Robbins, Rossell Hope.
Kibler, William W., ed. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Patron and Politician (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976), pp. 147-72.
Surveys the density and intensity of French influence on the literature of medieval England, focusing on courtly romance and how its plots and "interest in love's finesse" affected the English tradition separately. Outlines some possible connections…
Jimura, Akiyuki.
Kiichiro Nakatani et al., eds. English and English Teaching: A Festschrift in Honour of Hisashi Takahashi and Jiro Igarashi (Hiroshima University: Department of English, Faculty of the School of Education, 1993), pp. 187-97.
Jimura compares the vocabulary of Criseyde to that of Troilus and Pandarus, seeking to define characteristics of aristocratic women's language in the fourteenth century.
Takada, Yasunari.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al, eds. Philologia Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 299-305.
Treats TC and Dante's "Paradiso" with reference to the nature and structure of "feste"/"festa." The Chaucerian contiguity of "feste" with "hevene" is a vestige of Dantean affiliation, while the circumscription of "feste" as "vide" is a Chaucerian…
Shigeo, Hisashi.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 285-98.
From ABC through dream poems to LGW, Chaucer attempts to oppose cupidity to charity by ennobling the latter. However, he amalgamates various types of love in CT.
Kobayashi, Ayako.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 162-75.
Chaucer's expanded forms are mostly adjectival, as in Old English, though many of them are used appositively with intervening modifiers. He also uses them with verbs denoting durability or knowledge and with the point-action verbs, probably for…
Tsuru, Hisao.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 336-45.
Jean de Meun's view of love and nature in the "Roman de la Rose" had a deep influence on Chaucer when, under the pretense of writing pitiful stories of good women who sacrificed themselves to Love, he wrote about impudent women who were foresaken by…
Saito, Isamu.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 346-55.
The Nun's Priest's pronouncement, "Taketh fruyt, and lat the chaf be stille," has been interpreted exegetically. Scriptural exegesis, however, is invalid for explicating NPT, which is Menippean--dialogic and polyphonic.
Oizumi, Akio.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica: Essays Presented to Professor Yoshio Terasawa on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, Ltd., 1988) pp. 455-66.
Brewer, Derek.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologica Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 270-84.
Explores Chaucer's interest in the Bible and assumes that he possessed his own copy and read it seriously. Suggests that Chacuer's piety may be connected with the late-fourteenth-century courtly interest in Carthusian ideals.
Tracy, Kisha G.
Kisha G. Tracy. Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 67-92.
Explores the language and operation of confession--especially the importance of remembered transgressions--in Chaucer's depictions of love in TC, BD, and MLT, with Troilus, the Black Knight, and Alla as transgressors, and Pandarus, the BD narrator,…
Matsuda, Takami.
Kiyoko Myojo and Noburu Notomi, eds. What Is a Text? An Introduction to Textual Scholarship (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2015), pp. 81–104.
Refers to Paul Zumthor's notion of "mouvance," and argues that CT should be understood not as a single text but as a group of different, co-existent texts. In Japanese.
Sadlek, Gregory M.
Klaus Jankofsky, ed. The South English Legendary: A Critical Assessment (Tubingen: A. Francke, 1992), pp. 49-64.
In "St. Michael," the image of the Devil's five fingers is a homiletic, mnemonic device to convey a lesson on sin. Chaucer's version in ParsT has a clear literary quality.
Keller, Wolfram R.
Klaus Stierstorfer, ed. Anglistentag 2007 Münster: Proceedings (Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008), pp. 385-99.
Examines John Lydgate's sources for his "Troy Book," including HF and TC, arguing that Lydgate re-invents "Britain's Trojan origins," calling into question Lancastrian imperialism and offering a "Chaucerian counter-nationhood," anchored in individual…
Trahern, Joseph B.,Jr., ed.
Knoxville, Tenn. : University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
Eight articles on standardization of English, three of specific interest to Chaucerians. Includes bibliography of Fisher's work through 1987. For the three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Standardizing English under Alternative Title.
Strohm, Paul, and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds.
Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985.
Papers presented at the Fourth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of York, August 6-11, 1984, selected and revised. For nineteen essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1…
Rowland, Beryl.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1972.
An alphabetical listing of animals, mythical and actual, with discussion of their iconography and symbolism in oriental, classical, biblical, and medieval traditions. The index includes nineteen references to Chaucer and his works.
Fisher, John H., Malcolm Richardson, and Jane L. Fisher.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984.
Diplomatic transcriptions of select writings of "Signet clerks of Henry V, who established the first forms and style of the official written (English) language." Includes 241 letters,indentures, and other documents, with an introduction to forms and…
Heffernan, Thomas J., ed.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
Includes the following: D. W. Robertson, "Who Were 'The People'?"; Leonard E. Boyle, O.P., "The Fourth Lateran Council and Manuals of Popular Theology"; Judith Shaw, "The Influence of Canonical and Episcopal Reform on Popular Books of Instruction";…
Fisher, Sheila, and Janet E. Halley, eds.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
Twelve essays by various hands that stand "at the intersection of Anglo-American empirical historicism and French theories of textuality." Historical women were real in ways that are absent from writings. Essays are grouped under three headings:…
Howes, Laura L., ed.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007.
Eleven essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editor and a survey of spatial theory and medieval literature by John M. Ganim. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative under…
Anderson, David, ed.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee, [1986]
A catalogue of and guide to the 1986 exhibition of manuscripts and printed books of Chaucer's works and sources, held at the Arthur Ross Gallery and the Rosenbach Museum for the Fifth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, in…
