They All Laughed When I Sat Down to Write: Chaucer, Jokes, and the Short Story
- Author / Editor
- Sanders, Barry.
They All Laughed When I Sat Down to Write: Chaucer, Jokes, and the Short Story
- Published
- Barbara Lounsberry and others, eds. The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short Story (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998), pp. 55-62.
- Description
- Considers the relations among jokes and short stories, focusing on MilT as a "well-made" short story and regarding the Reeve's response as evidence of the social balance accomplished through jokes and fiction.
- Contributor
- Lounsberry, Barbara, ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short Story.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
- Reeve and His Tale