| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Humour in Anglo-Saxon literature/ edited by Jonathan Wilcox. |
| other author: |
Wilcox, Jonathan, |
| Published: |
Rochester, NY :D.S. Brewer, : 2000., |
| Description: |
vii, 162 p. ;25 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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 召fric's Lives of saints / Shari Horner -- A funny thing happened on the way to heaven: humorous incongruity in Old English saints' lives / Hugh Magennis. |
| Subject: |
Comic, The, in literature. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=80836An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585443556 (electronic bk.) |