Kastovsky, Dieter, and Arthur Mettinger, eds.
Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 2001.
Seventeen essays on various issues in Old and Middle English linguistic study: language contact, borrowing, code-switching, spelling, versification, etc. For four essays pertain to Chaucer, search for Language Contact in the History of English under…
Kato, Takako.
Margaret Connolly and Linne R. Mooney, eds. Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England (York: York Medieval Press, 2008), pp. 61-87.
Kato assesses the accuracy of the text of CT that appears in Cambridge University Library MS Gg.4.27. Quantifies and categorizes the scribe's errors, paying particular attention to the mistakes that the scribe himself corrected.
Katz, Stephen Andrew.
Dissertation Abstracts International A71.05 (2010): n.p.
Examines Chaucer's declarations of "entente" and their uses in his works, concluding that Chaucer's deployment of the term compels the reader to interpret the texts as "intentional acts"--rather than an arrangement of "exemplary narratives"--thereby…
Kauffman, Corrine E.
Chaucer Review 4.1 (1969): 41-48.
Uses late-medieval and Renaissance herbals to show that the ingredients for a remedy that Pertelote recommends to Chanticleer in NPT are all "quite wrong for her patient" and his condition: some unavailable, some inappropriate, and some deadly. The…
Kaufman, Amy S.
Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse, and Cory James Rushton, eds. Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 27-37.
Discusses scholarly interpretations of May and Damyan's sexual encounter in MerT, comparing the ideas that it could be categorized as rape/"rough love," an erotic tryst, or an act of female empowerment.
Twenty-five percent of the Old French loanwords in Rom are "new to English or used with a new English menaing'; most reflect influences of aristorcratic, secularized French romances. Includes chart of loanwords.
Kaul, Mythili.
English Studies 103, no. 4 (2022): 555-73.
Observes several points of similarity and difference between the marital relations depicted in WBPT and FranT on the one hand and in "The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor" on the other.
Kawaaki, Masatoshi.
Koichi Kano, ed. Through the Eyes of Chaucer: Essays in Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Society for Chaucer Studies (Kawasaki: Asao Press, 2014), pp. 54-70.
Traces Criseyde's mental and emotional movement through the plot of TC, and argues that, for Chaucer, Fortune does not have to do only with the change of external world, but also with man's interiority.
Forty-two essays, including thirteen on Chaucer. For individual essays on Chaucer, search for Language and Style in English Literature under Alternatuive Title.
Kawasaki, Masatoshi, and Koichi Kano.
Koichi Kano, ed. An Invitation to Chaucer's Cosmos (Tokyo: Yushokan, 2022), pp. 3-50.
Provides a detailed account of Chaucer's life, with consideration of how his personality and experience contributed to his literary characteristics. In Japanese.
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 135:9 (1990): 433-35.
Considers the conflict between "authority," which is based on higher culture, and "experience," characteristic of folk mode, emphasizing the significance of "game in ernest" in CT. "Game" derives from the festive storytelling contest.(In Japanese).
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 133 (1987): 24-26.
A comparative survey of the relationship between Vinsauf's "Poetria nova" and Chacuer's poetry; shows the poet's artistic mind influenced by various rhetorical devices. Particularly emphasizes the significance of "apostrophe," considering the visual…
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 103-22.
Chaucer's use of spatial commonplaces to describe landscapes reflects the symbolic nature of the medieval universe and lends philosophical depth to his stories.
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Journal of British and American Literature (Komazawa University) 29 (1994): 11-24.
Exploring the meaning of time in medieval English literature, Kawasaki suggests that there are two time dimensions in Chaucer, relating them to Chaucer's doubleness or ambiguity. In Japanese.
Examines the topoi of "game" versus "ernest" and "authority" versus "experience" in Chaucer's works, considering the influence of medieval rhetorical tradition on the poet's imagination.
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Journal of British and American Literature (Komazawa University) 31 (1994): 1-18.
Considers the backgrounds and narrative structures of Chaucer's comic tales. Chaucer's fabliaux are less serious than are their sources and analogues, although some of the resemblances are disturbing. In Japanese.
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Journal of British and American Literature (Komazawa University) 33 (1998): 1-11
Assesses the importance of Troilus's apotheosis, emphasizing Chaucer's debt to Boethius and considering the poet's uses of juxtaposition and his fusion of classical and medieval ideas.
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Hisao Tsuru, ed. Fiction and Truth: Essays on Fourteenth-Century English Literature (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 2000), pp. 35-46.
Explores the relationship between orality and literacy and between authority and experience in the context of medieval folk culture, dealing with BD and HF.
