Herzman, Ronald B.
English Record 27.2 (1977): 18-21, 26.
The fabliaux must be studied in terms of inversion--the world upside down--evoking the chaos of Dante's hell. They reflect Pauline and Augustinian dichotomies between the flesh and the spirit, the City of Man and the City of God.
Herzman, Ronald B.
Papers on Language and Literature 10 (1974): 339-52
Several features of KnT indicate that the rules and forms of chivalry can dignify conduct but at the same time threaten to overwhelm or undercut what they are intended to achieve. Similar threats of form overwhelming content are evident in the tale's…
Herzog, Michael
Ashland, Oregon: Will Dreamly Arts, 2019.
Also available as ebook and audio book. Alternative title: This Passing World: The Journal of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is an historical novel, set in 1398, when in response to an upcoming duel between Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray, Chaucer decides to keep a journal of events.
Herzog, Michael B.
Chaucer Review 22 (1988): 269-81.
The issues raised by the narrative style of BD, particularly in the use of its ambivalent first-person narrator, suggest Chaucer's early interest in an art that maintains a tension between convention and innovation.
Hess, Lynn,and Caroline Duncan-Rose.
J. Peter Maher and others, eds. Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 13. Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, 4th series. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins B.V., 1982), pp. 293-322.
A structural analysis of discourse and narration in CT reveals that tense shifting heretofore considered a flaw by some, is actually a manifestation of Chaucer's extraordinary ear for idiom and his careful exploitation of his audience's feel for…
Hettinger, Eugen, and John Cumming, eds.
London: Search Press, 1973.
Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a selection of excerpts, including a passage by Chaucer (unidentified), translated by Cumming; the volume is illustrated by Klaus Meyer-Gasters.
Heuston, Edward F.
Notes and Queries 209 (1964): 20-21.
Asserts that the source of the echoes from Chaucer in William Wordsworth's "Liberty" is ManT 9.163-74 rather than SqT 5.610-20 even though the Chaucerian passages are analogous.
Hewett-Smith, Kathleen M.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991): 99-119.
Furnivall's printed transcriptions of TC manuscripts have created a legacy of errors, especially in editions based on Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 61 (Cp). Hewett-Smith identifies errors in Robinson's edition and exemplifies the transmission…
Hewett-Smith, Kathleen M., ed.
New York and London : Routledge, 2001.
Ten essays on Piers Plowman, including three that pertain to Chaucer. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for William Langland's Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays under Alternative Title.
Hewitt, Kathleen.
Papers on Language and Literature 25 (1989): 19-35.
BD "questions the very nature of the relation between text and interpretation." Each of the four divisions of the poem examines a different relation of source and text.
PF arranges its source materials in the dream narrative to repeat the fall from unity represented schematically by the universal disequilibrium in Cicero's "Dream of Scipio".
Heydon, Peter N.
Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 51 (1966): 529-45.
Argues that Chaucer was influenced by the now-lost Prologue to "Sir Orfeo" of the Auchinleck manuscript, evident in similarities in "concept, diction, and syntax" between the FranP and the extant versions of the "Orfeo" prologue and between the…
In response to Edward Said's charge that modern academic criticism is compliant and depoliticized, Heyns argues that an astute critical reading renders KnT a "distant mirror" capable of showing us as much of contemporary reality as the daily…
Heyworth, Gregory George.
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 4375A, 2001.
Transmission of ancient Greek and Roman culture through Ovid to later tradition affected romance and shaped attitudes in popular literature. Heyworth discusses works by Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, Chaucer (with emphasis on politics in the…
Heyworth, Gregory.
South Bend, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009.
Six studies on literature ranging from Marie de France to Milton. In the chapter on Chaucer, Heyworth examines medieval cultural values and suggests that Chaucer complicates those values, particularly marriage. KnT and FranT depict the social…
Aligns vernacularity with visual and verbal profanity, observing occurrences in MilPT in which Chaucer "indulges in vernacular eschatology" and "moves to suppress it." Heyworth reads the window scene of MilT in light of medieval guides to…
Heyworth, P. L.
P. L. Heyworth, ed. Medieval Studies for J. A. W. Bennett (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), pp. 140-57.
The punctuation of medieval texts, including Chaucer's, imperfectly shows relationships between parts of the sentence. Standardized punctuation adopted in early Chaucer reprints often confuses meaning.
Heyworth, P. L., ed.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.
The festschrift includes fifteen essays on medieval topics: Langland, medieval music, Gower, poetry and art, drama, punctuation, the "arbor caritatis," Thomas More, Sir John Fastolf, and articles on Chaucer and related matters. For six essays that…
Heyworth, P. L., ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Edits "Jack Upland" (wrongly attributed to Chaucer from the 16th century to the 18th), along with "Friar Daw's Reply" and "Upland's Rejoinder," with full critical apparatus.
Hickey, Helen M., Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
Fourteen essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors, all inspired by or in response to the critical studies of Stephanie Trigg. The introduction describes the "affective" criticism underlying Trigg's "Congenial Souls," "Shame and…
Hickey, Raymond, and Stanislaw Puppel, eds.
Berlin and New York : Mouton, 1997.
One hundred and thirty-five selections by various authors, ranging widely in linguistics theory and practice, English language history, contrastive linguistics and language acquisition, and discourse analysis. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer,…
Hicks, James E.
Essays in Medieval Studies 3: 78-98, 1986.
In PardPT, Chaucer inverts three major precepts of Augustinian sermon rhetoric ("De Doctrina Christiana"): the preacher must pray before preaching, the preacher must maintain a grave and appropriate demeanor, and the preacher must maintain Christian…
Hicks, Michael A.
London: Shepheard-Walwyn; Chicago: St. James, 1991.
Biographical dictionary of some 200 political and cultural people of late-medieval England, "Englishmen" and "Englishwomen," along with "foreigners prominent in English history," arranged chronologically by life-dates, with descriptive and…
