Discusses the meaning of "woe that is in marriage" and the antifeminist attitude of the Clerk in ClT, juxtaposed to the Wife of Bath, and shows that the Clerk preaches skillfully about the abnormal relationship between man and wife.
Feminist analysis of FranT. Though the theme of the tale is "gentilesse," none of the three men is gentle, and Dorigen suffers from the egoistic behaviors of Arveragus and Aurelius. Dorigen is not a wise wife but an ordinary woman.
This volume provides select bibliographical listings for a range of English writers, from Joseph Addison to W. B. Yeats, arranged alphabetically by author, covering materials up to 1977. The Chaucer section (pp. 32-37) lists discussions of canon and…
Includes essays exploring connections among Chaucer's works, courtly life, and Arthuriana. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer, Arthur, and Medieval Roman III under Alternative Title. In Japanese, except for Chapters 1-3.
Kouritzin, Sandra G.
Kouritzin, Sandra G., Nathalie A. C. Piquemal, and Renee Norman, eds. Qualitative Research: Challenging the Orthodoxies in Standard Academic Discourse(s) (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 67-82.
Personal account of the author's efforts to write an unorthodox dissertation, including comments about her thwarted intention of using the CT "as a template" for the dissertation.
Witalisz, Władysław, ed.
Kraków : Wydawnictno Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2001.
Nineteen essays on a variety of subjects, medieval to postmodern, literary and linguistic. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for And Gladly Wolde He Lerne and Gladly Teche (Goller) under Alternative Title.
Jacobus, Lee A.
Kristin Pruitt McColgan and Charles W. Durham, eds. Arenas of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered Mind. (Selinsgrove, Penn.: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1997), pp. 261-70.
Compares Milton's portrayal of Dalila in "Samson Agonistes" with earlier representations by Boccaccio, Chaucer, Lydgate, and Swetnam. Chaucer offers no analysis of her motives; Milton condemns her actions, not her gender.
Baynes-Ross, Felisa.
Kristina Mendicino, ed. Playing False: Representations of Betrayal (New York: Peter Lang, 2013), pp. 313-36.
Examines the "conditions that allow for [Criseyde's] betrayal" in TC, including the "structure of courtship" which establishes the duplicity of the relationship between the lovers, the deceptions upon which it is based, and the fundamental…
Kumamoto, Sadahiro.
Kumamoto Daigaku Eigo Eibungaku [Kumamoto Studies in English Language and Literature] 45 (2002): 1-31.
Item not located; reported in MLA International Bibliography, which indicates that the essay pertains to syntactical uses of the infinitive in BD, PF, and HF; also indicates that the essay is in Japanese, with an English summary.
Kumamoto, Sadahiro.
Kumamoto Journal of Culture and Humanities (Kumamoto University) 104 (2013): 41-60.
Contends that the uniqueness of Chaucer's poetry lies in the combination of emotive theme and manipulation of "tone." Classifies "tone-elevators" and compares their effects between different genres of Chaucerian texts as well as between Chaucerian…
Kumamoto, Sadahiro.
Kumamoto Journal of Culture and Humanities (Kumamoto University) 71: 109-29, 2001.
Focuses on the following: (1) the kind of governing verbs; (2) the ratio of bare infinitives and (for) to-infinitives; and (3) the structure of the infinitive clause, supplementing Kenyon (1909) in many respects.I
CT is filled with proverbs, maxims, and witticisms included consciously by Chaucer for entertainment combined with instruction. The sapiential material in CT falls into four thematic groups: time, transcience and death; god, destiny and fortune;…
Observes parallels between the discussion of true gentility in WBT ("gentilesse"; 3.1109-1212) and fifteenth-century treatments of the subject in Latin (by Buonaccurso de Montemagno), French (Jean Mielot), and English (John Tiptoft), observing that…
Notes that the account of the Princess of Apulia found in some versions of the "Gesta Romanorum" has parallels with the biblical account of Jonah and with MLT, which alludes to Jonah.
Using available electronic transcriptions of manuscripts of WBP and MilT tests the reliability of a statistical model ("interpolated, modified Kneser-Ney smoothed 3-gram backoff model") for determining various linguistic and scribal features of the…
A collection of new and previously published articles (1984-88), including five on the relationship between human beings and God. Reinterprets various images, spiritual and secular, in saints' lives, sermons, religious lyrics, and especially…
