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Idées et formes de la satire au XVIIIe siècle
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ISBN: 9782406144625 9782406144632 Year: 2023 Publisher: Paris : Classiques Garnier,

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Douze contributions autour de ce genre littéraire protéiforme au XVIIIe siècle et souvent brandi comme un contrepoison contre la corruption. ©Electre 2023


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Humour in Old English Literature
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ISBN: 1487545703 1487545711 Year: 2023 Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press,

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"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, Jonathan Wilcox engages the large body of didactic literature, pinpointing humour in two anonymous homilies along with extensive use in saints’ lives. 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. 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."--


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Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery
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ISBN: 1281341932 9786611341930 0199719543 9780199719549 9781281341938 6611341935 9780195304695 0195304691 9780195304701 0195304705 0197724841 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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Modern black humor represents a rich history of radical innovation stretching back to the antebellum period. 'Laughing Fit to Kill' reveals how black writers, artists, and comedians have used humor across two centuries as a uniquely powerful response to forced migration and enslavement.

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