Wimsatt, James I.
Chaucer Newsletter 11:1 (1989): 1-2.
The "formes fixes" lyrics of Middle French, especially the ballade, are almost as influential for Chaucer's works as was the "Roman de la Rose." The "formes fixes"--ballade, rondeau, and virelay--were highly musical and connected with dancing.
Brown, Murray L.
Mediaevalia 11 (1989, for 1985): 219-44.
Conjectures that, while Deschamps may have met Chaucer in 1360, his "Ballade to Chaucer" was probably written in 1391 and reflects the association of Chaucer and Deschamps with the Order of the Passion of Jesus Christ in the late 1380s and early…
Evans, Robert C.
English Literary Renaissance 19 (1989): 324-45.
Discuses the complex response to Chaucer in Jonson's annotations on his copy of Thomas Speght's 1602 edition of Chaucer, especially the affinity of ethical and poetic thought, concentrating on two poems, "The Remedie of Love" and "Of the Cuckow and…
Gourlay, Alexander S.
Studies in Bibliography 42 (1989): 272-83.
Blake's catalogue of his 1809 exhibition describes his famous painting of the Canterbury pilgrims and includes modernized quotations from Chaucer. Blake probably used Speght's 1687 edition.
Studies the national and regional prominence of the Gloucestershire magnate Sir Thomas Berkeley (1352-1417) in relation to his literary patronage, especially of John Trevisa and of John Walton's verse translation (partly based on Chaucer's Bo) of…
Prescott, Anne Worthington.
Chaucer Newsletter 11:2 (1989): 1, 6-7.
Chaucer's "modernity" and "humanity" are experienced through his lyrics, says Prescott, who, as composer and librettist, has drawn her own original libretti from CT, HF, LGW, and TC and had them set to music by Roger Nixon.
Ikegami, Masa (T.)
Keio University Kyoyo-Ronan 80 (1989): 29-59.
Gives positive evidence of final "-e" in Chaucer's rhyme, especially in thirty-two rhyme sequences in which the distinction between two successive rhymes is made only by presence in one and absence from the other of final "-e".
Stanley, E. G.
Notes and Queries 234 (1989): 11-23, 151-62.
Reviews scholarship on meter and suggests that the verse of Chaucer's followers is more interestingly variant in context than is sometimes thought; emphasizes the central role of Hoccleve, some of whose work is available in holograph.
Boardman, Phillip C.
Francis X. Hartigan, ed. Essays in Honor of Wilbur S. Shepperson (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1989), pp. 239-51.
Boardman traces Chaucer's humanism in BD, HF, and PF, "where he evolved a language capable of serving both tradition and experience while reserving a critical, even skeptical, attitude toward them.... Chaucer is 'involved yet objective, detached yet…
Boitani, Piero.
Joerg O. Fichte, ed. Chaucer's Frame Tales (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 83-128.
Examines Marian prayers and images in Dante, de Guilleville, Petrarch, and Chaucer, who use prayers to the Virgin at crucial moments in their works. A comparative study illuminates religious ideals and narrative strategies in CT (PrT, SNT), TC, and…
Dinshaw, Carolyn.
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
In chapters on Adam, TC, LGW, MLT, WBT, ClT, and PardT, Dinshaw argues that Chaucer's writing constructs and engages a sexual poetics. She contends that "whoever exerts control of signification, of language and the literary act, is associated with…
Edwards, Robert R.
Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 1989.
Argues that Chaucer's dream visions are concerned with both "mimetic representation" (the narrator's story of his dream) and aesthetic systems. Chapter 1, "The Practice of Theory," discusses Chaucer's study of Latin, Italian, and French writers to…
Fisher, Sheila, and Janet E. Halley, eds.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
Twelve essays by various hands that stand "at the intersection of Anglo-American empirical historicism and French theories of textuality." Historical women were real in ways that are absent from writings. Essays are grouped under three headings:…
Frank, Robert Worth,Jr.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11 (1989): 5-14.
Argues that Chaucerians should assess more explicitly the consequences of critical readings: for instance, interpreting Alison of Bath as a murderer or Criseyde as having an incestuous affair with Pandarus.
The rare pre-Chaucerian fabliaux in English display affinities with exempla, drama, and inverted romance. Critics have long pondered why no fabliau tradition in English exists; they hypothesize scribal prudery or loss of many texts. Considering the…
Gallacher, Patrick J., and Helen Damico, eds.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
Essays began as papers read at the sixty-first annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, April 1986. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search under Alternative Title.
Haas, Renate.
Uwe Boker, Manfred Markus, and Ranier Schowerling, eds. The Living Middle Ages: Studies in Mediaeval English Literature and its Tradition. A Festschrift for Karl Heinz Goller. (Stuttgart: Belser, 1989), pp. 319-32.
Considers Furnivall's use of Chaucer and Langland in his teaching at the Working Men's College and analyzes some of his early editions and the political effect of his "pet book" among the EETS English Gilds volumes. Furnivall's endeavors and…
Hasenfratz, Robert Joseph.
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1989): 439A-440A.
Examines the emotional exploitation of the grotesque and sensational in the light of various modern critical views. Analyzes writings from Old English homilies to Margery Kempe, including Chaucer's ClT and PhyT.
In the allusions to infernal sufferers in medieval poems, the lover and the miser are often linked: both have lost their rational capacity, and the sins of both proceed from cupidity. Hence, such reference in BD and TC show that the Black Knight…
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Leeds Studies in English 20 (1989): 191-206.
Chaucer discovered tragedy as a narrative genre not from Boccaccio but from Boethius and from the glossator of his own copy of "De consolatione," who may have been Ralph Strode. Chaucer's concept of tragedy included the fall of the innocent as well…
