Medieval Joke Poetry - The Cantigas Descarnho E De Mal Dizer

Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Liu is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Klappentext This book examines the intersection of jokes, laughter, insults, and poetry in a collection of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century medieval Iberian songs known as the "Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer. Liu shows how these jokes operate in such varied cultural contexts as the arts of augury and divination, pilgrimage, prostitution, interfaith sexuality, and medical malpractice. Zusammenfassung This book examines the intersection of jokes! laughter! insults! and poetry in a collection of 13th- and 14th-century medieval Iberian songs. Liu shows how these jokes operate in such varied cultural contexts as the arts of augury and divination! pilgrimage! prostitution! interfaith sexuality! and medical malpractice.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Liu
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2004
• EAN: 9780674016644
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01664-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature; Harvard Studies in Comparative; Harvard Studies in Comparative; Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature; Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature (HUP)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies