proverbialist

In Arrow of God, a novel described by some critics as the dictionary of Igbo proverbial sayings (Nwadike, 1989:36) that concretizes the African pyscho-cultural crisis, deeply entrenched in the African proverbial folio by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe "who has carved out a niche for himself as an African Proverbialist" (Aguoru, 2012:1) as crumbs of humorous popular wisdom stormed his narrative framework.

Julia Boffey's exploration of 'Proverbial Chaucer and the Chaucer Canon' shows how the false attribution to Chaucer of an extract from John Walton's Boethius is not simply a modern bibliographical irritation but reveals also a pre-modern desire to construct some part of the Chaucer canon around a view of the poet as proverbialist. In 'Mise-en-page in the Troilus Manuscripts: Chaucer and French Manuscript Culture', Ardis Butterfield seeks evidence for 'the authentic cultural moment' of Chaucer's poem (p.