Arthur, Karen Maria.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 2671A.
Warfare and plague made English people of the later fourteenth century unprecedentedly aware of death. The Black Prince and John of Gaunt's first father-in-law, despite their heroic image in chronicles, died of unromantic diseases.
Arthur, Karen.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 67-85.
Demonstrates the utility of the text-retrieval program "TACT" by examining references to death and cold in TC. Sketches the "vocabulary" of death in the poem, assesses the words in their contexts (especially Pandarus's threats of death to Criseyde),…
Chaucer's choice of this version of the saint's life allows him to portray the interests of a female teller and to fuse masculine and feminine ideals. We hear Cecilia's strident voice and experience her powers of articulation. Further, the hair shirt…
Arthur, Ross G.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.
Educated English audiences of the fourteenth century would have been familiar with the "formal theory of signs" from sermons, poetry, and heraldic practice and would have appreciated the pentangle, green girdle, and wound in Gawain's neck. The…
Arthur, Ross G.
English Studies in Canada 13 (1987): 1-11.
Treats the relationship of the Reeve to the Miller. Comparison of RvT with Boccaccio's "Decameron" and other analogues, including the status and character of their narrators, reveals the Reeve's essential meanness: his identification with the…
Arthur, Ross G.
American Benedictine Review 38 (1987): 29-49.
Critics such as Bennett and Lumiansky discuss Chaucer's Christianization of classical thought, but his adaptation of the "Somnium" in PF actually critiques its limitations. The naive narrator, looking for the "certayn" divine knowledge, is vaguely…
The historical development of an Old Testament law can be applied to "Sir Gawain" and WBT. WBT, which begins with a "lawless, violent rape and ends with the free gift of fairness and fidelity, progresses by the efficiency of a statute (cf. OT 'eye…
Explores the influence of CT on Spenser's "Faerie Queene," especially the Renaissance version of Chaucer's work available to Spenser in Thynne's edition. Includes a list of Spenser's references and allusions to Chaucer.
Analyzes the Parson's use of "myrie" in ParsP in terms of the "internal generic matrix" constructed by the Parson in the ParsT. Focuses on Tzvetan Todorov's and Paul Strohm's writings on genre.
Asahata, Syozo.
Hisayuki Sasamoto et al., eds. Hearts to the English-American Language and Literature: Essays Presented to Emeritus Professor Sutezo Hirose in Honour of His 88th Birthday (Osaka: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 1999), pp. 239-53 (in Japanese).
Surveys the reception of Astr in Japan and describes the former Marquess of Bute MS 13 (A.19) purchased from H. P. Kraus, New York, at an unspecified date.
Asaka, Yoshiko.
Studies in Medieval Language and Literature (Tokyo) 2 (1987): 15-29.
A closely argued analysis of the meaning and design of PF. The three parts are designed to give harmony and balance to the poem, which explores debate on the question of love.
Elaborates on the distinction between "natura naturans" and "natura naturata" in relation to their Greek, Latin, and Germanic etymology, and examines uses of the words "nature" and "kynde" in BD, HF, PF, and Rom to show the tendency of each word's…
Asaka, Yoshiko.
Yoshiyuki Nakao and Yoko Iyeiri, eds. Chaucer's Language: Cognitive Perspectives (Suita: Osaka, 2013), pp. 125-48.
Interprets the ideological content of "Mum and the Sothsegger" metaphorically by viewing it as advice on king's rule and social hierarchy. Refers to thematically relevant passages from CT and TC.
Asakawa, Junko.
Yuko Tagaya and Kanno Masahiko eds. Words and Literature: Essays in Honour of Professor Masa Ikegami (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2004), pp. 209-18.
Examines the GP description of Chaucer's Physician, assessing the extent to which the Physician's astrological medicine is satiric when seen in relation to such works as Nicholas of Lynn's Kalendarium.
Asakawa, Junko.
Koichi Kano, ed. Through the Eyes of Chaucer: Essays in Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Society for Chaucer Studies (Kawasaki: Asao Press, 2014), pp. 81-99.
Examines the notions of nature and chance represented in TC in light of medieval philosophical and cosmological theories. In Japanese.
Asay, Timoithy M.
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon, 2014. Fully accessible at https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/18728; accessed November 22, 2022.
Argues that frame narratives make "language both a represented object and a representing agent" and "thus perfectly mimetic." Following both Dante and Boccaccio in using the device, Chaucer unsettles "easy assignations of identity" for his…
Uncovers the complex relationship between monumentality and print culture as it contributed to Chaucer's early modern reception in post-Reformation England.
Ash-Irisarri, Kate, Laurie Atkinson, Daisy Black, Sarah Brazil, Natalie Calder, Andrew Finn, Darragh Greene, Ayoush Lazikani, Rebecca Menmuir, Mark Ronan, J. D. Sargan, and Seth Strickland.
Year's Work in English Studies 101 (2022): 185-282.
Discursive bibliography, divided into fourteen subsections: Early Middle English; Theory; Manuscript and Technical Studies; Religious Writing; Secular Prose; Secular Verse; "Piers Plowman"; Gower; Old Scots; Drama; "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight";…
Discursive bibliography, divided into twelve subsections: Early Middle English; Theory; Manuscript and Technical Studies; Religious Prose and Verse; Secular Prose; Secular Verse; "Piers Plowman"; Gower; Old Scots; Drama; The "Gawain" Poet; Romance:…
Ashbrook, Susan.
Liana De Girolami Cheney, ed. Pre-Raphaelitism and Medievalism in the Arts. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1992), pp. 281-305.
William Morris reissued many of Caxton's medieval texts, and his love for beautiful books led to his Kelmscott Chaucer, described by Edward Burne-Jones as "a pocket cathedral."
Ashby, Cristina, Geoff Couldrey, Susan Dickson, et al.
Woodbridge, Conn., and Reading, U.K.: Primary Source Media, 1995.
A "comprehensive interactive resource for both students and teachers," providing hypertext-linked, point-and-click access to Chaucer's works ("The Riverside Chaucer") and accompanying glossary, introductions to the works and seventeen previously…
Ashcroft, Dame Peggy, reader.
New York: Caedmon, 1961
Dramatic reading of WBPT, in the translation of J. U. Nicholson, directed by Howard Sackler. Liner notes quotes portions of GP description of the Wife in Middle English. Also issued on cassette tape and on CD-ROM.
