Bauer, Kate A.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3949A.
Cross-disciplinary evidence (since the publication of Phillipe Aries's "Centuries of Childhood") indicates that strong love between parents and children existed in medieval culture. Chaucer, Gower, and the "Pearl" poet represent children and family…
Introducing small readers' theatre productions of scenes from Chaucer into the classroom reinforces the sounds of Middle English for students, allows them to get personally involved in the class, focuses their attention more closely on Chaucer's…
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
Sanford Budick and Wolgang Iser, eds. The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996), pp. 68-84.
Augustine's emphasis on charity and cupidity in "De doctrina Christiana" and his discussion of the relations among gospel narratives in "De consensu evangelistarum" suggest that he equates secular and biblical poetics. Similarly, Chaucer justifies…
Thirteen essays originally presented as lectures at the Center for Literary Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem between September 1991 and January 1993. Each essay re-examines the relation of a major author, genre, or theme to traditional…
Boitani, Piero, and Anna Torti, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996.
Ten essays by various authors on topics that include depictions of nature, Chaucer and his reception, Spenser, and medievalism. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
Dane, Joseph A.
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78 (1996): 47-61.
Assesses Francis Thynne's references to the "Plowman's Tale" and the "Pilgrim's Tale" in the "Animadversions" on Speght's edition of Chaucer, concluding that no sixteenth-century printer tried to pass off the latter as Chaucer's. Although the…
Delasanta, Rodney K., and Constance M. Rousseau.
Chaucer Review 30 (1996): 319-42.
Chaucer's translation of this work, alluded to by Alceste in "Legend of Good Women" (G 404-18), has since been lost. Authors use MS Corpus Christi 137 as a basis for their work.
Van Dyke, Carolynn.
Chaucer Review 31 (1996): 164-72.
The multiple voices in "Complaint of Mars" mask the identity of the real lyric subject. An examination of these voices reveals that the real lyric subject is the reader, who discovers that he or she is not, like Mars, an autonomous self.
The affair between Mars and Venus enfigures three analyses of love: the least negative, "courtly" definition; the classical, "lascivious" definition; and the deterministic vision implied by the statues of the gods as planets.
Forni, Kathleen Rose.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 206A,
The body of Chaucerian apocrypha, "largely ignored" since 1900, deserves reconsideration for its relation to the canon and to Chaucer's reputation. The latter was affected less by the apocrypha than by linguistic factors and changing tastes. …
"Former Age" emphasizes not so much former innocence as prelapsarian lack of technical knowledge. Though the speaker takes his stance between the first age and the present, he employs ironic diction, aligning himself with the latter. Besides…
Bruhn, Mark Joseph.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 690A.
Study based on theories of Fowler (genre) and Jakobson (metaphor and metonymy) reveals that English verse romance from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries is typically episodic, with variations attuned to changing intent.
Charnley, Susan Christina De Long.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 2030A.
Examines right relations of individuals in the medieval Christian hierarchy as shown in the writings of Chaucer, Gower, Langland, the "Pearl" poet, Julian of Norwich, and Guillaume de Deguileville.
Coleman, Joyce.
Joyce Coleman. Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 148-78.
Internal evidence in Chaucer's works indicates that he expected his works to be read aloud--both by himself and to an immediate, first audience and by prelectors to later audiences. Chaucer's references to the reception of his work, his references…
Argues that public reading was popular because people enjoyed listening to books in company. Aural audiences included literate upper-middle-class and upper-class readers well into the Renaissance, when aural reading changed. Elite audiences…
Ellis, Roger, and Rene Tixier, eds.
[Turnhout, Belgium]: Brepols, 1996.
Twenty-five essays from the Fourth Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, 26-29 July 1993. The essays address topics of translation in the Middle Ages and translation of medieval authors. For essays that…
Epstein, Robert William.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 1631A.
Before Richard II's deposition, Chaucer affected an apolitical stance, while Gower became pro-Lancastrain. Poetic self-representation later gave way to politicized views in the works of Hoccleve, Scogan, and Lydgate. The dissertation also treats…
Ferster, Judith.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
Outlines the mixture of authorial deference and criticism within a mostly English mirror-for-princes tradition, from the "Secretum secretorum" to Machiavelli. Historicizes the works of James Yonge, John Gower, and Thomas Hoccleve within particular…
Discusses animals as symbols in medieval culture and includes four essays that consider works by Chaucer. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Animals in the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
Like Chaucer's pilgrimage, community colleges accept all comers and promise a miraculous transformation of a clientele representing a cross-section of society. The student-pilgrims prefer the spoken to the written word, requiring frequent reading…
Garbaty, Thomas J.
Mediaevalia 19 (1996, for 1993): 319-43.
Examines illumintions in manuscripts of Gower's "Confessio Amantis," arguing that they reflect contemporary difficulties in distinguishing between the author and the fictional persona. Includes depictions of Chaucer in miniatures and comparisons…
Chaucerians must encourage or revive linguistic and cultural literacy of the Middle Ages among students and colleagues, both because the Middle Ages are of significant interest in popular culture and because they offer access to "familiar…
Grudin, Michaela Paasche.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
A recurrent concern in Chaucer's works is the relation between society and discourse, a concern Chaucer shares with Italian humanists. In BD, Chaucer demonstrates the reciprocity of speaker and listener; the playfulness and lack of closure in HF…
