Fujiki, Takayoshi.
Shukugawa Studies in Linguistics and Literature 4 (1980): 1-13.
The puzzling character of the earthly love and life of human beings is what PF tries to explore and discover. Chaucer revealed an irrational aspect of humanity in this work.
Fujiki considers comic "misapplication of proverbs" in TC (Pandarus), MilT (John), MerT (January), and SumT (the friar), suggesting that Chaucer capitalized on his audience's expectation of proverbs to characterize some users as foolish.
Includes eight essays pertaining to CT, examining the similarities between the narrative structure of CT and the multi-layered system particular to Gothic aesthetics.
Fujimoto, Masashi.
Koichi Kano, ed. Through the Eyes of Chaucer: Essays in Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Society for Chaucer Studies (Kawasaki: Asao Press, 2014), pp. 6-25.
Examines Chaucer's notion of "gentilesse" and its importance by looking into instances of its use in KnT, SqT, FranT, WBT, ParsT, and Gent. In Japanese.
Fulk, R. D.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 78 (1979): 485-93.
ManT--a warning to the Cook with whom the Manciple quarrels--supports three main themes: the insignificance of social rank (9.105-270), the danger inherent in anger (271-91), and the foolishness of a wanton tongue (292-362).
Fuller, David.
Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 9 (1988): 17-28.
A wide variety of interpretations and levels of meaning make MilT both oblique and clear. Chaucer yokes contradictory elements and obscures an underlying morality "to catch off guard his sophisticated readers--the 'clerical and courtly elite'--who…
Fuller, David.
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 263-84.
Fuller insists that sound is "intrinsic to meaning" in reading Chaucer, commenting on the importance of metrical patterns and syntactic structures, appropriate intonation and pace, and pronunciation of final -e. Although it is difficult to…
Fuller, David.
Sarah Haggarty, ed. William Blake in Context (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 173-83.
Reads Blake's "varied interactions with Chaucer, Spenser, and Shakespeare" as "an education in possibilities of serious reading." In the case of Chaucer, Blake reads "for archetypes, not distracted . . . by historical contingency or an appearance of…
Fullman, Joshua
Dissertation Abstracts International A74.11 (2014): n.p.
Includes discussion of the pilgrimage motif of CT and the PardPT as examples of the late-medieval eschatological imagination that manifest the "Augustinian" version of apocalypticism which" subscribed to an expectation of cosmic and personal…
Fulton, Helen, ed.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021.
Collection of essays focusing on Chaucer's engagement with "Italian tradition" and his use and interpretation of Italian sources. For eight individual essays, search for Chaucer and Italian Culture under Alternative Title.
Although critics often criticize the monk and wife of ShT for their lack of morals, the merchant's own dealings are not without blame. His bill of exchange may be illegal, and it parallels the arrangement between monk and wife. All three characters…
Fulton, Helen.
Ruth Evans, Helen Fulton, and David Matthews, eds. Medieval Cultural Studies: Essays in Honour of Stephen Knight (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006), pp. 138-51.
Processions and spectacles were attempts to contain rivalries between and within the official and unofficial hierarchies of late medieval London (city and crown, wards, crafts, and trades). Recurrently depicting a stable city, Chaucer also depicts…
Fulton, Helen.
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 91-120.
Presents examples from the "classical genres of chorography and topography" in analysis of ClT. Argues that Chaucer's "untypical use of chorography . . . draws attention to Italy's international trade routes" and reinforces the economic transactional…
Fulton, Helen.
Francesca Kaminski-Jones and Rhys Kaminski-Jones, eds. Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in the Construction of British Identities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 51-78.
Compares "English, Welsh, and Irish refabrications of the Trojan legend as national origin myths," focusing on the ambivalences of the legend, describing the "translatio imperii studiique," and commenting on medieval (including Chaucerian) meanings…
Fulton, Helen.
Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 106 (2006): 25-42.
Assesses the late-medieval and early modern popularity of the "story of Griselda" as an exploration of the "paradox of her non-noble status and her fitness to hold the moral high ground" and a reflection of anxiety "about marriages based on unequal…
Fulton, Helen.
Louise D'Arcens, and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, eds. Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. 37-55.
Investigates free indirect discourse in GP, focusing on Chaucer's personae, the variety of his narrative positions, and their "focalisations" internal and external to the diegesis of the poem. Comments on focalization in the descriptions of the Wife…
Suggests that Langland, Chaucer, and Gower represent political speech with the speech of animals, and argues that this device was later appropriated in anti-Ricardian discourse.
Fulwiler, Lavon Buster,
Michigan State University, 1971. DAI 32.09 (1972): 5181A. Accessible via https://d.lib.msu.edu/search?q=fulwiler (accessed April 12, 2026).
Argues that "through his patterning of imagery Chaucer systematically expressed his doctrine on poetic creativity," i.e., that a poet may "achieve imaginative vision" by "withdrawal into a mental otherworld." In his early dream poems and especially…
Fulwiler, Lavon.
CCTE [Conference of College Teachers of English] Studies 61 (1996): 93-101.
Fulwiler looks at how "Babe" and NPT use the genre of animal fable and prosopopoeia to create moral tales. Sentence and solaas combine in "Babe," as in Chaucer, to intrigue the audience into deeper exploration of the story. Via structure, setting,…
Chaucer's use of the Ovidian source of ManT, insisting on the tale of the crow--and not the connecting tale of the raven--allows him to argue for the "potentially treacherous nature of language" and to lead smoothly into Ret. The influence of Ovid is…
Fumo, Jamie C,.
Larissa Tracey ed. Medieval English and Dutch Literatures: The European Context. Essays in Honour of David F. Johnson (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2022), pp. 207-32
Compares and contrasts SqT and the analogous Middle Dutch "Roman van Walewein," focusing on their eastern settings, treatments of marvel, and other romance conventions. Considers Chaucer's possible knowledge of Middle Dutch and "Van Walewein,"…
