Fluctuating Proverbs in Three Eighteenth-Century Modernizations of Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Bowden, Betsy.
Fluctuating Proverbs in Three Eighteenth-Century Modernizations of Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
- Published
- Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship 9 (1992): 10-29.
- Description
- Compares the treatment of proverbs in three eighteenth-century modernizations of MilT, assessing shifts in form, shifts in emphasis, and sensitivity to Chaucer's original. Considers how proverbs may "function as microcosms" of reader response and historical continuity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
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