Till Eulenspiegel
Title | Till Eulenspiegel PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Oppenheimer |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780415937634 |
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Tyll
Title | Tyll PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Kehlmann |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2020-02-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1524747475 |
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
Title | The Merry Pranks of Till Eulenspiegel PDF eBook |
Author | Heinz Janisch |
Publisher | Michael Neugebauer Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Children's stories |
ISBN | 9781558588066 |
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
Title | A New History of German Literature PDF eBook |
Author | David E. Wellbery |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 1038 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780674015036 |
'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.
Tricksters and Pranksters
Title | Tricksters and Pranksters PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Williams |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2021-11-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004488790 |
This volume represents a contribution to comparative scholarship in Medieval and Renaissance studies in its investigation of the ingenious diversity of roguish practices found in Medieval and Renaissance literature and its recognition of the coherent normative function of tales of tricksters and pranksters. The wide variety of works analysed, from those forming part of the established canon of texts on undergraduate degree schemes to lesser-known works, makes the volume of interest to students and researchers alike. The roguish behaviour of women, priests, foxes and outlaws and the knavery of Eulenspiegel and Panurge are used to illustrate how rituals of inversion and humiliation typical of the medieval carnival are reflected in literary accounts of trickery, and to question whether the restorative function attributed to carnival celebration is equally to be found in the intra-textual and extra-textual outcomes of trickery. This analysis is supported by studies into the trickster in mythology, sociological investigations into the role of disorder, Bakhtinian theories of carnival and the carnivalesque, and theories of black humour.
The World's Wit and Humor: German
Title | The World's Wit and Humor: German PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Medieval Tales and Stories
Title | Medieval Tales and Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Stanley Appelbaum |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780486414072 |
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.