Till Eulenspiegel

Till Eulenspiegel

Author: Paul Oppenheimer

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780415937634

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First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Tyll

Tyll

Author: Daniel Kehlmann

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2020-02-11

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1524747475

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The New York Times Best Historical Fiction of 2020 The Guardian's Best Fiction of 2020 Thrillist's Best Books of the Year Daniel Kehlmann transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting work of magical realism, macabre humor, and rollicking adventure. Tyll is a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village until his father, a miller with a forbidden interest in alchemy and magic, is found out by the church. After Tyll flees with the baker’s daughter, he falls in with a traveling performer who teaches him his trade. As a juggler and a jester, Tyll forges his own path through a world devastated by the Thirty Years’ War, evading witch-hunters, escaping a collapsed mine outside a besieged city, and entertaining the exiled King and Queen of Bohemia along the way. The result is both a riveting story and a moving tribute to the power of art in the face of the senseless brutality of history. Translated from the German by Ross Benjamin


The Merry Pranks of Till Eulenspiegel

The Merry Pranks of Till Eulenspiegel

Author: Heinz Janisch

Publisher: Michael Neugebauer Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781558588066

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The life of the trickster Till unfolds in a series of pranks, from his rowdy infancy to his final joke at his own funeral.


A New History of German Literature

A New History of German Literature

Author: David E. Wellbery

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 1038

ISBN-13: 9780674015036

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'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.


Medieval Tales and Stories

Medieval Tales and Stories

Author: Stanley Appelbaum

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780486414072

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Wide-ranging stories offer glimpse into witchcraft, magic, Crusaders, astrology, alchemy, pacts with the Devil, chivalry, trial by torture, church councils, mercantile life, other elements of Middle Ages.


Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Author: Albrecht Classen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-03-20

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 3110523388

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While most people today take hygiene and medicine for granted, they both have had their own history. We can gain deep insights into the pre-modern world by studying its health-care system, its approaches to medicine, and concept of hygiene. Already the early Middle Ages witnessed great interest in bathing (hot and cold), swimming, and good personal hygiene. Medical activities grew over time, but even early medieval monks were already great experts in treating the sick. The contributions examine literary, medical, historical texts and images and probe the information we can glean from them. The interdisciplinary approach of this volume makes it possible to view this large field in a complex and diversified manner, taking into account both early medieval and early modern treatises on medicine, water, bathing, and health. Such a cultural-historical perspective creates a most valuable bridge connecting literary and scientific documents under the umbrella of the history of mentality and history of everyday life. The volume does not aim at idealizing the past, but it definitely intends to deconstruct modern myths about the 'dirty' and 'unhealthy' Middle Ages and early modern age.


Strategies of Humor in Post-Unification German Literature, Film, and Other Media

Strategies of Humor in Post-Unification German Literature, Film, and Other Media

Author: Jill Twark

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2011-01-18

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1443827819

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The fourteen chapters in this anthology feature original analyses of contemporary German-language literary texts, films, political cartoons, cabaret, and other types of performance. The artworks display a wide spectrum of humor modes, such as irony, satire, the grotesque, Jewish humor, and slapstick, as responses to unification with the accompanying euphoria, but also alienation and dislocation. Kerstin Hensel’s Lärchenau, Christoph Hein’s Landnahme, and vignette collections by Jakob Hein (Antrag auf ständige Ausreise und andere Mythen der DDR) and Wladimir Kaminer (Es gab keinen Sex im Sozialismus) are interpreted as examples of the grotesque. The popular films Lola rennt, Sonnenallee, Herr Lehmann, NVA, Alles auf Zucker!, and Mein Führer—Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler are reexamined through the lens of traditional and more recent humor or comic book theories. The contributors focus on how each artwork enriches four prominent postwall German cultural trends: post-unification identity reconstruction, Vergangenheitsbewältigung (including Hitler humor), New German Popular Literature (Christian Kracht’s ironic subtexts), and immigrant perspectives (a “third voice” in the East-West binary reflected here pointedly in Eulenspiegel cartoons). To date, no other scholarly work provides as comprehensive an overview of the diverse strategies of humor used in the past two decades in German-speaking countries.


Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World

Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World

Author: Graham Seal

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2016-03-14

Total Pages: 793

ISBN-13:

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This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded contextual information on story characters from the Americas to Zanzibar. Despite the tremendous differences between cultures and ethnicities across the world, all of them have folk heroes and heroines—real and imagined—that have been represented in tales, legends, songs, and verse. These stories persist through time and space, over generations, even through migrations to new countries and languages. This encyclopedia is a one-stop source for broad coverage of the world's folk hero tales. Geared toward high school and early college readers, the book opens with an overview of folk heroes and heroines that provides invaluable context and then presents a chronology. The book is divided into two main sections: the first provides entries on the major types and themes; the second addresses specific folk tale characters organized by continent with folk hero entries organized alphabetically. Each entry provides cross references as well as a list of further readings. Continent sections include a bibliography for additional research. The book concludes with an alphabetical list of heroes and an index of hero types.


Transgression and Subversion

Transgression and Subversion

Author: Maren Lickhardt

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2018-09-30

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 3839444004

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Is the pícaro, the roguish hero of early modern Spanish adventure fiction, a 'real man'? What position does he hold in the gender hierarchy of his fictional social context? Why is the pícara so 'non-female'? What effect has her gender constitution on her fictional social context? In terms of a gendered subject, the picaresque figure has hardly been analyzed so far. Although scholars have recognized it as a transgressive and subversive model, the 'queer' effect of the figure is yet to be examined. With regard to the categories of class, generation, topography, and gender, the contributions assembled in this volume explore Spanish, French, English, and German novels narratologically from the perspective of culture and gender theories.