Proverb Tradition as a Soft Source for the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Bradbury, Nancy Mason.
Proverb Tradition as a Soft Source for the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 237-42.
- Description
- Bradbury addresses Chaucer's uses of proverbs as a "crucial" form of "quoting behavior"--a form of "soft source" important to Chaucer's art and its reception in manuscripts and early editions. Draws examples from KnT and refers to uses of proverbs in other Tales.
- Alternative Title
- Colloquium: The Afterlife of Origins
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Knight and His Tale.