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.
Near, Michael R.
Pacific Coast Philology 20 (1985): 18-24.
Calls into question subject-oriented readings; proposes reading of PF as process and act. The narrator is an element of his own fiction. Refers to Chaucer's model, Graunson's "Songe Sainct Valentin."
Weise, Judith.
Walton Beacham, ed. Research Guide to Biography and Criticism, vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Research Publishing, 1985): pp. 218-223.
Brief synopsis of Chaucer's life, listing of his works, and selective review of biographical sources, critical approaches, criticism, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.
Wright, David, trans.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
A translation of all the verse of CT into modern English verse, using metrical forms imitating the original, and half rhyme or assonance; brief introduction, bibliography, life, and notes.
Blake, N. F.
London, Caulfield East, and Baltimore, Md.: Edward Arnold, 1985.
By manuscript evidence Blake justifies his position that of CT only what appears in Hengwrt can be attributed to Chaucer. He attributes all the early manuscripts to a single copy text assembled from Chaucer's own copies after his death. For best…
Brewer, Derek.
Mary-Jo Arn, and Hanneke Wirtjes, eds. Historical and Editorial Studies in Medieval and Early Modern English (Groningen: Wolters-Nordhoff, 1985), pp. 37-47.
Rebuts use of audience to privilege interpretation in Middle English romances. Rather than representing a historically authentic event, the Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 61 frontispiece of Chaucer reading to a court audience may be merely a…
Mosser, Daniel W.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 79 (1985): 235-40.
Deals with Manly and Rickert's erroneous procedures and conclusions regarding classification of manuscripts, scribal procedures, the Ellesmere MS, the Cardigan MS, HM 144, and the order of the tales.
Pearsall, Derek.
Jerome J. McGann, ed. Textual Criticism and Literary Interpretation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985), pp. 95-106.
Use of the Robinson second edition based on the Ellesmere MS has encouraged the neglect of many textual problems in critical studies concerning "unity" or "idea" of CT; Manly and Rickert's monumental edition is virtually ignored. Hengwrt is a vastly…
David, Alfred.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 105-15.
Chaucer plays with sources, including echoes of his own works in KnT, LGWP, SqT, MerT, PF, and Anel.
Backgrounds and sources for PF, HF, BD, NPT. Argues that Macrobius was less influential in later Middle Ages than Chaucer's references to him suggests.
Wallace, David.
Woodbridge, Suffolk : D. S. Brewer, 1985.
Examines aims and literary traditions of early writings of Boccaccio to provide a context for Chaucer's use of Boccaccio. Both writers loved and used Latin and French writers and Dante; both drew from a wide range of literary forms and styles: …
Wallace, David.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 61-67.
Examines the influence of "Roman de la Rose" on European literature; Brunetto Latini, "ser Durante," Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Chaucer. "Five generations of Italian poets...defined their individual enterprise" against the "Rose." Chaucer…
Dane, Joseph A.
Huntington Library Quarterly 48 (1985): 345-62.
A double reception was given Th in the eighteenth century. Dane agrees with Warton that Th is not a "grave heroic narrative" but a humorous tale. The burlesque Th is an eighteenth-century creation. Treats genre of Th and SqT and twentieth-century…
Darjes, Bradley, and Thomas Rendall.
Medieval Studies 47 (1985): 416-31.
Parallels in diction, phrasing, portrayal, and plot suggest that the episode of the Pardoner and the tapster is shaped according to the model of the Chaucerian fabliau.
