Humour In Old English Literature

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Humour In Old English Literature

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Author : Jonathan Wilcox
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2023-10-02

Humour In Old English Literature written by Jonathan Wilcox and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-02 with Literary Criticism categories.

Humour in Old English Literature deploys modern theories of humour to explore the style and content of surviving writing from early medieval England. The book analyses Old English riddles, wisdom literature, runic writing, the deployment of rhymes, and humour in heroic poetry, hagiography, and romance. Drawing on a fine-tuned understanding of literary technique, the book presents a revisionist view of Old English literature, partly by reclaiming often-neglected texts and partly by uncovering ironies and embarrassments within well-established works, including Beowulf. Most surprisingly, Jonathan Wilcox engages the large body of didactic literature, pinpointing humour in two anonymous homilies along with extensive use in saints’ lives. Each chapter ends by revealing a different audience that would have shared in the laughter. Wilcox suggests that the humour of Old English literature has been scantily covered in past scholarship because modern readers expect a dour and serious corpus. Humour in Old English Literature aims to break that cycle by highlighting works and moments that are as entertaining now as they were then.

Humour In Anglo Saxon Literature

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Author : Jonathan Wilcox
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2000

Humour In Anglo Saxon Literature written by Jonathan Wilcox and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.

Humour is rarely seen to raise its indecorous head in the surviving corpus of Old English literature, yet the value of reading that literature with an eye to humour proves considerable when the right questions are asked. Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature provides the first book-length treatment of the subject. In all new essays, eight scholars employ different approaches to explore humor in such works as Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon, the riddles of the Exeter Book, and Old English saints' lives. An introductory essay provides a survey of the field, while individual essays push towards a distinctive theory of Anglo-Saxon humour. Through its unusual focus, this collection will provide an appealing introduction to both famous and lesser-known works for those new to Old English literature, while those familiar with the usual contours of Old English literary criticism will find here the value of a fresh approach. Contributors: JOHN D. NILES, T.A. SHIPPEY, RAYMOND P. TRIPP JR, E.L. RISDEN, D.K. SMITH, NINA RULON-MILLER, SHARI HORNER, HUGH MAGENNIS. JONATHAN WILCOX is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and editor of the Old English Newsletter. 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. The articles are prefaced with an introduction surveying the field. Through its unusual focus, this collection will provide an appealing introduction to both famous and lesser-known works for those new to Old English literature, while those familiar with the usual contours of Old English literary criticism will find here the value of a fresh approach. JONATHAN WILCOX is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and editor of the Old English Newsletter.

Toward A Theogy Of Anglo Saxon Humor

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Author : Edward L. Risden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

Toward A Theogy Of Anglo Saxon Humor written by Edward L. Risden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Comic, The, in literature categories.

This book makes important contributions to the theory of humour and to our understanding of Old English literature by striking a subtle balance between hostile and social functions of humour.

Humour In The Arts

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Author : Vivienne Westbrook
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-07-27

Humour In The Arts written by Vivienne Westbrook and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-27 with History categories.

This collection demonstrates the usefulness of approaching texts—verbal, visual and aural—through a framework of humour. Contributors offer in-depth discussions of humour in the West within a wider cultural historical context to achieve a coherent, chronological sense of how humour proceeds from antiquity to modernity. Reading humorously reveals the complexity of certain aspects of texts that other reading approaches have so far failed to reveal. Humour in the Arts explores humour as a source of cultural formation that engages with ethical, political, and religious controversies whilst acquainting readers with a wide range of humorous structures and strategies used across Western cultures.

The Development Of English Humor

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Author : Louis François Cazamian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965

The Development Of English Humor written by Louis François Cazamian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with English literature categories.

Emotional Practice In Old English Literature

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Author : Alice Jorgensen
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2024-05-07

Emotional Practice In Old English Literature written by Alice Jorgensen and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-07 with Literary Criticism categories.

An examination of how emotions were practised and performed through Old English texts.Scholarship is increasingly interested in investigating concepts of emotion found in Old English literature. This study takes the next step, arguing that both heroic and religious texts were vehicles for emotional practice - that is, for doing things with emotion. Using case studies from heroic poetry (Beowulf, The Battle of Brunanburh and The Battle of Maldon), religious poetry (Christ I and Christ III) and homilies (selections from the Vercelli Book, Blickling Homilies and the works of Wulfstan), it shows via detailed close readings that texts could be used to act out emotional styles, manage the emotions arising from specific events, and negotiate relationships both within social groups and with God. Meanwhile, a chapter on the Old English Boethius explores how the control of unruly emotions is theorized as the transfer of attachment from the things of this world to the things of the divine. Overall, the volume offers new angles on the social functions of genres and questions of reception and performance; and it gives insight into how early medieval people used emotions to relate to their world, temporal and eternal. angles on the social functions of genres and questions of reception and performance; and it gives insight into how early medieval people used emotions to relate to their world, temporal and eternal. angles on the social functions of genres and questions of reception and performance; and it gives insight into how early medieval people used emotions to relate to their world, temporal and eternal. angles on the social functions of genres and questions of reception and performance; and it gives insight into how early medieval people used emotions to relate to their world, temporal and eternal.

Anglo Saxon England Volume 30

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Author : Michael Lapidge
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-07-12

Anglo Saxon England Volume 30 written by Michael Lapidge and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-12 with History categories.

The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. A wide-ranging historical contextualization of The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle illuminates the way English readers of the later tenth century may have defined themselves in contradistinction to the monstrous unknown, and a fresh reading of the gendering of female portraiture in a famous illustrated manuscript of the Psychomachia of Prudentius (CCCC 23) shows the independent ways in which Anglo-Saxon illustrators were able to respond to their models. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book; and a full index of the contents of volumes 26-30 is provided. (Previous indexes have appeared in volumes 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25.)

History Of English Humour With An Introduction Upon Ancient Humour

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Author : Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877

History Of English Humour With An Introduction Upon Ancient Humour written by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with English wit and humor categories.

History Of English Humour Vol 1 With An Introduction Upon Ancient Humour

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Author : Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
language : en
Publisher: Tredition Classics
Release Date : 2011-11

History Of English Humour Vol 1 With An Introduction Upon Ancient Humour written by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange and has been published by Tredition Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11 with categories.

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History Of English Humour

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Author : Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-11-17

History Of English Humour written by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with categories.

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