Gower's reputation as "moral" rests on his mid-1380's stance as a reformer, a classicist, and a clear and consistent portrayer of good and evil. By citing him in TC, Chaucer encourages moral interpretation of the hero's attitude at the end of the…
Spearing, A. C.
Robert F. Yeager, ed. Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984), pp. 333-64.
The truncated nature of CT challenged Chaucer's followers. Casting Chaucer in the role of Laius, Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes," in imitation of Chaucer, was designed as the first tale of the homeward journey as counterpart to KnT, in high style though…
Yeager, Robert F., ed.
Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984.
Essays on reviews of scholarship, language and paleography, and literary criticism. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays under Alternative Title.
Sasagawa, Hisaaki.
Journal of General Education Department, Niigata Univeristy (1984): 1-11.
Reconsiders the structure and usage of figurative negation in Chaucer treated by Hein (1983), in relation to context and rhyme and in comparison with "Roman de la Rose." Figurative negation is related to rhyme.
Wood, Chauncey.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 6 (1984): 21-40.
Reading is a "two-way" process: "texts affect us while we affect texts." Chaucer typically "plays" with his readers, leading them to expect one meaning but giving them another. Any interpretation is influenced both by Chaucer's techniques and by…
Dor, Juliette De Caluwe.
Andre Crepin, ed. Linguistic and Stylistic Studies in Medieval English. Publications de l'Association des Medievistes de l'Ensignement Superieur 10. (Paris, 1984): pp. 63-79.
Reconsiders Fisiak's survey of Chaucer's derivational affixes in function of her corpus of French loan words in the conversational sections of CT. Distinguishes between wholesale borrowings and French words onto which morphemes had been attached,…
Fisher, John H., Malcolm Richardson, and Jane L. Fisher.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984.
Diplomatic transcriptions of select writings of "Signet clerks of Henry V, who established the first forms and style of the official written (English) language." Includes 241 letters,indentures, and other documents, with an introduction to forms and…
Deals with late ME pronunciation shown in rhymes of literary works written mostly in East Anglia and the Southeast Midlands, including London, 1300-1500.
Ikegami, Tadahiro.
Shounosuke Ishii and Peter Milward, eds. Renaissance Bungaku no nakano Yosei (Fairies in Renaissance Literature). (Tokyo: Aratake Shuppan, 1984),: pp. 33-58.
Using "elf, dwarf" and "fairy, fay" as key words, analyzes the meaning of fairies in literature from Old English through the fifteenth century in England.
Iwasaki, Haruo.
Key-Word Studies in Chaucer 1 (1984): 15-32.
Gives frequency of "gan" in each work by Chaucer, an exhaustive list of verbs in this construction, and rhythmical patterns according to frequency. Chaucer used the "gan" periphrasis in a conscious, stereotyped way.
Ross, Thomas W.
Robert F. Yeager, ed. Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984), pp. 137-60.
Latin-English glosses from BL MS Add. 37075 and other hitherto unpublished sources throw light on attitudes toward words for sex, body parts, and body functions as used by Chaucer and Scottish Chaucerians.
Ames, Ruth M.
Peter Cocozzella, ed. The Late Middle Ages (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1984 (for 1981)), pp. 71-88.
Treats themes of predestination, Lollardy, and priestly celibacy in CT and TC.
Ames, Ruth M.
Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1984.
Written without footnotes for the nonspecialist, the book deals with Chaucer's Catholic-catholic Christian humanism, treating Chaucer as a Christian courtier whose comments on the church and the laity; sex, love, and marriage; the Old Testament and…
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.
Bald, Wolf-Dietrich, and Horst Weinstock, eds.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1984.
Seventeen essays on Old and Middle language and literature. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Studies Conference Aachen 1983 under Alternative Title.
Blake, N. F.
Archiv fur das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 221:1 (1984): 65-79.
Endings may have been lost for HF and other works. The thesis that works were abandoned by Chaucer leads to untenable theories that Chaucer lost his patronage or became bored or dissatisfied.
