Overview
Provides a comprehensive focus on the limits of the methodologies used by scholars to address 'humour' across cultural history
Maps and elucidates the methodological problems raised by historical case studies
Highlights the theoretical challenges involved in presenting historical humour to contemporary audiences
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Case Studies
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Humour of the Past in the Present
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hannah Burrows is Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She has edited and translated the Old Norse riddle corpus for the Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages series, and her publications include articles on the relationship between the riddles and Norse mythological poetry.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology
Editors: Daniel Derrin, Hannah Burrows
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56646-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56645-6Published: 13 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56648-7Published: 13 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56646-3Published: 12 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 526
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Historiography and Method, Cultural History, Social History, Language History, Literary History, Sociology of Culture