Some Uses of Number
- Author / Editor
- Lindahl, Carl.
Some Uses of Number
- Published
- Journal of Folklore Research 34 (1997): 263-73.
- Description
- Folklorists' recent interest in performance tends to neglect the chronological context of storytelling, for which now-maligned type and motif indexes remain useful. A change in pattern usually signals a change in meaning. For example, the ending of PrT is "singularly vicious" compared to the bulk of surviving analogues, suggesting the hypocrisy of the narrator, who has praised Mary's mercy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.