Considers Chaucer's idea of nature in CT, assessing its relationship to Renaissance humanism, to scholarship and various arts, and to conceptions of the celestial world and natural science. Also gauges the influence of Chaucer's view of nature on…
Houwen, L. A. J. R.
L. A. J. R. Houwen, ed. Animals and the Symbolic in Mediaeval Art and Literature. Mediaevalia Groningana, no. 20 (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1997), pp. 77-92.
Assesses references to mermaids' singing in medieval tradition to argue that Chaucer's reference (NPT 7.3270) suggests flattery and thereby anticipates Chauntecleer's fall.
A collection of ten articles by various hands, in Italian, concerning the spread and development of the Griselda tradition in Italy, England, Iceland, Germany, and Bohemia, among other Eruopean countries.
A collection of eighteen articles on aspects of intertextuality in the tradition of the Griselda story in Europe. Morabito reviews the sources and body of material (essay in It.); Donnchadh o Corrain, "Textuality and Intertextuality: The Early…
Report of a pedagogical experiment in which online interactive computer software enabled students to assume roles of the Canterbury pilgrims. The experiment sought to emphasize Chaucer's rhetorical qualities, but the results reinforced the dramatic…
Petrarch's account of a gemstone ring that, under the tongue of a beautiful corpse, drove Charlemagne mad with passion ("Familiares" 1.1.4) may have been known to Chaucer. The legend provides a suggestive analogue for the motif of the "grain" in the…
Trigg, Stephanie.
La Trobe Journal 81 (2008): 106-17.
Interrogates features of the reception of Chaucer from Thomas Speght's editions of 1598 and 1602 to twentieth-first century criticism, focusing on the poet's reference to Wade and his boat in MerT 4.1423-26. Discloses the critical legacy of the…
Item not seen; the single WorldCat record states that this is a filmstrip for children, with "Photographs of original pictures and the English countryside [that] illustrate life in the Middle Ages in England."
Dachslager, Earl L.
Lamar Journal of the Humanities 11 (1985): 43-50.
The anti-Semitism of PrT is deepened by Chaucer's emphasis on "youth, innocence, and spirituality of the victim." Malamud's "The Fixer"--based on the 1913 trial of a Russian Jew, Mendel Beiliss, for the murder of a Christian boy--humanizes and…
Chamberlain, David, ed.
Landon, Md,, New York, and London: University Press of America, 1993.
Seven essays by various authors, plus an introduction by the editor that surveys the tradition of Chaucerian love poetry. One essay is on Lydgate's "Temple of Glas"; one is on "Kingis Quair"; four are on Chaucerian apocrypha; and one is on the…
Surveys literary representations of sounds in various landscapes found in late medieval literature, including mention of the tournament in KnT and description of the tale-telling, singing, and music-making among the Canterbury pilgrims.
Aita, Shuichi.
Language and Culture (Osaka Prefecture University) 3 (2004): 1-16.
Furnivall's Six-Text Print transcribes ParsT from Selden B.17, except for lines 104-290, which come from Lansdowne 851. The lines from Seldan are given here.
Tartakovsky, Roi.
Language and Literature 23.02 (2014): 101-17.
Argues that "from Chaucer onwards rhyme is used consistently as a prosodic device in English verse." Differentiate systematic rhyme from sporadic rhyme and notes that this fourteenth-century "era of systematization was preceded by an era of sporadic…
Twose, Gareth, and C. B. McCully.
Language and Literature 10 (2001): 291-306.
The article assesses the range of function and the frequency of "thus" in representative samples of English poetry from Old English through the twentieth century. Data derived from electronic searches (1000-line samples) confirm relations between…
Duffell, Martin J.
Language and Literature 17 (2008): 5-20.
Provides statistical analysis of 300-line samples from the verse of eight poets who wrote in English (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Longfellow, and Browning), comparing percentages of inversion and "erosion" among iambic…
Duffell, Martin J.
Language and Literature 22.1 (2013): 19-31.
Argues that, "while Tennyson thought he was composing quantitative hendecasyllables, he was in fact producing accentual verse of a type that English poets had been studiously avoiding for 500 years." Traces the development of Chaucer's iambic…
Schendl, Herbert.
Language and Literature 24.3 (2015): 233–48.
Discusses the main functions of code-switching in the poetry and drama of medieval England. Emphasizes how the friar in SumT uses the French phrase "je vous dy" to increase his authority and learnedness.
Green, Clarence.
Language and Literature 26.4 (2017): 282-99.
Introduces a "Corpus of the Canon of Western Literature" (CCWL) based on Harold Bloom's "The Western Canon" and utilizes corpus stylistics to "operationalize" the argued coherence of the western canon. Using CT as an example, illustrates how tagging…
Cushing, Ian.
Language and Literature 27.4 (2018): 271-85
Argues that training in stylistics has benefits for teachers, putting forward a pattern for what a training course might look like. Chaucer is invoked as a subject of study by a student respondent.
Fox, Allan B.
Language and Style 10 (1977): 27-41.
Although Heywood's comic debates are dismissed as negligible in metrical skill, once we realize that Chaucer's line is a non-pentameter, more dependent on alliterative accentual native verse than most metrists allow, then we can see that the debates…
Bolton, W. F.
Language and Style 11 (1978): 201-11.
The Pardoner, making, through structure, game of his tale's morality and morality of its game, wishes the Pilgrims to play gullible churchgoers and to depose the Host, who rebuffs him. NPT's structure reveals covert anti-feminism manifesting the…
Schauber, Ellen,and Ellen Spolsky.
Language and Style 16 (1983): 249-61.
In his shameless self-revelation the Pardoner confuses and angers his audience by mixing boasting and confiding with their contrary expectations of approval and mitigated disapproval.
