Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Byrhtnoth's Laughter and the Poetics of Gesture
- ‘Grim Wordplay’: Folly and Wisdom in Anglo-Saxon Humor
- Humor, Wordplay, and Semantic Resonance in Beowulf
- Heroic Humor in Beowulf
- Humor in Hiding: Laughter Between the Sheets in the Exeter Book Riddles
- Sexual Humor and Fettered Desire in Exeter Book Riddle 12
- ‘Why do you speak so much foolishness?’ Gender, Humor, and Discourse in Ælfric's Lives of Saints
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven: Humorous Incongruity in Old English Saints' Lives
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Byrhtnoth's Laughter and the Poetics of Gesture
- ‘Grim Wordplay’: Folly and Wisdom in Anglo-Saxon Humor
- Humor, Wordplay, and Semantic Resonance in Beowulf
- Heroic Humor in Beowulf
- Humor in Hiding: Laughter Between the Sheets in the Exeter Book Riddles
- Sexual Humor and Fettered Desire in Exeter Book Riddle 12
- ‘Why do you speak so much foolishness?’ Gender, Humor, and Discourse in Ælfric's Lives of Saints
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven: Humorous Incongruity in Old English Saints' Lives
- Index
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- Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2000