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.
Daróczy outlines the Latin rhetorical tradition as background to Chaucer's techniques of characterization in GP: groupings of pilgrims, omitted details, the order and juxtaposition of the portraits, epithets, and summarizing lines. Emphasizes…
Lara Rallo, Carmen.
Analecta Malacitana: Revista de la Sección de Filologa de la Facultad de Filosofa y Letras 27 (2004): 155-68.
Assesses GP descriptions of the ecclesiastical pilgrims, showing that Chaucer's criticism of his church figures is ambiguous. Focuses on the Prioress but also comments on the Monk, the Friar, the Summoner, the Pardoner, and the idealized Parson.
Maggioni, Maria Luisa.
Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria 11 (2003): 13-28.
Close comparison of Chaucer's translation of Petrarch's Sonnet 132 in TC 1.400-420 as a process of paraphrase and commentary on the original, with particular attention to Chaucer's treatment of the Italian phrase "S'a mal mio grado" and nuances he…
Boswell, Jackson C.
Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 1 (1977): 30-32.
In the prefatory note to the 1592 "A Declaration of the True Causes" (STC 10005), there is an allusion to the pseudo-Chaucerian verses "Chaucer's Prophesie."
Conlan, J. P.
Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 10: 120-47, 1999.
Reexamines the "paradoxical evidence" of Ha4, arguing that Manly and Rickert's discussion of it was distorted by their a priori assumptions and their concluding that Chaucer's foul papers "served as the exemplar" of the manuscript. The affiliations…
Dane, Joseph A.
Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, n.s., 7 (1993) : 18-27.
Collates versions of the epitaph on Chaucer's tomb to challenge assumptions underlying the Chaucer-Variorum choice of the Hengwrt manuscript as a base text. While Hengwrt may be close to Chaucer's original, the "movement" from Skeat to Hengwrt in…
Williams, Deanne.
Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams, eds. Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 127-50.
Compares Nebuchadnezzar in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" with his depictions in Chaucer's HF and MkT.
In Chaucer's RvT and Malory's "Morte D'Arthur," illegitimacy is not a negative notion. The Reeve is unorthodox in his negative view of the illegitimacy of Symkyn's wife and of the sexual liberation of Symkyn's daughter. Chaucer however, discloses a…
Boenig, Robert, and Kathleen Davis, eds.
Lewisburg, Penn. :
Eleven essays by various authors, a bibliography of Bolton's publications, and an index. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon under Alternative Title.
Lambdin, Laura C.,and Robert T. Lambdin, eds.
Westport, Conn.;
Thirty-two essays by various authors who define and describe the professions, vocations, and avocations of Chaucer's pilgrims. Individual essays pertain to each of the pilgrims mentioned in GP--including the five guildsmen, the Host (innkeeper), and…
Reads KnT and TC as "tales of fortune's fools" in which the traditional themes of romantic love and knightly chivalry are undercut by verbal play and the trivialization of notions of pity, mercy, grace, and love.
Oizumi, Akio,and Hiroshi Yonekura; programmed by Kunihiro Miki.
Hildesheim,
A computer-generated alphabetical concordance of rhymes in Chaucer's poetry, based on "The Riverside Chaucer," arranged by rhyme elements (e.g., "-aas," "-aat," "-abbe") within individual works. Includes for each work, in addition to the basic…
Chaucer's dream visions confront contemporary philosophical debates, which also shape his poetics. BD is concerned with the status of universals, the relationship of universals to singulars, and the certainty of human knowledge. HF mocks "the logical…
Explores historical and literary traditions of the noble hunt,addressing Christian and classical backgrounds, hunting manuals, narrative motifs, a variety of Middle English romances, and the figures of Sir Tristrem and Christ as hunters. Middle…
Rooney, Anne.
Anne Rooney. Hunting in Middle English Literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk;
Surveys critical assessments of the hunting episode in BD, explicates details of the episode, and reads it as a representation of worldly bliss. The episode and the allusion to the hunt near the end of the poem frame the Black Knight's account of…
Score for voice and orchestra in forty-two bars (fifteen minutes). The text that accompanies the score, compiled from twenty-six lines selected from KnT and Truth by Daphne Burgess, is given in Middle English; a modern "paraphrase" also included.
Boitani, Piero.
Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 107-32.
Discusses the conflict between the letter and the spirit in NPT, providing a short survey of the history of literal interpretation. Chaucer freely accepts the letter as literature without excluding the morality. The Priest makes us turn away from…
Cigman, Gloria.
Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 133-47.
The anti-Semitism of PrT is not Chaucer's, and the tale is less about it than about the divine power of Mary to destroy the enemies of the Christian faith.
Dauby, Helene.
Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 149-56.
Sees Chaucer the Pilgrim and his inverted doubles--the female image of the Wife of Bath and the male image of the Host--as three parts of Chaucer's personality. Similar unity can be found among WBT, Th, and Mel.
Reichl, Karl.
Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 157-76.
Surveys meanings of "ymaginacioun" and "fantasye" in Chaucer's time and discusses his exploitation of their ambivalence.
Brewer, Derek.
Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 19-31.
In ABC, BD, and HF, uncertainty and duality-producing irony emerge as basic patterns that may be applied to all of Chaucer's poetry.
Wimsatt, James I.
Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 33-51.
Analyzes three manuscript collections (Pennsylvania French 15, Westminster Abbey 21, and Bibl. Nat. Nouvelles acquisitions fr. 6221) to infer their late forteenth-century exemplars.
