Erler, Mary, and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds.
Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
A collection of essays by various hands. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Women and Power in the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
Erne, Lukas.
Swiss Papers in Language and Literature 17 (2005): 99-118
Exemplifies how various aspects of the "bibliographical space" (e.g., format, typography, layout, paper, binding) of manuscripts and early editions challenge modern editors to represent the semiotic value of such space. Examples include the Ellesmere…
Erol, Burçin.
Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Donna Lee Brien, eds. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 283-96.
Exemplifies the variety of references to food and uses of food imagery in CT, especially GP, observing how they serve as indicators of social and moral conditions--particularly high status and the sin of lust--and aid in characterization.
Uses Chaucer's works, Mannyng's "Handlyng Sinne," and several Middle English romances to examine conversion as a process by which the self is redefined either in opposition to a dominant class or as a means of admission to it.
Argues that MLT and MLE are "fundamentally concerned with the transmission of affect." The tale "dramatizes how affect operates as a physical force that realigns individual and collective identities," while the narrator's style, combined with…
Twenty previously published essays, in English or German, and a bibliography (447-69) arranged by individual work. The volume opens with Erzgräber's "Chaucer-Forschung im 20. Jahrhundert: Einleitung" (pp. 1-31), an introduction to the essays…
Erzgräber, Willi.
Armin Paul Frank and Ulrich Molk, eds. Fruhe Formen mehrperspektivischen Erzahlens von der Edda bis Flaubert (Berlin: Schmidt, 1991), pp. 17-33.
Based on Nietzsche's epistemology, the essay discusses Chaucer's use of multiple perspective in PF, TC, and NPT as the poet's instrument for encouraging his readers to reflect on the multiplicity of their experiences.
Erzgräber, Willi.
Manfred Bambeck and Hans Helmut Christmann, eds. Philologica Romanica: Erhard Lommatzsch gewidmet (Munich: Fink, 1975), pp. 97-117.
Book IV divides into five sections, as does section 5 (the parting scene)--Chaucer being influenced by Boethius even in matters of structure. The whole poem has "dramatic" qualities, but in Book IV the drama is of non-action.
Erzgräber, Willi.
Gerd Wolfgang Weber, ed. Idee, Gestalt, Geschichte: Festschrift Klaus von See. Studien zur Europaischen Kulturtradition (Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press, 1988.), pp. 117-35.
Discusses Chaucer's use of the concepts "kynde" and "nature." Although Chaucer uses the two interchangeably at times, "kynde" represents absolute moral standards, indicating power and reason. The "lex naturalis" of antiquity also includes these…
Erzgräber, Willi.
H. Maes-Jelinek et al., eds. Multiple Worlds, Multiple Words: Essays in Honour of Irene Simon (Liege: University of Liege, English Department, 1987), pp. 103-21.
Examines Chaucer's fabliaux (MilT and RvT) as designed for a courtly audience and TC as revealing a "subtle interplay between nobility, gentry, and the middle class." Chaucer's work is symptomatic of a general literary development: "the exploration…
Erzgräber, Willi.
Joerg O. Fichte, ed. Chaucer's Frame Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987),: pp. 11-33.
By applying it to BD, PF, HF, TC, and CT (MilT, WBP, and GP Monk), Erzgraber tests Karl-Heinz Stierle's thesis that the "object of comicality is anything that threatens a culture." Chaucer reflects the cultural complexity of his age.
Erzgräber, Willi.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Intellectuals and Writers in Fourteenth-Century Europe (Tubingen: Narr; Cambridge: Brewer, 1986), pp. 67-87.
Traces the theme of authority versus experience through BD, HF, TC, LGW, WBP, ParsT, and Ret.
Erzgräber, Willi.
Mary-Jo Arn and Hanneke Wirtjes, eds. Historical and Editorial Studies in Medieval and Early Modern English (Groningen: Wolters-Nordhoff, 1985), pp. 113-28.
Describes the interrelationship in HF between oral and written forms of transmission of literature. Only through the poet's journey through space (bk. 2) can limitations imposed by literary conventions of written text be overcome.
Erzgräber, Willi.
Elmar Lehmann and Bernd Lenz, eds. Telling Stories: Studies in Honour of Ulrich Broich on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: B. B. Gruner, 1992), pp.188-204.
In HF, Chaucer reflects on the literary tradition he follows and on the written and oral materials available to him. James Joyce does the same in his novels, although he was not directly influenced by Chaucer. Each connects with the literary…
Erzgräber, Willi.
Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch im Auftrage der Gorres-Gesellschaft 36 (1995): 27-46.
Although securely grounded in medieval moral and theological conventions, Chaucer anticipates modernist concepts of literature, as is evident in his individualism and psychological realism, his ironic crossings of medieval narrative and philosophical…
Erzgräber, Willi.
Bernd Engler and Kurt Muller, eds. Exempla: Studien zur Bedeutung und Funktion exemplarischen Erzahlens (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1995), pp. 55-77.
Examines structural and thematic roles of the Ceyx and Alcyone episode in BD, the Dido episode in HF, and the Dream of Scipio in PF.
Erzgräber, Willi.
Clausdirk Pollner, Helmut Rohlfing, and Frank-Rutger Hausmann, eds. Bright Is the Ring of Words: Festschrift fur Horst Weinstck zum 65 Geburtstag (Bonn: Romanistischer Verlag, 1996), pp. 75-82.
Compares Molly Bloom's concluding monologue with WBP, assessing the two characters' views on sexuality and euphemism and their relations with their husbands.
Erzgräber, Willi.
Erzgräber, Willi, and others. Europäisches Spätmittelalter (Wiesbaden: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1978), pp. 221-74.
Characterizes "Ricardian Literature" and discusses the major works of William Langland, John Gower, and Chaucer (pp. 246-69), focusing on social criticism and genre.
Erzgräber, Willi.
Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1997.
Twenty-two essays by Erzgräber, most of them previously published. Eight of the essays pertain to Chaucer, one published here for the first time: "Predestination in Langland and Chaucer" (pp. 179-201). In it, Erzgräber surveys St. Augustine's…
Erzgräber, Willi.
Riesner, Dieter, and Helmut Gneuss, eds. Festschrift für Walter Hübner (Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1964), pp. 139-63.
Examines the tragic, comic, and ironic features of TC, comparing it with MkT in the genre of tragedy, and assessing its tragic, comic, tragicomic, and ironic aspects of theme, situation, characterization, and dialogue.
Twenty-one essays in German or English by various authors, covering a range of topics in Middle English literature. For ten essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer und Seine Zeit under Alternative Title.
Esch, Arno.
Arno Esch, ed. Chaucer und Seine Zeit: Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1968), pp. 207-39.
Assesses Gower's artistry in several tales of the "Confessio Amantis," including analysis of Gower's tale of Constance in comparison with Trevet's version and Chaucer's MLT. Argues that Gower's tale is more unified than Chaucer's and more purely…
Escobedo treats Chaucer as a link between Spenser and Plato and considers choice a crucial value in PF. Also notes that MerT shows that "mastery cannot compel love" (196).
