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Schlaeger, Jürgen.   Werner Röcke and Helga Neumann, eds. Komische Gegenwelten: Lachen und Literatur im Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (Paderborn: Schningh, 1999), pp. 123-31.
Short introduction to various theories of laughter, followed by a brief analysis of laughter in MilT and TC.

Crow, Martin M., and Clair C. Olson, eds.   Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966.
Documentary source book of 493 archival records that pertain to Chaucer's "career as a courtier, diplomat, and civil servant," arranged topically in thirty-one categories from Chaucer's ancestors to his death; includes a "Chronological Table" of the…

Horobin, Simon.   Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo and Eugenio Contreras Domingo, eds. Focus on Old and Middle English Studies (Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2011), pp. 11-23.
Studies the treatment of manuscripts in the MED, especially those containing Chaucer's works. Detects potential for confusion in the use of the double-dating system (manuscript and composition dates, not always consistently cited), and in the…

Wittig, Joseph, et al., eds. and comps.  
Originally posted in 1998. The site attempts to organize Chaucer resources on the World Wide Web, providing links to various Chaucer websites, Chaucer's works and bibliographies online, and "MetaMentors" (Chaucer scholars willing to discuss Chaucer…

Zanco, Aurelio, ed.   Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1959.
Middle English edition of selections from BD (44-61, 270-79, 291-386, 444-576, 805-998), HF (1-65, 111-208, 480-508, 529-604, 711-822, 885-1045, 1110-1213, 1282-1320, 1340-1406), PF (1-210, 302-29, 365-525, 561-637, 666-699), LGW (LGWP-F 29-246 and…

De Weever, Jacqueline.   New York: Garland, 1987.
Using Chaucerian spellings, the dictionary is designed for beginners and nonspecialists as well as for scholars and specialists interested in the etymology, formation, and development of personal names and names of gods and goddesses (mythical and…

Capra, Sisto.   Pavia: G. Iuculano, 2007.
Item not seen; reported in WorldCat, which describes the volume as a historical novel about Chaucer.

Higuchi, Masayuki.   Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 127 (1982): 632-34.
On the use of "drem" and "sweven" (dreams and revelations) in PF, NPT, HF, TC, BD.

Sasagawa, Hisaaki.   Journal of General Education Department, Niigata Univeristy (1984): 1-11.
Reconsiders the structure and usage of figurative negation in Chaucer treated by Hein (1983), in relation to context and rhyme and in comparison with "Roman de la Rose." Figurative negation is related to rhyme.

Shigeo, Hisashi.   Shonosuke Ishii and Peter Milward, eds. Renaissance ni okeru Dokebungaku. (Tokyo: Aratake, 1983): pp. 25-55.
Deals with Chaucer's influence on and relation to humanism.

Mizutori, Yoshitaka.   Review of Inquiry and Research (Kansai University of Foreign Studies, Japan) 40 (1984): 105-19.
Asserts the importance of aspect and stylistics to make clear Chaucer's perfect-tense forms.

Higuchi, Masayuki.   Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 132.7 (1986): 329-31.
Explores the notion of "comedy" in the Middle Ages, which is based on the idea of the goddess Fortuna, and argues that the comedy Chaucer refers to at the end of TC was realized in NPT.

Kanno, Masahiko.   Studies in Foreign Languages and Literatures 21 (Aichi University of Education, 1985): 47-58.
Discusses the difference of treatment between PhyT and Gower's "Tale of Virginia."

Oiji, Takero.   English Literature and Language (Sophia University) 10 (1973): 9-22.
Item not seen. MLA International Bibliography record indicates that this essay discusses the "ethical and religious" quality of PF. In Japanese.

Yamane, Shu.   Suita Osaka: Izumiya Shoten, [1987]
In Japanese.

Shigeo, Hisashi.   Katahira 20 (1984): 1-22.
Chaucer's style is ambiguous and oblique when aimed at irony and satire but is straightforward and simple when didactic.

Nakagawa, Tokio.   Naomi Matsuura, ed. Eibungaku to no Deai (Kyoto: Showado, 1983), pp. 251-59.
Essay not seen; reported in MLA International Bibliography, with indexing reference to PardT. In Japanese.

Kawasaki, Masatoshi.   Bungaku to Ningen: Nakajima Kanji Kyoju Tsuito Ronbunshu. Tokyo: Kinseido, 1981.
On Chaucer's characters. In Japanese.

Sato, Tsutomu.   Tokyo: Kobundo Souppansha,
Chaucer's love poems, including a translation.

Masui, Michio.   Tokyo: Iwanami Shinsho, 1976.
Chaucer's world.

Jimura, Akiyuki.   "Hito no Ie Kami no Ie" (Kyoto: Apollo-sha, 1987), pp. 5-43.

Harwood, Britton J.   Chaucer Review 26 (1992): 343-49.
The immobile house of Fame and the whirling cage of rumor are linked to each other much as a subject and a predicate are. FrT and SumT are held together by Chaucer's sense of sentences as "full-blown speech acts": in the former, the same words are…

Mann, Rachel.   Michael Schmidt, ed. New Poetries VII: An Anthology (Manchester: Carcanet, 2018), p. 98
Contemplative lyric poem (eighteen lines in threes) that refers to four of Chaucer's pilgrims (Knight, Miller, Reeve, and Pardoner) and includes six brief quotations from CT.

Ferster, Judith.   Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Ferster argues that modern literary and hermeneutical theory (Gadamer and Ricoeur, etc.) can shed light on medieval works: Chaucer's characters "interpret texts and each other as texts," in readings influenced by literary tradition, prejudice,…

Klassen, Norman.   Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995.
Examines Chaucer's views on knowing and loving as they are connected and opposed through sight imagery.
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