Humour in Anglo-Saxon literature. ([2000])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jonathan Wilcox.
• Editors: Wilcox, Jonathan, 1960-
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer
• Publication Date: 2000
• Copyright Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 162 pages)
• Subjects: 829.0917; English wit and humor -- History and criticism; English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism; Comic, The, in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval; Comic, The, in literature; English literature -- Old English; English wit and humor; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846150029; 1846150027
• Related ISBNs: 9780859915762; 085991576X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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