Medieval Comic Tales
Author | : Peter Rickard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Short stories |
ISBN | : 9780859910057 |
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Author | : Peter Rickard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Short stories |
ISBN | : 9780859910057 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2013-03-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141975520 |
Comic Sagas and Tales brings together the very finest Icelandic stories from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, a time of civil unrest and social upheaval. With feuding families and moments of grotesque violence, the sagas see such classic mythological figures as murdered fathers, disguised beggars, corrupt chieftains and avenging sons do battle with axes, words and cunning. The tales, meanwhile, follow heroes and comical fools through dreams, voyages and religious conversions in medieval Iceland and beyond. Shaped by Iceland's oral culture and their conversion to Christianity, these stories are works of ironic humour and stylistic innovation.
Author | : Brian J. Levy |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004486054 |
This book offers a close analysis of the Old French fabliaux, that medieval corpus of short comic tales in narrative verse celebrated (sometimes notorious) for their irreverence and sexual content. It picks out certain key images - such as gambling, illness, and damnation - which develop into themes and motifs running through all the texts, and which add layers of ironic patterning to the essential subject-matter and narrative of each fabliau. These elements, in many respects the 'small print' of the joke, furnish the comic text with many rhythms and echoes, all contributing to the ludic, adversarial nature of the text. They are extremely flexible, serving as a rhetoric of depiction that extends from broad comic motif to the lightest triggering of a mocking smile. This volume will be of interest to all students of medieval culture, Old French literature, and the development of the short or comic narrative.
Author | : Derek Brewer |
Publisher | : D. S. Brewer |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859914307 |
Medieval humour revealed in an anthology of 80 tales from England, France, Italy, Germany, Spain.
Author | : Brian Haberlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Antiquities |
ISBN | : 9781534308435 |
"Spawn created by Todd McFarlane; Witchblade created by Marc Silvestri, David Wohl, Michael Turner, Brian Haberlin."
Author | : George Mann |
Publisher | : Titan Comics |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 2017-05-10 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 178585626X |
In a realm where hollowed champions rise and fall with the ages, where brave knights quest for absolution and bonfires blaze against the everdark, myth and legend will forever prevail… From the desolate worlds of Namco-Bandai’s critically lauded videogame series comes this unsettling collection of all-new Dark Souls tales, written and drawn by some of the industry’s finest.
Author | : Marc Wolterbeek |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
The evolution of medieval comic literature and the development of man's notion of the comic is demonstrated by three groups of comic narratives composed in Latin in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries. Wolterbeek's translations of the poems into idiomatic English is accompanied by the original Latin texts as well as by extensive commentary. The ridicula, nugae, and satyrae anticipate the literary flowering of the High Middle Ages and were the Latin precursors of the Old French fabliaux, other "popular" genres, and the comediae elegiacae, the ancestors of Renaissance drama.
Author | : George R. R. Martin |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2019-03-12 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1101965045 |
Law & Order meets Men in Black in this graphic novel adaptation of an unproduced TV pilot script by the author of A Game of Thrones—a never-before-seen story brought to life for the first time! SECOND CITY. FIRST CONTACT. Ten years ago, representatives from an interstellar collective of 314 alien species landed on Earth, inviting us to become number 315. Now, after seemingly endless delays, the Starport in Chicago is operational, a destination for diplomats, merchants, and tourists alike. Inside, visitors are governed by intergalactic treaty. Outside, the streets belong to Chicago’s finest. Charlie Baker, newly promoted to the squad that oversees the Starport district, is eager to put to practical use his enthusiasm for all things extraterrestrial; he just never expected to arrive on his first day in the back of a police cruiser. Lieutenant Bobbi Kelleher is married to the job, which often puts her in conflict with Lyhanne Nhar-Lys, security champion of Starport and one of the galaxy’s fiercest warriors. Undercover with a gang of anti-alien extremists, Detective Aaron Stein has no problem mixing business with pleasure—until he stumbles upon evidence of a plot to assassinate a controversial trade envoy with a cache of stolen ray guns. Now the Chicago PD must stop these nutjobs before they piss off the entire universe. Based on a TV pilot script written by George R. R. Martin in 1994 and adapted and illustrated by Hugo Award–nominated artist Raya Golden, this bold and brilliant graphic novel adaptation at last brings Martin’s singular vision to rollicking life. With all the intrigue, ingenuity, and atmosphere that made A Game of Thrones a worldwide phenomenon, Starport launches a new chapter in the career of a sci-fi/fantasy superstar.
Author | : Valerie Martone |
Publisher | : Italica Pr |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780934977319 |
Sixteen bawdy stories which in their day defied conventional morality. In Giacoppo by Lorenzo de' Medici, a man begs his wife to sleep with her lover, in Montanina's Deception by Gentile Sermini, a pair of lovers fake death so they can remarry later.
Author | : Spyros Theocharis |
Publisher | : CNS Comix |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2021-01-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9786180023480 |
A graphic novel based on historical events. With the Byzantine empire being at the peak of its power, ambition, court intrigue, treachery and murder will set the scene for an endless struggle for the ultimate prize, the Roman throne.