Humour And Humanism In The Renaissance

Author : Barbara C. Bowen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000948417

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Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance by Barbara C. Bowen Pdf

Of the articles in this volume, eight concern a world-famous author (François Rabelais); the others are studies of little-known authors (Cortesi, Corrozet, Mercier) or genres (the joke, the apophthegm). The common theme, in all but one, is humour: how it was defined, and how used, by orators and humanists but also by court jesters, princes, peasants and housewives. Though neglected by historians, this subject was of crucial importance to writers as different as Luther, Erasmus, Thomas More and François Rabelais. The book is divided into four sections. 'Humanist Wit' concerns the large and multi-lingual corpus of Renaissance facetiae. The second and third parts focus on French humanist humour, Rabelais in particular, while the last section is titled '"Serious" Humanists' because humour is by no means absent from it. For the Renaissance, as Erasmus and Rabelais amply demonstrate, and as the 'minor' authors studied here confirm, wit, whether affectionate or bitingly satirical, can coexist with, and indeed be inseparable from, serious purpose. Rabelais, as so often, said it best: 'Rire est le propre de l'homme.'

Author : David Marsh
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0472108468

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Lucian and the Latins by David Marsh Pdf

Explores Lucian's influence on Renaissance writers

Author : Kleio Pethainou
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9786156405715

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Medieval Humour by Kleio Pethainou Pdf

Simultaneously pervasive and evasive, rebellious and oppressive, transgressive and socially specific, humour is a vast and interdisciplinary field of research. Seeking to rethink this quintessentially human expression, this volume is bringing together established and emerging directions of medieval humour research. Each contribution explores different artistic expressions, receptions and functions of humour and identifies a series of problems in researching humour historically. Medieval Humour: Expressions, Receptions and Functions dissects humour in art and thought, literature and drama, society and culture, contributing to a deeper understanding of our cultural past.

Author : Vivienne Westbrook,Shun-liang Chao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429849886

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Humour in the Arts by Vivienne Westbrook,Shun-liang Chao Pdf

This collection demonstrates the usefulness of approaching texts—verbal, visual and aural—through a framework of humour. Contributors offer in-depth discussions of humour in the West within a wider cultural historical context to achieve a coherent, chronological sense of how humour proceeds from antiquity to modernity. Reading humorously reveals the complexity of certain aspects of texts that other reading approaches have so far failed to reveal. Humour in the Arts explores humour as a source of cultural formation that engages with ethical, political, and religious controversies whilst acquainting readers with a wide range of humorous structures and strategies used across Western cultures.

Author : Barbara C. Bowen
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0917786653

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One Hundred Renaissance Jokes by Barbara C. Bowen Pdf

An anthology of Renaissance jokes (or "facetiae") taken from Latin, Italian, German, Middle French, and Middle English collections between 1345 and 1549. "...the translations are accurate and couched in remarkably natural and expressive English... (we) recommend this little volume warmly both to the scholarly and to the hedonistic attention of Renaissance specialists in all fields." --Sixteenth-Century Journal. For students and scholars alike who wish to investigate the "lighter" side of Renaissance belles lettres.

Author : Thomas W. Best
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1469657104

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The Humanist Ulrich Von Hutten by Thomas W. Best Pdf

Author : S. Douglas Olson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614511250

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Ancient Comedy and Reception by S. Douglas Olson Pdf

This wide-ranging collection, consisting of 50 essays by leading international scholars in a variety of fields, provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Section I considers how the 5th- and 4th-century Athenian comic poets defined themselves and their plays, especially in relation to other major literary forms. It then moves on to the Roman world and to the reception of Greek comedy there in art and literature. Section II deals with the European reception of Greek and Roman comedy in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern periods, and with the European stage tradition of comic theater more generally. Section III treats the handling of Greco-Roman comedy in the modern world, with attention not just to literary translations and stage-productions, but to more modern media such as radio and film. The collection will be of interest to students of ancient comedy as well as to all those concerned with how literary and theatrical traditions are passed on from one time and place to another, and adapted to meet local conditions and concerns.

Author : Mike Pincombe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443814911

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Writing the Other by Mike Pincombe Pdf

An international group of scholars working in early modern English literature and culture have been invited to reflect upon one of the most dynamic dialectics of the period: the opposition between the concept “human, humanist, humanism” versus the concept “barbarous, barbarian, barbarism.” The result is Writing the Other: Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England. The essays in this volume range widely across the literary and cultural field mapped out by this opposition, thus revealing a rich multiplicity of voices and approaches to one of the fundamental processes by which self-fashioning and also “other-fashioning” operated during the Tudor reign. The focus moves from England to North Africa, to Hungary and to the New World in its panoramic display of the vast theatre in which identities were forged. The volume as a whole demonstrates how the cultural OtherOther was as much invented as described—“forged” in the sense, perhaps, of “counterfeited” —during the early modern and especially the Tudor period. This invention occasionally led to the demonisation of the object of its gaze, at other times its rehumanisation; sometimes we may detect evidence of a painful act of distortion, and at others we see the purposeful and profitable creation of a self-identityidentity with an eye on the rhetorical, religious, poetic, national expectations of the readers in the new context of print culture. But everywhere we witness the remarkable energy and fertility of the primary opposition which gives this collection its central theme.

