Investigates how historical and textual frames produce meaning. The book situates TC in the history of the Troy legend, discusses the importance of the text, reviews historically significant issues in the reception of TC, explains the concept of the…
Everhart, Deborah.
Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Feminea Medievalia I: Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Academia Press, 1993), pp. 23-42.
Uses Heidegger's language concerning the "concealing" and "unconcealing" of truth to examine the narrative layers through which readers interpret Criseyde's character. Criseyde's speeches subtly but forcefully unconceal her own "trouthe," raising…
Fleming, John V.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Interpretation: Medieval and Modern (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 189-200.
The narrator's fidelity and infidelity to sources are a major theme of TC, reflecting a tradition of translation theory and practice that extends back to Horace and is heavily influenced by Boethius.
Graybill, Robert (V.)
Proceedings of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 2 (1993): 90-98.
TC exemplifies the Aristotelian idea of tragedy, with Troilus undergoing the "perepetia" ("reversal") and the ending of the tale presenting a Christianized version of catharsis.
Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr.
Chaucer Review 27 (1993): 219-27.
The "Canticus Troili," Chaucer's adaptation of Petrarch's Sonnet 132, alters words and phrases from the original and concentrates on Petrarch's content rather than his form. But it also contains syntax and subject matter from Bo, which Chaucer had…
Jimura, Akiyuki.
Nobuyuki Yuasa et al., eds. Essays on English Language and Literature in Honour of Michio Kawai (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1993), pp. 53-60.
Jimura compares the vocabulary of Criseyde to that of Troilus and Pandarus, seeking to define characteristics of aristocratic women's language in the fourteenth century.
Jimura, Akiyuki.
Kiichiro Nakatani et al., eds. English and English Teaching: A Festschrift in Honour of Hisashi Takahashi and Jiro Igarashi (Hiroshima University: Department of English, Faculty of the School of Education, 1993), pp. 187-97.
Jimura compares the vocabulary of Criseyde to that of Troilus and Pandarus, seeking to define characteristics of aristocratic women's language in the fourteenth century.
Influenced by the conventions of Renaissance Petrarchism, Jonathan Sidnam's seventeenth-century translation/paraphrase of TC suppresses Chaucer's intimations that his poem may be read by both men and women in a way that transcends gender. Observing…
Sir Francis Kynaston's 1635 translation of TC into Latin verse emblemizes the Renaissance need to valorize the present by simultaneously distancing the medieval past and articulating a tradition of continuity with it.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Nobuyuki Yuasa et al., eds. Essays on English Language and Literature in Honour of Michio Kawai (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1993), pp. 45-52.
Discusses Chaucer's exploitation of the potential for ambiguity in such devices as cohesion, coherence, deixis, background assumptions, conversational implication, speech acts, and the narrative functions of speech.
Oka, Fumiko.
Takashi Suzuki and Tsuyoshi Mukai, eds. Arthurian and Other Studies Presented to Sunichi Noguchi. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 231-40.
Analytic survey of "herte" and its derivatives when used to mean "endearment" in TC. Follows Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 61.
Saito, Tomoko.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 355-69.
Examines Criseyde in light of medieval social and religious ideals of femininity.
Schricker, Gale C.
Philological Quarterly 72 (1993): 15-31.
The epilogue reveals that the narrator of TC undergoes (in Freudian terms) a neurotic crisis. Ultimately, however, he demonstrates the psychic health of his ego by integrating conflicting forces of the id (functions of the received tale), the…
Sudo, Jun.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 81-93.
In Chaucer's TC and in Boccaccio's "Filostrato," love is irresistible. Sudo considers Pandarus's role in effecting love's irresistibility and assesses the function of nautical imagery in conveying it.
Yatzeck, Elena.
Charles Lamb Bulletin 84 (1993): 126-35.
Yatzeck reads Godwin's "Life of Chaucer" as an extension of Godwin's social philosophy, which combines necessity and human perfectibility. Godwin reconstructs Chaucer's life and makes generalizations about medieval life to encourage readers to…
Dane, Joseph A.
Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, n.s., 7 (1993) : 18-27.
Collates versions of the epitaph on Chaucer's tomb to challenge assumptions underlying the Chaucer-Variorum choice of the Hengwrt manuscript as a base text. While Hengwrt may be close to Chaucer's original, the "movement" from Skeat to Hengwrt in…
Robinson, Peter
George P. Landow and Paul Delany, eds. The Digital Word: Text-based Computing in the Humanities (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993), pp. 271-91.
Critiques print-based critical editions of CT and "Piers Plowman," arguing that they are based on spelling- and punctuation-normalized texts that disguise so-called accidentals and may confuse the difference between accidentals and substantive…
Surveys problems with critical editions that distort readers' ideas of medieval literature and indicates directions for the scholarly study of manuscripts. The article refers repeatedly to manuscripts of Chaucer and of Langland.
Arden, Heather M.
New York and London: Garland, 1993.
An annotated bibliography focusing on "The Roman de la Rose," divided into five broad categories: the text of the poem; other works by or attributed to Jean de Meun; modern critical studies; influence; and miscellaneous. Arden provides an overview…
Kindrick, Robert L.
New York and London: Garland, 1993.
Summarizes fundamental information about Henryson and surveys his use of and familiarity with the medieval rhetorical arts ("ars poetriae," "ars dictaminis," and "ars praedicandi"). Kendrick mentions Chaucer throughout as a source and model for the…
Records a Latin poem written by Clemens upon visiting Chaucer's tomb. The poem indicates that Clemens was familiar with Chaucer through Sir Frances Kynaston's Latin version of TC 1-2.
Downes, Jeremy.
Journal of Narrative and Life History 3:2-3 (1993): 155-78.
A psychoanalytic analysis suggesting parallels between the "scopophilic" instinct represented in TC and the "extreme intertextuality" of the poem. Both are forms of the Oedipal complex whereby Criseyde, although she is finally unknowable, is for…
Storm, Melvin.
Studies in Scottish Literature 28 (1993): 105-22.
Chaucer's moral judgment of Troilus may be uncertain, and his judgment of Criseyde is definitely uncertain. Readers have attempted to clarify these judgments by appeals outside the text to law and theology; however, reading Henryson's "Testament" as…
