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1 online resource (530 pages) |
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Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer Ser |
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Routledge library editions. Chaucer
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; General Editor's Note; Acknowledgments; Chronology of Major Events; Introduction; Part One: A PROLEGOMENON TO DEFINING CHAUCERIAN HUMOR; The Voice of the Past: Surveying the Reception of Chaucer's Humor; The Idea of Humor; Excerpt from Chaucer; A Vocabulary for Chaucerian Comedy: A Preliminary Sketch; Chaucer and Comedy; The Canterbury Tales II: Comedy; Part Two: CRITICAL THEORIES WITH THE COMIC TOUCH: FEMINIST, FREUDIAN, LANGUAGE, SOCIAL, AND BAKHTINIAN THEORIES |
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Feminist Theory: Chaucer's May, Standup Comics, and CriticsFreudian Theory: Chaucer, Freud, and the Political Economy of Wit: Tendentious Jokes in the Nun's Priest's Tale; Language Theory and Freud: Paradoxicum Semiotica: Signs, Comedy, and Mystery in Fragment VI of the Canterbury Tales; Social Theory: The Comedy of Innocence; Metamorphic Comedy: The Shipman's Tale; Bakhtinian Theory of Carnival: Rough Music in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale; Part Three: "GENERIC" HUMOR: LYRIC, POETIC, DEMONIC, RELIGIOUS, SCATOLOGICAL, AND TRAGIC; The Lyric: Chaucer's Witty Prosody in General Prologue, Lines 1-42 |
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The Poetic: Chaucer's Dainty "Dogerel": The "Elvyssh" Prosody of Sir ThopasThe Demonic: "Parlous Play": Diabolic Comedy in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; The Religious: The Semiotics of Comedy in Chaucer's Religious Tales; The Scatological: The Mind Distended: The Retraction, Miller's Tale and Summoner's Tale; Chaucer's Creative Comedy: A Study of the Miller's Tale and the Shipman's Tale; The Tragic: Felicity and Mutability: Boethian Framework of the Troilus; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Originally published in 1994. Chaucer is considered the first major humorist in English literature and is particularly interesting as he reflects the humor of predecessors and contemporaries as well as defines development for subsequent British humor. This collection presents essays that define the nature of Chaucerian humor, examine Chaucer's works from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and consider genres of humor within his writing. This is an excellent work of critical discourse that adds important understanding of Chaucer as well as the field of comedy in literature |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Humor
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
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| SUBJECT |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast |
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Humorous stories, English -- History and criticism
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Wit and humor, Medieval -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Reference.
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Humorous stories, English
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Wit and humor, Medieval
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Humor
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jost, Jean E.
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| ISBN |
9781000680775 |
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1000680770 |
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9780429341717 |
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0429341717 |
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9781000681048 |
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1000681041 |
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9781000681314 |
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1000681319 |
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