Sanders, Barry.
Barbara Lounsberry and others, eds. The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short Story (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998), pp. 55-62.
Considers the relations among jokes and short stories, focusing on MilT as a "well-made" short story and regarding the Reeve's response as evidence of the social balance accomplished through jokes and fiction.
Riehle, Wolfgang.
Beyer, Manfred, ed. Zum Begriff der Imagination in Dichtung und Dichtungstheorie: Festschrift für Rainer Lengeler zum 65. Geburtstag (Trier: WVT, 1998), pp. 186-205.
Explores political and ideological similarities between PhyT and Livy's version of the story, and traces these similarities in later English and German versions, especially the Tudor interlude "Apius and Virginia" and G. E. Lessing's bourgeois…
Reprints Coghill's modernized poetic versions of GP, KnT, NPT, PardPT, SumT, WBT, ClPT, and FranPT, accompanied by an excerpt from John Gardner's biography of Chaucer and medieval materials in modern English translation (from Boccaccio's "Decameron,"…
Barisone, Ermanno.
Paola Carbone, ed. Congenialità e Traduzione: Barisone/Chaucer, Bacigalupo/Wordsworth, Kemeny/Byron, Righetti/Browning, Parks/Calasso (Milan: Mimesis, 1998), pp. 21-31.
Describes the process and challenge of translating Chaucer into Italian. The volume also includes a round table discussion of translation, including comments about Chaucer, London standard, and Chaucer's stylistic and linguistic variety (pp. 91-103).
An anthology of four tales of cuckoldry, with a brief Introduction. Includes a version of ShT in Spanish, here titled "Vestida de Pecado: Versión Libre Sobre un Cuento de Geoffrey Chaucer" (pp. 37-65).
McDonald, Richard.
In-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism 7 (1998): 31-48.
Shows that throughout his career Chaucer "attempts to stike a balance between apologizing for the instability of his meaning and open acceptance of the capricious nature of language." Comments on Chaucer's attitudes toward language, interpretation,…
León Sendra, Antonio R., and Jesús L. Serrano Reyes.
Antonio Ruiz Castellanos, Antonia Viñez Sanchez, and Durán Sáez, eds. Retórica y Texto (Cádiz: Universidad de Cádiz, 1998), pp. 332-38.
Explicates aspects of rhetoric, person, and theme in lines 1868-1915 of HF.
Andrew, Malcolm, and A. C. Cawley, eds.
London: Dent, 1998.
Text and notes of WBPT, ClPT, and MerPT in Middle English, originally edited by Cawley and here revised by Andrew. Includes a Chronology of Chaucer's life and times and an Introduction (xiv-xx) by Andrew that focuses on the theme of marriage in the…
Tasioulas, J. A.
Harlow: Longman; London: York Press, 1998.
Study guide to WBPT that includes a plot synopsis, running commentary, and glosses (text not included, except for three passages for closer analysis). Also includes descriptions of the Wife's character, various themes and devices, sources and…
Whitesides, Nigel, and Adrian G. Packer.
Rochester, Kent: P.S. Publishers, 1998.
Lesson plans and activities for teaching CT, centered on adaptations of WBT, FranT, and PardT for staging, and including abridged versions of KnT, RvT, NPT, and FrT. Also includes a short play about the death of Thomas Becket. The volume includes…
Brawer, Robert A.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
Chapter two, "Selling on a Grand Scale, Playing to an Image-Conscious Society" (pp. 35-59), includes discussion of the Merchant as a "self-made man" who relies on his image of success. Assesses the GP description and compares the character to Horatio…
Robb, Candace [M.]
New York: St. Martin's; London: Heinemann, 1998.
Historical detective novel in which Geoffrey Chaucer, while recruiting Welsh archers for defense against the French, assists Owen Archer's investigations of a murder in Wales.
Washburn, Katharine, John S. Major, and Clifton Fadiman, eds.
New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1998.
Includes two excerpts from Chaucer in modernized English (pp. 527-28), translated by Burton Raffel and Selden Rodman: the ballade from LGWP (F249-69) and TC (5.1786-1834).
Includes biographies of thirteen artists and three writers, designed for juvenile audience. The Chaucer material (pp. 84-87) includes basic information and a magnified color detail of William Bell Scott's portrait of Chaucer in from "A Four Leaf…
Bravo [García], Antonio, ed.
[Oviedo]: Universidad de Oviedo, Servicio de Publicaciones, 1998.
This anthology of Middle English writing includes MilT and PardT(edited from the Ellesmere manuacript), with facing-page glosses and a brief introduction.
Interrelated fictional narratives told in poetry and prose by travelers in modern Nigeria; modeled on CT, with an opening General Prologue and tales told by various vocational types, e.g., the Air-hostess, the Journalist, the Female Petrol Attendant,…
Spanish prose translation of CT (except Mel and ParsT), with Th and the Envoy to ClT in verse; translated by Ramón Sopena. Twelve color plates reproduce the sequence of the months from "Les Très Riches Heures" of Jean, Duke of Berry.
Gaskell, Philip.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
Includes the GP description of the Prioress in Middle English and in Nevill Coghill's translation; also comments on issues of readability, subtlety, and meter.
Keller, Kimberly Anne.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 122A.
A psychoanalytic, Lacanian study of the lover's complaint reveals the fragmented lover as seeking at once wholeness through recognition of his "trouthe" by the lady and union with her. Treats lovers' fantasies and failures in TC, Lydgate, Hoccleve,…
