Middle English Romance as Prototype Genre
- Author / Editor
- Liu, Yin.
Middle English Romance as Prototype Genre
- Published
- Chaucer Review 40 (2006): 335-53.
- Description
- A study of five Middle English lists of romances, including the list in Chaucer's Th (7.897-902). Liu uses the "prototype theory of categorization" from cognitive linguistics to provide the rationale for a flexible yet rigorous definition of the Middle English romance as a genre about which "there is plenty of fascinating work yet to be done."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas.