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Transposing Time and Space: Stuck in Mobility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Jesse Weaver Shipley
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If you have to explain a proverb, it is too esoteric for popular use; but if it is too mundane and obvious, it will not circulate or gain notoriety. It should be witty and rhythmic but obscure; it should attract new meanings and move among various contexts and genres, taken up by listeners who recirculate it in new media to new audiences. Effective proverbs use indirection as a performance strategy, provoking new interpretations and lubricating social circulation across disparate spaces (Yankah).

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 131 , Issue 2 , March 2016 , pp. 515 - 523
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2016

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