Pakkala-Weckstrom, Mari.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 105 (2004): 153-75
Pakkala-Weckstrm analyzes the power struggles within male/female couples, examining politeness strategies and providing brief analyses of speech size, topic, control, distribution of flow, and turn-taking. Considers MilT, MerT, ShT, WBT, FranT, Mel,…
Knapp, Peggy A.
Kathy Lavezzo, ed. Imagining a Medieval English Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), pp. 131-60.
Knapp historicizes several terms ("ymaginacioun," "fantasye," "resoun," "imaginatyf," "engyn") representing the role of language in national fantasy, exploring how Chaucer uses them throughout his poetry to construct ways of imagining. In CT, PrT…
Burrow, J. A.
Richard Firth Green and Linne R. Mooney, eds. Interstices: Studies in Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A. G. Rigg (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), pp. 44-54.
Burrow comments on several scenes in TC while exploring the limited vocabulary with which medieval English poets could convey nonverbal communication. Considers words such as "cheere" and "countenance."
Balhorn, Mark.
Journal of English Linguistics 32 (2004): 79-104.
Traces usage of generic 'they,' following an epicene antecedent (such as 'anyone' or 'everyone') to the late fourteenth century. The Hengwrt manuscript of CT shows an eighteen percent occurrence of 'euery,' 'ech, 'and 'euerich' as antecedents to…
Li, Xingzhong.
Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004), pp. 315-41.
Statistical evidence--including stress patterns, line divisions, pauses, missing and extrametrical syllables, and syntactical inversion--from Chaucer's octosyllabic lines corroborates a proposed prototype of iambic tetrameter and encourages us to…
Wheatley, Edward.
Film & History Annual [n.v.] (2001-02): 1-9.
Similarities between Lee's "Get on the Bus" and CT include the following: a pilgrimage motif, shifting narrative levels, the figure of a Host, a similar cast of characters, and themes such as inconclusiveness and complicated Christian resolution.
Prendergast, Thomas A.
New York and London : Routledge, 2004.
Invoking a medieval association of book and body, Prendergast examines the cultural history of Chaucer's remains. The study assesses fifteenth-century attempts to mourn Chaucer's death, traces early modern ambivalence toward the poet's body-as-relic,…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Yuko Tagaya and Masahiko Kanno, eds. Words and Literature: Essays in Honour of Professor Masa Ikegami (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2004), pp.105-28.
Discusses ambiguity in the character of Henryson's Cresseid from a lexical and semantic point of view, with a comparative note on Chaucer's Criseyde and Shakespeare's Cressida.
Paul Bush's dream vision, "The Extripacion of Ignorancy," was influenced by Chaucerian models and coins the phrase "lycour laureate" to describe Chaucer.
Kalter, Barrett Dean.
Dissertation Abstracts International 65: 2211A, 2004
Chapter 2 examines two views of CT in eighteenth-century England: as a philologist's "historical foundation in need of preservation" and as "merchandise facilitating social refinement."
Boffey, Julia, ed.
New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Texts, notes, and introductions to Lydgate's "Temple of Glass"; James I of Scotland's "The Kingis Quair"; Charles of Orleans's "Love's Renewal"; "The Assembly of Ladies"; and Skelton's "The Bouge of Court". The general introduction and the…
Olivares Merino, Eugenio M.
Neophilologus 88: 145-61, 2004
Surveys scholarship pertaining to Chaucer's contact with Spain and suggests several routes of transmission for the influence of Juan Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor" on TC and PardT. Chaucer was probably aware of Ruiz (and other Spanish literature)…
Mann, Jill.
Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal, and John Scahill, eds. The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya (Cambridge: Brewer; Tokyo: Yushodo, 2004), pp. 61-70.
Mann identifies sources for Mel 7.1178-79, 1184, and 1186-88; and for ParsT 10.144, 261-63, 274, 331-32, 382-84, 630, 657, 694, and 822.
Chaucer and Henryson use the bestiaries in different ways. Chaucer only hints at the allegorical potential of his animals in CT and PF, although he does capitalize on familiar allegorizations in his similes and symbols. More directly, Henryson…
Several motifs and verbal echoes among MilT, RvT, and "The Decameron" strengthen the case for "memorial borrowing" and invite the invention of a new critical term for Chaucer's poems: "metrical novellas."
Hagedorn, Suzanne C.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2004.
Hagedorn emphasizes the variety of versions of classical stories of abandoned women (Statius, Virgil, and Ovid) and the ways they were adapted in medieval tradition (e.g., Dante's "Inferno"; Boccaccio's "Teseida," "Fiammetta," and "Amorosa Visione";…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki, Akiyuki Jimura, and Masatsugu Matsuo.
Junsaku Nakamura et al., eds. English Corpora Under Japanese Eyes (an anthology commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies) (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004), pp. 139-50.
Project proposal for a computer-assisted comparison of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT, focusing on how the manuscripts represent compound words, the use of double and single letters, the omission and addition of letters, the use of…
Mooney, Linne R., and Daniel W. Mosser.
Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal, and John Scahill, eds. The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya (Cambridge: Brewer; Tokyo: Yushodo, 2004), pp. 179-96.
Offers a "new listing of the hooked-g group of scribes" and attributes Takamiya MS 24 and two Takamiya fragments (MS 30 and single leaf from Plimpton MS) to the more specific "slanted hooked-g scribe," also responsible for Cambridge, Trinity College…
Mooney, Linne R.
Journal of the Early Book Society 7 : 131-40, 2004
The scribe of British Library MS Harley 1758 (a copy of CT) also executed London, Society of Antiquaries 134, which includes Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and works by Lydgate, Hoccleve, and John Walton. The two manuscripts were produced in the West…
