Like the "Gawain" poet, Chaucer manipulates tense for narrative purposes, often using the historical present to accentuate "key events, characters, and descriptions." Some of Chaucer's endings may have been added by scribes, making his exact…
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…
David, Alfred.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 15 (1993): 5-21.
Explores the "deep structure" of nostalgia in Chaucer's works. New/old and young/old oppositions indicate that BD and TC reflect Chaucer's desire for lost courtliness, while CT--especially WBP, WBT, PardP, and PardT--suggests his wish to accomodate a…
Everhart, Deborah Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1993): 3206A-7A.
Middle English "hap" develops a network of meanings among texts--from providential in "Patience"; to Chaucer's Boethian applications in TC; to the varied ill luck, astrological destiny, and providence of Malory--thus demonstrating the impossibility…
Middle English "ragen" acquires meanings within a defined semantic field of sexual activity and then attracts to itself a limited set of further energetic sexual meanings. Among instances illustrating this usage are GP (1.257), MilT (1.3774), and…
Sudo, Jun.
Takashi Suzuki and Tsuyoshi Mukai, eds. Arthurian and Other Studies Presented to Sunichi Noguchi. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 219-30.
Tallies Chaucer's uses of words and phrases derived from Old Norse, suggesting that they indicate Norse permeation of Chaucer's London dialect.
Chaucer employed color adjectives more extensively than did his contemporaries. He preferred basic colors and used them most in connection with human beings. Chaucer's most "colorful" poem is KnT, followed by Rom and GP. Often, his colors are used…
Examines the lyrics embedded in BD, LGWP, PF, and TC, considering their functions in context and the extent to which textual and codicological evidence can clarify the process of their incorporation. Contrasts these lyrics with French models in…
Boitani, Piero, and Anna Torti,eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993.
Ten essays on medieval theories of interpretation and modern approaches to medieval texts. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Interpretation: Medieval and Modern under Alternative Title.
Charles, Christopher Casey.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1993): 3199A.
Studies the ways "expressions of romantic fulfillment are disrupted by the excesses and inconsistencies that desire produces in the narrative developments and rhetorical gestures" of works about love by Chaucer, Montemayor, Sidney, and Shakespeare.
Dane, Joseph A.
Huntington Library Quarterly 56 (1993): 307-17.
Reviews John H. Fisher's "The Importance of Chaucer" (Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994), no. 35); Elaine Tuttle Hansen's "Chaucer and the FIctions of Gender" (Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994), no. 90); and the "Cluster on Chaucer" in…
Davis, Adam Brooke.
Chaucer Review 28 (1993): 54-66.
In TC, as in CT, Chaucer plays with genre, first postulating it and then blurring the reader's expectations of what it will do. Readers are forced to question the value of "Art as an interpreter of Life."
Dorrance, Nina Helen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1993): 2807A.
Though some of Chaucer's works are now considered ironic, satirical of the narrator's persona, Chaucer experimented with genuine pathos in SNT, MLT, PrT, SqT, and LGW.
Eberly, Susan Schoon.
David Chamberlain, ed. New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems (Lanham, Md.; New York; and London: University Press of America, 1993), pp. 15-39.
Surveys the biblical, folkloric, and courtly imagery of thorns and hawthorn trees, which indicate the "presence of misguided love." Considers use of the imagery in a wide variety of works, including KnT and some Chaucerian apocrypha.
Ebi, Hisato.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 371-82.
Compares the symbolism of Chaucer's poetry with that of the Wilton Diptych, focusing on the iconic meaning of the daisy.
Everest, Carol Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1993): 4331A.
Because modern medical theories tend to slight classical and medieval theories (Galen, Aristotle, Avicenna), some of Chaucer's works are usually imperfectly understood. (For instance, flatulence was associated with virility.)
Frantzen, Allen J.,with the assistance of Alta Cools Halama.ed.,
N.p. : Illinois Medieval Association, 1993.
Ten essays on topics related to medieval notions of afterlife, including several on Langland, Hoccleve, Gower, and Chaucer. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Four Last Things under Alternative Title.
Twenty-seven articles on Chaucer, Langland, Malory, and others. For fourteen essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.
Gerritsen, W. P.,and A. G. Van Melle,eds.
Nijmegen: SUN, 1993.
A dictionary of themes and topics in medieval literature and their legacy in later literature, the visual arts, opera, etc. Mentions Chaucers references to Arthur, Aeneas, Troilus, and Gawain.
Hallissy, Margaret.
Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood, 1993.
Using a tripartite structure of woman's role in society drawn from medieval codes of conduct, Hallissy explores Chaucer's depictions of women in light of accepted modes of behavior. Each section establishes medieval expectations for female behavior…
Hanawalt, Barbara A.
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Explores the biological and sociological understanding of childhood and adolescence in late-medieval London, demonstrating that the late Middle Ages "did recognize stages of life that corresponded to childhood and adolescence."
Hiltunen, Risto, Marita Gustafsson, Keith Battarbee, and Liisa Dahl, eds.
Turku: Turun Yliopisto, 1993.
Twenty-three essays on literary and linguistic topics, emphasizing linguistic or structuralist approaches to literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Far and Wide under Alternative Title.
