Mason, Tom.
In Michael Edson, ed. Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2017), pp. 129–50.
Describes a kind of annotation used by eighteenth-century editors that links an edited poet to literary tradition by reference to or quotation from other poets. Focuses on the practice in Speght's 1687 edition of Chaucer; Dryden's Fables (1700); and…
Fictional account of twenty-one Australian tourists telling self-disclosing stories, modeled on CT, with many echoes, e.g., character-names such as Tony Knight, Giles Sumner, Barbara Bath, etc.
Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of carnival and a comparison with fifteenth-century drama suggest that pilgrims' laughter is ambivalent and arises from engagement with paradox. The Pardoner's "quete" invites simultaneous complicity and disdain.
TC exhibits a notable conflict between gift and not-gift economics--between ideal giving and practical commodity exchange. The rules of courtly love, ostensibly designed to ennoble the lover and enable "true" love, in practice disallow unconditional…
Masson, Cynthea.
Dr. Faustroll and Cal Clements, eds. Pataphysica: 2. Pataphysica e Alcimia (New York: iUniverse, 2004), pp. 102-16.
Describes the concept of "the alchemical hermaphrodite" and its sexual associations; then traces the concept and its figurative implications in CYPT, arguing that the relationships between the Canon and the Yeoman and between the canon and the priest…
Mast, Isabelle.
Katherine J. Lewis, Noël James Menuge, and Kim M. Phillips, eds. Young Medieval Women (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), pp. 103-32.
In Confessio amantis and his other works, Gower avoids the word "rape," perhaps because of its ambiguity, and he presents forced coitus in ways sympathetic to the victim and cognizant of female repression. Mast includes recurrent comparisons with…
This concordance, a complement to "The Structure of Chaucer's Rime Words (Tokyo, 1964), examines the relationship between "rime words" and the syntactic structure, style, and rhetoric of CT.
A collection of articles published between 1958 and 1974, including eight on the language of feeling. Discusses tone,mood, and theme, emphasizing Chaucer's use of introspective language and his growing tendency toward "emotional internalization."
Masui, Michio.
Chiaki Higashida, ed. Gengo to Buntai: Higashida Chiaki Kyoju Kanreki Kinen Rombunshu. Language and Style: Essays Commemorating the 60th Birthday of Professor C. Higashida (Osaka: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 1975), pp. 9-18.
A "multiple approach" to PrT treats the significant inter-relationships between structure, theme, and meaning. For instance, Chaucer's use of prayer heightens the religious mood of this tale and emphasizes the mother/son thematic conflict.
Comments on several themes that recur in Chaucer's poetry and surmises that they may reflect something of his mindset. Discusses cosmic journey and pilgrimage, prayer, experience and authority, and love tidings.
Assesses the "tenderness" of Chaucer's own feelings by examining his adaptations of the genre of consolation in BD and his techniques for evoking "consolatory feeling" in TC.
Masui, Michio.
Studies in English Literature, English Number (1967): 113-26.
Explores the semantic operation of words drawn from the language of courtly love, following J. R. Frith's theory of linguistic context and collocation, and discussing examples from TC.
Masui, Michio.
Mieczyslaw Brahmer, Stanislaw Helsztynski, and Julian Krzyzanowski, eds. Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of Margaret Schlauch (Warsaw: PWN--Polish Scientific Publishers, 1966), pp. 245-54.
Addresses Chaucer's techniques of evoking and changing moods in TC, closely examining hope and fear in Book 2, and commenting on imagery, character psychology, and diction.
Masui, Michio.
Studies in English Literature, English Number (1960): 1-36.
Describes and assesses Chaucer's depictions of the expressions and psychology of love in TC, attending to diction, tone, style, and various uses and developments of the conventions of French and Italian love poetry. Focuses on the poet's successful…
Assesses occurrences of the diction and sentiment of tenderness, pity, and consolation in Chaucer's works (GP Prioress, BD, TC), linking them with Bothius's "Consolation of Philosophy." In Japanese.
Matheson, Lister M.
Chaucer Review 25 (1991): 171-89.
An examination of Chaucer's original family name, Malyn, casts doubt on previous claims that Chaucer's family was involved in leather making. For social and commercial reasons, Chaucer was a more acceptable surname. Chaucer used Malyn or its…
Matheson, Lister M.
Notes and Queries 232 (1987): 289-91.
The favored manuscript reading "Prison, stewe, of gret distress" appears in CX1 and TH "Pryson, stryfe, or grete dystress." "Stryfe" was often spelled "striue," and "stewe" can be derived from abbreviated "striue" and not vice versa. The sense of…
Matheson, Lister M.
Notes and Queries 224 (1979): 203.
The line reads "Thy pourynge ('vrr.' pouryng, powringe) in wol nowher lat hem dwelle." All evidence--context, lexicographical, manuscript--indicates that it means "peering-in, gazing-in," from ME "pouren"; and not "pouring-in."
