Carnival and 'The Canterbury Tales': 'Only Equals May Laugh'
- Author / Editor
- Cook, Jon.
Carnival and 'The Canterbury Tales': 'Only Equals May Laugh'
- Published
- David Aers, ed. Medieval Literature (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), pp. 169-91.
- Description
- CT shows extensive evidence of "Carnival" (Bakhtin) influence. GP, Miller, and Host show evidence of the carnivalesque approach to life. The clerk, on the other hand, reasserts "official values." CT offers the first English model of secular and social freedom.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology, and History.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.