Author : Ted Lars Lennard Bergman
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1855660962

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The Art of Humour in the Teatro Breve and Comedias of Calderón de la Barca by Ted Lars Lennard Bergman Pdf

Frantic and popular characters and situations from the entremes tradition, thought by many as opposing the comedias' main features, are instead shown to join and often dominate these features through the introduction of absurd figuras, slapstick, and burlas."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Carla Roth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192661609

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The Talk of the Town by Carla Roth Pdf

The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information across and within early modern communities. It does so through the lens of the St Gall linen trader Johannes Rütiner (1501-1556/7) and his notebooks, the Commentationes; a little-known source which offers unusual insights into an oral world normally hidden from view. A close reading of Rütiner's notes on hundreds of conversations reveals what the inhabitants of a sixteenth-century town talked about, through which channels such information reached them, and how it was then processed, shared, criticized, contradicted, and employed as a means to forge and strengthen social bonds. By bringing together the histories of sociability and information, reconstructing Ru?tiner's network of informants and probing a broad variety of exchanges-jokes, gossip, news, and tales of the past-Carla Roth rethinks both what constituted valuable information in the sixteenth century and who was able to provide it, and argues that the circulation of information remained inseparably linked to the social dynamics of face-to-face exchanges long into the age of print.

Author : Brian Edgar
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718895556

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Laughter and the Grace of God by Brian Edgar Pdf

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh, and this is true of our relationship with God. Thomas Aquinas spoke of the sin of having too little laughter as well as the danger of having too much, while Martin Luther said, ‘If you’re not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.’ Having a sense of humour is essential for maturity in faith and holiness, but sadly, the role that laughter plays in life and spirituality have often been neglected. Laughter and the Grace of God restores laughter to its central place in Christian spirituality and theology by examining its role in Scripture and highlighting its presence in unexpected places, including the story of Abraham and the formation of the covenant, and the tragedy of Job. Laughter can be found in the incarnation, the resurrection, and even the crucifixion – Jesus is himself the great laugh-maker – and it is nothing less than a participation in the life and love of God.

Author : David Marsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351219402

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Studies on Alberti and Petrarch by David Marsh Pdf

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was the most versatile humanist of the fifteenth century: author of numerous compositions in both Latin and Italian, and a groundbreaking theorist of painting, sculpture, and architecture. His Latin writings owe much to the model of Petrarch (1304-1374), the famed poet of the Italian Canzoniere, but also a prolific author of Latin epistles, biographies, and poems that sparked the revival of classical culture in the early Italian Renaissance. The essays collected here reflect some thirty years of research into these pioneers of Humanism, and offer important insights into forms of Renaissance 'self-fashioning' such as allegory and autobiography.

Author : Ian Munro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351961455

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'A womans answer is neuer to seke': Early Modern Jestbooks, 1526–1635 by Ian Munro Pdf

By turns witty and inane, crude and learned, scurrilous and moralistic, jestbooks offer an important and often overlooked viewpoint on the lives of women in early modern England. This volume reproduces seven jestbooks with connections to early modern Englishwomen as well as showing something of the broad genre itself. Four have a direct connection to women through their jests and framing (Wyddow Edyth, VVestward for Smelts, Long Meg of VVestminster, and Pasqvils Iests), excerpts from two books specifically focus on women in some sections (The Schoolemaster and Wits Fittes and Fancies) and the volume also includes the extremely popular, general jestbook (A C. Mery Talys).

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191655074

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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 by Andrew Hadfield Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of scientific writing and travel writing; from diaries, tracts on witchcraft, and domestic conduct books to rhetorical treatises designed for a courtly audience; from little known works such as William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, probably the first novel in English, to The Bible, The Book of Common Prayer and Richard Hooker's eloquent statement of Anglican belief, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The work not only deals with the range and variety of the substance and types of English prose, but also analyses the forms and styles of writing adopted in the early modern period, ranging from the Euphuistic nature of prose fiction inaugurated by John Lyly's mannered novel, to the aggressive polemic of the Marprelate controversy; from the scatological humour of comic writing to the careful modulations of the most significant sermons of the age; and from the pithy and concise English essays of Francis Bacon to the ornate and meandering style of John Florio's translation of Montaigne's famous collection. Each essay provides an overview as well as comment on key passages, and a select guide to further reading.

Author : Sarah Alyn Stacey
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 3039105590

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Court and Humour in the French Renaissance by Sarah Alyn Stacey Pdf

This collection of essays by thirteen renowned specialists in the fields of French Renaissance literature and history is a fitting tribute to the scholarship of Pauline Smith, Emeritus Professor in French at the University of Hull and Research Associate of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College, Dublin. The essays, which focus on areas of research to which Professor Smith has herself given - and continues to give - particular attention, are organised into two frequently converging strands: court and humour. The contributors engage with political and cultural issues at the heart of the construction and aesthetic expression of the French Renaissance, whilst also offering insights into the broader European context. The collection as a whole challenges and revises a number of established views and identifies paths for future research.