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The primary purpose of this article is to convey, through a liberal translation, the amusing and pedagogical aspects of Jean Gerson (1363-1429) morality plays L’ecole de la raison, commonly known as the Dialogue of the heart and five senses in English, and L’ecole de la conscience, both written for his young students. Focusing on the notion of six senses, expressed in both of his morality plays, with the sixth sense identified with the heart, the study will apply to Gerson’s texts various theoretical approaches to humour, such as the perceived superiority model and the incongruity-resolution theory, as well as Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of grotesque realism.
本文的主要目的是通过意译来传达让·格森(Jean Gerson, 1363-1429)的道德剧《理性》(L 'ecole de la reason)和《良心》(L 'ecole de la conscience)的有趣和教学方面,这两部剧都是为他的年轻学生写的。本研究以格尔森两部道德剧中所表达的“六感”概念为中心,将第六感与心相一致,并将其应用于格尔森文本中各种幽默理论方法,如感知优势模型和不协调解决理论,以及巴赫金的怪诞现实主义概念。
期刊介绍:
European Medieval Drama (EMD) is an annual journal published by Brepols. It was launched in 1997 in association with the International Conferences on Medieval European Drama organised at the University of Camerino, Italy, by Sydney Higgins between 1996 and 1999. The first four volumes of European Medieval Drama (1997-2000) published the Acts of these conferences. This series of conferences was suspended for the foreseeable future in 1999. At the Tenth Triennial Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l"étude du Théâtre Médiéval (SITM), held in Groningen, the Netherlands, in August 2001, it was proposed that EMD should be published in association with SITM. This proposal has now been approved by all interested parties, and comes into effect as of spring 2002.