Downer, Mabel Wilhelmina.
Dissertation Abstracts International 43 (1982): 1537A.
Significant Victorian writers, concerned with social problems as encountered in the past as well as in their own day, revolutionized Chacuer's reputation.
Jeske, Jeffrey M
Victorian Poetry 20 (1982): 21-32.
Clough arranges a group of tales, each representing a position in a debate between proponents of idealism and of naturalism. Like CT, these tales not only exist in a state of tension with each other but actually contradict the philosophical…
Shaw, Priscilla D.
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1982): 3169A.
Besides Brooke's "Tragicall Historye," TC seems a significant source for Shakespeare's play. Although verbal parallels are scanty, speeches comparable in rhetoric, imagery, and theme appear in greater density than could be mere conventions of…
Stouck, Mary-Ann.
American Benedictine Review 33 (1982): 276-91.
The innovative material in the first three books of Capgrave's "Life" is indebted to the fifteenth century's interest in Chaucer's "elevated" and pious passages, especially those in TC. Stylistically, however, Capgrave's attempt to emulate his…
Strohm, Paul.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 4 (1982): 3-32.
Few of Chaucer's primary audience (men like Sturry, Clifford, Clanover, Montagu, Vache, Scogan, Bukton, Gower, Strode, and Usk) survived him or were still active after his death. His fifteenth-century audience was more broadly dispersed but more…
Despite belittling remarks by some of his characters about the matter of composing in English, there is no evidence that Chaucer himself is embarrassed to use English as his medium of composition.
Hess, Lynn,and Caroline Duncan-Rose.
J. Peter Maher and others, eds. Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 13. Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, 4th series. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins B.V., 1982), pp. 293-322.
A structural analysis of discourse and narration in CT reveals that tense shifting heretofore considered a flaw by some, is actually a manifestation of Chaucer's extraordinary ear for idiom and his careful exploitation of his audience's feel for…
Speght's edition of Chaucer (1602) included an extensive glossary of "hard words." Later lexicographers, including the editors of the OED, have missed the fact that Jacobean dictionaries of "hard words" borrowed extensively from Speght--entries,…
It is commonly held that a large number of Old French loan words in Middle English were literary borrowings. However, a study of a restricted group (designating articles of dress and fabrics) shows that most such words were current before the…
Barney, Stephen A.
Larry D. Benson and Siegfried Wenzel, eds. The Wisdom of Poetry (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Western Michigan University, 1982), pp. 189-223.
Surveys the sources of Chaucer's lists and examines them for the effects they create, for the rhetorical ends they accomplish in undermining or leavening the direction of a tale or poem, as in TC, Anel, FrT, Rom, WBT, PardT, MkT, MkPT, MerT, Mel,…
Brewer, Derek.
Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, eds. Acts of Interpretation (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 119-27.
Praises E. Talbot Donaldson as a great textual scholar, using TC to explain Donaldson's ideas on rhyme and meter and discussing the final -"e" and the five-stress verse. The reliability of scribes is examined.
Brewer, Derek.
London and Basingstoke: Humanities Press; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Macmillan Press, 1982.
A collection of Brewer's previously published articles which discuss Chaucer's relationships to the "literary culture of his own times and to our present attitudes." For one new essay, "The Archaic and the Modern," search Tradition and Innovation…
Burrow, J. A.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Deals with the ideas behind Middle English literature, wirters, audiences, genres, personality versus impersonality, allegory, edification, and the attitude of later ages to the literature of medieval England.
Clark, George.
Revue de l'Universite d'Ottawa 52 (1982): 257-65.
Whereas Chauntecleer was caught by the fox on the third of May,Arcite's escape from prison and Pandarus's first visit to Criseyde took place on the fourth. These differences in date have different meanings according to medieval "lunaria,"…
Eade, J. C.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 4 (1982): 53-85.
Examines ways in which Chaucer called upon his readers' mental agility and elementary acquaintance with astronomy to show how passages customarily regarded as difficult or impenetrable yield to orderly analysis once their technical apparatus has been…
The reflexive "maken" ("to pretend") is studied in a discussion of the conscience of the Prioress, the Parson, the Pardoner, Griselda, Friar John, and the Wife of Bath. "Spiced conscience" means "tender feeling," or "hypocritical religiosity."
Kane, George.
Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, eds. Acts of Interpretation (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 237-55.
Chaucer derived his concepts of love poetry from various contemporary traditions of romantic love. He satirized the concepts of "fin amour" with a firm knowledge of its contrasting forms and unpredictable variety, utilizing all its aspects from its…
Leach, Eleanor Winsor.
Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, eds. Acts of Interpretation (Norman, Okla., Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 299-310.
In KnT, May symbolizes the future promise of Emelye's love. In LGW strong emphasis on women and love is tied to men's ability to judge them. May, the season most likely to obscure these judgments, is a metaphor for fulfillment of love's promise.
