Transforming Experience into Tradition: Two Theories of Proverb Use and Chaucer's Practice
- Author / Editor
- Bradbury, Nancy Mason.
Transforming Experience into Tradition: Two Theories of Proverb Use and Chaucer's Practice
- Published
- Oral Tradition 17: 261-89, 2002.
- Description
- Combining cognitive and ethnographic approaches to proverb study, Bradbury examines proverb use in Fragment 1 of CT. She explores the limitations of the cognitive theories of Richard Honeck, on the one hand, and George Lakoff and Mark Turner, on the other.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General