Serrano Reyes, Jesus L.
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 04 (1994): 20-47.
Describes the Host's speech habits, assessing how they characterize him and how his various forms of address depict him as pilgrim, master of ceremonies, philosopher, etc.
Crepin, Andre.
Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok, eds. Nouveaux mondes et mondes nouveaux au Moyen Age. Actes du colloque du Centre d'Etudes Medievales de l'Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, mars 1992. Greifwsalder Beitrage zum Mittelalter, no. 37. WODAN ser., no. 20 (Greifswald: Reineke, 1994), pp. 29-34.
Explores the foreign, exotic elements of SqT, commenting on its setting, its inclusion of marvelous objects, and its relations with other literature set in the Orient.
Copeland, Rita.
Sarah Kay and Miri Ruben, eds. Framing Medieval Bodies (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994), pp. 138-59.
Explores the roles of sexuality and gender in the institutional history of rhetoric and argues that the Pardoner's ambiguity dramatizes a double sense of rhetoric, both as an academic discipline and as a regulated body of practice.
Bidard, Josseline.
Leo Carruthers, ed. Heroes and Heroines in Medieval English Literature:A Festschrift Presented to Andre Crepin on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday ( Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 119-23.
In medieval beast fables, including NPT, the fox is a figure of vice. Neither his basic animalism nor his comic villainy qualifies him as an anti-hero, but his consistent distortion of truth does.
Jimura, Akiyuki.
Bulletin of the Faculty of of the School Education (Hiroshima University) 16 (1994): 1-8.
A sociolinguistic exploration of Criseyde's grammar, literacy, pronunciation, and verbosity, considered in relation to the vocabulary and syntax of fourteenth-century upper-class women.
Coghill, Nevill, trans.Foreword by Melvyn Bragg. Introd. by John Wain.
New York : Barnes and Noble, 1994
A reprint of the 1952 Coghill translation (Mel and ParsT in synopsis only), with extensive color and black-and-white illustrations from a variety of medieval sources: all of the Ellesmere illuminations; woodcuts from Caxton's second edition of CT…
Surveys recent discussions of the editing of medieval texts, calling for a consistent and sensitive concern for authorial intention, however evasive. Shows how manuscripts of CT and TC reflect Chaucer's likely revision of his works and how such…
Recent debates over editing of "Canterbury Tales" reflect "best-text" (Hengwrt) versus "best-book" (Ellesmere) views, but both sides continue to make editorial assumptions about unity and closure.
Explores the advantages of computerized collation programs such as "CASE," "TUSTEP," and "Collate," commenting on how they can expedite traditional editing. Cites many applications to CT.
Bianciotto, Gabriel.
Rouen: Universite de Rouen, 1994.
Challenges Robert Pratt's view that "Troilus and Criseyde" was based on Beauvau's French "Troyle", comparing the similarities among Boccaccio's "Filostrato," TC, and the "Roman de Troyle." Includes a detailed historical analysis of the Beauvau family…
Observes parallels between a confessional sermon and the following: the Wit section of "Piers Plowman," the "Somme le Roi," "Mankind," and both SumT and PardT. Includesa text of the Middle English sermon.
Schlacks, Deborah Davis.
New York: Peter Lang, 1994.
Argues from internal and external evidence that Fitzgerald's works were strongly influenced by Chaucer's dream poems. In particular, Chaucerian themes, characterizations of females, and dream structures occur in Fitzgerald's early works, especially…
Jennings, Margaret (C.S.J.)
Florilegium 43 (1994): 121-40
Thematic sermon structure, as delineated in English "artes praedicandi," influenced romances as well as other genres. This influence can be seen in "Sir Amadace," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," KnT (Theseus's speech on order), WBT (the…
A postcolonial meditation on "what is Chaucer in the changing reality that is the context of Australia," which focuses on portions of four texts: a conversation between Meaghan Morris and Stephen Muecke, Ralph Elliott's 1968 comments on the…
Guerra Bosch, Teresa.
Philologica Canariensia 0 (1994): 181-91.
Comments on examples of ecclesiastical satire in CT and "The Decameron," arguing that Chaucer viewed contemporary abuses as comic, through Boccaccio's ironies are "slyer."
Luttrell, Anthony.
Library of Mediterranean History 1 (1994): 127-60.
The discrepancies in the Knight's military curriculum reflect Chaucer's attempt to represent a desire for peace at home and for the transfer of destructive military activity to distant frontiers in Prussia and the Mediterranean. Luttrell explores…
The interpolated story of Midas's wife evokes Ovidian concern with poetic judgment and suggests Chaucer's perspective on the differing attitudes of the hag and the knight toward love and marriage. Complex Ovidian echoes imply the failure of Midas's…
Kearney, John.
South African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 4 (1994): 95-107
In FranT, the seriatim pity of the characters makes it possible for others to move through the worldly truth that it is necessary to suffer in time, toward the greater truth of unchanging stability. The rocks represent the need for worldly…
Sola Buil, Ricardo J.
Luis A. Lazaro Lafuente, Jose Simon, and Ricardo J. Sola Buil,eds. Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Madrid: Universidad de Alcala de Henares, 1996),pp. 261-65.
Questions whether Chaucer's deviations from traditional literary standards disguise or disclose personal messages.
Explores similarities between the love-lorn knight of Machaut's "Jugement" and Troilus, including their mutual concern with Fortune and their misunderstanding of Providence, their failure to comprehend human freedom, and the ways their speeches…
