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Comic Medievalism - Laughing at the Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Comic Medievalism - Laughing at the Middle Ages (Paperback)
Series: Medievalism
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First full-length critical study of humour in medievalism. The role
of laughter and humour in the postmedieval citation, interpretation
or recreation of the middle ages has hitherto received little
attention, a gap in scholarship which this book aims to fill.
Examining a wide range of comic texts and practices across several
centuries, from Don Quixote and early Chaucerian modernisation
through to Victorian theatre, the Monty Python films, television
and the experience of visiting sites of "heritage tourism" such as
the Jorvik Viking Museum at York, it identifies what has been
perceived as uniquely funny about the Middle Ages in different
times and places, and how this has influenced ideas not just about
the medieval but also aboutmodernity. Tracing the development and
permutations of its various registers, including satire, parody,
irony, camp, wit, jokes, and farce, the author offers fresh and
amusing insight into comic medievalism as a vehicle for critical
commentary on the present as well as the past, and shows that for
as long as there has been medievalism, people have laughed at and
with the middle ages. Louise D'Arcens is Associate Professor in
English Literaturesat the University of Wollongong.
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