Humour in Anglo-Saxon literature /

Although the question of humour in the surviving corpus of Old English literature has rarely been discussed, the potential for analyzing this literature in terms of its humor is in fact considerable. In the essays especially commissioned for this volume, the first book-length treatment of Anglo-Saxo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wilcox, Jonathan, 1960- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, [2000]
Temas:
450-1100
English wit and humor > History and criticism.
English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism.
Comic, The, in literature.
Humour anglais > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Comique dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Comic, The, in literature
English literature > Old English
English wit and humor
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Jonathan Wilcox
  • Byrhtnoth's laughter and the poetics of gesture / John D. Niles
  • "Grim wordplay": folly and wisdom in Anglo-Saxon humor / T.A. Shippey
  • Humor, wordplay, and semantic resonance in Beowulf / Raymond P. Tripp, Jr.
  • Heroic humor in Beowulf / E.L. Risden
  • Humor in hiding: laughter between the sheets in the Exeter Book riddles / D.K. Smith
  • Sexual humor and fettered desire in Exeter Book riddle 12 / Nina Rulon-Miller
  • "Why do you speak so much foolishness?": gender, humor, and discourse in Ælfric's Lives of saints / Shari Horner
  • A funny thing happened on the way to heaven: humorous incongruity in Old English saints' lives / Hugh Magennis.

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