Medieval Joke Poetry - The Cantigas D''escarnho 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 "Medieval Joke Poetry" 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." Written in Galician-Portuguese! these 'songs of mockery and insult' make up a heterogeneous corpus whose witticisms are by turns funny and vicious! crudely obscene and exquisitely sophisticated! playful and deadly serious. Liu's readings disentangle the complex verbal strategies of these joke-poems in order to reveal the latent cultural tensions that underlie their humor. Wordplay! double meanings! and deliberate combinations of incongruous ideas are intended to elicit laughter! even as they gesture toward the rupture of accepted cultural categories in such manifestly hybrid paradoxes as an "Albardan cavaleiro" (noble buffoon)! a "mouro cruzado" (Crusader Moor)! or a male "dona salvage" (wild woman). 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, Liu Benjamin
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2004
• EAN: 9780674016637
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01663-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 248 mm x 19 mm
• 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)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Spanish, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets