Chaucer's Sir Olifaunt and the Knowledge of Humorous Romance Giants
- Author / Editor
- Best, Debra.
Chaucer's Sir Olifaunt and the Knowledge of Humorous Romance Giants
- Published
- Medieval Perspectives 25 (2010): 21-30.
- Description
- Gives examples of the traditional humor that derives from exaggeration in depictions of giants in Middle English romance, and argues that, in Th, Chaucer goes "one step further" in making Oliphaunt ridiculous, largely because this giant is seen from the perspective of Sir Thopas, himself ridiculous.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations