Sudo, Jun.
Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Sachiho Tanaka (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 1988), pp. 25-39.
Examines the words "drinke" (TC 2.651), "dwale" (RvT 4161), "pervynke" (Rom 1432), and "herber" (TC 2.1705) and passages in CYT, NPT, KnT, and MerT, maintaining that Chaucer displays ample knowledge of medieval herbal lore.
Adamson, Matthew, trans.
Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1988.
Traces the history of the search for appropriate terminology for sexual matters and of concepts of physiology; medicine and the art of love in the troubadours, Andreas Capellanus, and "Roman de la Rose"; freedom; guilt; and disease. Mentions Trotula…
Aers, David.
London and New York: Routledge, 1988.
Explores "some versions of community and individual identity" in "Piers Plowman," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," TC, and the tradition of Margery Kempe. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Community, Gender, and Individual Identity…
This review article assesses four recent books on how the Middle Ages responded to classical literature: Ralph Hexter's "Ovid and Medieval Schooling," the essay collection "Lectures medievales de Virgile," Jean-Charles Huchet's "Le Roman medieval"…
Benson, C. David.
Christianity & Literature 37 (1988): 7-22.
Benson urges that Chaucer be returned from merely professional scholarship to the mainstream of English literature and finds that structuralist, poststructuralist, Marxist, and feminist theories give new perspectives on Chaucer's work. Equally,…
Boitani, Piero, and Anna Torti, eds.
Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988.
Fourteen articles by various hands. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century under Alternative Title.
Dahlberg, Charles.
Hanover, N. H., and London: University Press of New England, 1988.
"Unlikeness" refers to the "coherence and contradictions" in the conviction encouraged by D. W. Robertson that "the characteristic mode of reading and writing in the Middle Ages was quite different from ours and that it assumes an underlying…
Dane, Joseph A.
Papers on Language and Literature 24 (1988): 115-33. Reprinted in Joseph A. Dane, The Critical Mythology of Irony (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1991), pp. 135-49.
Now a mainstay of Chaucerian criticism, the term "irony" has designated at least three different concepts in literary history, variously emphasizing the authority of the text, the poet, and the critic. Rhetorical irony, the "appeal to an absent…
Complaints--courtly, religious, philosophical, moral--were an integral part of Chaucer's poetry, and different combinations of lyric and narrative led to experiments in literary structures. Davenport contends that Chaucer adapts the complaint…
Davenport, W. 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. 127-45.
Discusses Middle English debate poems but touches on dialogue in CT, TC, and PF.
Dent, Judith Anne.
Dissertation Abstracts International 48 (1988): 1774A.
Showing his perception of inadequacies in the practice of medicine through the Physician's portrait in GP and PhyT, Chaucer reveals his belief in the balance of mind, body, and soul and the need for God as physician in BD, GP, WBT, MilT,MerT, KnT,…
Dinshaw, Carolyn.
New York and London: Garland, 1988.
Dinshaw argues that we must read the text of Chaucer dialectically, "both (as) the expression of an individual, historical writer and as having significance that is dependent upon preexisting structures of language." Investigates how texts "create"…
Frakes, J. C.
Leiden and New York: E. J. Brill, 1988.
Examines Fortune in the Roman tradition, in Boethius, in Latin commentaries on the "Consolatione," in King Alfred's adaptation, and in Notker's exegesis.
Gravlee, Cynthia Acosta.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 826A.
Following consideration of the duality of women's nature in Old English poetry, chapters are devoted to Criseyde, to the Prioress, and to the Wife of Bath to illuminate their submerged qualities.
Green, Richard Firth.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 10 (1988): 3-21.
Explores women in Chaucer's LGW, HF, SqT, and Anel who are "cynically seduced and heartlessly betrayed, the innocent victims of masculine duplicity," and concludes that Chaucer's attitudes toward women and love differed radically from those of his…
Hale, David G.
Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 9 (1988): 47-61.
In Chaucer and other fourteenth-century writers, dreams often prompt the dreamers to try to assert intellectual control over their mysterious experience by classifying the possible causes or truth values of dreams. Earlier classifications of this…
Heffernan, Thomas J.
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Using a new critical method, Heffernan examines the characteristics of the saint's life, sacred biography as historical narrative, important works and collections in the tradition, medieval attitudes toward virginity and chastity,rhetoric and the…
Hornsby, Joseph Allen.
Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1988.
Explores Chaucer's legal background, his connection with English canon law of agreements, the secular law of agreements, and medieval English criminal law and procedure.
Separate chapters are devoted to Lollard society, education, biblical scholarship, and the ideology of the movement as it relates to theology, ecclesiology, and politics. Chapter 9,"The Context of Vernacular Wycliffism," examines the question of…
Thirteen previously published articles study "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," medieval English Literature, the development of Arthurian literature, and Middle English romances. Contains a Japanese translation of the first two branches of…
Kaske, R. E.,with Arthur Groos and Michael W. Twomey.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.
Bibliography including the following divisions: biblical exegesis, liturgy, hymns, sermons, visual arts, mythography,commentaries on major authors, and miscellaneous.
