Lindley, Arthur.
Robert J. C. Young, Ban Kah Choon, and Robbie B. H. Goh, eds. The Silent Word: Textual Meaning and the Unwritten. (Singapore: University of Singapore and Word Scientific, 1998), pp. 103-18.
Argues that gaps and "narratorial subversions" make Chaucer's works (and much of medieval aesthetic theory) "postmodern," comparing them with the definition of postmodernism by Ihab Hassan.
Lindahl, Carl.
John Miles Foley, ed. Teaching Oral Traditions. (New York: Modern Language Association, 1998), pp. 359-64.
Despite his bookishness, Chaucer is an oral poet, trained in medieval rhetorical tradition, which is rooted in oratory, and successful in his efforts to render oral narratives in literature.
Lehr, John.
Medieval English Studies 05 (1997): 243-82.
Compares the multilingual conditions of late-medieval England with modern conditions in Korea, Kenya, and Quebec. Then argues that Hoccleve's poetic career resulted from Lancastrian encouragement of a national English language imitating Chaucer's…
Lee, Brian S.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly 23 (1998): 40-48.
Examines the diverse portrayals of children in medieval literature, commenting on how Chaucer questions the innocence of the "clergeoun" in PrT and how in LGW and MkT his pathos is more restrained than in his sources.
Kim, Myoung-ok.
Medieval English Studies 05 (1997): 107-44
Examining passages from BD, TC, and CT, Kim contrasts Chaucer's uses of multiple narrative voices with the ways other medieval writers write themselves and their readers into their texts.
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn,and Steven Justice.
New Medieval Literatures 01 (1997): 59-83.
Argues that William Langland's readership may have been more like Chaucer's (and John Gower's) than has been assumed in the past, presenting evidence that readers of these authors included scribes and bureaucratic clerks such as Thomas Usk, Thomas…
Kamyabee, Mohammad Hadi.
Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 2036A.
Discusses how the narrative strategies and implied audiences of animal fables produce the didactic impact of the tales, assessing "The Owl and the Nightingale" and fables by Chaucer (NPT and ManT), Gower, Langland, Lydgate, and Henryson. Also…
Johnson, Ian.
Chris Given-Wilson, ed. An Illustrated History of Late Medieval England (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996), pp. 127-51.
A survey of genres and topics in Middle English literature, including Chaucer's "diversity of literary forms and [the] strategies he took to negotiate literary authority."
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
New York: AMS Press, 1998.
Ten essays and a personal testimony by the author on the interrelated topics of pilgrimage and exile in works from Homer and Plato to James Joyce. Focuses on the Middle Ages, with essays on female saints and mystics, "Song of Roland," Dante,…
Hoenen, Maarten J. F. M.,and Lodi Nauta,eds.
Leiden, New York, and Koln: Brill, 1997.
Twelve essays by various authors on the reception of Boethius's Consolatione Philosophiae--its medieval glosses, commentaries, and translations. Four essays pertain to the Middle Dutch tradition. Passim references to Chaucer's Bo. For an essay that…
Henderson, Arnold Clayton.
Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 2489A.
Fables present a worldlier view than do Christian bestiaries, and neither genre presented a worldview full enough for Chaucer or other writers. Fable became more Christian, developing witty moralization, sharply drawn personae, and more vivid style…
Harwood, Britton J.
Richard Utz and Tom Shippey, eds. Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1998), pp. 379-92.
Recent works of Chaucer scholarship depict a bourgeois Chaucer articulating contemporary American ideology; thus, they work to reproduce that ideology.
Fradenburg, Louise O.
New Medieval Literatures 2 (1998): 249-76.
Questions the claim that psychoanalytical medievalism is insufficiently historical. Surveys a selection of articles that may consciously or unconsciously use psychoanalytical principles, including articles that address TC and portions of CT.
Fifteen essays by various authors from the 1994 conference on Middle English held in Rydzyna, Poland. Individual essays consider lexicographical topics such as Middle English sexual vocabulary, plant names, and words associated with fate;…
Federico, Sylvia.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3125A.
Examines fictional representations of Troy as England's mythic ancestor in TC, HF, Gower's Vox Clamantis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and other works. Since Troy was thought to have led to later empires only through its fall, the city is an…
Ellis, Steve.
Studies In Medievalism 09 (1997): 26-43.
Shows that the steady growth in understanding of the historical context of Chaucer's poetry has coexisted with a tendency, on the part of scholars as well as popularizers, to view Chaucer as the jovial poet of "merrie England."
Dauby, Helene.
Leo Carruthers, ed. La ronde des saisons: Les saisons dans la litterature et la societe anglaises au Moyen Age (Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 1998), pp. 101-10.
Examines the diet of the poor widows in CT and the extravagant menus of the Franklin, the numerous recipes in "Le menagier de Paris," and "The Boke of Nurture" by John Russell.
Damico, Helen, ed.
New York and London: Garland, 1998.
Thirty-two essays by various authors, sketching the biographies and intellectual achievements of scholars who have helped shape medieval studies. Of greatest interest to Chaucerians are the essays on Frederick J. Furnivall (by Derek Pearsall),…
