Anderson, Judith H.
George M. Logan and Gordon Teskey, eds. Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989), pp. 16-31.
Argues that in his "Faerie Queene," Edmund Spenser intended his "avowed kinship with Chaucer, and especially with Chaucer's romances, as a paradigm of his relation to the recorded sources of memory." Fused in Spenser's "extension" of SqT, KnT and SqT…
Anderson, Judith H.
Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, eds. Acts of Interpretation (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 105-18.
Close reading of the uses of the conjunction "but" as an "illogical adversative" in Spenser's Proem to Book 6 of "The Faerie Queene," compared and contrasted with Chaucer's related uses in his GP. Generally, Chaucer's usage "serves narrative…
Anderson, Judith H.
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 1 (1971): 89-106.
Gauges the influence of NPT on Edmund Spenser's "Muiopotmos," considering details of plot, tone, and the relative freedom of the protagonists of the two poems. Spenser emphasizes Clarion's freedom more than Chaucer does Chauntecleer's, but the…
Anderson, Judith H.
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 19-36.
Locates several "clusters" of resonances between TC and Spenser's "Amoretti" and "The Faerie Queene," concentrating on the importance of aurality and memory in recognizing these resonances and distinguishing "resonance" from other metaphors of…
Anderson, Miranda, and Stefan Iversen.
Poetics Today 39 (2018): 569-95.
Describes "the concept of immersion as seen from cognitive narratology" and the "concept of defamiliarization as seen from unnatural narratology," applying these theoretical constructs to BD, Jorge Luis Borges's "The Circular Ruin," and Franz Kafka's…
Anderson, Miranda.
Miranda Anderson, ed. The Book of the Mirror: An Interdisciplinary Collection Exploring the Cultural History of the Mirror. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2007, pp. 70-79.
Anderson illustrates the use of mirror metaphors, common in medieval literature and theology alike, in Chaucer's texts (e.g., SqT, KnT, Rom, For, and Wom Unc). Humanity's internal mirror should reflect the image of God, but human reason can be…
Contemplates star-gazing, constellation-making, manuscript compilations as constellations, and other forms of pattern-making in various medieval visual and verbal texts, including Bo, Astro, HF, and WBP, describing Chaucer as someone "interested in…
Ando, Mitsunobu.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 383-97
Explores "gentilesse" as it relates to characterization in KnT and comments on the relationship between "earnest" and "game."
Ando, Shinsuke.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988), pp. 31-39.
Examines words and phrases in Th to reveal "hidden elements of satire and parody," which are intensified by Chaucer's masterful and paradoxical handling of the author in the text. The language of satire and parody defies translation.
Ando, Shinsuke.
Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 163-74.
Though well versed in French poetic traditions, Chaucer did not simply translate French into English. Rom uses a uniquely English idiom. Later works such as Th show a greater ability to discern connotations than do early works such as Rom and BD.
Ando, Shinsuke.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 128 (1983): 722-23.
Surveys recent Chaucer studies in Japan, introducing literary or philological studies of N. Ueno, M. Masui, K. Miyake, S. Ono, T. Oiji, K. Ogoshi, I. Saito, H. Nojima, and F. Kuriyagawa.
Ando, Shinsuke.
The Images of Women in English Renaissance Literature, ed. by Institute of Renaissance Studies. Renaissance Library, vol. 13 (Tokyo, 1982), pp. 51-75.
Examines descriptions and narratives of Chaucerian women and the developments of the poet's creative genius from the formal rhetorical representations of the stereotypes in his early works to the splendidly mature idiosyncratic women in CT. …
A comparison of the medieval descriptions of idealized feminine beauty with depiction of women in medieval and modern Japanese literature points up characteristic Japanese aesthetics and philosophy of beauty.
Ando, Shinsuke.
Key-Word Studies in "Beowulf" and Chaucer 1 (1980): 49-57.
Chaucer's Nature, when the term is explicitly used, is an "idee fixe" essentially based on the orthodox medieval conception. The writer, however, examines the interest and attitude with which Chaucer represented the various aspects of humanity, and…
Ando, Shinsuke.
Heinz Antor and Kevin L. Cope, eds. Intercultural Encounters-Studies in English Literatures: Essays Presented to Rdiger Ahrens on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday (Heidelberg: Universittsverlag C. Winter, 1999), pp. 168-74
Compares Chaucer's notion of tragedy, defined and exemplified in MkPT, with that in Japanese "Kishuryuritan" (legends of exiled nobles). Neither view is easily compatible with modern Western notions of tragedy.
Ando, Shinsuke.
Earl Miner, ed. English Criticism in Japan: Essays by Younger Japanese Scholars on English and American Literature (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1972), pp. 3-18.
Comments on Chaucer's formal descriptions of women in Rom, BD, RvT, and MilT, focusing on his uses of rhetorical conventions, Continental models, and native English alliterative phrases and vocabulary.
Especially in the Eagle's speech on sound in HF, Chaucer's verse reflects his concern not with the monological, authoritative, written aspects of speech but with speech as an exploratory, vital, interactive process, recently explored by such…
The comic theory of Aristotle is a source for CT comic realism in which all topics, however volatile, may be explored as in TC, MilT, HF, CYT, FrT, PardT, GP, NPT, and PF.
Andreas, James R.
Chaucer Newsletter 1.1 (1979): 3-6.
Reviews, by way of the anthropological studies of Turner and van Gennep, the effects of pilgrimage on the social behavior of the pilgrims in CT. Pilgrimage removes them from the center of normative social behavior: it homogenizes social rank, blurs…
Andreas, James R.
Chaucer Review 29 (1994): 45-64.
Drawing from Geoffrey of Vinsauf and Mikhail Bakhtin on the "rhetoric of the utterance," Andreas stresses the importance of Chaucer's links between tales in the development of characters, authors, audience, and still more stories. The links exist in…
Andreas, James R.
Shakespeare Yearbook 2 : 49-67, 1991.
Traces the "progressive desacralization" of the "Matter of Thebes" from KnT to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The gods have power in KnT, but they diminish comically and then tragically disappear in Shakespeare's…
Surveys the importance of classical and medieval rhetorical theories that underlie late medieval poetry, and discusses the "flowering of rhetorico-poetic technique in Chaucer's verse," analyzing samples of his poetry in light of Geoffrey of Vinsauf's…
Andreas explores the "interplay of serious and comic materials" in the "best work" of Chaucer and Shakespeare, commenting on the use of KnT in A Midsummer Night's Dream and on Shakespeare's adaptations of Chaucer's comic figures in his mechanicals.
