Morse, Ruth, and Barry Windeatt,eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Eighteen articles by colleagues, friends, and former pupils honor Derek Brewer's retirement and serve as a tribute to his achievements in the study of medieval literature and especially of Chaucer. Responses to Chaucer and Chaucer's tradition treat…
Miller, Paul Scott.
Dissertation Abstracts International 51 (1990): 1222A.
Although classical, Renaissance, and modern satire may represent recognizable genres, a definition of medieval satire must be sought through consideration of how classical satirists were studied in medieval schools and how three poets wrote.
Kessel-Brown, Deidre.
Medium Aevum 59 (1990): 228-45.
Medieval literature utilizes landscape symbolism for both positive and negative emotional effects. The article touches on KnT, FranT, BD, and medieval lyrics.
Kallstrom, Martha Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 3945A.
The deserted woman, deriving from classical sources through medieval tradition, embodied the conflict of "amor" and "pietas." Appearing in allusion, exempla, and the poems HF, LGW, MLT, FranT, Anel, and TC, the deserted woman demonstrates for…
Both Spearing and Leicester focus on the question of authorial intention as an interpretive norm. By acknowledging that Chaucer may intend private allusions, Spearing opens the possibility that one audience's "use" is another audience's "allusion,"…
Holley, Linda Tarte.
Houston, Tex.: Rice University Press, 1990.
Explores Chaucer's use of "the physics of measurement," an aspect of the science of optics (new in Chaucer's day), which measured "motion and relationships among objects inside a framed space." Chaucer's "verbal structures often move as the eye…
Heinrichs, Katherine.
University Park and London : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990.
Examines "conventions governing allusions to certain Ovidian and Virgilian tales of love in the works of Boccaccio, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer," addressing "questions of narrative voice, thematic unity, and purpose" and concentrating on…
Although Chaucer criticism divides into prefeminist, feminist, and postfeminist eras, postfeminist criticism often lapses into prefeminist exclusion of female readers and critics by assuming transhistorical categories of the masculine and feminine…
Haigney, Catherine Reisky.
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 2046A-2047A.
Although earlier dream visions aimed at revelation of universal truths, Chaucer's poems in this mode present individuals who achieve no direct answers to their questions. William of Ockham, not necessarily a direct influence, provides methods for…
Hahn, Thomas, ed.
Special Issue of Exemplaria 2 (1990):1-353.
A collection of seventeen essays arising out of a conference entitled "History/Text/Theory: Reconceiving Chaucer," held at the University of Rochester on 21-23 April 1988. The essays use the discourses of modern literary theory to reconsider the…
Chaucer studies are often considered neutral and unpoliticized, whether they are subjective, personalized readings, or objective and "professionalized." The construction of the Middle Ages as unalterably "Other," combined with the lack of a…
Goodman, Thomas A.
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 1607A.
Religious learning as an aid for salvation is a theme running through late-fourteenth-century works including CT, Piers Plowman, and Wycliffite writing. Chaucer satirizes scholastic studies in WBT, FrT, and SumT. Although not involved in the…
Gloss, Teresa Guerra.
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 3221A.
Humor may be classified as visual, antirepressive, and linguistic-stylistic (sophisticated and often ironic). Gloss treats seven authors of four nationalities, including Chaucer.
Gaylord, Alan T.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 12 (1990): 215-38.
Review article evaluating Chaucerian videotapes distributed by Films for the Humanities and tape cassettes of the Chaucer Studio produced subsequent to Betsy Bowden's guide to recorded Middle English (Garland, 1988). Ford Madox Brown's painting…
Chaucer represents popular discourse as analogous to social, historical, and even apocalyptic disruption. He thus variously attempts to contain and to release its power: In TC, disruption can be temporarily contained by heroic action; in KnT, it…
A comparison of Chaucer's narrators and the narrative voices of the "Roman" may clarify the continuing debates on the characteristics of his narrators, their function within the dream poems, and their relation to other narrative voices.
Doob, Penelope Reed.
Ithaca, N.Y., and London : Cornell University Press, 1990.
Considers models, taxonomy, metaphor, etymologies, and verbal implications of the labyrinth; mazes in medieval art and architecture; moral labyrinths; and textual labyrinths in medieval literature. Examines Chaucer's use of the labyrinth in BD, CT,…
A collection of essays previously published, to which Delany has added a new essay, "Run Silent, Run Deep: Heresy and Alchemy as Medieval Versions of Utopia," to examine utopian discourse in the Middle Ages.
Chance, Jane, trans.
Newburyport, Mass. : Focus Information Group, 1990.
In her introduction, Chance treats the life and works of Christine de Pizan, the origins of Pizan's "gynocentric mythography" and the debate over the "Rose," medieval genealogy of the gods, and the "Letter of Othea" as a mythographic text, with…
Chance, Jane, ed.
Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 1990.
A collection of articles covering mythographic art in the literature of early France, early England (Chaucer), and Renaissance England (Shakespeare). Chance defines mythography as "the explanation of classical mythology that often involves…
Chance, Jane.
Jane Chance, ed. The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England (Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1990), pp. 3-44.
In ParsP, the Parson vehemently rejects the "lies" of pagan fables, as in the scandalous ManT. Yet, medieval poets often used "unseemly stories of the gods"--especially stories dealing with love, sex, and immorality--for their own political or moral…
Carruthers, Mary (J.)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
In an interdisciplinary study drawing upon "modern hermeneutical theory; art history and codicology; psychology and anthropology; the histories of medicine, education, and of meditation and spirituality," Carruthers posits that "medieval culture was…
Busby, Keith, and Erik Kooper, eds.
Amsterdam : John Benjamins, 1990.
Forty-five selected papers on courtly literature. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Courtly Literature: Culture and Context under Alternative Title.
