Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
New York and London: Garland, 1988.
The main text consists of "Index I: Chaucer's Biblical Allusions--An Annotated List," arranged by Chaucer's works, and "Index II: Scriptural References," a reverse index. The apparatus includes an introduction; an essay, "Research on Chaucer and…
Cooper, Helen.
Charles Martindale, ed. Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 71-81.
Discusses Chaucer's borrowings from Ovid in HF, BD, WBT, and ManT. Although to the fourteenth century the "Metamorphoses" was a chief among works demystified or allegorized to produce Christian doctrine, Chaucer rejects this tradition and emphasizes…
Diekstra, F. N. M.
English Studies 69 (1988): 12-26.
Chaucer is indebted to "The Romance of the Rose" for many of his techniques of irony, such as the juxtaposition of units not in themselves ironical, the exposure of hypocritical or false reasoning, the unreliable narrator, ironical digression, and…
Wimsatt, James I.,and William W. Kibler, eds.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
Texts and translations facing, preceded by a full introduction and followed by appendices of musical works and miniatures, as well as notes to the text that explicate textual questions and "specify relationships between Machaut's and Chaucer's…
Bowden, Betsy.
North Carolina Folklore Journal 35 (1988): 40-77.
Examines traditions and analogues of the ballad "The Wanton Wife of Bath," a thirteenth-century Old French fabliau analogue, and post-Chaucerian versions. Texts included for various versions.
Davis-Brown, Kris.
South Central Review 5.2 (1988): 15-34.
Shakespeare's play, though derived from Chaucer, differs from its source in many ways. Shakespeare's Pandarus is a less tender, more hardened figure; his Cressida is psychologically and socially more vulnerable; his Troilus is more openly sexual. …
Examines the role of Dryden's conversion to Roman Catholicism in his literary career, with reference to his adaptations of Chaucer, expecially his recasting of the Parson.
Harvey, Gordon Charles.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 1150A.
Redirecting the verse letter from Horatian urbanity and medieval rhetoric, Chaucer achieves an intimate, familiar tone. His successors from Dunbar to the Renaissance develop variously.
Holland, Nancy Bernhardt.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 90A-91A.
Despite some unenthusiastic criticism and even denial of his authorship of parts of the play, Shakespeare adapts KnT faithfully, reorienting its topicality, redesigning it for the stage, and broadening its focus.
Read, Dennis M.
Modern Philology 86 (1988): 171-90.
The idea for the artistic representation of the Canterbury pilgrims was that of Robert Hartley Cromek, Blake's enemy. Few preferred Blake's paintings over Cromek's engravings.
Guthrie, Steven R.
English Studies 69 (1988): 386-95.
Consideration of the phonological environments in which C. F. Babcock's oft-cited study of 1914 found apocopated '-e' in five of Chaucer's poems, from BD through FranT, considerably reduces the number of clear cases of apocope but supports her…
Guthrie, Steven R.
Chaucer Review 23 (1988): 30-49.
While Chaucer's line is iambic pentameter, it differs from Renaissance pentameter by virtue of a French Romance presence so strong as to constitute a motive rhythmic force in the poetry.
Reference guide on fourteenth-century usage of legal terms, concepts, and officials, valuable for legal historians and students of Chaucer, Gower, and the "Pearl"-poet.
Benson, Larry D.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988), pp. 11-30.
Argues that Chaucer was the "Father of English Prudery" because (fabliaux notwithstanding) he elevated and purified the English language by inventing a language of circumlocution and courtly indirection and by substituting Latinate terms for the…
Dor, Juliette.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 20 (1988, for 1987): 59-68.
After a survey of the reactions to Tolkien's article on the use of the northern dialect in RvT, Dor shows--on the basis of internal evidence--the geographical background of each pilgrim and the gradation in the process of Londonization.
Blake, N. F.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988), pp. 166-85.
Almost all studies of Middle English language and style are flawed in method or lacking in comprehensiveness. The reaction of the medieval audience to dialectal differences is hard to gauge; e.g., sociolinguistic implications of the Northern dialect…
Eun, Hyesoon Lim.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 493A-494A.
Nouns of address and the two second-person forms offer clues to perceptions of rank, ideals, and tone, as well as to characterization. Chaucer and the "Gawain"-poet exploit linguistic resources brilliantly.
Ladd, C. A.
Edward Donald Kennedy, Ronald Waldron, and Joseph S. Wittig, eds. Medieval Studies Presented to George Kane (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Wolfeboro, N.H.: D. S. Brewer, 1988), pp. 163-65.
Examines the meaning of "let see" in HF 1623, "nothing lyk" in BD 1085, and the "God toforn" in TC 5.963.
A collection of articles published between 1958 and 1974, including eight on the language of feeling. Discusses tone,mood, and theme, emphasizing Chaucer's use of introspective language and his growing tendency toward "emotional internalization."
