Item #166720 Grant Risee?: The Medieval Comic Presence/LA Presence Comique Medievale, Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy. Adrian P. Tudor, Alan Hindley.
Grant Risee?: The Medieval Comic Presence/LA Presence Comique Medievale, Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy
Grant Risee?: The Medieval Comic Presence/LA Presence Comique Medievale, Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy
Grant Risee?: The Medieval Comic Presence/LA Presence Comique Medievale, Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy
Grant Risee?: The Medieval Comic Presence/LA Presence Comique Medievale, Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy
Grant Risee?: The Medieval Comic Presence/LA Presence Comique Medievale, Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy
Grant Risee?: The Medieval Comic Presence/LA Presence Comique Medievale, Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy
Grant Risee?: The Medieval Comic Presence/LA Presence Comique Medievale, Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy
Grant Risee?: The Medieval Comic Presence/LA Presence Comique Medievale, Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy
Grant Risee?: The Medieval Comic Presence/LA Presence Comique Medievale, Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy
Grant Risee?: The Medieval Comic Presence/LA Presence Comique Medievale, Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy

Grant Risee?: The Medieval Comic Presence/LA Presence Comique Medievale, Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy

Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2006. Hardcover. Blue and gray boards with color-illustration and yellow and white lettering. xv, 359 pp. BW and some color illustrations. VG- some light corner bumping, previous owner's name on front endpaper in ink. Item #166720
ISBN: 9782503516981

This volume provides an overview of issues related to comedy in the Middle Ages. In particular, it explores unusual, unexpected or unacknowledged elements of humour in medieval literature and art. This collection of 20 essays by internationally renowned scholars celebrates the work of Brian J. Levy in the realm of humour in the Middle Ages. Authors highlight a wide variety of aspects pertaining to the medieval comic presence including: comic elements taking an unusual form; a comic presence in unexpected places; comic elements intentionally or unintentionally hidden; comic elements surprisingly vaunted; a comic presence in standard contexts which stands out for a particular reason; comic elements which are for some reason controversial; comic elements as yet unidentified or unacknowledged; a commonly acknowledged comic presence which is in fact no such thing. -Amazon.

OCLC: 70574106

Price: $75.00

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