Hernández Pérez, M. Beatriz.
I. Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño, ed. Re-Interpretations [sic] of English. Essays on Literature, Culture and Film (I) ([La Coruña]: Universidade da Coruña, 2001), pp. 85-101.
Explores issues of persona, authorship, and reception in Th and Mel, focusing on the links between Tales, the Host's role, and the "evolution" of the pilgrim Chaucer.
Kimmelman, Burt.
Ian Frederick Moulton, ed. Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 25-44.
Surveys representations of reading in literature from Abélard and Héloise to Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich, including commentary on TC. The "autonomy of the reader" developed in the fourteenth century.
Ullyot, Michael.
Ian Frederick Moulton, ed. Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 45-62.
Assesses how two seventeenth-century modernizations reflect the reception of their Middle English originals. Jonathan Sidnam's modernization of the first three books of TC (ca. 1630) offers respectful tribute to Chaucer and seeks to preserve his…
Pearsall, Derek.
Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie, eds. John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book (London: British Library, 2004), pp. 119-25.
Despite his expertise, Stow was not associated directly with Speght's 1598 edition. Speght "was able to ornament the edition with the names of his eminent friends," while Stow, lacking class, continued behind the scenes, providing "barrowloads of…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie, eds. John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book (London: British Library), pp. 109-18.
Considers the texts Stow used in his career. His 1561 edition of Chaucer is marked less by its engagement with Chaucer than by the inclusion of Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes." The evidence of Stow's annotations suggests interest in Lydgate but a…
Driver, Martha.
Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie, eds. John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book (London: British Library), pp. 135-43.
Driver assesses "Stow's pervasive intellectual influence on two later antiquarian readers of Chaucer." To Browne and Le Neve, Stow's edition was "a highly regarded and trusted exemplar, used to supply omissions, correct errors, and add notes."
Dane, Joseph A.
Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie, eds. John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book (London: British Library), pp. 145-55.
Traces Stow's declining reputation among eighteenth- and nineteenth-century editors of Chaucer as well as a gradual revival of appreciation of Stow's edition, first among bibliophiles and later with modern Chaucerians. Dane examines the variants in…
McGillivray, Murray.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 1-15.
Explores the possibilities of representing medieval manuscripts within the present limits of technology and the normal scholar's finances, using TEI-SGML (Text Encoding Initiative-Standard Generalized Markup Language) and some graphic representation.…
Burnley, David.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 123-40
Burnley describes progress to date, suggesting how the textbase can illuminate the "linguistic architecture" of Chaucer and his contemporaries, e.g., Chaucer's use of final -"e", his lexicon and style, and his relation to his contemporaries.
Reimer, Stephen R.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 161-76.
Summarizes questions of Lydgate's canon and its relation to Chaucerian apocrypha. Describes a series of computer-assisted stylistic analyses used to clarify the canon, showing that Lydgate tends to use "large and complex syntactic structures" and…
Robinson, Peter.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 17-47.
Indicates the enormous variation in manuscripts of CT by summarizing variants between the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of WBP--thus providing evidence of the need for computer-assisted collation and recension. Surveys practical difficulties of…
Bestul, Thomas H.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 177-87
Describes formats of existing compendia of Chaucer's sources and analogues, emphasizing their limitations. Uses MkT materials to exemplify potential advantages of a hypertext source-and-analogue compilation for Chaucer's corpus.
McCarty, Willard.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 49-65.
Briefly surveys the practice of concordance making and assesses the limitations of Tatlock and Kennedy's concordance to Chaucer (1927) and Oizumi's computer-assisted but conventionally printed one (1991). Some of the limitations of traditional…
Arthur, Karen.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 67-85.
Demonstrates the utility of the text-retrieval program "TACT" by examining references to death and cold in TC. Sketches the "vocabulary" of death in the poem, assesses the words in their contexts (especially Pandarus's threats of death to Criseyde),…
Chapman, Don.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 87-98.
Computer-assisted analysis of the 276 neologisms in Bo produces statistical descriptions of their source languages,their distribution in Bo, and their occurrences in other works by Chaucer. The analysis underpins surmises about the range and nature…
Lancashire, Ian.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 99-122
Defines repetends as either (1) "repeating fixed phrases," or (2) "repeating collocations" in which word order may change and other words may intervene. Computer-assisted tabulation of repetends enables stylistic comparison of ManPT to GP,…
Benson, Larry D.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 141-60.
Describes the production of a computer-generated "glossarial concordance" to Chaucer in which meanings, variant spellings, and occurrences are presented; see Benson's "Glossarial Concordance." Describes the uses of such a concordance and the…
Translation of CT (except PrT, Mel, and ParsT) in Romanian poetry, based on the text of W. W. Skeat, with b&w illustrations of the pilgrims and the tales by Val Munteanu. The volume reprints with new pagination the 1964 version (Bucharest: Editura…
Hager, Peter J.,and Ronald J. Nelson.
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 36 (1993): 87-94.
Astr shows how technical writers can "judiciously incorporate into their writing such central rhetorical components as coherent structure, appropriate content, accurate and precise descriptions, personable tone, effective metadiscourse, and varied…
Edden, Valerie.
Ilha do Desterro 18:2 (1987):15-33.
Analyzes MilT "using a theory of narrative analogous with transformational grammar," which assumes not merely a "grammar of narrative" but also "narrative competence," or ability of the reader or hearer to understand. Edden explores the function of…
Cawsey, Kathy.
Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2020), pp. 13-43.
Argues that in its adaptations of poetic traditions (particularly representations of the four elements and "ars grammatica") and in dealing "explicitly with the problematics of language and poetry," HF is "almost an anti-'ars-poetica'." In it,…
Hira, Toshinori.
In [Anonymous ed.,] Essays in English and American Literature: In Commemoration of Professor Takejiro Nakayama's Sixty-First Birthday (Tokyo: Shohakuska, 1961), pp. 31-44.
Offers historical context for and commentary on the characterizations of the pilgrims in the CT who may be considered "gentry," both those of traditional gentle birth and those on the rise as a class of new gentry.
Keller, Wolfram R.
In Achim Aurnhammer and Rainer Stillers, eds. Giovanni Boccaccio in Europa: Studien zu seiner Rezeption in Spätmittelalter and Früher Neuzeit (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014), pp. 261-75.
Explores how Chaucer's transformation of Boccaccio's Criseide in "Filostrato" to Criseyde in TC is analogous to his negotiation of authorial arrogance ("Arroganz") and humility ("Bescheidenheit") in relation to ancient authority.
Pigg, Daniel F.
In Albrecht Classen, ed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age: A Cultural-Historical Investigation of the Dark Side of the Pre-Modern World (Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 2021), pp. 347-60.
Argues that the "unique aspect" of the depiction of imprisonment in KnT is that the "only liberation that can happen is apparently at the end of this life, which is seen as a prison," hence "hardly a liberation at all." Comments on Chaucer's likely…
