TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Alison
TI  - Tricksters and Pranksters: Roguery in French and German Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789004488793
AV  - PQ151 
U1  - 840.1 23
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Carnival in literature
KW  - Comparative literature
KW  - French and German
KW  - French literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - German literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Women Tricksters -- The Clergy and Trickery -- Foxes and Trickery -- Outlaws as Tricksters and Pranksters -- Eulenspiegel -- Panurge -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - This volume represents a contribution to comparative scholarship in Medieval and Renaissance studies in its investigation of the ingenious diversity of roguish practices found in Medieval and Renaissance literature and its recognition of the coherent normative function of tales of tricksters and pranksters. The wide variety of works analysed, from those forming part of the established canon of texts on undergraduate degree schemes to lesser-known works, makes the volume of interest to students and researchers alike. The roguish behaviour of women, priests, foxes and outlaws and the knavery of Eulenspiegel and Panurge are used to illustrate how rituals of inversion and humiliation typical of the medieval carnival are reflected in literary accounts of trickery, and to question whether the restorative function attributed to carnival celebration is equally to be found in the intra-textual and extra-textual outcomes of trickery. This analysis is supported by studies into the trickster in mythology, sociological investigations into the role of disorder, Bakhtinian theories of carnival and the carnivalesque, and theories of black humour
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004488793
ER  -