CONGRESS CANCELED "I said of laughter, 'It is folly'": Humor and Laughter in Medieval Literature, Art, and Thought II
Description
This session explores humour in the Middle Ages, and the ways it was expressed in literature, art and thought.
Simultaneously transgressive and socially specific, humour challenges and defines boundaries at the same time. It can be a relief mechanism and an instrument of control and propaganda, and it can contribute to the ways societies and individuals define themselves.
This session discusses expressions and functions of humour in Chaucer a balancing, integrative force for human wholeness. It presents an example of social comedy through the parody of hunting, and it addresses the role of Laughter in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Kleio Pethainou
CONGRESS CANCELED "I said of laughter, 'It is folly'": Humor and Laughter in Medieval Literature, Art, and Thought II
Bernhard 208
This session explores humour in the Middle Ages, and the ways it was expressed in literature, art and thought.
Simultaneously transgressive and socially specific, humour challenges and defines boundaries at the same time. It can be a relief mechanism and an instrument of control and propaganda, and it can contribute to the ways societies and individuals define themselves.
This session discusses expressions and functions of humour in Chaucer a balancing, integrative force for human wholeness. It presents an example of social comedy through the parody of hunting, and it addresses the role of Laughter in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Kleio Pethainou