Although the question of humour in the surviving corpus of Old English literature has rarely been discussed, the potential for analyzing this literature in terms of its humor is in fact considerable. In the essays especially commissioned for this...
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Although the question of humour in the surviving corpus of Old English literature has rarely been discussed, the potential for analyzing this literature in terms of its humor is in fact considerable. In the essays especially commissioned for this volume, the first book-length treatment of Anglo-Saxon humor, eight of the foremost scholars in the field use different approaches to explore humor in the surviving literature of Anglo-Saxon England, in such works as Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon, the riddles of the Exeter book, and Old English saints' lives
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Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature; CONTENTS; Introduction; Byrhtnoth's Laughter and the Poetics of Gesture; 'Grim Wordplay'; Humor, Wordplay, and Semantic Resonance; Heroic Humor in Beowulf; Humor in Hiding; Sexual Humor and Fettered Desire; 'Why do you speak so much foolishness?'; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven; INDEX
