Chapter 20. The Workings of Desire: Panurge and the Dogs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Laughter as an Expression of Human Natur in theMiddle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Literary, Historical, Theological, Philosophical, and Psychological Reflections. Also an Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. Laughter in Procopius’s Wars 141
5. Chapter 2. “Does God Really Laugh?” – Appropriate and Inappropriate Descriptions of God in Islamic Traditionalist Theology 165
6. Chapter 3. Laughter in Beowulf: Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Group Identity Formation 201
7. Chapter 4. The Parodia sacra Problem and Medieval Comic Studies 215
8. Chapter 5. Women’s Laughter and Gender Politics in Medieval Conduct Discourse 243
9. Chapter 6. Pushing Decorum: Uneasy Laughter in Heinrich von dem Türlîn’s Diu Crône 265
10. Chapter 7. Laughter and the Comedic in a Religious Text: The Example of the Cantigas de Santa Maria 281
11. Chapter 8. The Son Rebelled and So the Father Made Man Alone: Ridicule and Boundary Maintenance in the Nizzahon Vetus 295
12. Chapter 9. Laughing at the Beast: The Judensau: Anti Jewish Propaganda and Humor from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period 325
13. Chapter 10. Yes . . . but was it funny? Cecco Angiolieri, Rustico Filippi, and Giovanni Boccaccio 365
14. Chapter 11. Curses and Laughter in Medieval Italian Comic Poetry: The Ethics of Humor in Rustico Filippi’s Invectives 383
15. Chapter 12. Tromdhámh Guaire: a Context for Laughter and Audience in Early Modern Ireland 413
16. Chapter 13. Humorous Transgression in the Non Conformist fabliaux Genre: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Three Comic Tales 429
17. Chapter 14. Chaucerian Comedy: Troilus and Criseyde 457
18. Chapter 15. Laughing in and Laughing at the Old French Fabliaux 481
19. Chapter 16. Laughter and Medieval Stalls 499
20. Chapter 17. Vox populi e voce professionis: Processus juris joco serius. Esoteric Humor and the Incommensurability of Laughter 515
21. Chapter 18. “So I thought as I Stood, To Mirth Us Among”: The Function of Laughter in The Second Shepherds’ Play 531
22. Chapter 19. Laughing in Late Medieval Verse (mæren) and Prose (Schwänke) Narratives: Epistemological Strategies and Hermeneutic Explorations 547
23. Chapter 20. The Workings of Desire: Panurge and the Dogs 587
24. Chapter 21. Laughing Out Loud in the Heptaméron: A Reassessment of Marguerite de Navarre’s Ambivalent Humor 603
25. Chapter 22. You had to be there: The Elusive Humor of the Sottie 621
26. Chapter 23. Sacred Parody in Robert Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit (1592) 651
27. Chapter 24. The Comedy of the Shrew: Theorizing Humor in Early Modern Netherlandish Art 667
28. Chapter 25. The Comic Personas of Milton’s Prolusion VI: Negotiating Masculine Identity Through Self Directed Humor 715
29. Chapter 26. Ridentum dicere verum (Using Laughter to Speak the Truth): Laughter and the Language of the Early Modern Clown “Pickelhering” in German Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century (1675–1700) 735
30. Chapter 27. Andreae’s ludibrium: Menippean Satire in the Chymische Hochzeit 767
31. Chapter 28. The Comic Power of Illusion Allusion: Laughter, La Devineresse, and the Scandal of a Glorious Century 791
32. Chapter 29. Laughing at Credulity and Superstition in the Long Eighteenth Century 803
33. Backmatter 831