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050 00 $aPR933$b.H86 2000
050 00 $aPR933$b.H86 2000
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245 00 $aHumour in Anglo-Saxon literature /$cedited by
Jonathan Wilcox.
260 $aRochester, NY :$bD.S. Brewer,$c2000.
300 $avii, 162 p. ;$c25 cm.
505 0 $aIntroduction / 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 „lfric's Lives of saints /
Shari Horner -- A funny thing happened on the way to heaven:
humorous incongruity in Old English saints' lives / Hugh
Magennis.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aEnglish wit and humor$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$yOld English, ca.
450-1100$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aComic, The, in literature.
700 1 $aWilcox, Jonathan,$d1960-
946 $acnh
