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BL
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1037329
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b791699
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| Main Entry
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Perfetti, Lisa Renée.
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| Title & Author
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Women laughter in medieval comic literature /\ Lisa Perfetti.
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| Publication Statement
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Ann Arbor :: University of Michigan Press,, 2003.
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| Page. NO
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ix, 286 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0472113216
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: 9780472113217
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-274) and index.
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| Contents
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"Myn entente nys butfor to pleye" : the game of antifeminism and the Wife of Bath's invitation to laughter -- "Such tales were not to be told among ladies" : womens's wit and the problem of modesty in Boccaccio's Decameron -- 'A bowrd about bed" : women's community of laughter and the woes of marriage in Dunbar's The tretis of the tua mariit wemen and the wedo -- "With them she had her playful game" : the performance of gender and genre in Ulrich von Lichtenstein's Frauendienst -- "My wife will be mistress" : the loquacious farce wifeand laughter in the house -- 'No, this is not its name" : anatomy of the joke women teach men in the Thousand and one nights -- Appendix A: Arabic transliterations -- Appendix B: Arabic text for chapter 6.
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| Abstract
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"In Women and Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature, Lisa Perfetti explores a wide range of literary representation of women's laughter in the thirteenth and through the sixteenth centuries. Her work also addresses the complex issues involved in reconstructing female subject positions in male-authored texts. Often witty, and sometimes bawdy, the laughing comic heroines brought forth in this book will engage a broad range of readers interested in medieval literature and history, as well as those intrigued by the growing field of feminist approaches to humor."--BOOK JACKET.
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Comedy.
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Literature, Medieval-- History and criticism.
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Women in literature.
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Comédie.
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Femmes dans la littérature.
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Littérature médiévale-- Histoire et critique.
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Comedy.
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Kvinnor i litteraturen.
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Literature, Medieval.
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Litteratur-- historia-- medeltiden.
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Women in literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.93352042/0902
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| LC Classification
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PN682.W6P47 2003
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| Parallel Title
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Women and laughter in medieval comic literature
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