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" Humour in Anglo-Saxon literature / "
edited by Jonathan Wilcox.
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BL
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1027424
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b781794
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Humour in Anglo-Saxon literature /\ edited by Jonathan Wilcox.
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| Publication Statement
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Rochester, NY :: D.S. Brewer,, 2000.
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1 online resource (vii, 162 pages)
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0585443556
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: 1846150027
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: 9781846150029
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085991576X
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9780859915762
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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Comic, The, in literature.
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English literature-- Old English, ca. 450-1100-- History and criticism.
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English wit and humor-- History and criticism.
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Comic, The, in literature.
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English literature-- Old English.
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English wit and humor.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Dewey Classification
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829.0917
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PR933.H86 2000eb
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Wilcox, Jonathan,1960-
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