Bevis, Richard.
Eighteenth-Century Life 10 (1986): 44-58.
Reevaluates Pope's adaptation of HF, "The Temple of Fame," focusing on how radically he reworks Chaucer's narrative, shifting it to a more "scenic" poem by introducing elements from "An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries," a piece of…
Reisner, M. E.
Eighteenth-Century Studies 12 (1979): 481-503.
Blake's portraits of the Pardoner and Summoner in "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims" bear strong resemblances to contemporary satirical portraits of William Pitt the Younger and Charles James Fox, respectively. The descriptions of the two pilgrims in…
Ando, Shinsuke.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 128 (1983): 722-23.
Surveys recent Chaucer studies in Japan, introducing literary or philological studies of N. Ueno, M. Masui, K. Miyake, S. Ono, T. Oiji, K. Ogoshi, I. Saito, H. Nojima, and F. Kuriyagawa.
Higuchi, Masayuki.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 132.7 (1986): 329-31.
Explores the notion of "comedy" in the Middle Ages, which is based on the idea of the goddess Fortuna, and argues that the comedy Chaucer refers to at the end of TC was realized in NPT.
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 133 (1987): 24-26.
A comparative survey of the relationship between Vinsauf's "Poetria nova" and Chacuer's poetry; shows the poet's artistic mind influenced by various rhetorical devices. Particularly emphasizes the significance of "apostrophe," considering the visual…
Takada, Yasunari.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 133 (1987): 62-64.
Brief critical history of scholarship on Chaucer and Dante in this century and discussion of HF in this connection, stressing the contrast between "O Thought, that wrot all that I mette" (HF 523) and "O mente, che scrivesti cio ch'io vidi" (Inf.…
Ebi, Hisato.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 135 (1989): 366-70.
There was a new tendency to assimilate paganism to Christian doctrine in medieval European literature. Emphasizing the influence of the sources and analogues of medieval Latin literature on Chaucer, Ebi discusses the meaning of the Alceste myth in…
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 135:9 (1990): 433-35.
Considers the conflict between "authority," which is based on higher culture, and "experience," characteristic of folk mode, emphasizing the significance of "game in ernest" in CT. "Game" derives from the festive storytelling contest.(In Japanese).
Yoshimura, Koji.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 136 (1990): 118-22.
Examines Chaucer's various uses of color expressions: metaphorical, contrastive, mixed, etc. Yoshimura argues that there is a gradual transmutation from simplicity to complexity in Chaucer's use of such expressions.
Ebi, Hisato.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 137:7 (1991): 345-50.
Confronting the Latin world, Chaucer established his own theory of tragedy, which had not developed completely in the English vernacular. Ebi explores the meanings of "dite," "theatrum," and "scene," concluding that Chaucer used theater imagery to…
Ebi, Hisato.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 144.12 (1999): 746-48.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with the application of phylogenetic analysis of the stemmatics of WBP.
Assesses occurrences of the diction and sentiment of tenderness, pity, and consolation in Chaucer's works (GP Prioress, BD, TC), linking them with Bothius's "Consolation of Philosophy." In Japanese.
Ikegami, Tadahiro.
Eigo Seinen 130 (1985): 496-97.
A report of the main papers read both at the Fourth International Chaucer Congress in York, England (1984), and at the Fourteenth International Arthurian Congress in Rennes, France (1984).
Compares Bo with Jean de Meun's and other versions and discusses Chaucer's translation technique and style. Scholars need more information on Chaucer's use of Jean de Meun and on medieval French translations of "De consolatione philosophae."
