Vaughan, Miceal F.
Lingua Humanitatis (Korea International Association for Humanistic Studies in Language) 2.2 : 85-107, 2002.
Focusing on orthography, rhyme, "near-rhyme," and meaning, Vaughan suggests that "hunting for the hurt" in BD, and not just the hart, gives prominence to the narrator's unresolved emotional and physical pain. The hert(e)/hart/heart word-play in BD is…
Tabulates and analyzes various combinations of Middle English infinitive markers--the -e(n) ending, the particle "to," and the particle phrase "for to"--finding that they occur in no identifiable grammatical or semantic patterns of distribution in…
Argues that "the original Old English concessive conjunction 'peah' transformed into Middle English 'theigh,' survived much longer than is admitted in standard Middle English reference books."
English version of an essay originally published in Russian in "Voprosy Jazykoznanija" 3 (1971): 73-88. Tabulates and assesses metrical features of several Middle English poems, including several by Chaucer, exploring the development of English…
Strohm, Paul.
Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown, eds. Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 57-70.
Strohm assesses historical implications of the concern with civic and personal cleansing in Lydgate's "Troy Book" and comments on Chaucer's imagery of cleansing in GP, his concern with civic orderliness in KnT, and his personal experiences with…
Denny-Brown, Andrea.
Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown,eds. Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 35-56.
Denny-Brown explores roots of the medieval legends of Bicorn and Chichevache, examining how Chaucer develops the "themes of beastly appetites" in ClT and how Lydgate expands the theme of appetite in his "Bycorne and Chychevache."
Allen, Valerie.
Lisa Perfetti, ed. The Representation of Women's Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005, pp. 191-210.
Uses examples from Chaucer, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and the "Ancrene Wisse" to explore how shame differs for men and women. For men, shame stems from a wide range of cultural experiences associated with chivalry, while women's shame is…
Pidd, Michael, Peter Robinson, Estelle Stubbs, and Clare E. Thomson.
Literary and Linguistic Computing 12 (1997): 197-201
Argues that digital imaging of all available reproductions of CT manuscripts is necessary to make a pictorial history of the manuscripts. Reproductions of Hengwrt show changes over time.
Robinson, Peter.
Literary and Linguistic Computing 15: 5-14, 2000.
Despite trends in textual theory and the capability of representing multiple versions of a text electronically, editors should present eclectic, reconstructed texts--not as representations of lost originals but as texts that best explain "all the…
Spencer, Matthew, Barbara Bordalejo, Peter Robinson, and Christopher J. Howe
Literary and Linguistic Computing 18 (2003): 407-22.
Drawing techniques from biology, the authors gauge the reliability of several aspects of textual stemmata: whether separate sections of a given text have separate histories, the quantity of text necessary for a reliable stemma, the levels of…
Windram, Heather F., Christopher J. Howe, and Matthew Spencer.
Literary and Linguistic Computuing 20 (2005): 189-204
Uses a statistical technique derived from DNA research to reexamine the possibility of examplar changes in the copying of WBP. Results agree with earlier studies, indicating the usefulness of this method.
Depictions of Fortune and Fortune's effects in Malory's Morte Darthur have much in common with depictions in works by his English predecessors. Corrie comments on Chaucer's Bo, TC, KnT, and MkT.
Thundy, Zacharias P.
Literary Half-Yearly 20.2 (1979): 64-77.
Chaucer is careful to dwell on the pilgrimage to Canterbury as an interior, not merely as an exterior, experience, thus giving it an allegorical significance. This allegory can be seen as twofold: a journey from reason to faith and a movement from…
Traversi, Derek.
Literary Imagination (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1982), pp. 87-119.
FranT, a part of the Marriage Group, which itself is part of a larger design in "patience" or "grace," demonstrates a subtle balance between the courtly tradition and "gentilesse" but does not give the final answer to the marriage debate.
Justman considers the transmission of Eastern narratives (especially Petrus Alphonsi's "Disciplina Clerica," but also "Thousand and One Nights" narratives) to Western Europe--particularly to Boccaccio and Chaucer--exploring how the "category of…
Argues that the various parts of NPT, an "expanded fable," are unified by a thematic exploration of true and false knowledge, then identifies instances where the tale mirrors "some elements of theme, structure, and style" of other parts of CT.
Hanning, Robert W.
Literary Review 23 (1980): 519-41.
Statius celebrates the triumph of Theseus' righteous wrath as an agent of civilization and order over murderous rage and chaos; Boccaccio celebrates the triumph of the courtly code variously applied. As teller of the Theban tale, Chaucer's Knight…
Explores the ways in which Chaucer anticipates features of Renaissance literature, focusing on realism and ideas of humanity in TC and CT, but also commenting on satire in PF and parody in Thop. In Lithuanian, with summaries in Russian and English.
Greene, Logan Dale.
Literatura em Debate 2.3 (2008): n. p. [Electronic publication]
Examines the "archetype, or mytheme," of the loathly lady in WBT and related stories, considering the implications that the story derives from "ancient Celtic myth with its archetypal patterns of masculine development." In Portuguese and English.
