Chaucer's Humor

Jean E. Jost

Chronology of Major Events 1. Introduction Part 1: A Prolegomenon to Defining Chaucerian Humor 2. The Voice of the Past: Surveying the Reception of Chaucer’s Humor Jean E. Jost 3. The Idea of Humor Howard Rollin Patch 4. Excerpt from Chaucer G. K. Chesterton 5. A Vocabulary for Chaucerian Comedy: A Preliminary Sketch Paul G. Ruggiers 6. Chaucer and Comedy Thomas J. Garbáty 7. The Canterbury Tales II: Comedy Derek Pearsall Part 2: Critical Theories With the Comic Touch: Feminist, Freudian, Language, Social, and Bakhtinian Theories 8. Chaucer’s May, Standup Comics, and Critics Susan K. Hagen 9. Chaucer, Freud, and the Political Economy of Wit: Tendentious Jokes in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale R. James Goldstein 10. Paradoxicum Semiotica: Signs, Comedy, and Mystery in Fragment VI of the Canterbury Tales John Micheal Crafton 11. The Comedy of Innocence Alfred David 12. Metamorphic Comedy: The Shipman’s Tale William F. Woods 13. Rough Music in Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale Frederick B. Jonassen Part 3: "Generic" Humor: Lyric, Poetic, Demonic, Religious, Scatological, and Tragic 14. Chaucer’s Witty Prosody in General Prologue, Lines 1-42 Charles A. Owen, Jr. 15. Chaucer’s Dainty "Dogerel": The "Elvyssh" Prosody of Sir Thopas Alan T. Gaylord 16. "Parlous Play": Diabolic Comedy in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Robert W. Hanning 17. The Semiotics of Comedy in Chaucer’s Religious Tales Daniel P. Pigg 18. The Mind Distended: The Retraction, Miller’s Tale and Summoner’s Tale Judith Tschann 19. Chaucer’s Creative Comedy: A Study of the Miller’s Tale and the Shipman’s Tale A. Booker Thro 20. Felicity and Mutability: Boethian Framework of the Troilus John M. Steadman