Jackson, W. T. H.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
Fifteen essays by Jackson on classical and medieval subjects, focusing on courtly love, lyric, epic and drama, allegory and romance and covering literary works from Continental Europe. Edited by Joan M. Ferrante and Robert W. Hanning.
Karnein argues that the "De amore" was written at the court of Philip Augustus, not in Champagne; that it was to condemn "courtly love'; and that it was so interpreted by its earlier, clerical audience and only later taken nonironically by lay…
Recent studies have attributed psychological realism to CT characters. This "old critical ghost" unfortunately diverts the "critic from his (or her) proper task, the analysis of the functioning of verbal constructs constituting the text, to…
Dean, James.
Modern Language Quarterly 46 (1985): 235-49.
Probably written before Chaucer knew Boethius well, BD is a courtly poem offering the consolation of art, the solace that one can achieve through "makyng" or listening to poetry. The alleged Boethian aspects of BD reflect the French…
Obscenity exists in LGW to extend the "aesthetic credo" of LGWP, where Chaucer establishes himself "as a poet faithful to the contradictions inherent in nature." Delany argues that obscenity produces a more "natural" view of women than that provided…
Morgan, Gerald.
Eric Haywood and Barry Jones, eds. Dante Comparisons: Comparative Studies of Dante and Montale, Foscolo, Tasso, Chaucer, Petrarch, Propertius and Catullus (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1985), pp. 73-95.
"Courtly love" is a critics' term that was never used by medieval poets. To understand Chaucer's treatment of love, we must turn not to the principles of courtly love but to medieval philosophy and the treatment of love by poets such as Dante.
Cullen, Mairi Ann.
Studies in Scottish Literature 20 (1985): 137-59.
Henryson's preface to the "Testament of Cresseid" is to be taken seriously. Having read Chaucer, he picked up "an euther quair" that portrays Cresseid as a whore. His poem therefore accurately reflects a contemporary apologia for his heroine.
Phelan, Walter S.
Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing 6 (1985): 39-54.
Part 1: Semantic categories of vocabulary are useful in tracing Chaucer's macrostructure for CT. Using a computerized morpheme dictionary, Phelan traces medieval static macrostructures such as the seven deadly sins--a deductive approach to his…
Birney, Earle.
Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1985.
Eight previously published essays (1937-61) by Birney, arranged as chapters in a study of Chaucer's experiments and development as an ironist. Treats Chaucer's use of "structural irony" in MilT, FrT, SumT, and ManT. Updates bibliographies for each…
Aware of the insights into author-audience relationship provided for "written" texts by structuralism and poststructuralism, Lawton concentrates on oral aspects in Chaucer. Emphasizing the complexity of tone in interacting voices, Lawton studies…
Alvarez Amoros, Jose Antonio.
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 11 (1985): 47-68.
The fluctuation of the narrative point of view in GP results in a paradox: whereas the compositional devices inhibit verisimilitude, received critical opinion recognizes the pilgrims as highly realistic representatives of fourteenth-century life. …
This guide for undergraduates treats astrology, the zodiac, humors, therapies, Chaucer's authorities, medieval attitudes toward medicine, and the GP Physician.
Gomez Solino, Jose S.
Ana Regulo Rodriguez and Maria Regulo Rodriguez, bibliogs. Serta Gratulatoria in Honorem Juan Regulo I: Filologia (La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna, 1985), pp. 285-87.
Sociolinguistic analysis of humor in RvT. In Spanish.
Herzman, Ronald B.
Anthony Pellegrini, ed. The Early Renaissance: Virgil and the Classical Tradition (Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York, 1985), pp. 1-17.
In FrT, Chaucer humorously uses references to Dante's story of Frate Alberigo. In reference to "Inferno," canto 33, to reverse Dante's pattern of punishment and sin, Chaucer specifically names Dante; and Chaucer's description of Satan is fashioned…
Nolan, Peter E.
William Calder, Ulrich K. Goldsmith, and Phyllis B. Kevevan, eds. Hypatia: Essays in Classics, Comparative Literature, and Philosophy Presented to Hazel E. Barnes on Her Seventieth Birthday (Boulder, Colo.:Associated University Press, 1985), pp. 137-50.
A "double game" of "dual modes of organization, verisimilitude and ordination" informs medieval literature. Nolan examines von Murungen's "Ich horte uf der Heide," Dante's story of Paolo and Francesca, Chaucer's tale of Walter and Griselda, and two…
Kordecki, Lesley.
Robert Graybill, John Hallwas, Judy Hample, Robert Kindrick, and Robert Lovell, eds. Teaching the Middle Ages II. (Warrensburg: Central Missouri State University, 1985): pp. 121-30.
Works by Henryson and Chaucer's NPT can be used to teach the nature of fable literature. NPT develops contrasting meanings in both explicit and implicit morals.
Rand Schmidt, Kari Anne.
Jacqueline Hamesse and Antonio Zampolli, eds. Computers in Literary and Linguistic Computing: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference/L'Ordinateur et les recherches litteraires et linguistiques: Actes de la XIe Conference internationale, Universite Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), 2-6 avril 1984 (Paris: Champion-Slatkine, 1985), pp. 333-43.
Deals with the question of authorship and the style of Equat. Discusses Geir Kjetsaa.
