Sammut, Alfonso.
[Valletta] : University of Malta, 1997.
Enumerative bibliography of Italian influence on English literature, arranged by English authors, Italian authors, and selected topics; 4022 items (about 400 pertaining to Chaucer), some with very brief annotations. Includes an index of scholars'…
The death of England's Prince Henry sparked a "sense of near-nihilism" and prompted Shakespeare and Fletcher to question chivalry in The Two Noble Kinsmen. This interrogation anticipates modern readings of KnT--the source of the play--as a…
Mroczkowski, Przemyslaw.
Leszek S. Kolek and Wojciech Nowicki, eds. Discourses of Literature: Studies in Honour of Alina Szala (Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press, 1997), pp. 21-26.
Comments on modern efforts to "get ahead" and contrasts them with attitudes toward success in HF.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Masahiko Kanno and others, eds. Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tadahiro Ikegami (Tokyo: Yushodo, 1997), pp. 441-54.
Discusses the fusion of the root and epistemic senses of modal auxiliaries such as "mot" / "moste," "may" / "myghte," "shal" / "sholde," and "wol" / "wolde" in TC.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Masahiko Kanno, Masahiko Agari, and Gregory K. Jember, eds. Essays on English Literature and Language in Honour of Shun'ichi Noguchi. Tokyo: Eihosha, 1997, pp. 17-34.
Discusses Chaucer's uses of moot / moste, focusing on the fusion of social objective factors and the speaker's subjective implications.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
English and English Teaching, Vol. 2: A Festschrift in Honour of Kiichiro Nakatani. Hiroshima: Department of English Faculty of School Education, Hiroshima University, 1997, pp. 23-42.
Discusses the semantic unity of shal / sholde in TC, focusing on degrees of subjectivity on the part of the speaker.
Nardo, Don, ed.
San Diego, Cal.: Greenhaven, 1997.
Seventeen previously published essays and excerpts, accompanied by an introduction, a biography, a chronology, and a brief bibliography intended for student use. Contributors include Donald Howard (on structure and on social rank), Glending Olson (on…
Miller tallies a number of "hybrid derivatives" from before 1500, focusing on top-frequency suffixes. Examples and conclusions involve Chaucerian usage, including Chaucer's tendency to develop "non-technical hybrids" and to use "non-prestige French…
Banks, David.
ASp [Anglais de spécialité]: La revue du GERAS 15-18 (1997): 451-60.
Banks gauges the place of Astr in the development of English scientific prose, tabulating grammatical metaphors, verbal nouns (ending with -ing), passive voice, personal pronouns, and instructional syntax (an infinitive clause followed by an…
The entry on Chaucer (pp. 213-15, written by Paul Bacquet) summarizes the poet's life and comments on his language, his prosody, and the importance of CT.
Coppola, Nancy, Norbert Elliot, David Geithman, Nancy Jackson, Eric Katz, and Burt Kimmelman.
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1997.
College textbook designed to introduce undergraduate students to the "ways that specialists in the social sciences and the humanities analyze environmental problems." Chapter 4, "Literature and the Environment," opens with a description of LGWP and…
Kallay, Zelma.
Parsippany, N.J.: Good Apple, 1997.
Resources for teaching the Middle Ages to school children, arranged as a series of "minibiographies" of five medieval "celebrities." The Chaucer section (pp. 61-74) includes a summary of CT, a brief play based on NPT, and various games and exercises.
Erzgräber, Willi.
Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1997.
Twenty-two essays by Erzgräber, most of them previously published. Eight of the essays pertain to Chaucer, one published here for the first time: "Predestination in Langland and Chaucer" (pp. 179-201). In it, Erzgräber surveys St. Augustine's…
Graybill, Robert V.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 5.2 (1997): 41-49.
Comments on selected images in "Beowulf," Langland's "Piers Plowman," and MilT, where the "imagery of holiness" can be seen to align Nicholas and Alisoun's love-making with divine pattern. Also includes a classroom exercise to sensitize students to…
Four essays by Pizzorno on Chaucer's epistemological uses of metaphor, exempla, and allegory, with an appendix (pp. 111-31) on figurative thinking in classical and medieval tradition and in modern theory. Chapter one (pp. 5-29) was previously…
Pizzorno, Patrizia Grimaldi.
Patrizia Grimaldi Pizzorno. Metaphor at Play: Chaucer's Poetics of Exemplarity (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1997), pp. 31-51.
Argues that exempla should be regarded as essentially metaphorical rather than didactic, and reads NPT as an exemplary tale that parodies the uses of exempla in the other tales of fragment 7, especially MkT.
Pizzorno, Patrizia Grimaldi.
Patrizia Grimaldi Pizzorno. Metaphor at Play: Chaucer's Poetics of Exemplarity (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1997), pp. 53-78.
PrT develops the concerns with food, gluttony, and filth that are established in the GP description of the Prioress, where she is characterized as childish, greedy, and sinful. The tale of Thopas parodies PrT and restores moral balance.
Pizzorno, Patrizia Grimaldi.
Patrizia Grimaldi Pizzorno. Metaphor at Play: Chaucer's Poetics of Exemplarity (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1997), pp. 79-109.
In BD, Chaucer combines a series of sustained unconventional allusions to the Narcissus exemplum from the "Roman de la Rose" with the narrative of Ceyx and Alcyone from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" to produce a "moral lesson against suicide" with a…
Gaffke, Carol T., ed. Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Poets of World Literature, Volume 19 (Detroit: Gale, 1997), pp. 1-79.
Excerpted selections from Chaucer criticism, ranging from 1809 (William Blake) to 1995, prefaced by a brief introduction to his life and works and followed by suggestions for further reading.
Killough, George.
James M. Hutchisson, ed. Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism (Troy: N. Y.: Whitson Publishing, 1997), pp. 162-74.
The Pardoner and Elmer Gantry are "charlatan preachers," who are "comic satirical types." Both characters "reveal their own very human limits" and exemplify their authors' concern with the inadequacy of serious words to convey truth.
Pickering, Kenneth, and Michael Herzog.
Malvern: J. Garner Miller, 1997.
Adapts TC for the stage in modern prose, with Production Notes, a dramaturgical Introduction, and stage directions in the modern-English text. Michael B. Herzog's "Music Score" (n.p.; at end of text) provides musical scores for four lyrics in the…
Adapts aspects of CT (particularly WBPT, PardPT, and MilT), "Everyman," and "Piers Plowman" in a single plot, designed for the stage, with a brief Introduction and stage directions.
