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

• 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.

Ämnesord

Ironi i litteraturen  (sao)

Medeltidslitteratur  (sao)

Irony in literature.  (LCSH)

Literature, Medieval  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literature, Modern  -- 15th and 16th centuries -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Irony in literature.  (fast)

Literature, Medieval.  (fast)

Literature, Modern.  (fast)

Irony in literature  (LCSH)

1400-1599  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Klassifikation

PN671 (LCC)

PN56.S342 (LCC)

809.918 (DDC)