This article explores how Geoffrey Chaucer’s The CanterburyTales seems to embody comedy and the carnivalesque in a quiteinteresting way, where the poet introduces a medieval cultureand a medieval popular life that may not be so familiar, tomodem readers. It is the carnival world of medieval popular lifeas explored by the Russian scholar Mikhail Bakhtin and whichreached us in certain survivals of c...
This article explores how Geoffrey Chaucer’s The CanterburyTales seems to embody comedy and the carnivalesque in a quiteinteresting way, where the poet introduces a medieval cultureand a medieval popular life that may not be so familiar, tomodem readers. It is the carnival world of medieval popular lifeas explored by the Russian scholar Mikhail Bakhtin and whichreached us in certain survivals of c...