But What Does the Fleming Say?: The Two Flemish Proverbs and their Contexts in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- LatreĢ, Guido.
But What Does the Fleming Say?: The Two Flemish Proverbs and their Contexts in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Published
- LeedsSE 32 : 255-73 , 2001.
- Description
- The Flemish proverbs in CkP and ManT "trigger a whole series of contradictions and reversals of meaning that mirror the complexity of Chaucer's comedy." They also contribute to a pattern in CT in which Flemings are associated with misused language.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Cook and His Tale.
- Manciple and His Tale.