Mosser, Daniel W.
Library Chronicle, n.s., 41 (1987): 82-111.
Examines the significance of the Cardigan Chaucer MS as a witness to the development of Chaucer's text after his death. Following the example of his predecessors, the Cardigan editor enhanced the appearance of the layout and text to make it seem…
N. F. Blake's various arguments for the authenticity of the text of Hengwrt are not persuasive, though his thesis regarding a single developing author's copy for CT remains valuable.
Sutton, Anne F.,and Livia Visser-Fuchs.
Ricardian 7 (June 1987): 421-32.
Describes an anthology (now Longleat MS 257, fifteenth century) owned by Richard, duke of Gloucester, which contains KnT and ClT, Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes," "Ipomedon," and Old Testament stories--all emphasizing the concepts of order and loyalty.
Calin, William.
Studies in the Literary Imagination 20 (1987): 9-22.
The French influence on Chaucer is undervalued. Machaut's "La Fonteinne amoureuse" provided the model for BD; his "Judgement dou Roy de Navarre" inspired LGWP; "Le voir dit" has a direct tie with ManT; ; "Le voir dit" and "La Fonteinne amoureuse"…
Hanning, Robert W.
Karl-Ludwig Selig and Robert Somerville, eds. Florilegium Columbianum: Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller (New York: Italica Press, 1987), pp. 113-23.
Examines little-noticed instances "where allusions to classical texts, or to medieval recreations of pagan life and times," form part of Chaucer's narrative strategy in TC,MerT, and MilT.
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.…
Wright, Steven Alan.
Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1987): 4400A.
Medieval literary influence should be understood through borrowing not only of phrasing but also of literary devices. Chaucer's grasp of the totality of Jean de Meun's technique pervades Chaucer's handling of allegorical conventions.
The restaurant scene in "The Sun Also Rises" echoes the conclusion of Chaucer's PardT. Like the Pardoner, Jake Barnes is "sexually disabled" and spiritually remiss. Both characters see money as power; both substitute food and drink for sex; both…
Scheps, Walter.
Studies in Scottish Literature 22 (1987): 44-59.
All major poets of the fifteenth century in England and Scotland considered themselves disciples of Chaucer. The extent to which they actually emulated Chaucer in their works, however, is questionable. Additional studies involving the Chaucer…
Crepin, Andre.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 31 (1987): 466-76.
Argues that rhyme in English was rare only by reference to French lyrical poetry. Chaucer felt suspicious of craftsmanship for its own sake. Sophistication in rhyming is better left to those who "make in Fraunce."
Dor, Juliette (De Caluwe).
A. M. Simon-Vandenbergen, ed. Studies in Honour of Rene Derolez. (Ghent: Seminarie voor Englese en Oud-Germaanse Taalkunde, 1987), pp.143-56.
Part of a larger sociolinguistic project on the status of French in fourteenth-century England, Dor's study examines the uses, distribution, and frequency of words of French origin in the conversational sections of CT.
Gray, Douglas.
G. H. V. Bunt, E. S. Kooper, et al., eds. One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987), pp. 1-27.
"Gentilesse" for Chaucer implied honor or "good name," as well as good words and deeds. His ideas on the concept are rooted in the classics and in Christianity but also look forward to the humanists. FranT is probably nearer to a last word on this…
Nishide, Kimiyuki,and Takashi Kawabata.
Studies in Medieval Language and Literature (Tokyo) 2 (1987): 59-75.
An attempt to measure objectively the stylistic similarities and/or dissimilarities among the frequencies of "shall," "will," "should," and "would" per thousand words in CT. A cluster analysis of these frequencies generally supports Muscatine's…
Stieve, Edwin (M).
Notes and Queries 232 (1987): 7-10.
The Host's phrase, addressed to the Physician, has the double sense of "learnedly" and "in rhetorical terminology," which is appropriate since in medieval doctrine rhetoric healed the mind as medicine healed the body. Chaucer would have known of the…
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…
Bowden, Betsy.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.
Concerned with textual ambiguity and flexibility in oral performance, Bowden compares varying interpretations of passages from CT. Pedagogical interpretative slant.
Lists all pieces of Middle English prose in the Douce collection, giving about fifty words of the beginning of each text and twenty at the end, with an index of incipits and explicits.
