Proverbial Strategy and Proverbial Wisdom in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Winick, Stephen D.
Proverbial Strategy and Proverbial Wisdom in 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship 11 (1994): 259-81.
- Description
- Challenges B. J. Whiting's (1934) intuitive definition of proverbs and offers an ethnographic definition, focusing on "strategies" of performance of the proverbs in CT and TC and the utility of proverbs in effecting "normalization, valorization, and stigmatization."
- Proverbs are widely used in CT, but MerT provides the "most complete statement" of Chaucer's view concerning the applications and misapplications of "received wisdom": one should choose a course of wisdom by carefully considering options and their implications.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Merchant and His Tale.