The Exegetics of Laughter: Religious Parody in Chaucer's Miller's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Johnston, Andrew James.
The Exegetics of Laughter: Religious Parody in Chaucer's Miller's Tale
- Published
- Manfred Pfister, ed. A History of English Laughter: Laughter from Beowulf to Beckett and Beyond (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002), pp. 17-33.
- Description
- Johnston assesses the interactions between religious allusion and satire in MilT, exploring the exegetical traditions of God's private parts, the Flood, and Absolon's use of the Song of Songs. The Tale generates laughter that ridicules religion and religious hermeneutics, yet its multilayered techniques simultaneously affirm exegetical thinking.
- Alternative Title
- A History of English Laughter: Laughter from Beowulf to Beckett and Beyond.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.