Atwood, E. Bagby, and Archibald A. Hill, eds.
Austin: University of Texas, 1969.
Thirty three essays by various authors on wide-ranging topics, presented in honor of Rudolph Willard. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Studies in Language, Literature, and Culture of the Middle Ages and Later under Alternative…
Analyzes the "organization and assumptions" of four medieval rhetorical handbooks, focusing on their "methods of amplification," and assesses the influence of rhetorical tradition on the characterizations in TC, in comparison with those of Boccaccio…
Augustyn, Adam.
New York: Britannica Educational Publishing. in association with Rosen Educational Services, 2014.
Describes the lives and accomplishments of some 100 international writers. The section on Chaucer (pp. 84-92) summarizes his life and career as a public servant, integrating discussion of his major works in chronological order and emphasizing CT,…
Anthologizes translations of selections and excerpts from English poetry and prose into Esperanto; by various translators. The selection from Chaucer (Purse and a portion of WBP 3.35-134) is translated by William Auld.
Considers walking and other forms of mobility in terms of social expectations of urban movement and movers. Examines works by various authors, including Chaucer, Hoccleve, and Shakespeare.
Axelrod, Steven
Annuale Mediaevale 15 (1974): 109-24.
Critiques George Lyman Kittredge's notion of a feud between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk as "aesthetically displeasing," and argues instead that their tension is essentially jocular, a result of the Wife's hope that she can entice the Clerk. The…
Axton, Richard.
Toshiyuki Takamiya and Richard Beadle, eds. Chaucer to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Shinsuke Ando (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992), 33-43.
Explores the performative rather than formal aspects of tragedy in Chaucer, surveying contemporary use of the term and Chaucer's projections of his narrative personae as tragedians in TC, LGW (Philomene), MkT, and PhyT. Notes the incompatibility of…
Axton, Richard.
Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp.21-38.
Dr. Johnson called Gower "Chaucer's master." But who is creditor and who is debtor? The two poets allude to each other's work and appear to be mutually indebted; also, they share a large body of common stories, themes, and forms in their works. …
Axton, Richard.
Michel Bitot, ed., with Roberta Mullini and Peter Happe. Divers Toyes Mengled: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Culture in Honour of Andre Lascombes (Tours: Universite Francois Rabelais, 1996), pp. 83-100.
Examines theatricality in Chaucer's work evidenced in spatial representations, the specialized behavior of performers, and the presence of an audience in PrT, SNT, and MilT. Some attention to TC, HF, MkT, SqT, and FranT.
Azevedo, Natanael Duarte.
Graphos: Revista da Pós-Graduaçao em Letras 15.2 (2013): 122-49.
Explores the uses of the Seven Deadly Sins in David Fincher's movie, "Seven" (1995), comparing his treatment of the sins with that of Thomas Aquinas; includes discussion of how, in the film, attrition rather than contrition is involved, exemplifying…
Azinfar, Fatemeh Chehregosha.
Atheism in the Medieval Islamic and European World: The Influence of Persian and Arabic Ideas of Doubt and Skepticism on Medieval European Literary Thought (Bethesda, Md.: Ibex Publishers, 2008), pp. 233-65.
Azinfar reads the comic treatment of Dante in HF as a skeptical rejection of religious authority and discusses depictions of theological contradiction in Mars, Venus, and WBP. Chaucer's rationalism aligns him with other skeptics and atheists,…
Examines aspects of orality in CT (MilT, PardT), Boccaccio's "Decameron," and "Les cent nouvelles," focusing on features of transmission, secrecy, confession, and authentication. Considers HF.
In Japanese. For seven articles that pertain to Chaucer, search under Alternative Title for Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki.
Bachman, W. Bryant,Jr.
English Language Notes 13 (1976): 168-73.
The appearance of Mercury in Arcite's dream is usually thought to be derived from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', I. A more probable source, however, is Virgil's 'Aeneid', IV, where Mercury commands the hero to hasten on to Italy, just as in Chaucer Arcite…
Bachman, W. Bryant,Jr.
Chaucer Review 12 (1977): 55-67.
Contrary to prevailing criticism, Dorigien's rash promise is based on the reality of the experiential world. The tension arises when this reality appears an illusion, according to the Boethian concept of reality. When the world is neither real nor…
Bachman, William Bryant,Jr.
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 6696A.
By the fourteenth century Augustinian idealism had lost ground to rising confidence in the experiential world. TC, KnT, FranT, and NPT all reveal the movement towards determinism. The idealism of the ParsT forms an opposition to this movement.
Badendyck, J. Lawrence.
English Record 21 (1970): 113-25.
Challenges the notion that the descriptions of the pilgrims in GP are drawn from real-life models and compares and contrasts Chaucer's techniques with those of Guillaume de Lorris in "Roman de la Rose" and William Langland's in "Piers Plowman."…
Badessa, Richard Paul.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Indiana, 1967. Dissertation Abstracts International 28.10 (1968): 4114A. Full-text access at ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global; accessed September 14, 2023.
Surveys the conventions of English and French courtly literature, emphasizing backgrounds, setting, plot structure, the contributions of Machaut and Froissart, and the influence of the "Pearl." A closing chapter on BD explores how and in what ways…
Baechle, Sarah E.
Dissertation Abstracts International A77.04 (2015): n.p.
Considers marginal glossing in manuscripts of TC and CT as examples of actual reader experience of those texts, with an eye toward recognizing different interpretations and hermeneutic approaches from relatively contemporary readers.
Baechle, Sarah, and Carissa M. Harris.
Chaucer Review 56.4 (2021): 311-21.
Introduces a special edition centered on Chaucerian scholarship and its relationship to power, empire, class, race, and gender, suggesting how scholars can navigate the toxic nature of Chaucer and his writings. Considers how scholars can "write about…
