Leyerle, John.
University of Toronto Quarterly 40 (1971): 247-65
Considers the date and thematic unity of HF, suggesting that the eagle is crucial to perceiving both of them, with the astrological sign of the eagle ("Aquila") indicating the date and the Eagle's discourse on sound central to the poem's concern with…
Li, Chi-fang Sophia.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Warwick, 2008. Abstract accessible at http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1091/; accessed September 20, 2023.
"This study aims to offer a new literary biography of Thomas Dekker (c. 1572-1632) and demonstrates the ways in which he refashions his principal source, Geoffrey Chaucer." Includes attention to Dekker's uses of ClT, WBT, and ideas of "game" and…
Li, Chi-fang Sophia.
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 355-79.
Demonstrates that Chaucerian estates satire in CT influenced the development of dramatic "city comedy" at the turn of the seventeenth century. Shows that in his "Ho" plays Dekker adapts Chaucer's London topographies, characterizations, themes, and…
Li, Xingzhong.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3948A
Surveys the history of approaches to Chaucer's meter and critiques individual approaches. Proposes principles of Chaucer's tetrameter and pentameter, focusing on syntactic inversions and phrase boundaries. Chaucer's verse developed from rough…
Li, Xingzhong.
Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004), pp. 315-41.
Statistical evidence--including stress patterns, line divisions, pauses, missing and extrametrical syllables, and syntactical inversion--from Chaucer's octosyllabic lines corroborates a proposed prototype of iambic tetrameter and encourages us to…
Li, Xingzhong.
Don Chapman, Colette Moore, and Miranda Wilcox, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language VII: Generalizing vs. Particularizing Methodologies in Historical Linguistic Analysis (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2016), pp. 107-30.
Seeks to "account for constraints governing Chaucer's syntactic inversions with a purpose to uncover Chaucer's underlying metrical principles," employing a combination of "optimality theory" and "Maxent Grammars" and analyzing "every tenth line" of…
Librach, Ronald S.
Interpretations 14.2 (1983): pp. 1-14
Explores nuances of Boethian Providence, fortune, destiny, and human perceptions of them in KnT, along with relations between death and love in their worldly and spiritual manifestations. Argues that in KnT Chaucer burlesques the "romantic…
Liebman, Arthur, ed.
New York: Richards Rosen, 1975.
An anthology of eighteen examples of short crime fiction, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Ray Bradbury, with a general Introduction and brief comments introducing the tales. Includes PardT (pp. 3-12) in the prose translation of R. M.…
Seeks to understand BD as an exploration of (male) grief beyond its presumed historical occasion and to relate the subject and structure of the poem by explicating the recurring references to literal and metaphorical nakedness--especially that of…
Liendo, Elizabeth.
Ph.D. dissertation (Pennsylvania State University, 2019). Item not seen. Abstract available at https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/16973eah27 (accessed December 1, 2021).
Argues that Ovidian influence on "the literary fantasy of erotic and poetic mastery" draws on a "model established in Ovid's 'Amores'," tracing "a "shared heritage" ranging from Andreas Capellanus, Chrétien de Troyes, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Ronsard…
Chaucer's changes from Boccaccio's 'Il Filostrato' in the swoon scenes develop the characterization of the three participants, adding comedy and reflecting medical treatments of the swoon.
Lightsey, Robert Scott.
Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 1845A, 2001.
Physical and mechanical marvels suggest a mechanistic rather than a supernatural universe in SqT, Gower's version of the Alexander legend, and Sir John Mandeville's eastern marvels.
Lightsey, Scott.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23: 289-316, 2001.
Commerce in automatons, mechanical contrivances, and other marvels or mirabilia in late-medieval Europe diminished the wonder of such objects and encouraged scepticism. Chaucer's FranT and SqT rationalize the marvels they present in ways that…
Lightsey, Scott.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Considers classical and medieval attitudes toward automata and mirabilia as context for analyzing their presence and depictions in late medieval English culture, especially in works by Langland, Chaucer, Gower, and Mandeville. Chapter 2, "Chaucer and…
Lightsey, Scott.
R. F. Yeager and Brian W. Gastle, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower (New York: Modern Language Association,
2011), pp. 36-41.
Compares and contrasts the uses of estates literature in works by Gower, Chaucer, and William Langland, explaining the didacticism of Gower, Chaucer's "playful 'show--don't tell'" in GP, and Langland's allusive allegorizing.
Lightsey, Scott.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 171-85
Contends that Chaucer's "international presence," due to his European travels connected to his position and service within the court, "instilled in him a European sensibility distinctly at odds with his modern image as the avatar of Englishness."
Lim, Hyanyang K.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 25.1 (2017): 67-97.
Explores Chaucer's reservations about the reliability of written documents by examining Donegild's counterfeit letters in MLT and Thomas Woodstock, duke of Gloucester's "Confession", written in 1397. Examines problems of written documents implicated…
Lim, Hye-Soon.
Medieval English Studies 06 (1998):199-223
Deriving from the Greek word for "tongue" and from Scandinavian "superficial luster," "glosing" is the central notion of SumT. Chaucer uses it to disclose fraternal hypocrisy and distortion of Scripture. In Korean, with English abstract.
