Laughter and Deception: Holcot and Chaucer Remain Cheerful
- Author / Editor
- Gelber, Hester Goodenough.
Laughter and Deception: Holcot and Chaucer Remain Cheerful
- Published
- Dallas D. Denery II, Kantik Ghosh, and Nicolette Zeeman, eds. Uncertain Knowledge: Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 285-304.
- Description
- Argues that Holcot and Chaucer "depict a world in which farce and deception are possible." Discusses how Chaucer's ironic humor and "Chaucerian misdirection" fuel the ambiguity in ClT and NPT.
- Alternative Title
- Uncertain Knowledge: Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations