Proverbs : A Handbook
- Author / Editor
- Mieder, Wolfgang.
Proverbs : A Handbook
- Published
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood, 2004.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 304 pp.
- Series
- Greenwood Folklore Handbooks.
- Description
- An introduction to the study of proverbs (paremiology), covering definition and classification, several examples over time, scholarly approaches, and analyses of the contexts in which proverbs appear (e.g., song, advertising, cartoons, and literature). Traces "first come, first served" to WBP and discusses the development and disappearance of the association of millers with gold thumbs.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.