Isaacs, Neil D.
American Notes and Queries 1 (1962): 52-53.
Suggests that the version of the Constance story in the Middle English romance "Emare" may help to account for why in MLP the Man of Law says that he learned the story from a merchant.
Isaacs, Neil D.
Notes and Queries 206 (1961): 328-29.
Explains complications in defining "furlong wey" when it refers to time rather than distance, and examines Chaucer's several uses of the term to argue that it means "a short time, sometimes very short, sometimes only fairly short.
Isenor, Neil,and Ken Woolner.
Physics Today 3 (1980): 114-16.
HF 782-834 displays an uncanny foreknowlege of details of the modern theory of sound and wave motion, especially in lines 809-13, where, in a great creative leap of scientific imagination, the motion of water waves is transferred to the propagation…
Ishiharada, Masahiro.
Hisayuki Sasamoto et al., eds. Hearts to the English-American Language and Literature: Essays Presented to Emeritus Professor Sutezo Hirose in Honour of His 88th Birthday (Osaka: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 1999), pp. 19-39 (in Japanese)
Collates variants between manuscripts and modern printed editions of GP, based on the catalog of variants in Manly and Rickert and the Variorum GP.
Ishino, Harumi.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 337-53.
Examines the relations between Chaucer's figures of Nature in PF and Alain de Lille's "De planctu natura," considering several notions derived from Alain: "multiplex," "deficiens," "mutablile," and "concordia discors."
Considers Chaucer's idea of nature in CT, assessing its relationship to Renaissance humanism, to scholarship and various arts, and to conceptions of the celestial world and natural science. Also gauges the influence of Chaucer's view of nature on…
Ishizaka, Ko.
Michio Kawai, ed. Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honour of Michio Masui. The English Association of Hiroshima (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1991), pp. 277-88.
Assesses how words of specific actions--such as "sing," "dance," and "play"--operate lexically and how they can help produce a courtly atmosphere by expressing the joy of love.
Ito, Eiko.
Studies in English Literature (Tokyo), English number (1978): 65-89.
An analysis of reflexive verbs in Chaucer within the case grammar framework. It shows the possibility of the semantic motivation of the reflexive pronoun and of a finer distinction of reflexivity in terms of the semantic relationship among the verb,…
Ito, Masayoshi.
Studies in English Literature (Tokyo) 46 (1969): 29-44.
Analyzes "rime riche" (identical rhyme) in Gower's poetry, focusing on the "abundance" of rime-riche couplets in "Confessio Amantis," and discussing a number of points of comparison and contrast with Chaucer's practice in his verse. Revised version:…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 80-100.
Explores Gower's development of his Tale of Jason and Medea in light of its sources and multiple analogues, emphasizing its success as a "beautiful love story." Includes points of comparison with Chaucer's version in LGW. Originally published in…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 101-18.
Compares Gower's art and skill in using rhyme royal stanzas with Chaucer's, arguing that Chaucer's are superior and more flexibly adapted to narrative, largely because the "fetters of the ballade stanza" constrain Gower's dexterity. Originally…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 39-59.
Compares and contrasts the style, characterization, sentiment, and structure of nine narratives of shared subject matter among Chaucer's and Gower's works. Concludes that Gower's are superior in formal features, "such as balance and unity," but that…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 25-38.
Compares the aesthetic virtues and limitations of MLT in comparison with Gower's Tale of Constance, observing how Gower's account is more proportionate than Chaucer’s, even though the latter exhibits more complex characterization, humor, and…
Collects fifteen essays by Itô, thirteen previously printed (most in Japanese); all here are translated into English in revised form. Gower's relation to Chaucer is a recurrent concern, along with rhetoric, style, sources, themes, verse forms, and…
Ives, Carolyn, and David Parkinson.
Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline, eds. Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999), pp. 186-202.
Political and religious struggles of the late sixteenth century encouraged Scottish misogyny and treatment of Chaucer as a "misogynist authority." As is most clearly evident in the Bannatyne manuscript, Chaucer's works and his apocrypha were used to…
Iwakuni, Tomoko.
Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 79-93.
Closely compares the opening portion of Rom with its French source and points out that Chaucer's translations of verb tenses are faithful to the original French text. Suggests Chaucer may have attempted to express a combination of the preterit and…
Iwasaki, Haruo.
Key-Word Studies in Chaucer 1 (1984): 15-32.
Gives frequency of "gan" in each work by Chaucer, an exhaustive list of verbs in this construction, and rhythmical patterns according to frequency. Chaucer used the "gan" periphrasis in a conscious, stereotyped way.
Iyeiri, Yoko, and Margaret Connolly, eds.
Tokyos : Kaibunsha, 2002.
Fourteen essays by various authors, seven on Old and Middle English linguistics and seven on medieval literature, including romance and Arthurian literature, Chaucer, Malory, Caxton, devotional writing, and manuscript studies. The volume includes an…
Iyeiri, Yoko.
Yoko Iyeiri and Margaret Connolly, eds. And Gladly Wolde He Lerne and Gladly Teche: Essays on Medieval English Presented to Professor Matsuji Tajima on His Sixtieth Birthday (Tokyo: Kaibunsha, 2002, pp. 127-43.
Examines occurrences of "any" in four Middle English texts, including CT. The word occurs more frequently in negative contexts in formal tales (KnT, ClT, Mel, and ParsT) than elsewhere.
Analysis of Bo, Mel, and ParsT reveals that preverbal "ne" unsupported by a postverbal "not" appears most often with "forms of be, will, and witen"; moreover, this construction is more likely to appear in subordinate clauses than in main clauses.
Iyeiri investigates negative constructions in five versions of Bo, discussing the relative chronology of the witnesses to the text and, more generally, the editing of Middle English texts.
