Kane, George.
John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986. (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987): pp. 137-45.
Discusses problems in various medieval manuscripts and criteria for editorial judgments, applying them to the CUL Gg.4.21 text of LGW and to the Hengwrt and Ellesmere CT. The conditions for "analysis of describable physical data" are favorable for…
Kane, George.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
With no notes and a brief index, the book glances at Chaucer's life, times, and work in chronological order. Exploring Chaucer's identity as poet ironically, HF concerns truth in report and poetry. As mirror for princes, PF fuses poetry and…
Kane, George.
Douglas Gray and E. G. Stanley, eds. Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 39-58.
The text of LGW in the G manuscript is different from that of other manuscripts; it is much corrupted, containing 200 unoriginal variant readings. The pattern of scribal variations makes it unlikely that this version is the result of authorial…
Kane, George.
Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, eds. Acts of Interpretation (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 237-55.
Chaucer derived his concepts of love poetry from various contemporary traditions of romantic love. He satirized the concepts of "fin amour" with a firm knowledge of its contrasting forms and unpredictable variety, utilizing all its aspects from its…
Kane, George.
Donald M. Rose, ed. New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism (Norman Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981), pp. 5-19.
Comparisons of Chaucer and Langland may rescue CT from the Bradleian fallacy (i.e., treatment of Chaucer's literary characters as historically actual).
Chaucer scholarship provides an example of the need for the correction and reassessment of texts, authorship, chronology, and influences on Middle English literature.
Kane, George.
Christian J. Kay and Louise M. Sylvester, eds. Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts. Costerus New Series, no. 133. (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001), pp. 161-71.
Argues for "literary" rather than "historicist" analysis, examining the tone and rhetoric of the reference to the uprising of 1381 in NPT and arguing that Chaucer was "distancing" himself from the events.
Chaucer's uses of the term trouthe (truth, integrity) indicate that he is a serious moralist, though sometimes ironic. Kane focuses on GP but also draws examples from FranT, CYT, Anel, and Langland's Piers Plowman.
Kane, George.
Geoffrey Chaucer: Conferenze Organizzate dall'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Collaborazione con la British Academy (Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1977), pp. 35-49.
Postulates a crucial division in Chaucer's poetic career, separated by a "courteous but thoughtful and decisive rejection of 'fine amour'," reflected in PF, TC, and LGWP. Acknowledges the impact of French and Italian models on Chaucer's changing idea…
Kane, George.
Paul Ruggiers, ed. Editing Chaucer: The Great Tradition (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1984), pp. 207-29.
Denounces Manly and Rickert's "The Text of the Canterbury Tales," asserting the editors' failure to state and maintain consistent editorial methods, their confused and confusing classification of manuscripts, and their error in attempting to apply…
Kane, George.
Daniel Donoghue, James Simpson, and Nicholas Watson, eds. The Morton W. Bloomfield Lectures, 1989-2005 (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2010), pp. 1-19.
The first of the Bloomfield lectures. Traces the impact of "hamartiology" (the study of sin and crisis) in Langland's "Piers Plowman" and Chaucer's CT, especially in GP and the fabliaux. Estates satire, penitential handbooks, and other examples of…
Summarizes the historical and formal stumbling blocks involved in describing a tradition of Middle English secular lyrics, with comments on Chaucer's innovations and on the evidence in his works for courtly and popular legacies.
Rejects "unsupported biographical inference" about the lives and personalities of Chaucer and William Langland, arguing that it is illogical to assume that the personae they project in their poetry are autobiographical. Conflation or confusion of the…
Kang, Du-Hyoung.
Journal of English Language and Literature (Korea) 37 (1991): 825-41.
NPT subverts the idea of tragedy reflected in MkT, and KnT counterpoints its tragic view of fate. Diverse and comprehensive in his outlook, Chaucer is not content with a simple formula.
Kang, Ji-Soo.
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1994): 274A
Discusses tensions between disorder and coherence in the conclusions of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "Pearl," "Cleannes," and "Patience," contrasted to conclusions of works by Chaucer.
Kang, Ji-Soo.
Medieval English Studies 05 (1997): 145-70.
Explores medieval theories of narrative closure in Matthew of Vendome, Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Brunetto Latini, and John of Garland to argue that if "inconclusiveness" is a thematic goal, the end of a work is the "natural place to accent it." As an…
Kang, Ji-Soo.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 11 (2006): 243-58.
Considers relationships among apocalypse, history, and literary closure in Dante's Paradiso, Chaucer's BD, and Pearl. Dante brings apocalypse into history, while the other two poets use it to contrast human temporality.
Kang, Ji-Soo.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 14 (2006): 33-56
Medieval texts interact with their sources as memory operates, according to classical tradition, in individual cognition. Chaucer's depiction in HF of Virgil's story of Dido and Aeneas exemplifies this interaction and lets readers determine what is…
Kang, Minsoo.
Carl Kears and James Paz, eds. Medieval Science Fiction (London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 2016.), pp. 245-61.
Explores the different attitudes toward the Middle Ages presented in science fiction and fantasy literature, while also arguing for a new subgenre called "catapunk" that depicts the Middle Ages in fuller ways. Mentions the false alchemy in CYT,…
Kanno, Masahiko, Gregory K. Jember, and Yoshiyuki Nakao, eds.
Tokyo : Eihosha, 1998.
Sixteen essays on topics ranging from Old English semantics to Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, commemorating the 65th birthday of Akira Wada. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Love of Words: English Philological…
Kanno, Masahiko.
Michio Kawai, ed. Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honour of Michio Masui. The English Association of Hiroshima (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1991), pp. 306-21.
After examining the original, rhetorical, and, and contextual meanings of "gentil" and its related words, Kanno discusses how Aurelius, who is at first destitute of generosity, is transformed into a gentle squire.
