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voice, gesture, and laughter in texts, manuscripts, and early books

"Behaving like fools" was published by Brepols in 2010 - Turnhout, it has 301 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 301
  • Publisher: Brepols
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  • Publish Location: Turnhout

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"Behaving like fools" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Introduction -- Alexander Schwarz and Lucy Perry
  • 2- Traditions of simulated folly in The Canterbury interlude and tale of Beryn -- Guillemette Bolens
  • 3- A fool and a troubadour : folly in the legend of Peire Vidal -- Susanna Niiranen
  • 4- An Anglo-Norman fool in Constantinople : Der Pfaffe Amis -- Cordula Böcking-Politis
  • 5- Sebastian Brant's Ship of fools and its woodcuts -- Siegrid Schmidt
  • 6- Eulenspiegel meets Nasreddin : a fools' contest -- Alexander Schwarz
  • 7- After the laughter : discipline through narration : the fool's didactics in Wolfgang Büttner's jocular prose tales (Schwänke) featuring Claus Narr (1572) -- Peter Glasner
  • 8- Playing the fool : eccentric behaviour and political acumen in Wace's Roman de Rou -- Françoise Le Saux
  • 9- "Marcel far to helle : tel heom þer spelles" (Brut, Line 13245) : "off" jokes and crude behaviour in Lawman's Brut -- Rosamund Allen
  • 10- A small history of laughter, or when laughter has to be reasonable -- Stefan Biessenecker
  • 11- "Cel neim (...) est fols" : "fool-like" dwarfs and the irony of fictionality in French texts around 1200 -- Tanja-Isabel Habicht
  • 12- The issue of madness in Tristan romances -- Patrizia Mazzadi
  • 13- "What kind of fool am I?" : the tragi-comedy of the love potion in the Thomas-Gottfried branch of the Tristan legend -- Neil Thomas
  • 14- Don't make me laugh! : fooling around in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Lucy Perry.

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