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Comic, The, in literature. --- European drama (Comedy) --- European drama --- Comédie européenne --- Comique dans la littérature --- Théâtre européen --- Renaissance. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- 1450-1600

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The volume presents a collection of studies by internationally acknowledged medievalists on the phenomenon of laughter and its literary, social and emotional functions in the Middle Ages. The papers investigate the forms and representations of laughter in medieval literature and society and inquire into its role in the creation of communities and the depiction of figures in fictional texts.

Laughter in literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Themes, motives.

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Fantasy novels are products of popular culture. They owe their popularity also to the visualization of medievalist artifacts on book covers and designs, illustrations, maps, and marketing: Castles on towering cliffs, cathedral-like architecture, armored heroes and enchanting fairies, fierce dragons and mages follow mythical archetypes and develop pictorial aesthetics of fantasy, completed by gothic fonts, maps and page layout that refer to medieval manuscripts and chronicles. The contributors to this volume explore the patterns and paradigms of a specific medievalist iconography and book design of fantasy which can be traced from the 19th century to the present.

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This volume presents contributions about laughter and silence as special forms of communication in medieval and early modern literature. Laughter and silence question what has been said or confirm it, frame or reflect it. This volume examines various dialogic strategies of laughter and silence, covering court romances and heroic epics as well as medieval short stories and travelogues.

Communication in literature --- Fiction, Medieval --- Laughter in literature --- Silence in literature --- Literature, Medieval --- European fiction --- Medieval fiction --- History and criticism --- E-books --- Communication in literature. --- Laughter in literature. --- Silence in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Vormoderne Texte erzählen vielfach Geschichten von mächtigen Herrschern und tapferen Kriegern, wobei sie deren Männlichkeit literarisch Gestalt verleihen. Im historischen (Antike, Mittelalter, Neuzeit) und interdisziplinären Vergleich ist festzustellen, dass es sich aber um semantisch sehr unterschiedliche Männlichkeitsentwürfe handelt, die die Erzählungen hervorbringen. 00Diesem pluralen Männlichkeitsverständnis trägt der vorliegende Band Rechnung, indem die einzelnen Beiträge nicht nur die ?klassischen? männlichen Idealtypen (Ritter, Heilige, Hausväter, Gelehrte) fokussieren, sondern auch Abweichungen von der hegemonialen Norm vormoderner Männlichkeit beleuchten. Typische männliche Praktiken und Handlungsmodelle, die gewaltförmig (Kampf, Duell) oder gewaltlos (Wissen, Galanterie, Askese) im Spannungsfeld von Ehre und Schande stehen, werden in den Beiträgen perspektiviert und hinterfragt. Sie lassen das vormoderne Männlichkeitsnarrativ ebenso konstruiert und facettenreich erscheinen wie moderne Maskulinität.

Masculinity in literature. --- Masculinity --- Honor in literature. --- Honor --- Masculinité dans la littérature. --- Masculinité --- Honneur dans la littérature. --- Honneur --- History. --- History. --- Histoire. --- Histoire.