Hoffman, Richard L.
Notes and Queries 209 (1964): 287-88.
Maintains that the Wife of Bath's knowledge of the "remedies of love" and of the "art" of love's "olde daunce" (GP 1.475-76) refer to, respectively, Ovid's "Remedia Amoris" and "Ars Amatoria," familiar to her, perhaps ("per chaunce") because Jankyn…
Hoffman, Richard L.
Classica et Mediaevalia 25 (1964): 263-72.
Surveys arguments that seek to identify sources and analogues to the claim in KnT 1.1625-26 that neither love nor lordship "likes competition with another of its kind," citing similarities with TC 2.755-56, FranT 5.764-67, and others, and arguing…
Hoffman, Richard L.
R. M. Lumiansky and Herschel Baker, eds. Critical Approaches to Six Major English Works: "Beowulf" through "Paradise Lost" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968). pp. 41-80.
Describes scholarly accomplishments and critical trends in Chaucer studies between 1940 and 1968--editions, source-and-analogue studies, and psychological, theological, and philosophical approaches. Explores the concept of the doubleness in love (two…
Hoffman, Richard Lester.
Dissertation Abstracts International 25.03 (1965): 5280A.
Examines the "nature and extent" of Ovid's influence on CT, identifying wide-ranging allusions to various Ovidian works and providing parallel passages, assessing Chaucer's emulation of Ovidian techniques and considering Chaucer's uses of…
Surveys the influence of Petrarchan materials and traditions in European literature of various eras, including brief comments (p. 45) on Chaucer's uses of Petrarchan materials.
Hogan, Moreland H. Jr.
Chaucer Review 5.3 (1971): 245-46.
Identifies a version of the "Lover's Gift Regained" plot in a modern oral narrative recorded in South Carolina; comments on particular parallels with ShT.
Hoggart, Carol Ann.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Curtin University, 2019), available at https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/76105 (accessed November 10, 2021).
A "creative-production" thesis, comprising the first half of a work of historical fiction titled "The Jerusalem Tales," focusing on the Wife of Bath; analysis of the narrative based on Elizabeth Fowler's theory of "social persons"; and analysis of…
Holahan, Michael
Richardson, David A., ed. Spenser and the Middle Ages: Proceedings from a Special Session at the Eleventh Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan 2-5 May 1976 (Cleveland: Cleveland State University, 1976), pp. 230-36.
Reads Spenser's address to Chaucer in "The Faerie Queene," Book 4, as a declaration of independence as well as an acknowledgement of influence and dependency, arguing that Spenser "locates himself beyond the Middle Ages by invoking medievalisms"…
Holahan, Michael.
David A. Richardson, ed. Spenser: Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern (Cleveland State University, 1977), pp. 116-31. [Microfiche available from the Department of English.]
Both Chaucer and Spenser make use of the qualified or unresolved ending. The outer limit of Chaucer's work is doctrine. Spenser seems to hold out hope for absolute vision.
Offers a psychotherapeutic approach to literature, including discussion of Chaucer's "Marriage Group" (pp. 91-120). Praises WBP for its feminine acceptance of the realities of love and the simultaneous pursuit of the desire to transcend them. The…
Holbrook, Peter.
Modern Philology 107 (2009): 96-125.
Contrasts the dispassionate modernist criticism of T. S. Eliot with the more emotional criticism of F. J. Furnivall, arguing that Furnivall is "passionately committed to libertarian tradition in English poetry, a tradition whose founts he locates in…
Hole, Jennifer.
Jennifer Hole. Economic Ethics in Late Medieval England, 1300-1500 (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 99-125.
Surveys literary depictions of economic ideals and economic abuses among the aristocracy in ParsT; Form Age; Wynnere and Wastoure"; "Piers Plowman"; and works by Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, focusing on the "portrayal of lords and rulers, both as…
Holford-Strevens, Leofranc.
Notes and Queries 240 (1995): 164-65.
In light of a passage in a Bibliotheque Nationale Paris manuscript, the sense of the phrase "quid iuris questio" in GP is "The question arises of what is the law (upon these facts)."
Holland, James Nathaniel.
[Independently Published], 2021.
Item not seen. YouTube demo (accessed May 21, 2024) indicates that this opera includes an overture and adaptations of four portions of CT: FranT ("For All the Rocks Off Brittany"), PardT ("Une Danse Macabre"), WBT ("What All Women Want"), and MerT…
Holland, Nancy Bernhardt.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 90A-91A.
Despite some unenthusiastic criticism and even denial of his authorship of parts of the play, Shakespeare adapts KnT faithfully, reorienting its topicality, redesigning it for the stage, and broadening its focus.
Holland, Norman N.
College English 28 (1967): 279-90.
Reads WBT psychoanalytically, exploring its "sexual taboos," its phallic and vaginal significations, and the sexual fantasy that is "at the heart of the story." The tension between authority and submission in the Tale conveys meaning equally well for…
Examines various possible sources for Shakespeare's play, including KnT, arguing that such sources must be considered in light of the audience's perception.
Hollander, John.
Modern Language Notes 71.6 (1956): 397-99.
Suggests that the insertion of "prolaciouns" in Bo 2.pr.1 was intended as a technical clarification of the preceding "moedes," potentially misleading to English readers who could read it as either "mood" or "mode." The insertion may evince the…
Hollander, Robert.
Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 11 (2011): 1-28.
Explores Chaucer's "nuanced reworkings" of his source texts in the last twelve stanzas of TC, focusing on his adaptations of Boccaccio's "Filostrato," his "Teseida," and Dante's "Commendia," but also commenting on uses of Virgil, Statius, and…
Holley, Linda Tarte.
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 8075A.
Medieval thinkers reverenced the word for its power to give order to experience, but Chaucer throughout his writings calls attention to the unreliability of the word.
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…
Holley, Linda Tarte.
Chaucer Review 21 (1986): 26-44.
Optics as expounded by Roger Bacon provided the theory of perspective and radiating lines; architecture and manuscript illumination provided the technique of viewing scenes and personages through a frame. In TC, there are physical, verbal,…
