Words that Tear the Flesh : : Essays on Sarcasm in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Cultures / / ed. by Stephen Alan Baragona, Elizabeth Louise Rambo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Abram, Christopher,; Applauso, Nicolino,; Baragona, Alan,; Bernstein, Esther,; Best, Debra E.,; Classen, Albrecht,; Farrell, Jeremy,; Friedrich, Ellen Lorraine,; Johnson, Máire,; Lee, Brian S.,; McDonald, Rick,; O’Neil, Scott,; Rambo, Elizabeth L.,; Ricke, Joe,; Sokolski, Patricia,; Tiner, Elza C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Baragona, Stephen Alan,; Rambo, Elizabeth Louise,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 378 p.)

The rhetorical trope of irony is well-trod territory, with books and essays devoted to its use by a wide range of medieval and Renaissance writers, from the Beowulf-poet and Chaucer to Boccaccio and Shakespeare; however, the use of sarcasm, the "flesh tearing" form of irony, in the same li...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements and Dedications
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Encountering Snarks in Anglo-Saxon Translation
• Trolling in Old Norse
• Snark and the Saint
• Comic Authority
• Sarcasm and its Consequences in Diplomacy and Politics in Medieval Italy
• “A lowed laghtur that lady logh”
• “Hostilis Inrisio”
• Self-Evident Morals?
• Let’s Not Get Snarky about Derision!
• Poking [Fun] at [the Foibles of] the Flesh
• Sarcasm in Medieval German and Old Norse Literature
• Sarcasm and Heresy
• Lorenzo Valla’s “Intellectual Violence”
• Snarky Shrews
• Bibliography
• Contributors’ Biographies
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects