Apes and japes: Laughter and animality in the Miller’s Tale

This article argues that the humour of The Miller’s Tale is often associated with ideas of laughter as liberating and ‘human.’ Whilst ‘humour’ is a term often applied to apparently ‘civilized’ comedy, we seem to associate the medieval with more basic kinds of laughter, often called ‘buffoonery’ or ‘...

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Veröffentlicht in:Postmedieval a journal of medieval cultural studies 2017-12, Vol.8 (4), p.463-478
1. Verfasser: Bown, Alfie
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