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Humour in Anglo–Saxon Literature H 176 p. 00

Wilcox, Jonathan 　編
Smith, D K, Risden, E L, Magennis, Hugh, Niles, John D., Rulon-Miller, Nina, Tripp Jr, Raymond P, Horner, Shari, Shippey, T A 　他

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発行年月	2000年05月
出版社／提供元	D.S. Brewer
出版国	イギリス
言語	英語
媒体	冊子
装丁	hardcover
ページ数／巻数	170 p.
ジャンル	洋書／人文科学／文学／文学：概論
ISBN	9780859915762
商品コード	0209966030
本の性格	学術書
商品URL	https://kw.maruzen.co.jp/ims/itemDetail.html?itmCd=0209966030

内容

Presenting a theory of humour in Old English literature, this workincludes essays that employ different approaches to explore humor in suchworks as "Beowulf" and "The Battle of Maldon", the riddles of the "ExeterBook", and Old English saints' lives. The articles are prefaced with anintroduction surveying the field.

Introduction, Jonathan Wilcox; Byrhtnoth's laughter and the poetics ofgesture, John D. Niles; "Grim wordplay" - folly and wisdom in Anglo-Saxonhumour , T.A. Shippey; humour, wordplay, and semantic resonance in "Beowulf",Raymond P. Tripp, Jr.; heroic humour in "Beowulf", E.L. Risden; humour inhiding - laughter between sheets in the Exeter Book Riddles, D.K. Smith;sexual humour and fettered desire in Exeter Book Riddle 12, NinaRulon-Miller; "Why do you speak so much foolishness?" gender, humour, anddiscourse in Aelfric's "Lives of Saints", Shari Horner; a funny thinghappened on the way to heaven - humorous incongruity in Old English saints'lives, Hugh Magennis.