De la Cruz, Juan Manuel.
Francisco Fernandez, Miguel Fuster, and Juan Jose Calvo, eds. English Historical Linguistics, 1992 (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1994), pp. 145-56.
The co-occurence of modals of the type "I shall may go" and participial modal constructions of the type "I have wold" in Chaucer's Bo helps us understand the practical absence of them in post-Medieval English. Through a three-hundred-year process,…
De la Torre Moreno, Maria Jose.
Teresa Fanego Lema, ed. Papers from the IVth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1993), pp. 293-303.
Examines the GP sketch of the Prioress for evidence that she is poorly matched with her vocation, a mismatch especially evident in her attractiveness, coquetry, and "zest for life."
De Looze, Laurence.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.
Defines a genre that "plays with questions of truth, authority, and the relationship between the life 'in' a book and life 'outside' a book," a genre that both asserts autobiographical verity and calls "into question the possibility that the…
De Nerville, Catherine Jenelle Maness.
DAI 35.03 (1974): 1619A.
Discusses critical approaches to Chaucer's poetry using M. H. Abrams' categories of literary theory (mimetic, objective, pragmatic, and expressive) and commenting on the criticism of D. W. Robertson Jr., Robert M. Jordan, Robert O. Payne, and Charles…
De Ridder, Antonio Joaquim.
Dissertation Abstracts International A76.07 (2015): n.p.
Examines Marguerite in the context of other historical writers of "framed short fiction," including Chaucer, and suggests commonalities with CT, and ClT, in particular.
De Roo, Harvey, dir.
Provo, Ut. : Chaucer Studio,1999 and 2005. Also available as a Download.
Dramatic recitation of TC, with a cast of eight: Jane Camfield (Antigone and Ladies), Harvey De Roo (Calkas and Troilus), Melanie Yeats (Cassandra, Eleyne, and Ladies), Mary-Ann Stouck (Criseyde), Eric Ball (Deiphebus), Tom Burton (Diomede), Ken…
De Selincourt, Aubrey.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1956.
The opening chapter offers subjective, impressionistic appreciation of Chaucer's life, language, poetry, and links among them, proclaiming Chaucer to be "one of the most English of our poets" in his "tolerance, sweetness, and the lambent flame of an…
De Weever, Jacqueline Elinor.
DAI 32.08 (1972): 4559A
Provides historical and literary background to names used and mentioned in Chaucer's works, identifying their Arabic, Greek, and/or Latin equivalents, exploring the relations of the names to their contexts in Chaucer's works, and commenting on…
Each of the five names Chaucer uses for the moon goddess denotes a particular aspect of the goddess. A study of these names in TC, FranT, KnT, and MerT and of the functions they denote helps us understand the personalities of the women who invoke…
Using Chaucerian spellings, the dictionary is designed for beginners and nonspecialists as well as for scholars and specialists interested in the etymology, formation, and development of personal names and names of gods and goddesses (mythical and…
Middle English "beere" could mean "bear," "bier," or "pillow." The first of these is impossible in the context of TC 2.1638, but both other meanings are probably there: Pandarus ironically foreshadows Troilus's death, and he also foresees the hero…
Summarizes various problems in dealing with Chaucer's imagery, and examines the imagery in KnT and MilT. In both tales, images tend to "appear in clusters" and they are oftentimes linked in "iterative" patterns to reinforce theme. Considers animal…
Treats the Old Man of PardT as the "total opposite" of the three revelers: he "embodies or manifests . . . in some manner Christian goodness." He first offers to the revelers a merciful "way to salvation," but when they "flatly reject" it, he justly…
Dean, Christopher.
Notes and Queries 211 (1966): 90-92.
Assesses the five uses of "place" as a locational noun in the description of the tournament in KnT, arguing that it has a "precise technical meaning," i.e., the "grassy ground of the arena within the lists." This meaning is also found in Middle…
Dean, Christopher.
Canadian Journal of Linguistics / Revue Canadienne de Linguistique 9.2 (1964): 67-74.
Tabulates and analyzes Chaucer's use of function words before nouns and pronouns, showing that his usage "resembles in the main that of modern English," although in at least one respect more similar to "modern vulgar English than modern standard…
Traces the theme of the decline of the world in biblical and medieval tradition, examining three literary texts: Bernard of Cluny's "De Contemptus Mundi," John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," and ClT, where the virtues of "steadfastness and patience"…
Dean, James M
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 128-43.
Focuses on Chaucer's storytelling style, which combines fiction, invention of literary characters that bring in "details and personalities from 'life,' " and metafictive narrative elements.
Dean, James M.
Comparative Literature 41 (1989): 128-40.
Compares Chaucer's treatment of the Mars and Venus fables with Ovid's and with other medieval versions to demonstrate that Chaucer created Mars as a misguided commentator on his own story. Chaucer's audience, familiar with Jean de Meun's "Roman de…
Dean, James M.
Cambridge, Mass.: Medieval Academy, 1997.
Surveys the "senectus mundi" topos in late-medieval literature, particularly in Latin, French, and English literature, from Jean de Meun to Chaucer. Separate chapters address the topos, Middle English historical writing, Jean de Meun, Dante, "Piers…
Dean, James M.
R. F. Yeager and Brian W. Gastle, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower (New York: Modern Language Association, 2011), pp. 143-55.
Compares and contrasts Gower's tale of Florent with WBT and "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle," arguing that Gower and Chaucer "grapple with ethical circumstances in human relationships" (matters of right conduct and governance,…
Dean, James M., and Christian Zacher, eds.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992.
A collection of original essays by friends and students of Donald R. Howard--Oliver H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University--who died in 1987 at the age of fifty-nine.
For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for…
Dean, James M., and Harriet Spiegel, eds.
Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 2016.
Textbook edition of TC, conservatively edited from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61, with modern punctuation, sidebar glosses and bottom-of-page notes, an index of characters, a glossary of common words and phrases, and a select bibliography.…
