Milliken, Roberta Lee.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 2672A.
Comparison of Criseyde with Boccaccio's Criseida shows that Chaucer sets forth her characterization in Books 1-3: She is fearful, alone, aware of her position, and easily manipulated. These traits, which foreshadow her future, are less evident in…
Oka, Saburo.
Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature 11 (1996): 1-20.
The love triangle of TC (Troilus, Criseyde, and Diomede) is mirrored in a narrative triangle, in turn reflecting a Trinitarian religious outlook. Chaucer's narrative anxiety parallels his anxiety that his religious message may not be fully…
Sadlek, Gregory M.
Chaucer Yearbook 3 (1996): 87-101.
Defines TC as a novel because it partakes heavily of the linguistic qualities that Bakhtin associates with novelization, including contemporaneity, fusion of genres, and open-endedness. Most important, TC is dialogic in its adaptations of…
Utz, Richard J.
Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 21 (1996): 29-32.
In TC, Chaucer adapts Boethian thought to expose the dangers of the radical determinism of John Wyclif. Such determinism fails to remedy Troilus's loss of Criseyde, posing dangers to society as well as to the individual.
Watts, William (H.)
Chaucer Yearbook 3 (1996): 129-141
Examines details of verse and style in TC 3.1744-71 for the ways they reflect the sources of the passage: Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," Jean de Meun's "Li Livres de Confort," and Bo. The examination seeks to understand Chaucer's attempt…
Larson, Wendy Rene.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 206A.
Analysis based on Michel Foucault and Judith Butler shows that, in a wide variety of medieval texts including CT, the speakers' situations affect their social position and their ability to refashion genres.
Lambdin, Laura C., and Robert T. Lambdin.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales". (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 145-53.
Surveys the development of various fashions in late-medieval England in an attempt to explain the rising importance of haberdashers and why Chaucer may have included one among his GP Guildsmen. Also comments on the history and status of the…
Stephens, Rebecca.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales". (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 192-98.
Briefly surveys the medieval history of tapestry- or rug-making as background to the portrait of the Tapicer in GP.
Woods, William F.
Papers on Language and Literature 32 (1996): 189-205
Explores ways CkPT respond to themes raised earlier in Fragment 1 and focuses on how CkT provides a "powerfully suggestive" urban setting in which the regulated life of Perkyn's master is contrasted by the mercurial, primal, savage world of thievery…
Thomas, Paul R., dir.
Provo, Utah : Chaucer Studio, 1996.
Recorded at radio station KRCW, Santa Monica College, during the Tenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Re-edited and digitally mastered by Troy Sales and Paul R. Thomas in 2003.
Burton, T. L., dir.
Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio, 1996.
Recorded at radio station KRCW, Santa Monica College, during the Tenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Re-edited and digitally mastered as a CD-ROM by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas in 2006.
Recorded at radio station KRCW, Santa Monica College, during the Tenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Re-edited and digitally mastered as a CD-ROM by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas in 2006.
Hardman, Phillipa.
English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 6 (1996): 52-69.
Discusses the blanks left for illustration in Corpus Christi College MS 61, suggesting a possible strategy for prospective illustrations, including initials: the illustration would have emphasized choice as an aspect of narrative structure. The…
Partridge, Stephen.
English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 6 (1996): 229-36.
Handwriting, materials, decoration, and language indicate that the scribe of Oxford New College MS 314 also copied Bodleian Library MS Dugdale 45 (Hoccleve's "Regement of Princess"). Though not first-rate, MS 314 was executed by a paid scribe.
Robinson, Peter
Pieter van Reenan and Margot van Mulken, eds., with the assistance of Janet Dyk. Studies in Stemmatology (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1996), pp. 71-103.
Describes the value of cladistic analysis in generating multiple, flexible stemmata for texts, arguing that stemmata are useful for indicating what can be used as a best text for editing, not for establishing the text itself. Analyzes variants in…
Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto.
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 5 (1996): 18-28.
Surveys scholarship and evidence concerning Chaucer's familiarity with Spanish literature, arguing that critics have exaggerated the possible influence. It is "highly improbable" that Chaucer was directly influenced by medieval Spanish writers;…
Blythe, Hal,and Charlie Sweet.
Explicator 55:1 (1996): 49-51.
Argues that CT is a major source for O'Connor's story, evident in their shared motifs of pilgrimage and storytelling, the name Bailly/Bailey, and specific echoes of PardT
Rumble, Patrick.
Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
The films "The Decameron," "Canterbury Tales," and "The Arabian Knights" make up Pasolini's "Trilogy," here explored for how the films reflect understanding of the literary works from which they derive--in particular, how Pasolini's "Abiura," or…
Utz, Richard J.
Studies in Medievalism 8 (1996): 5-26
Uses Will Heraucort's "Die Werwelt Chaucer" (1939) as the focal point for examining the interplay between philology and ideology in German Chaucer studies between 1848 and 1945. Germanic elements were exaggerated, and French influence was…
Baker, David, ed.
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996.
A symposium on English poetic meter. Robert Wallace proposes ten rules for clarifying discussion of meter, and fourteen writers critique the validity and utility of the propositions; Wallace responds in a final essay. Recurring concerns include the…
Duffell, Martin J.
C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson, eds. English Historical Metrics (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 210-18.
Surveys the development and scholarship of hendecasyllabic meter, identifying the innovations whereby Chaucer produced the first English iambic pentamenter and Gower experimented with variable caesura in hendecasyllabic lines to produce Anglo-Norman…
Duggan, Hoyt N.
C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson, eds. English Historical Metrics. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996): pp. 219-37.
Comments on Dryden's and Tyrwhitt's views of Chaucer's meter as background to assessing editorial treatments of the meter of "Pearl." Argues that editors need to emend the manuscript of "Pearl" more aggressively to minimize scribal interventions and…
Youmans, Gilbert.
C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson, eds. English Historical Metrics (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 185-209.
Reexamines Halle and Keyser's three principles of the iambic line as applied to Chaucer's verse, arguing that the verse is better explained by a prototypical hierarchy of stresses than by a pattern of alternating weak and strong stresses. Kiparsky's…
Explores Chaucer's literary self-consciousness by tabulating and analyzing his wide-ranging and complex variety of literary terms, including terms that describe the process of writing and the impact of literature, as well as terms of genre, rhetoric,…
Bitot, Michel, ed., with Roberta Mullini and Peter Happe.
Tours: Universite Francois Rabelais, 1996.
Twenty-eight essays by various authors addressing Chaucer, Langland, medieval drama (English, Spanish, and French), Malory, Thomas More, and Renaissance drama, especially Shakespeare. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Divers Toyes…
