Humour in Anglo-Saxon literature
edited by Jonathan Wilcox
Publisher: Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2000.
ISBN: 0585443556
DDC: 829.0917
LCC: PR933
Edition: (electronic bk.)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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