In light of the abuses of power in the medieval forest industry, the forest as backdrop to romance tales, and the hunt as an aristocratic privilege, FrT critiques administrative bureaucracy through a re-working of the "devil-and-advocate" fable.
Borlenghi, Patricia, and Giles Greenfield.
London : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 1999.
A collection of animal stories set in a frame-tale of animals on pilgrimage to Assisi. Twelve children's stories from international folk traditions. Text by Borlenghi; illustrations by Greenfield. Commemorates 600th anniversary of Chaucer's death.
Gabrovsky, Alexander N.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Considers Chaucer's fascination with contemporary theories of change, both in readily visible physical form and also less visible self-reform. The book is divided into three sections: Physics, Alchemy, and Logic. The Physics section discusses HF as a…
Buffoni, Franco.
Trieste: Nuova Del Bianco Industrie Grafiche, 1981.
The CT are seen as a single unit. In particular, Mel and MLT are analyzed in the light of Marsilio of Padua's "Defensor Pacis" and Wyclif's religious position.
Roney, Lois.
Liam O. Purdon and Cindy L. Vitto, eds. The Rusted Hauberk: Feudal Ideals of Order and Their Decline (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994), pp. 268-98.
In Chaucer's three most noble, most feudal tales, the meaning of the characters' oaths is subjectively conditioned by their makers--reflecting a decline from the feudal ideal that oaths could be objectively understood. The subjectivity of oaths is…
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y.
Lorrayne Y. Baird-Lange and Hildegard Schnuttgen, eds. A Bibliography of Chaucer (Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, 1988, for 1987), pp. xi-liv.
Reviews developments in Chaucer studies 1974-85 within the context of major twentieth-century critical controversies (including modern critical theories) and notes possible trends for the future.
Takamiya, Toshiyuki.
Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995), pp. 327-35.
Summarizes the development of Chaucerian studies in Japan, noting major Japanese scholars of Chaucer, the founding of the Centre for Medieval English Studies at the University of Tokyo, the inception of "Poetica: An International Journal of…
Morris, Lynn Campbell King.
Dissertation Abstracts International 44 (1984): 3681A.
Describes methodology of this index to source and analogue criticism, covering 1598-1980, with annotated bibliography of 1,300 titles, and four indexes: authors, Chaucer's works, genres, and sources of analogues.
Francis, W. Nelson.
PMLA 68, no. 5 (1953): 1126–41.
Analyzes Chaucer's use of the "narrative technique" of "self-conscious abbreviation"--when "the poet informs the reader that abbreviation is taking place." Clarifies statistically that Chaucer signals his abbreviations more often than do…
Item not seen; reported in the MLA International Bibliography as a discussion of syntax, impersonal constructions, and variants in CT manuscripts. In Japanese.
The 1987 report of the Committee on Chaucer Bibliography and Research lists 354 Chaucer studies. Listings are devoted primarily to Americian Chaucerians.
