The Proverb as Imbedded Microgenre in Chaucer and "The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf."
- Author / Editor
- Bradbury, Nancy Mason.
The Proverb as Imbedded Microgenre in Chaucer and "The Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf."
- Published
- Exemplaria 27 (2015): 55–72.
- Description
- Uses examples from CT, TC, and the anonymous Middle English Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf, read in a context created by Bakhtin's theory of "speech genres," to demonstrate the power of proverbs to transform the situations in which they are embedded. These proverbs "indicate courses of action, encapsulate worldviews, console and reconcile their recipients to the ways of this world, and mediate for fictional characters and for readers the overwhelming variety of lived experience."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--Generral