Greenwood, Maria K.
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 167-77.
Chaucer's Criseyde in TC and Malory's Elaine and Guenivere in Morte d'Arthur are "modern" in their struggles. Each author illuminates his "diogesis" by narrative use(s) of the heroine(s); both authors "counter reductive views" by providing…
Haas, Renate.
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 178-92.
Early dissertations on Chaucer by women illustrate the limitations faced by early female academics. Critical neglect of Maria Koellreutter's 1908 dissertation on Chaucer suggests little recent social progress.
Haskell, Ann (S.)
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 193-98.
The walled-garden images in KnT, MerT, the GP sketch of the Prioress, WBT, FrT, and BD illustrate that walls not only provide safety but also exclude women from the knowledge needed to progress from virginity to motherhood and to "wise womanhood." …
Kooper, Erik.
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 209-18.
"Stone" is an allegorical figure of Christ in both the Old and New Testaments, illuminating the three kinds of stones in SNT and CYT: "those of the pagans, of the alchemists and of the Christians." Chaucer presents the "extremities of human faith"…
Allen, Valerie.
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 23-29.
Blaunche's description in BD centers on her eyes, whereas Alisoun's in MilT centers on her bottom. These descriptions show the relationship between each character's essential and physical selves, suggesting that both characters "locate their virtue…
Martin, Priscilla.
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 235-46.
Martin defends the "eclectic approach" she adopted in her book, "Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives, and Amazons" (University of Iowa Press, 1990), a critical posture that borrows from a variety of critical approaches.
Wimsatt, James I.
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 275-81.
The Wife of Bath's argument against Jerome's stance on virginity resembles Jerome's argument against Jovinian; Dorigen in FranT contemplates suicide, recommended by Jerome over the loss of chastity. Chaucer's use of Jerome illustrates Bakhtinian…
Wood, Chauncey.
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 282-90.
The Wife of Bath's preference for experience, marriage, and governance contrasts with the displays of innocence, chastity, and submissiveness by the Prioress and Second Nun. The triumphs of the Wife and of the "lusty bacheler" are losses, while "the…
Brewer, Derek.
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 30-40.
In Chaucer's works, the wide spectrum of Venus's portrayals, from mythographical Venus to planetary Venus, represents "some profound human problems in the relations of men and women" and contributes "significantly to the rich variety" with which…
Crepin, Andre.
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 71-79.
Attitudes toward earthly and heavenly love in Chaucer's TC and Gower's Confessio Amantis, Chaucer's and Gower's references to each other, and the presence of phrasal similarities in the two works suggest that Chaucer's ending to TC "is to be…
Santoyo, Julio-Cesar, in collaboration with José Luis Chamosa.
Julio-Cesar Santoyo, Historia de Traducción: Quince Apuntes (Leon: Universidad de Leon, 1999), pp. 215-35.
Describes the life and achievements of Manuel Pérez y del Rio Cosa, the first translator of CT into Spanish; discusses the quality of the translation and its role in Spanish understanding of Chaucer.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki, Akiyuki Jimura, and Masatsugu Matsuo.
Junsaku Nakamura et al., eds. English Corpora Under Japanese Eyes (an anthology commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies) (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004), pp. 139-50.
Project proposal for a computer-assisted comparison of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT, focusing on how the manuscripts represent compound words, the use of double and single letters, the omission and addition of letters, the use of…
Johnston, Grahame.
K. I. D. Maslen and H. Winston Rhodes, eds. Proceedings and Papers of the Fourteenth Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association Held 19-26 January 1972 at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (Dunedin: AULLA, 1972), pp. 230[-]40.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography.
Jung, Verena, and Angela Schrott.
K. M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner, eds. Meaning Through Language Contrast. 2 vols. (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003), 2:345-71.
Combines historical pragmatics and translation studies, using them to clarify issues fundamental to both. Examines translations of questions in "Cantar de mio Cid" and translations of lines from WBP (ll.1-3 and 149-51), assessing in the latter case…
Sequeira, Isaac.
K. P. K. Menon, M. Manuel, and K. Ayyappa Paniker, eds. Literary Studies: Homage to Dr. A. Sivaramasubramonia Aiyer (Trivandum: St. Joseph's Press, for the Dr. A. Sivaramasubramonia Aiyer Memorial Committee, 1973), pp. 34-43.
Explores seven aspects of Chaucer's satiric presentation of the Monk and his failure to follow monastic ideals: claustration, hunting, Benedictine rule, monastic study, poverty, asceticism, and celibacy.
Misaki, Noguchi.
Kaetsu University Research Review 50.2 (2007): 89-11.
Explores the semantic range of "hende" and of "sely" in MilT and examines efforts to translate the words in various modernizations, particularly those of the eighteenth century.
Crick, Mark.
Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of Literature in 17 Recipes (London: Granta, 2005), pp. 89-92.
Presents a soup recipe, posed as a conversation in modern iambic pentameter between Chaucer's Host and the "Exciseman of London," who describes the preparation of the soup. Includes a color plate of a faux stained glass medallion of Chaucer as a…
Raybin, David, and Linda Tarte Holley, eds.
Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2000.
Nine essays and an annotated bibliography that focus on ParsT. Includes an introduction by the editors and a comprehensive index. For individual essays, search for Closure in The Canterbury Tales under Alternative Title.
Blyth, Charles R., ed.
Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, 1999.
A teaching edition of the Regiment, based on British Library MS Arundel 38 and, where Arundel is lacking, British Library MS Harley 4866, fully collated with all available witnesses, with spelling adapted from holographs of Hoccleve's writings.
Symons, Dana M., ed.
Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute, 2004.
Edits four works ("The Boke of Cupide, God of Love," "A Complaynte of a Lovers Lyfe," "The Quare of Jelusy," and "La Belle Dame sans Mercy"), all except the "Quare" once attributed to Chaucer.
Pearsall, Derek, ed.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1990.
A teaching edition of three works of Chaucerian apocrypha, including individual introductions, notes, marginal glosses,bibliographies, and a brief glossary. The introductions place the poems in the Chaucerian tradition and comment on their genres…
Fein, Susanna Greer, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger, eds.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991.
This collection of essays by various authors addresses the rivalry and tension among characters, themes, styles, and genres in CT.
For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Rebels and Rivals under Alternative Title.
Bowers, John M., ed.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
Includes editions of Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes, The Ploughman's Tale, an expanded version of CkT, eight spurious links, and a combination of The Canterbury Interlude and the Merchant's Tale of Beryn. For each, Bowers provides an…
Jones, Timothy S., and David A. Sprunger, eds.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2002.
Fourteen essays by various authors in honor of John Block Friedman, covering topics that include Anglo-Saxon, Mandeville's Travels, Cleanness, Gesta Herwardi, Froissart's "Debate of the Horse and the Greyhound," apocrypha, insanity, nude Cyclops, and…
