CONGRESS CANCELED The Canon Walks into a Bar: Humor in Medieval Iberian Literature
Description
Making learning fun (and funny) is hardly new: it has a deep history, often expressed as docere delectando or delectare et docere. How do "serious" canonical works of the Iberian Middle Ages delight while they teach? How can a text be serious and funny all at the same time? This panel shifts attention to the hybridity of canonical texts in deploying low humor, often scabrous, for high purposes. This panel seeks papers on texts in any Iberian language(s) and their use of humor, to put them into dialogue across Iberian textual and scholarly traditions. Paul Larson
CONGRESS CANCELED The Canon Walks into a Bar: Humor in Medieval Iberian Literature
Fetzer 1060
Making learning fun (and funny) is hardly new: it has a deep history, often expressed as docere delectando or delectare et docere. How do "serious" canonical works of the Iberian Middle Ages delight while they teach? How can a text be serious and funny all at the same time? This panel shifts attention to the hybridity of canonical texts in deploying low humor, often scabrous, for high purposes. This panel seeks papers on texts in any Iberian language(s) and their use of humor, to put them into dialogue across Iberian textual and scholarly traditions. Paul Larson