'The Canterbury Tales' in Terms of a Road Festival as Reflected in 'The Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Lee, Dongchoon.
'The Canterbury Tales' in Terms of a Road Festival as Reflected in 'The Miller's Tale'
- Published
- Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 22.01 (2014): 21-47.
- Description
- Applies Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the "carnivalesque," which provides a "context for understanding the importance of laughter" in CT. The Miller focuses on physical pleasure and natural instinct in MilT; his disregard for rules of social hierarchy reinforces that the pilgrimage is a time of "carnivalesque freedom" for the Host and the pilgrims.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale