Humour in Chaucer's Miller's Tale and Wife of Bath's Tale

diplomski rad

• Autor: Mara Elizabeta Taborsky
• Mentor: Mateusz-Milan Stanojević (mentor)
• Član povjerenstva: Višnja Josipović-Smojver (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Član povjerenstva: Anđel Starčević (član povjerenstva)
• Ustanova koja je dodijelila akademski / stručni stupanj: Sveučilište u Zagrebu; Filozofski fakultet; (Odsjek za anglistiku); Zagreb
• Datum i država obrane: 2025-02-28, Hrvatska
• Znanstveno / umjetničko područje, polje i grana: HUMANISTIČKE ZNANOSTI; Filologija; Anglistika

Sažetak

This thesis aims to analyze the role of humour in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, specifically The Miller’s Tale and The Wife of Bath’s Tale. The selected tales are both humorous but in significantly different ways. Therefore, this research seeks to identify how Chaucer employs different comedic techniques in the two tales and to what effect. Based on the three humour theories: Superiority Theory, Incongruity Theory, and Relief Theory, as well as linguistic frameworks such as the... Više Semantic Script Theory of Humour and General Theory of Verbal Humour, this research classifies Chaucer’s humour into five key categories: wordplay, idioms, contrast, taboo, and parody.
The comparative analysis reveals that The Miller’s Tale aligns with the fabliau tradition, relying heavily on crude humour and parody, while The Wife of Bath’s Tale employs irony and wordplay to challenge contemporary gender norms. The study further explores how narrative framing impacts humour perception, demonstrating that The Miller’s Tale embraces an overtly transgressive comedic approach and that The Wife of Bath’s Tale engages a more subversive, rhetorical comedic strategy.
Overall, the results show that Chaucer’s humour is a multifaceted means of social critique rather than mere entertainment. Sakrij dio sažetka

• Ključne riječi: Chaucer; The Canterbury Tales; humour; The Miller’s Tale; The Wife of Bath’s Tale; irony; parody; medieval literature; wordplay; idioms; taboo
• Jezik: engleski
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:488714
• Studijski program: Naziv: Anglistika (dvopredmetni); smjerovi: lingvistički, književno-kulturološki, prevoditeljski, nastavnički; Smjer: nastavnički; Vrsta studija: sveučilišni; Stupanj studija: diplomski; Akademski / stručni naziv: magistar/magistra edukacije engleskog jezika i književnosti (mag. educ. philol. angl.)
• Vrsta resursa: Tekst
• Način izrade datoteke: Izvorno digitalna
• Prava pristupa: Otvoreni pristup
• Datum i vrijeme pohrane: 2025-03-17 12:18:46