Thomson, Peter.
European Medieval Drama 1: 35-44, 1997.
Reads Chauntecleer's descent from the perch in NPT as evidence that medieval stage entrances were marked by "masculine assertiveness," useful for clarifying differences among characters in a limited troupe. Compares the narrative scene with dramatic…
Sola Buil, Ricardo (J.)
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 7: 161-80., 1997.
Chaucer expresses the dialectical tension between subject and history, between the inner and the outer self, between canon and parody in CT and TC. He represents this conflict through dramatic dialogue and theatrical performance, making the…
Robinson, Peter,M. W.
Kathryn Sutherland, ed. Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), pp. 145-77.
Compares the advent of electronic editions with the revolution in editing effected by Aldus Manutius in c.1495-1515. Surveys the growing utility of digital photography, the difficulties of machine-readable transcriptions, and the potential for…
Critics of "The Floure and the Leafe" respond less to the text than to its critical history. Detraction by W. W. Skeat and other members of the Chaucer Society is compensation for earlier praise of the work by Dryden, Pope, Keats, and others.
Kobayashi, Yoshiko.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58: 3144A, 1997.
Like Gower in "Confessio Amantis," Chaucer in TC adapts two strategies from Benot de Sainte-Maure's "Roman de Troie" to criticize chivalry: indicating how chivalry oppresses women and revealing the incompatibility of knightly conduct and good…
In CYPT, one finds a "rhetorical demystification of alchemy's textual mystification of work and material production" and a commentary on counterfeiting and the impotence of alchemy as a "projection of masculine fears of sexual impotence."
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.
Sammel, Rebecca E.
Beate Müller, ed. Parody: Dimensions and Perspectives. Rodopi Perspectives in Modern Literature, no. 19 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 169-90.
In its carnivalized parody of the sacrament of confession, the "calculated self-portrait" of the Archpoet's "Estuans intrinsecus" foreshadows PardPT. Each speaker creates a "mythopoeia of self" by manipulating sacred topoi; the Pardoner draw his…
Schembri, A. M.
Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 5: 15-37, 1997.
Chaucer's changes to Boccaccio's "Teseida" in KnT introduce a concern with Cathar heresy. Until Theseus's final speech, the plot reflects cosmic dualism (Saturn and Jupiter), determinism, and pervasive sterility and evil. The poem is also touched by…
Examines aspects of orality in CT (MilT, PardT), Boccaccio's "Decameron," and "Les cent nouvelles," focusing on features of transmission, secrecy, confession, and authentication. Considers HF.
Hickey, Raymond, and Stanislaw Puppel, eds.
Berlin and New York : Mouton, 1997.
One hundred and thirty-five selections by various authors, ranging widely in linguistics theory and practice, English language history, contrastive linguistics and language acquisition, and discourse analysis. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer,…
Yonekura, Hiroshi.
Raymond Hickey and Stanislaw Puppel, eds. Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on His 60th Birthday. 2 Vols. (Berlin and New York: Mouton, 1997), 1:229-48.
Documents that compounding was an active process of word formation in Middle English, tabulating Chaucer's compound words and showing that he favored combinations of two Old English nouns rather than combining a noun with another word form or Old…
Minkova, Donka, and Robert P. Stockwell.
Raymond Hickey and Stanislaw Puppel, eds. Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on His 60th Birthday. 2 vols. (Berlin and New York: Mouton, 1997), 1: 29-57.
Identifies inconsistencies in scholarly descriptions of how to pronounce Chaucerian English, and demonstrates that historical data are inconclusive in many phonemic situations, including long vowels, consonant clusters, final -e, and others. Suggests…
Hermannson, Casie.
Studies in American Fiction 25: 57-80, 1997.
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby rehabilitates the Chaucerian treatment of the love story of Troilus and Criseyde (TC) and counters the less positive depictions of Henryson and Shakespeare.
Lerer, Seth.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Assesses various aspects of Tudor political and literary culture (e.g., privacy and voyeurism, theatricality, letter-writing and -reading), discussing Pandarus and the Renaissance reception of TC as tropes for understanding such concerns. Tudor…
Compares Chaucer's manipulation of romance conventions with Carter's postmodern use of romance to challenge rationalist discourse. In its portrayal of mercantile challenge to feudal aristocracy, CT is a medieval modernist text.
Pirie, David B.
Michael O'Neill, ed. Keats: Bicentenary Readings (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the University of Durham, 1997), pp. 48-70.
Comments briefly on Cecilia of SNT as background to an allusion to her in "Eve of St. Mark" and on the "quaintly Chaucerian lines" in Keats's poem.
Boitani, Piero.
Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 5: 1-14, 1997.
Details the historical record of Chaucer's Italian connections and surveys the influence of Dante on English poetry from Chaucer to the twentieth century. Likens Dante's influence on English to a love story.
Examines how the careers of several courtiers-diplomats-poets can help us reconstruct the "nature of literary transmission" from Italy to France to England. Discusses Philippe de Mézières, Honorat Bovet, Jean Muret and Giovanni Moccia, and…
Contests N. F. Blake's views of Caxton, Caxton's publishing plans, and his motives and quality as an editor, discussing at length the Canterbury Tales editions of 1478 and 1484 and other works of Chaucer. Matthews defends Caxton as a careful editor,…
Greenfield, Jane.
Yale University Library Gazette 72.1-2: 68-72, 1997.
Describes a Yale University copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer (1896) printed on vellum and elaborately bound (apparently by Douglas Bennett Cockerell) in pigskin stamped with designs by William Morris. Includes 2 figures.
Yoon, Minwoo.
Medieval English Studies (Seoul) 5: 215-41, 1997.
Surveys representative examples of northern English dialect ("Alliterative Morte Arthure," RvT), Scottish Chaucerians (Henryson, Dunbar), and non-Chaucerian Scottish works (Barbour's "Bruce," "The Wallace") to identify common and distinctive…
Kanno, Masahiko.
Bulletin of Aichi University of Education 46: 1-8, 1997.
Words and phrases discussed include "lust," "blynde," "a fewe wordes white," "glosynge," "ambages," "amphibologie," "double," "sophyme," "swete wordes," "plesante wordes," and "peinten."
