Love, Nathan, and others.
Encomia 14 (1992): 21-147.
Annual bibliography of the International Courtly Literature Society, listing 806 items, briefly annotated in some cases. The subject index lists thirty-two Chaucerian works and topics.
Recent critics of Chaucer--Terry Jones, David Aers, and others--are conventional in their desire to moralize medieval literature. The trend of contemporary criticism of FranT, TC, and KnT, as examples, is to isolate from the story tableaux serving…
Thomas, Paul R.
Encyclia 59 (1985, for 1982): 45-52
Chaucer's learned audience would have seen great irony in Daun Russell's allusion to the cock in Nigel de Longchamps's "Speculum stultorum": that cock, unlike Chauntecleer, had the intelligence to refuse to crow. The textual Chauntecleer is…
Thomas, Paul R.
Encyclia: Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 62 (1987, for 1985): 41-49.
In his last allusion in NPT, the Nun's Priest reminds us once again of the preaching tradition with which his tale has been playing. The various narrative perspectives shift so frequently that NPT is more than just an idle tale or a tale about a fox…
Di Profio, Luana.
Encyclopaideia: Journal of Phenomenology and Education 26 (2022): 1-13.
Explores "the special connection that exists between travel and narration," especially when traveling in a group, assessing international narratives of travel from CT to Haruki Murakami's "Drive My Car." Includes an abstract in English and in…
Faulkner, Dewey R., ed.
Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1973.
An anthology of thirteen new and previously printed essays and excerpts pertaining to PardPT, with a critical introduction, a brief chronology, and a selected bibliography. The Introduction (pp. 1-14) focuses on characterization, the place of PardPT…
Lorenz, Lee.
Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1981.
Bowdlerized version of MilT, adapted and illustrated by Lorenz for children. Carpenter John is Alison's grandfather in this version, and Nicholas connives to steal money. Absolon is eliminated.
Tambling, Jeremy.
English 64, no. 244 (2015): 42-64.
Analyzes the influence of Chaucer on several Romantic thinkers and their subsequent influence on Dickens, as well as Dickens's own reference and allusions to CT. Focuses on how "Our Mutual Friend" reflects medievalism in such aspects as the…
Claims that in reworking TC, Shakespeare "turns it inside out": the work of creating Criseyde's double image shifts from the narrator to Troilus, who also embodies the narrator's "longing and dread of the erotic," and eye-witness testimony fills the…
Haresnape, Geoffrey.
English Academy Review 32.2 (2015): 152-59.
Translates ABC into modern English verse, retaining Chaucer's original meter, stanza form, and rhyme scheme. Includes brief introductory description of the poem and a biographical eulogy for Professor John van der Westhuizen, to whom the translation…
Knoetze, Retha.
English Academy Review 34, no. 1 (2017): 85-98.
Assesses KnT in light of conventions of the romance genre and Boccaccio's "Teseida," arguing that the tale engages tensions "between a traditional communal feudal ideology and a newer more individualist and commercial outlook present in Chaucer's…
Jimura, Akiyuki.
English and English Teaching, Vol. 2: A Festschrift in Honour of Kiichiro Nakatani (Hiroshima: Department of English, Faculty of School Education, Hiroshima University, 1997), pp. 57-69.
In TC, descriptions of nature, including natural objects, plants, and animals, reflect the characters' emotions. When characters "act in harmony with nature," things go well; when they act against nature, they are destroyed by its "uncontrollable…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
English and English Teaching, Vol. 2: A Festschrift in Honour of Kiichiro Nakatani. Hiroshima: Department of English Faculty of School Education, Hiroshima University, 1997, pp. 23-42.
Discusses the semantic unity of shal / sholde in TC, focusing on degrees of subjectivity on the part of the speaker.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
English and English Teaching: A Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Hisashi Takahashi and Prof. Jiro Igarashi (Hiroshima: Department of English, Faculty of School Education, Hiroshima University, 1993), pp. 177-85.
Discusses "slydynge" and related words (such as "kynde" and "pite") with regard to Criseyde's characterization. Examines also the syntactic structures containing those words.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
English and English-American Literature (Yamaguchi University) 26 (1991): 55-75.
Explores Chaucer's ambiguities in light of rhetorical tradition, the state of the language, Chaucer's poetic self-consciousness, and the textual history of his works. (In Japanese)
Suzuki, Masayuki.
English Department Journal (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University) 45 (2017): 27-54.
Analyzes William Blake's "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims" by paying special attention to its ordering of the pilgrims, and investigates Blake's understanding of Chaucer and his intention in his classification of the pilgrims. In Japanese.
Tobias, Sheila, and Lynne S. Abel.
English Education 22 (1990): 165-78.
Reports on a 1988 pedagogical experiment designed to explore differences between scientific and humanistic study and the implications of such differences for the teaching of poetry. Poetic language is a "code" not unlike mathematics, although it…
