The texts analyzed underline the wide dissemination of the Arthurian story in medieval and post-medieval Europe, from Scotland to Italy, while the various analyses of the manifestations of comedy refute the notion of romance as a humourless genre. Indeed, the comic treatment of conventional themes and motifs appears to be not only characteristic of later romance but an essential element of the genre from its beginnings and from its earliest development. Authors of Arthurian romance, from Chrétien de Troyes to Malory, writing in French, Italian, Middle Dutch, and Middle English, and the creators of an Irish prose-tale, all question the fundamental assumptions of romance and romance values through the medium of comedy. The theme of comedy in Arthurian romance has been developed from the orignal session at the Arthurian Congress in Toulouse. Contributors: ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, FRANK BRANDSMA, CHRISTINE FERLAMPIN-ACHER, LINDA GOWANS, DONALD L. HOFFMAN, MARGOLEIN HOGENBIRK, NORRIS J. LACY, MARILYN LAWRENCE, BENEDICTE MILLAND-BOVE, PETER S. NOBLE, KAREN PRATT, ANGELICA RIEGER, ELIZABETH S. SKLAR, FRANCESCO ZAMBON.
Details
First Published: 05 Dec 2002
13 Digit ISBN: 9780859917452
Pages: 240
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series:
Arthurian LiteratureSubject:
Medieval LiteratureBIC Class: DSBB
Details updated on 04 Feb 2012
Contents
- 1 Comedy and Tragedy in Some Arthurian Recognition Scenes
- 2 Merveilleux et comique dans les romans arthuriens français (XIIe-Xve siècles)
- 3 La bande dessinée virtuelle du lion d'Yvain. Sur le sens de l'humour de Chrétien de Troyes
- 4 Convention, Comedy and the Form of La Vengeance Raguidel
- 5 Le Comique dans Les Merveilles de Rigomer et Hunbaut
- 6 Humour in the Roman de Silence
- 7 La pratique de la 'disconvenance' comique dans le Lancelot en prose: les mésaventures amoureuses de Guerrehet
- 8 Lancelot part 3
- 9 Comic Functions of the Parrot as Minstrel in Le Chevalier du Papegau
- 10 Dinadan en Italie
- 11 A Comical Villain. Artur's seneschal in a section of the Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation
- 12 Malory and the English Comic Tradition
- 13 'Laughyng and Smylyng': Comic Modalities in Malory's Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake
- 14 The Eachtra an Amadáin Mhóir as a Response to the Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes
