Addesses "Chaucer's interest in and exploration of the problem of determining value . . . . The question is central to Chaucer's own concerns with the ethical and artistic value of his poetry throughout 'The Canterbury Tales'," with particular focus…
Fisher, Sheila, and Janet E. Halley, eds.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
Twelve essays by various hands that stand "at the intersection of Anglo-American empirical historicism and French theories of textuality." Historical women were real in ways that are absent from writings. Essays are grouped under three headings:…
Facing-page poetic translation of GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, ClPT, MerPT, FranPT, PardPT, PrPT, Thop and prologues to Thop and Mel, NPPT, ParsP, and Ret. Follows Chaucer's verse forms. Includes biographical and cultural backgrounds (pp.…
Fisher, Sheila.
Roberta L. Krueger, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 150-64.
Argues that Chaucer, the Gawain poet, and Malory use women to define chivalric male identities. The texts of these authors register anxiety about women as "hominis confusio" and marginalize women by marginalizing many of the moments of their greatest…
Identifies difficulties in translating Chaucer for American audiences: linguistic difficulties (especially false cognates such as "countrefete" and "lust") and several social changes that make Chaucer the "absent father in the United States."
Fisher, William Nobles.
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 7435A.
Through the game created by the Host and other references to playing, Chaucer created a festive structure for his tales whose movement leads the narrators, their audience, and the modern reader towards an ever-broadening perspective on life.
Fisiak, Jacek, and Akio Oizumi, eds.
Berlin and New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1998.
Twenty-five essays by various authors and a select, annotated bibliography of Japanese studies of English historical linguistics from 1950-95. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan…
Fisiak, Jacek, and Hye-Kyung Kang, eds.
Seoul, South Korea: Thaehaksa, 2005.
Twenty essays by various authors on topics in theoretical linguistics and in Old and Middle English linguistics and literature. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Recent Trends in Medieval English Language and Literature under…
Fisiak, Jacek, ed.
Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997
Twenty-six essays by various authors, exploring issues of syntax, lexicon, phonology, and morphology. Chaucerian materials are cited as data throughout, and for four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Studies in Middle English Linguistic…
Fifteen essays by various authors from the 1994 conference on Middle English held in Rydzyna, Poland. Individual essays consider lexicographical topics such as Middle English sexual vocabulary, plant names, and words associated with fate;…
Fisiak, Jacek, ed.
Studies in English Language and Literature, no. 2. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2002.
Thirty essays by various authors, addressing synchronic and diachronic issues in English language study--lexicon, grammar, morphology, phonology, prosody, dialect, scribal variation, and syntax. Includes a curriculum vitae, a bibliography of Oizumi's…
Fisiak, Jacek.
University: University of Alabama Press, 1965.
Describes the morphemic structure of Chaucer's language, "based only on the facts recorded in Chaucer's writing," without considering the work of his contemporaries or inferring data beyond extant forms in his works. Defines morphemes and their…
Fitzgerald places Tolkien's essay on RvT (1934) in its intellectual and professional context. She explores the role of Chaucer in Tolkien's scholarship and creative works, including the allusions to Chaucer's works that appear in Tolkien's satiric…
Fitzgibbons, Moira, curator.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
This webpage coordinates and comments upon approaches to medieval texts as "multimodal"; designed for classroom use, with suggestions for further exploration and hypertext links to texts, illustrations, and related materials. Arranges the approaches…
Fitzgibbons, Moira.
Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 65-80.
Explores the pedagogical value of encouraging students to combine analysis and creativity in performing (aloud and in writing) from the points of view of individual Chaucerian characters. Suggests using Chaucer's characters to critique those of…
Fitzmaurice, Susan M., and Donka Minkova, eds.
New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.
Nineteen studies, including position papers, responses, and counter responses. A set of exchanges pertains to Chaucer: In "Metrical Evidence: Did Chaucer Translate The Romaunt of the Rose'?" (pp. 155-79), Xingzhong Li affirms on metrical grounds that…
Fitzpatrick, Joan.
In Charlotte Boyce and Joan Fitzpatrick, A History of Food in Literature: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 15–62.
Includes discussion of food, drink, abstinence, feasting, gluttony, hunting, etc. in CT (pp. 35-52), observing Chaucer's consistent attention to moral and social implications, and comparing his depictions with those found in "Piers Plowman," "Sir…
Fizzard, Allison D.
Journal of British Studies 46 (2007): 245-62.
Fizzard considers Chaucer's GP description of the Monk among other satires and accounts of monastic dress, exploring in particular debates about standards of dress among Augustinian monks.
Flahiff, F. T.
University of Toronto Quarterly 61 (1991): 250-68.
The theme of rumor connects Dicken's Dorrit with HF; Dickens's Miss Wade capitalizes on Wade and his boat of MerT 1424 and TC 3.614; and Amy Dorrit recalls Dorigen of FranT, although Dorrit is not "so reckless."
Flahiff, Frederick T.
Figures in a Ground: Canadian Essays in Modern Literature Collected in Honor of Sheila Watson. (Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie, 1978), pp. 87-98.
The movement of "Gatsby" was compared to that of TC by Nancy Hoffman in 1971. However, the differences are as significant as the similarities. Fitzgerald's story reflects different preoccupations, a different age. Chaucer created something poised…
Flake, Timothy H.
English Studies 77 (1996): 209-26.
Challenges the discussion of Angela M. Lucas and Peter J. Lucas (SAC 15 [1993], no. 215), arguing that the marriage of Dorigen and Arveragus "is a poetic expression of freedom and love brought to life by the power of 'trouthe'," a force so much…
Chaucer attempts to represent simultaneously three levels of reality in his three "confessional" characters (the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and the Canon's Yeoman): actual life, idealized fiction, and higher truth.
Lydgate's poetic trial of Brunhilde indicates a conviction that poets have a central role in shaping and transmitting "fama." In sharp contrast, Chaucer depicts fama as a function of "aventure" in HF.
