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Words that Tear the Flesh - Essays on Sarcasm in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Cultures (Hardcover)
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Words that Tear the Flesh - Essays on Sarcasm in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Cultures (Hardcover)
Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
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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 literature has seldom been studied at
length or in depth. Sarcasm is notoriously difficult to pick out in
a written text, since it relies so much on tone of voice and
context. This is the first book-length study of medieval and
Renaissance sarcasm. Its fourteen essays treat instances in a range
of genres, both sacred and secular, and of cultures from
Anglo-Saxon to Arabic, where the combination of circumstance and
word choice makes it absolutely clear that the speaker, whether a
character or a narrator, is being sarcastic. Essays address, among
other things, the clues writers give that sarcasm is at work, how
it conforms to or deviates from contemporary rhetorical theories,
what role it plays in building character or theme, and how sarcasm
conforms to the Christian milieu of medieval Europe, and beyond to
medieval Arabic literature. The collection thus illuminates a
half-hidden but surprisingly common early literary technique for
modern readers.
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