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The Little Golden Book of jokes and riddles
Enjoy this unique book of kids' laugh-out-loud riddles and jokes!
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Say What I Am Called
Perhaps the most enigmatic cultural artifacts that survive from the Anglo-Saxon period are the Old English riddle poems that were preserved in the tenth century Exeter Book manuscript. Clever, challenging, and notoriously obscure, the riddles have fascinated readers for centuries and provided crucial insight into the period. InSay What I Am Called, Dieter Bitterli takes a fresh look at the riddles by examining them in the context of earlier Anglo-Latin riddles. Bitterli argues that there is a vigorous common tradition between Anglo-Latin and Old English riddles and details how the contents of the Exeter Book emulate and reassess their Latin predecessors while also expanding their literary and formal conventions. The book also considers the ways in which convention and content relate to writing in a vernacular language. A rich and illuminating work that is as intriguing as the riddles themselves,Say What I Am Calledis a rewarding study of some of the most interesting works from the Anglo-Saxon period.
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Stupid jokes for kids : selections from The great big fat giant joke book
A collection of jokes such as: What do you get when you cross a bee with a bell? A real humdinger.\"
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Isidorean Perceptions of Order
This book discusses the considerable influence exerted by Isidore's Etymologiae on the compilation of early medieval enigmata. Either in the form of thematic clusters or pairs, Isidorean encyclopedic patterns are observed not only in major Latin riddle collections in verse but can also be detected in the two vernacular assemblages contained in the Exeter Book.
As with encyclopedias, the topic-centered arrangement of riddles was pursued by compilers as a strategy intended to optimize the didactic and instructional possibilities inherent in these texts and favor the readers' assimilation of their contents. This book thus provides a thoroughgoing investigation of medieval riddling, with special attention to the Exeter Book Riddles, demonstrating that this genre constituted an important part of the school curriculum of the early Middle Ages.
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Unriddling the Exeter Riddles
The vibrant and enigmatic Exeter Riddles (ca. 960–980) are among the most compelling texts in the field of medieval studies, in part because they lack textually supplied solutions. Indeed, these ninety-five Old English riddles have become so popular that they have even been featured on posters for the London Underground and have inspired a sculpture in downtown Exeter. Modern scholars have responded enthusiastically to the challenge of solving the Riddles, but have generally examined them individually. Few have considered the collection as a whole or in a broader context. In this book, Patrick Murphy takes an innovative approach, arguing that in order to understand the Riddles more fully, we must step back from the individual puzzles and consider the group in light of the textual and oral traditions from which they emerged. He offers fresh insights into the nature of the Exeter Riddles' complexity, their intellectual foundations, and their lively use of metaphor.
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Just joking. Gross : 300 hilarious and disgusting jokes, tongue twisters, riddles, and more!
\"Brace yourself for some serious (seriously fun) ickiness: this ... disgusting book is a tribute to all kinds of everyday nastiness\"\"-- Provided by publisher.
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THE RIDDLES OF THE HOBBIT
A simple critical r \\work about The Hobbit it is assuredly not; Roberts explores Anglo-Saxon wordplay, Tolkien's Middle-earth, the conventions of the fantasy genre, and the acts of reading, writing and literary criticism, with the titular Riddles as a kind of locus, a central point to which he invariably returns. [...]riddles are \"a truer representation of the nature of reality than simple declarative statements [...] [...]Roberts spends several chapters detailing Tolkien's probable or definite sources, many of which are impenetrable without the insight into the Anglo-Saxon world and worldview which Roberts provides. Riddles is worth reading, but perhaps not for its critical approach (an insistence on close textual analysis and cultural context, in many ways a quiet rejection of highly theoretical and ideological literary criticism) or for its answers to the questions it raises.
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Laugh attack! : the biggest, best joke book ever
\"Inside you'll find more than 1,000 of the most hilarious jokes, riddles, and cartoon ever created--all specially curated by the editors of Highlights. This fully illustrated collection of fun guaranteed to cause a serious laugh attack--again and again!\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Riddle of the Riddle
First Published in 2005.The true folk riddle of oral traditions that have been rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth in the last hundred years is one of the most ancient threads of culture.One of the smallest genres of verbal culture--usually under a dozen of words, it is an intensely articulated utterance.
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