FranT is about people's vulnerability to themselves, about the intimate connection between their identities--or senses of self--and their bodies, about how this vulnerability compromises moral strength and capacity for spiritual fulfillment, and…
Eaton connects various uses of the word "conscience" in Chaucer's works with the social classes of the characters with whom the word is associated and with gender differences such as the structuring of physical space.
Although erotic and homosexual elements are undoubtedly evident in SumT, certain words and gestures, particularly the friar's ill-fated grope, do not unambiguously have the homosexual charge that has been claimed.
Eaton, R. D.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 104 (2005): 495-513.
In the GP description of the Prioress, the term conscience, used to describe her mental operations, implies not sensibility or emotion but rather prescription or governance. The Prioress's display is not emotive but mimetic, and her performance…
Fifteen volumes comprise this reading of CT in Middle English: 1) MilT, 2) GP and RvT; 3) GP and PardPT; 4) WBPT; 5) FranPT; 6) MerPT; 7) NPT, ShT, and PrPT; 8) FrPT, SumPT, and Thop; 9) ClT and PhyT; 10) KnT [two cassettes]; 11) MLT, CkT, and ManT;…
Ebel, Julia G.
College English 29.3 (1967): 197-206.
Applies "principles" of medieval visual art (scale and perspective) to aid in understanding how BD magnifies the Black Knight's loss by presenting it in the context of the analogous accounts of the narrator's malaise and the grief of Alcyone.
Attributes the metaphors of blindness and light in TC to the direct influence of Statius's "Thebaid" (unmediated by the "Roman de Thébes"), suggesting that the pattern of imagery culminates in Troilus's comparison of himself to Oedipus (TC 4.300).
Eberle, Gerald J.
Loyola University Studies in the Humanities 1 (1962): 75-90.
Surveys prior criticism of ManT and observes recurrent irony in the tale, particularly in Chaucer's assigning unnecessary expansions and repetitions to the verbose narrator.
Eberle, Patricia J.
M. L. Friedland, ed. Rough Justice: Essays on Crime in Literature (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991), pp. 19-51.
Medieval notions of crime were broader than modern ones. Chaucer's views on justice and crime, as reflected in FrT, MLT, and ClT, are elusive. It seems he was "seriously doubtful about the value and practical application of any systematic view of…
Eberle, Patricia J.
Robert Taylor, James F. Burke, Patricia J. Eberle, Ian Lancashire, and Brian S. Merrilees, eds. The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993), pp. 111-49.
Growing out of the Parliament of 1386 and subsequent confrontations between Richard II and his subjects, arguments over the nature of royal and representative authority shape the portrayal in MLT of pagan savagery, Northumbrian custom, Providential…
Eberly, Susan Schoon.
David Chamberlain, ed. New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems (Lanham, Md.; New York; and London: University Press of America, 1993), pp. 15-39.
Surveys the biblical, folkloric, and courtly imagery of thorns and hawthorn trees, which indicate the "presence of misguided love." Considers use of the imagery in a wide variety of works, including KnT and some Chaucerian apocrypha.
Ebi, Hisato.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 137:7 (1991): 345-50.
Confronting the Latin world, Chaucer established his own theory of tragedy, which had not developed completely in the English vernacular. Ebi explores the meanings of "dite," "theatrum," and "scene," concluding that Chaucer used theater imagery to…
Ebi, Hisato.
Hisao Turu, ed. Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess. Medieval English Literature Symposium Series, no. 5 (Tokyo: Gaku Shobo Press, 1991), pp. 171-200 (in Japanese).
Allegorical elements of BD are closely connected with the theory of melancholy in the late-medieval period. Emphasizes parallelism between mental diseases (melancholy) and the creative mind.
Ebi, Hisato.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 135 (1989): 366-70.
There was a new tendency to assimilate paganism to Christian doctrine in medieval European literature. Emphasizing the influence of the sources and analogues of medieval Latin literature on Chaucer, Ebi discusses the meaning of the Alceste myth in…
Ebi, Hisato.
The Journal of Liberal Arts Department, Kansai Medical University (December 1980): pp. 15-126.
Pseudo Dionysius Areopagita's theory of "One Light of God" had very much to do with the rich achievements of Gothic art. Consciously or unconsciously, Chaucer was a man in the High Gothic era. In BD his aesthetic idea is clearly presented by the…
Ebi, Hisato.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 371-82.
Compares the symbolism of Chaucer's poetry with that of the Wilton Diptych, focusing on the iconic meaning of the daisy.
Ebi, Hisato.
Eigo Seinen 146.8: 488-92 (in Japanese), 2000.
Spec. issue on the sexcentenary of Chaucer's death. Suggests a new date-June 2, 1400-for Chaucer's death, based on John Bale's Index Brittaniae Scriptorium (1902 ed.), and surveys the historical background of Chaucer's tomb(s).
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with the memory, thought, and the muses in HF and LGW. In Japanese.
Ebi, Hisato.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 144.12 (1999): 746-48.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with the application of phylogenetic analysis of the stemmatics of WBP.
Lydgate's introduction of new critical terms and definitions--"enlumyn," "adourne," "enbelissche," "aureate," "goldyn," "sugrid," "rhetorik," and "elloquence"--shift poetry's emphasis from the variety and pleasure found in Chaucer's writings, to…
In CT Chaucer defines and redefines "myrie tale." Ultimately it is neither mere entertainment, nor pure instruction, not even sentence and solace. A truly "myrie tale" must be "fructuous," i.e., truly edifying. Only ParsT fits, for poetry is…
