Transforming Experience into Tradition: Two Theories of Proverb Use and Chaucer's Practice

Author / Editor
Bradbury, Nancy Mason.

Title
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