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Words that tear the flesh : essays on sarcasm in medieval and early modern literature and cultures /
The rhetorical trope of irony is well-trod territory, with books and essays devoted to its use by a wide range of medieval and Renaissance writers, from the Beowulf-poet and Chaucer to Boccaccio and Shakespeare; however, the use of sarcasm, the "flesh tearing" form of irony, in the same li...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
©2018.
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| Colección: | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ;
21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Encountering snarks in Anglo-Saxon translation: one translator's top 10 list / Rick McDonald
- Trolling in Old Norse: ambiquity and incitement in Sneglu-Halla páttr / Christopher Abram
- Snark and the saint: the art of the Irish curse / Máire Johnson
- Comic authority: sarcasm in pre-modern Arabic literature / Jeremy Farrell
- Sarcasm and its consequences in diplomacy and politics im medieval Italy: Brunetto Latini's letter to Pavia and Dante's Monarchia / Nicolino Applauso
- "A lowed laghtur that lady logh"" laughter, snark, and sarcasm in middle English romance / Debra E. Best
- "Hostilis Inrisio": some instances of "derision with a certain severity" in medieval English literature / Brian S Lee
- Self-evident morals?: Affective reversal as social critique in Henryson's fables / Ester Bernstein
- Let's not get snarky about derision!: Fabliau husbands and wives in conversation / Patricia Sokolski
- Poking [fun] at [the foibles of] the flesh: the Galician-Portuguese cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer / Ellen Lorraine Friedrich
- Sarcasm in medieval German and Old Norse literature: from the Hildebransdslied to Fortunatus: the dark side of human behavior / Albrecht Classen
- Sarcasm and heresy: John Wyclif and the York Fall of the Angels play / Elza C. Tiner
- Lorenzo Valla's "intellectual violence": personal feuds and appropriated sarcasm / Scott O'Neil
- Snarky shrews: gender comedy and the uses of sarcasm / Joe Ricke.