Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Eigo Seinen 137.11 (1992): 558-60.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with the garden imagery and sources in Chaucer. In Japanese.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with Hisashi Shigeo's theories of women and love in Chaucer. In Japanese.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with the memory, thought, and the muses in HF and LGW. In Japanese.
Takada, Yasunari, presiding.
Eigo Seinen 146.8: 478-87, 2000.
Discusses the reception history of Chaucer, ranging from Spenser through Shakespeare to the English Romantics. Panelists include Nahoko Miyamoto, Yoshiko Kobayashi, and Atsuhiko Hirota.
Ebi, Hisato.
Eigo Seinen 146.8: 488-92 (in Japanese), 2000.
Spec. issue on the sexcentenary of Chaucer's death. Suggests a new date-June 2, 1400-for Chaucer's death, based on John Bale's Index Brittaniae Scriptorium (1902 ed.), and surveys the historical background of Chaucer's tomb(s).
As a compilatio, CT is an experiment with a variety of popular narrative genres in which the limitations and possibilities of each genre are illuminated.
Takahashi, Isamu.
Eigo Seinen 146.8: 499-501, 2000.
Surveys the transformations of the Wife of Bath in "The Wanton Wife of Bath" (1600), Johnson's "A New Sonnet of a Knight and a Faire Virgin" (1612), Fletcher's "Women Pleased" (1620), "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678), "The New Wife of Bath" (1700), Gay's…
Yamaguchi, Eriko.
Eigo Seinen 146.8: 502-04, 2000.
Analyzes three types of pleats or folds in CT: graceful or classical drapings of the cloak of the Prioress; artificial folds "pynched" on her wimple, characteristic of Gothic art; and "wyndynge," which the Parson reproaches as a waste of cloth and…
Takamiya, Toshiyuki.
Eigo Seinen 146.8: 508-11, 2000.
Comprehensive description of four paintings pertaining to The Canterbury Tales: Blake's (1810), Stothard's (1807), Corbould's (1840), and Mileham's (1924).
Item not seen; reported in the MLA International Bibliography as a comparative linguistic treatment of dreams in Chaucer, Gower, and Langland. In Japanese.
Item not seen; reported in the MLA International Bibliography as a discussion of syntax, impersonal constructions, and variants in CT manuscripts. In Japanese.
McCormack, Frances.
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and John Flood, eds. Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early English Literature, 1350-1680. Dublin Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, no. 3. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010), pp. 39-48.
Ambiguous depictions of the Parson and Pardoner reflect contemporary debate regarding false prophets. The Pardoner's negligence, hypocrisy, and language suggest heresy, but he is not accused. The Parson is orthodox, but in his rejection of oaths,…
Cooney, Helen.
Eilean Ni Cuilleanain and J.D. Pheifer, eds. Noble and Joyous Histories: English Romances, 1375-1650 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993), pp. 27-58.
Briefly examines the role of "wonders," or miracles, in romance and philosophy as background to the lack of justice in Arcite's death. Chaucer is heavily indebted to Boethian thought in TC, but the unsatisfying, even skeptical deployment of such…
Folks, Cathalin Buhrmann.
Eilean Ni Cuilleanain and J.D. Pheifer, eds. Noble and Joyous Histories: English Romances, 1375-1650 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993), pp. 59-85.
The "Gawain" poet and Chaucer (through the mediating Wife of Bath) modify conventional details of character, description, and action, producing protagonists who develop or who come to self-awareness in ways more complicated than elsewhere in the…
Lavezzo, Kathy.
Eileen A. Joy, ed. Still Thriving: On the Importance of Aranye Fradenburg (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Punctum, 2013), pp. 25-31.
Considers the value of retaining the Chaucer Division of the Modern Language Association, maintaining its importance as long as "attention to [Chaucer's] corpus continues to unhinge, transform, and trouble received ideas about being in the world."…
Bell, Kimberly K.
Eileen A. Joy, Myra J. Seaman, Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Ramsey, eds. Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 23-47.
Bell argues that "The Joe Schmo Show" and Th "use metafictional parody to 'refunction' generic forms and critique stereotypes of masculinity."
McCormick, Betsy.
Eileen A. Joy, Myra J. Seaman, Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Ramsey, eds. Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 91-117.
McCormick compares LGW and Christine de Pisan's "Le livre de la cité des dames" with the reality TV show "Manor House," exploring how each poses a "liminal space" from which to "contemplate societal stereotypes and strictures by revisiting the…
