EN 3191 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mikhail Bakhtin, England In The Middle Ages, Marginalia
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Lecture two: the millers tale: foundation of english literature. Humour and human suffering: the famous american comedian w. c fields: i never saw anything funny that wasn"t terrible. If it causes pain, it"s funny; if it doesn"t, it isn"t : our attitudes towards humour are changing but here we are going back to the late. It is a very important one in comedy: human suffering middle ages. The function of humour: to what extent is humour intended to condemn and marginalize, to permit the release of social tension and thus enable reconciliation and increase tolerance. The theories of human and laughter and one of the things is the release of psychological tension: social context of 14 century england: very rigid class system and the entire society is divided into three estates. When people think of the ways in which the world is organized is hierarchies. There is the articoracy and the clergy, masters, servants, god and humans.
