Bolton, W. F.
Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 203 (1966): 255-62.
Describes the concern with treason in TC, identifying references to the "Troy story as a series of betrayals" and allusions to the "Troy legend" where betrayal occurs, connecting them with questions of trust and treason in a pagan world lacking faith…
Explores the functions and nuances of the historical present verb tense, focusing on epic scenes in CT (especially KnT and MLT), TC, LGW, and Anel, and assessing how Chaucer's uses of the tense help with vividness, immediacy, and "visualization" of…
Studies the "dynamic relationship" between Fortuna and Natura in PhyT, ClT, and KnT, surveying in an Introduction (pp. 9-45) their presence elsewhere in Chaucer's works and his antecedents. In PhyT which "approaches allegory" the "destructive forces…
Adams, George R., and Bernard S. Levy.
English Language Notes 3 (1966): 245-48.
Explores the implications of three interrelated allusions in Chaucer's works (TC 2.55ff., KnT 1.1462ff., and NPT 7.3187ff.), observing connections "between Friday, May 3, Venus, the May festival season, and the Invention of the Cross," connections…
Contends that the six things that women desire listed by the wife in ShT (7.173-77) align the wife with the fairy-tale victim of marriage to an ogre, ironically helping to characterize her, her husband, and their marriage.
Giot, P.-R.
Bulletin de la Societe Archeologique du Finistere 90 (1973): 117-19.
Addresses the toponymical references to Penmark and Kayrrud in FranT (5.801 and 807), locating them specifically in Brittany, commenting on the local rockiness and military value, and noting an association with the story of Tristan and Iseult.
Céspedes [Benitez], Irma.
Revista Chilena de Literatura 7 (1976): 5-26.
Explores the vibrant language of CT (and the difficulties of translation), its relations with oral tradition, and the constraints and possibilities of traditional medieval narrative set in tension with a competitive tale-telling contest among diverse…
A bibliography of Old and Middle English scholarship in Spanish up to 1988, with particular attention to Chaucer. Includes listings of M.A. and Ph.D. theses, and offers separate sections on critical studies of Chaucer (items 147-78) and editions and…
Santoyo, Julio-Cesar, in collaboration with José Luis Chamosa.
Julio-Cesar Santoyo, Historia de Traducción: Quince Apuntes (Leon: Universidad de Leon, 1999), pp. 215-35.
Describes the life and achievements of Manuel Pérez y del Rio Cosa, the first translator of CT into Spanish; discusses the quality of the translation and its role in Spanish understanding of Chaucer.
Item not seen. The WorldCat records indicate that this is a score for three pieces of choral music: the roundel from the conclusion of PF (here titled "Now Welcome"), along with "Sweet Rose of Virtue" by William Dunbar and "Pleasure It Is." by…
Considers the dates of BD and Jean Froissart's "Dit dou Bleu Chevalier" and explores their similarities, arguing that Froissart's poem inspired the central idea ("l'idée centrale") and many other features of Chaucer's poem--aspects of…
O'Neal, Cothburn M.
Martin Shockley, ed. Proceedings of [the] Conference of College Teachers of English of Texas, no. 32 (Lubbock: Texas Technical College, 1967), pp. 18-23.
Wolff, Edward J.
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.09 (1967): 3022-23A.
Tabulates and analyzes Chaucer's "normalized diction," i.e., a "diction that is very repetitive and free from syntactic eccentricity, a diction that utilizes the same words to express the same ideas in different contexts." Compares and contrasts…
Van, Thomas Anthony
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.02 (1967): 697A.
Summarizes portions of Boccaccio's "Teseida" and assesses parallel portions of KnT in light of these summaries, emphasizing Chaucer's "reworking" of his source in characterizing Palamon, Arcite, and Theseus through "symbolic imagery."
Thomas, Frederick Bryce.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.03 (1967): 1088A.
Evaluates the quality of Thomas Tyrwhitt as a scholar, examining his life, his early works, his edition of CT, and the ongoing reception of this edition. Concludes that Tyrwhitt was "one of the finest examples of the eighteenth-century…
Schaefer, Willene.
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.11 (1967): 3850-51A.
Investigates Chaucer's concept of "gentilesse" in light of his sources in Boethius, Dante, and Jean de Meun, and compares his notion with those found in the poetry of his contemporaries. Treats "gentilesse" as a secular virtue, although similar to…
Sanders, Barry Roy.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.03 (1967): 1058A.
Surveys scholarship concerning Chaucer's word-play, describes the place of "double-entendre" in rhetorical tradition, and explicates 204 of Chaucer's word-plays in CT, concluding that there is some correlation between punning and the bawdy tales.
Reedy, Elizabeth Katherine.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.03 (19167): 1057A.
Focuses on the tension in TC between the "two dimensions of human experience: the temporal and the eternal," examining the "paradoxical position" of humans as they seek to "discover and affirm" a stable and permanent world while existing as creatures…
Myers, Doris Evaline Thompson.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.06 (1967): 2215-16A.
Studies sermon rhetoric in CT, identifying its roots in preaching handbooks and considering its value for understanding aspects of structure, style, and characterization in SNT, NPT, ParsT, PardT, WBT, and SumT, treating the Pardoner, the Wife of…
Lopresti, Vincent August.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.02 (1967): 636A.
Explores Chaucer's references and allusions to pagan gods in BD, Mars, KnT, TC, and MerT, emphasizing his innovations that are evident in light of source-and-analogue analysis.
Leicester, Henry Marshall, Jr.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.03 (1967): 1052-53A.
Studies Chaucer's uses of first-person narration in light of rhetorical tradition and medieval notions of the individual, examining PF as the site of the first "fully realized" instance of Chaucer's "characteristic narrative mode," reading TC as…
