Research Catalog

Title

Words that tear the flesh : essays on sarcasm in medieval and early modern literature and cultures / edited by Alan Baragona and Elizabeth L. Rambo.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
• ©2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baragona, Alan.
• Rambo, Elizabeth L., 1954-

Description

viii, 378 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture, 1864-3396 ; volume 21

Uniform Title

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 21.

Subjects

• Literature, Modern
• Irony in literature
• 1400-1599
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Literature, Modern > 15th and 16th centuries > History and criticism
• Literature, Medieval > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-368) and indexes.

Contents

Encountering snarks in Anglo-Saxon translation: one translator's top 10 list / Rick McDonald -- Trolling in Old Norse: ambiquity and incitement in Sneglu-Halla páttr / Christopher Abram -- Snark and the saint: the art of the Irish curse / Máire Johnson -- Comic authority: sarcasm in pre-modern Arabic literature / Jeremy Farrell -- Sarcasm and its consequences in diplomacy and politics im medieval Italy: Brunetto Latini's letter to Pavia and Dante's Monarchia / Nicolino Applauso -- "A lowed laghtur that lady logh"" laughter, snark, and sarcasm in middle English romance / Debra E. Best -- "Hostilis Inrisio": some instances of "derision with a certain severity" in medieval English literature / Brian S Lee -- Self-evident morals?: Affective reversal as social critique in Henryson's fables / Ester Bernstein -- Let's not get snarky about derision!: Fabliau husbands and wives in conversation / Patricia Sokolski -- Poking [fun] at [the foibles of] the flesh: the Galician-Portuguese cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer / Ellen Lorraine Friedrich -- Sarcasm in medieval German and Old Norse literature: from the Hildebransdslied to Fortunatus: the dark side of human behavior / Albrecht Classen -- Sarcasm and heresy: John Wyclif and the York Fall of the Angels play / Elza C. Tiner -- Lorenzo Valla's "intellectual violence": personal feuds and appropriated sarcasm / Scott O'Neil -- Snarky shrews: gender comedy and the uses of sarcasm / Joe Ricke.

Call Number

JFE 18-2972

ISBN

• 3110562111
• 9783110562118

OCLC

1007841460

Title

Words that tear the flesh : essays on sarcasm in medieval and early modern literature and cultures / edited by Alan Baragona and Elizabeth L. Rambo.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture, 1864-3396 ; volume 21

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 21.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-368) and indexes.

Chronological Term

1400-1599

Added Author

Baragona, Alan.

Rambo, Elizabeth L., 1954-

Research Call Number

JFE 18-2972