Sense of Humour.
- Author / Editor
- Potter, Stephen.
Sense of Humour.
- Published
- New York: Holt, 1954.
- Physical Description
- 271 pp.; illus.
- Description
- Introduces and anthologizes examples of humor in English literature, and critical analyses of it, arranged topically by humorous technique; includes Nevill Coghill's modern translation of the GP descriptions of the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner under the topic "Humor by Observation." In the general Introduction discusses Chaucer as "The Great Originator" of humor in English writing, with particular attention to the "family quarrel" in NPT between Chaunticleer and Pertelote.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Nun's Priest and His Tale
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
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