Kumamoto, Sadahiro.
Masahiro Hori, Tomoji Tabata, and Sadahiro Kumamoto, eds. Stylistic Studies of Literature: In Honour of Professor Hiroyuki Ito (New York and Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 71-92.
Kumamoto examines eleven syntactical patterns used in conjunction with poetic enjambment. Chaucer's poetry contains more enjambment than do three anonymous romances included for comparison--and Chaucer uses enjambment more in his early poetry (BD,…
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…
Kummerer, K. R.
Journal of the British Astronomical Society 11.4: 203-13, 2001.
Discusses seven "celestial assertions" in CT and the reference to April 18 to show that Chaucer "accurately describes the celestial conditions he observed" in southeast England. Astronomical evidence indicates that the CT pilgrimage ends on April 18,…
Kuntz, Robert Allen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1981): 1141A.
Critical views of the Pardoner range from total condemnation to interpretations of him as Christlike, with current views seeing him as evil. Interpretations can be immediate, direct, and simple, or complicated sociopsychologically or…
Kupersmith, William.
English Language Notes 24:2 (1986): 20-23.
Chaucer quotes Juvenal's Tenth Satire in TC and WBT. The satire also provides suggestions for the three substantial additions he made to PhyT--on Virginia's beauty, her chastity, and the duty of governesses.
Kupfer, David C.
Library Philosophy and Practice [429] (2010): 1-24. Available at http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/429. Accessed January 14, 2021.
Assesses "bibliophilism" in Chaucer's works as indicators of his own access to and attitudes towards books, learning, and learning spaces or libraries. Focuses on the uses of "librarye" (Bo 1.pr.4.41 and 1.pr.5.41) as early instances in English and…
Kurtz, Diane Gray.
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 6116A.
In TC idolatrous love is rationalized by being conceived as one of the workings of nature. By Chaucer's time the Augustinian view of the valuelessness of temporal activities had been modified so that St. Thomas Aquinas could attach positive value to…
Kurtz, Heidi.
DPhil Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2013.
Item not seen. Abstract available at https://ethos.bl.uk. Examines stress in Middle English verse, exploring "how tension is created through the matching or mis-matching of lexical stress with the expected metrical template" in the Hengwrt version of…
Kuskin, William, ed.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
Ten essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor, exploring the relationship of Caxton to early Continental printing and the influence of Caxton and his practice on English printing, ideas of authorship, editing, and language. Includes…
Kuskin, William.
Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1998): 164A.
Explores how Caxton's technical and mechanical modifications of CT, Bo, Malory's "Morte Darthur," and the "Boke of Eneydos" claim authority for these texts and help to shape their audience.
Caxton's grouping of the Nine Worthies influenced later English perceptions of nationhood and history. Includes brief mention of MkT, and several notes pertain to Chaucer.
The prefaces to Spenser's "Shepheardes Calendar" (1579) and to Thomas Speght's "Workes of Chaucer" (1598) share similarities with Lydgate's" Fall of Princes" and thus belie the claims made for a break in continuity with the past in sixteenth-century…
Kuskin, William.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.
Kuskin presents a manifesto on history-of-the-book studies as well as on the need to rethink Chaucerian reception. The volume is divided into three sections: "Capital and Literary Form," "Authorship and the Chaucerian Inheritance," and "Print and…
Kuskin, William.
Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2013.
Theorizes "recursivity"--an alternative to "originality"--as a trope in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English literary history, arguing that much often considered to be "original" or "revolutionary" in modernity is better understood as remaking…
Kyriakakis-Maloney, Stella.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 2694A.
Morris's effort to alter romance to the art of the community evokes the image of Chaucer as a forerunner. The envoy sends the book forth to meet its public and its master, Chaucer.
La Farge, Catherine.
John Simons, ed. From Medieval to Medievalism (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992), pp. 69-81.
Emelye and Griselda represent humankind. Theseus and Walter are figures of Boethian Providence, figures who implicate its inscrutability if not its caprice. By obscuring the boundaries of literary genres, Chaucer challenges traditional social,…
Laam, Kevin.
Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1 (2008): n. p. [Electronic publication]
Influenced by courtly Chaucerian conventions earlier in his career, George Gascoigne emulated Chaucerian penitential seriousness in "The Grief of Joye." Laam comments on Gascoigne's and George Puttenham's uses of Chaucer, and briefly explores the…
LaBarge, Elizabeth.
Once and Future Classroom 15, no. 1 (2019): 107-15.
Offers evidence (including quotations from students) that teaching CT in a bilingual (English/Spanish) high school helps students to "feel part of the conversation in college" and "to reflect on their own lives and cultures." Moreover, such students…
Despite repressive laws and the misogyny of clerical writers, it appears that wives, widows, religious women, mystics, townswomen, and peasant women had more control, respect, and influence than has been thought. Labarge presents the whole social…
