The Origins of Comicality in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Erzgräber, Willi.
The Origins of Comicality in Chaucer
- Published
- Joerg O. Fichte, ed. Chaucer's Frame Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987),: pp. 11-33.
- Description
- By applying it to BD, PF, HF, TC, and CT (MilT, WBP, and GP Monk), Erzgraber tests Karl-Heinz Stierle's thesis that the "object of comicality is anything that threatens a culture." Chaucer reflects the cultural complexity of his age.
- Reprinted in Erzgräber's Mittelalter und Renaissance in England: Von der Altenglischen Elegien bis Shakespeares Tragögien (Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1997), pp. 235-52.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Frame Tales.
- Mittelalter und Renaissance in England: Von der Altenglischen Elegien bis Shakespeares Tragögien.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.