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, laughter becomes recognizable as a constitutive element of Middle High German epics."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, 0580-1362 ; Band 140

Uniform Title

Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters ; Bd. 140.

Alternative Title

Untersuchungen zum mittelhochdeutschen Roman um 1200

Subject

• German literature > Middle High German, 1050-1500 > History and criticism > Congresses
• Laughter in literature > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Revised and abridged version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universita·t Freiburg, 2008.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]-320) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

9783110235029 (cl.)

OCLC

• 676739283
• SCSB-12470390

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library