Forum letter in which Braxton, disagreeing with Pamela Michaela Paasche, claims that closure is evident in Chaucer's works when his male point of view is recognized, and presents MerT as a "case in point."
Tripp, Raymond P., Jr.
Geardagum 14 (1993): 89-110.
Assesses "St. Erkenwald" as hagiography, exploring in particular its orthodoxy and the relation of the Saint and the Judge. Also compares the "rationalism" of the poem with that of KnT and its elegiac qualities with those of BD.
North, J. D.
Noriss S. Hetherington, ed. Cosmology: Historical, Literary, Philosophical, Religious, and Scientific Perspectives (New York: Garland, 1993), pp. 217-24.
Comments generally on Chaucer's scientific knowledge, explains his use and understanding of "Aristotelian cosmology," and describes the astronomical and astrological systems that underlie the details and structures of many of his works. Assumes that…
Thomas, Eberle, and Barbara Redmond.
New Orleans: Anchorage Press, 1993.
Adaptation for the stage of WBT, ClT, SumT, MancT, FranT, and PardT, presented as a single play in which there is a tale-telling contest framed by the actions of two thieves (a Miller and a Plowman) who join a group of five pilgrims (Chaucer, the…
Ghaly, Salwa.
Hoda Gindi, ed. Encounters in Language and Literature (Cairo: Department of English Language and Literature. Faculty of Arts, University of Cairo, 1993), pp. 447-56.
Explores the "tensions" between the narrator and "author-subject" of TC, assessing how (as in other medieval works) the author's "signature" is found within the narrative rather than in its paratext. Such embedded signatures are characteristic of…
Fictional autobiography of Chaucer in which he recounts the arrival of a thirty-first Canterbury pilgrim, a woman who narrates how she has been impregnated by an extraterrestrial being. Illustrated by Giselda Leirner. In Portuguese.
[Daniel, Ted, and Florence Daniel, eds.]
Portland, Ore.: New Wave Publishers, 1993.
Digitalized public domain edition of CT, reproduced on the Internet recurrently and issued by ebrary in 2001 (not seen; cited in WorldCat, with link to title-page preview).
Clancy, Gertrude and Joseph.
Aberystwyth: Northgate, 1993.
Murder mystery which features Chaucer, pilgrims from CT, and historical figures, cast as a series of narratives told while the pilgrims pause at the Priory of Saint Innocents.
Ecker, Roland L.
Palatka, Fla.: Hodges and Braddock, 1993
A defense of evolution cast as an imitation of CT, with a prologue and several arguments in iambic pentameter, presented as the tales of the Astronomer, the Philosopher, the Physicist, the Biblical Scholar, the Cosmologist, etc. Revised editions in…
Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr., Jason Edward Streed, and William H. Watts, eds.
Carmina Philosophiae 2 (1993): 55-104.
Publishes "for the first time a full transcription of an anonymous Middle English translation of Book I of the "Consolation of Philosophy" which is held by the Bodleian Library of Oxford University and catalogued as MS AUCT. F.3.5," drawing the title…
Offers a theoretical model for representing language--both oral and literary--and analyzes various modes of discourse such as direct discourse, free indirect discourse, dual voicing, etc. Observes at one point (p. 369) that "Chaucer's free indirect…
Allen, Mark,and Bege K. Bowers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994): 311-94.
Continuation of SAC annual bibliography (since 1975); based on 1992 MLA Bibliography listings, with contributions from an international bibliographic team and independent research. A total of 404 items, including reviews.
Burnley, David,and Matsuji Tajima.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1994.
An annotated bibliography of 1,335 studies, arranged chronologically (1865-1900) within three broad categories: Early Middle English, Later Middle English, and dissertations. Includes studies in which "linguistic description has been used to cast…
Watts, William H.,and Richard J. Utz.
Medievalia et Humanistica 20 (1994): 147-73.
Surveys and evaluates scholarly work on Chaucer and nominalist--especially Ockhamist--philosophy, using four categories: epistemology, universals versus particulars, poetic structure, and relation of human to divine. Chaucer's awareness of and…
Fischer, Andreas,and Roland Luthi.
Archiv fur das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 231 (1994): 44-58.
An annotated bibliography of thirty German translations of Chaucer's works published between 1826 and 1992, with additional commentary that notes patterns of reception.
Fisher, John H.
Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship 6 (1994): 165-80.
Since no authorial text of CT or TC is available for a best-text edition, a combination of the habits or "uses" of the earliest scribes, with spelling normalized to accord with Equat, should be used to produce an edition. Fisher exemplifies such an…
Kendrick, Laura.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 46 (1994): 926-38.
Explores wordplay involving French and Anglo-Norman "bords" that may have authorized the use of the borders of medieval illuminated manuscripts for visual jesting, contestation, and derision. Considers the verbal "borders" of CT in relation to this…
McClellan, William.
Studies in Bibliography 47 (1994): 89-103.
Three important omissions (including omission of ClP) strip the HM140 text of ClT of its "Canterbury" context. Whether these were deliberate excisions or a consequence of problems in production cannot be demonstrated conclusively.
