Riehle, Wolfgang.
Beyer, Manfred, ed. Zum Begriff der Imagination in Dichtung und Dichtungstheorie: Festschrift für Rainer Lengeler zum 65. Geburtstag (Trier: WVT, 1998), pp. 186-205.
Explores political and ideological similarities between PhyT and Livy's version of the story, and traces these similarities in later English and German versions, especially the Tudor interlude "Apius and Virginia" and G. E. Lessing's bourgeois…
Pizzorno, Patrizia Grimaldi.
Patrizia Grimaldi Pizzorno. Metaphor at Play: Chaucer's Poetics of Exemplarity (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1997), pp. 79-109.
In BD, Chaucer combines a series of sustained unconventional allusions to the Narcissus exemplum from the "Roman de la Rose" with the narrative of Ceyx and Alcyone from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" to produce a "moral lesson against suicide" with a…
Pizzorno, Patrizia Grimaldi.
Patrizia Grimaldi Pizzorno. Metaphor at Play: Chaucer's Poetics of Exemplarity (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1997), pp. 53-78.
PrT develops the concerns with food, gluttony, and filth that are established in the GP description of the Prioress, where she is characterized as childish, greedy, and sinful. The tale of Thopas parodies PrT and restores moral balance.
Pizzorno, Patrizia Grimaldi.
Patrizia Grimaldi Pizzorno. Metaphor at Play: Chaucer's Poetics of Exemplarity (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1997), pp. 31-51.
Argues that exempla should be regarded as essentially metaphorical rather than didactic, and reads NPT as an exemplary tale that parodies the uses of exempla in the other tales of fragment 7, especially MkT.
Four essays by Pizzorno on Chaucer's epistemological uses of metaphor, exempla, and allegory, with an appendix (pp. 111-31) on figurative thinking in classical and medieval tradition and in modern theory. Chapter one (pp. 5-29) was previously…
Graybill, Robert V.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 5.2 (1997): 41-49.
Comments on selected images in "Beowulf," Langland's "Piers Plowman," and MilT, where the "imagery of holiness" can be seen to align Nicholas and Alisoun's love-making with divine pattern. Also includes a classroom exercise to sensitize students to…
Goossens, Louis.
Louis Goossens, and others. By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, Metonymy, and Linguistic Action in a Cognitive Perspective. Pragmatics & Beyond, New Series, no. 33 (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1995), pp. 175-204.
Uses data from Aelfric, Chaucer, and Shakespeare to demonstrate how metonymy "works as a tool for meaning extension in a diachronically diverse data base," arguing that there is "something of a metonymy-metaphor continuum" and a complex relation…
Erzgräber, Willi.
Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1997.
Twenty-two essays by Erzgräber, most of them previously published. Eight of the essays pertain to Chaucer, one published here for the first time: "Predestination in Langland and Chaucer" (pp. 179-201). In it, Erzgräber surveys St. Augustine's…
Kallay, Zelma.
Parsippany, N.J.: Good Apple, 1997.
Resources for teaching the Middle Ages to school children, arranged as a series of "minibiographies" of five medieval "celebrities." The Chaucer section (pp. 61-74) includes a summary of CT, a brief play based on NPT, and various games and exercises.
Coppola, Nancy, Norbert Elliot, David Geithman, Nancy Jackson, Eric Katz, and Burt Kimmelman.
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1997.
College textbook designed to introduce undergraduate students to the "ways that specialists in the social sciences and the humanities analyze environmental problems." Chapter 4, "Literature and the Environment," opens with a description of LGWP and…
The entry on Chaucer (pp. 213-15, written by Paul Bacquet) summarizes the poet's life and comments on his language, his prosody, and the importance of CT.
Pedagogical guide to selections from Tennyson, Chaucer, and African poetry, with recommendations on how to explicate poetry, focusing on theme and style. The Chaucer section (pp. 60-111) addresses GP and NPT, emphasizing Chaucer's goals of moral and…
Hieatt, Constance B.
R. Barton Palmer, ed. Chaucer's French Contemporaries: The Poetry/Poetics of Self and Tradition (New York: AMS Press, 1999), pp. 163-86
Assesses Machaut's knowledge of falconry and his depiction of the falconer/falcon relationship in "Dit de l'Alerion" as an extended metaphor of love. Also explores the influence of Machaut's metaphor, including its impact on Chaucer (TC, LGW, WBP,…
Sanders, Barry.
Barbara Lounsberry and others, eds. The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short Story (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998), pp. 55-62.
Considers the relations among jokes and short stories, focusing on MilT as a "well-made" short story and regarding the Reeve's response as evidence of the social balance accomplished through jokes and fiction.
Cader, Teresa D.
Robert Pack and Jay Parini, eds. Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem (Hanover, N. H.: University Press of New England, 1996), pp. 31-36.
Explicates the opening eighteen lines of GP to demonstrate Chaucer's rich combination of formal prosodic devices, colloquial variety of register, and thematic resonance. The appeal of his verse "lies primarily in its sound."
Watson, Pat, and Johanna Wrinkle.
Joel McIntosh, ed. 20 More Ideas for Teaching Gifted Kids in the Middle School & High School (Waco, Tex.: Prufrock Press, 1994), pp. 91-94.
Describes classroom activities for studying Chaucer and the "clues" he provides in CT to the personalities of his pilgrims, particularly those clues of physical appearances.
Fleming, John V.
Sante Fe, N. M.: Della Robbia Productions, 1994.
Item not seen. WorldCat reports that it is "a brief introduction to the poet Chaucer and his times, and to the state of the English language (Middle English) in the late fourteenth century."
Andretta, Helen R[uth].
McGrann, Loretta, and Benilde Montgomery, eds. Selected Proceedings of the Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature (Patchogue, N. Y.: St. Jospeh's, 1994), pp. 95-105.
Essay not seen; reported in MLA International Bibliography.
Thomas, Eberle, and Barbara Redmond.
New Orleans: Anchorage Press, 1993.
Adaptation for the stage of WBT, ClT, SumT, MancT, FranT, and PardT, presented as a single play in which there is a tale-telling contest framed by the actions of two thieves (a Miller and a Plowman) who join a group of five pilgrims (Chaucer, the…
Wrinkle, Johanna
San Antonio, Tex.: ECS Learning Systems, 1992.
A guide for teaching CT in the high school literature curriculum, with an emphasis on physiognomy and the humours. Includes introductory information and various assignments, tests, and activities.
Berkeley, Michael, comp.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Commissioned in 1983 by the BBC "as incidental music for a series of radio programmes to texts by Chaucer." Includes parts for instruments (two trumpets, one horn, one tenor trombone, one tuba, and "Optional Percussion"), with scoring for five…
Burrow, J. A.
Pat Rogers, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 1-58.
Illustrated survey of Old and Middle English literature, with recurrent attention to linguistic conditions and the development of literary genres and conventions. Includes many comparative references to Chaucer in the discussion of Middle English…
Lindahl, Carl.
Mary Ellen Brown and Bruce A. Rosenberg, eds. Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 1998), pp. 114-16.
Summary of Chaucer's life and poetic career, emphasizing his familiarity with a "world of noble and festive pageantry" and the "traditional customs" alluded to in his poetry.
