Verfasst von:	Watt, David [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Laughter and awkwardness in late medieval England
Titelzusatz:	social discomfort in the literature of the Middle Ages
Verf.angabe:	by David Watt
Verlagsort:	London ; New York NY ; Oxford
Verlag:	Bloomsbury Academic
Jahr:	2023
Umfang:	X, 197 Seiten
Illustrationen:	llustrationen
Format:	24 cm
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	New directions in medieval studies
ISBN:	1-78831-430-1
	978-1-78831-430-5
Abstract:	'We live,' according to Adam Kotsko, 'in an awkward age.' While this condition may present some challenges, it may also help us to be more attuned to awkwardness in other ages. This book pairs medieval texts with twenty-first century films or television programmes to explore what the resonance between them can tell us about living together in an awkward age. In this nuanced and engaging study, David Watt focuses especially, but not exclusively, on the 15th century, which seems to intervene awkwardly in the literary trajectory between Chaucer and the Renaissance. This book's hypothesis is that the social discomfort depicted and engendered by writers as diverse as Thomas Hoccleve, Margery Kempe, and Sir Thomas Malory is a feature rather than a flaw. Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England explains that these authors have a great deal in common with other fifteenth-century authors, who generated embodied experiences of social discomfort in a range of genres by adopting and adapting literary techniques used by their predecessors and successors in slightly different ways. Like the twenty-first century texts with which they are paired, the late-medieval texts that feature in this book use the relationship between laughter and awkwardness to ask what it means to live with each other and how we can learn to live with ourselves.
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz185610916Xinh.htm
Schlagwörter:	(g)Großbritannien    / (s)Scham    / (s)Gesellschaftsleben    / (z)Geschichte 1250-1500
	(s)Lachen    / (s)Ungeschicklichkeit    / (g)Großbritannien    / (s)Mittelalter    / (z)Geschichte 1250-1500
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Watt, David, 1976 - : Laughter and awkwardness in late medieval England. - London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (X, 197 Seiten)
K10plus-PPN:	185610916X