Chaucer'S Humor (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) - Hardcover

Jost, Jean E.

 
9780815306184: Chaucer'S Humor (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

Synopsis

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Synopsis

Eighteen essays ten original by leading Chaucer scholars evaluate the work of the first major humorist in English literature. The pieces approach Chaucer's humor from three perspectives: scholarly works that define the nature of Chaucerian humor; theoretically based examinations (including feminist, Freudian, social, and Bakhtinian "Carnival" theor

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