Women and Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-05

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Women and Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature. By LISA PERFETTI. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2003. xiv+286 pp. 36 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-472-11321-6.

Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches, this book examines how female laughter functions when embedded in the male narratorial discourse of medieval texts. These texts are themselves highly varied, being written in English, Italian, Scottish, German, French, and Arabic, and dating from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. Noting in her introduction...

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