Bergs, Alexander, and Laurel J. Brinton, eds.
Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
An encyclopedic handbook with contributions by various authors, with topics ranging from historical periods to modern media studies. Includes an introductory essay by Jeremy J. Smith entitled "Middle English" (pp. 32-47) and a section on various…
Taavitsainen, Irma, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta, and Matti Rissanen, eds.
Berlin and New York : Gruyter, 2000.
Twenty-seven essays by various authors, addressing issues of linguistic history, dialect, lexicon, syntax, and prosody. Includes an introduction by the editors and a subject index. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Placing Middle…
Fisiak, Jacek, and Akio Oizumi, eds.
Berlin and New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1998.
Twenty-five essays by various authors and a select, annotated bibliography of Japanese studies of English historical linguistics from 1950-95. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan…
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,…
Fisiak, Jacek, ed.
Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997
Twenty-six essays by various authors, exploring issues of syntax, lexicon, phonology, and morphology. Chaucerian materials are cited as data throughout, and for four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Studies in Middle English Linguistic…
Includes a section entitled " Das Pronomen bei Chaucer" (pp. 74-86) that examines Chaucer's artistic uses of the second person pronouns of address, focusing particularly on TC and including comments on WBPT.
Uses media and communication theory to explore relations between modernity and the rise of the newspaper as a medium in Germany. Includes in Chapter III.3 an excursus ("Excurs") on fame and rumor in HF, observing in Chaucer's depiction of them a…
Collects essays that focus on the theme of death from the later heroic era to the eighteenth century. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times under Alternative Title.
Nyffenegger, Nicole, and Katrin Rupp, eds.
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.
Includes nine essays based on presentations at the 2014 New Chaucer Society Nineteenth International Congress in Reykjavík. Sets up a theoretical framework for the exploration of "the textuality of human skin" and "the relations between text,…
A critical description of Chaucer's major works (except LGW) that focuses on narrative techniques, genres, treatments of source materials, stylistic registers, varieties of audience, and the engagement of audiences through experimentation and the…
Eight essays by various authors, selected from the papers presented at SEM (Studientag zum Englisches Mittelalter) 4 and 5, held in Potsdam in 2002 and 2003, respectively. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Riddles, Knights and…
Analyzes the grammar and usage of the "man" and related locutions that convey independent agency in late Middle English and Early Modern English, considering pronouns, modals, and passive verbal forms as well as "man" and other generalized nouns.…
Edits Jonathan Sidnam's rhyme-royal "paraphrase" of Books 1-3 of TC found in London, British Library, Additional MS 29494, with occasional bottom-of-the-page textual notes and an extensive Introduction (pp. 5-88) that is indexed, although the text is…
Ullmann, Ingeborg Maria.
Bern: Herbert Lang, 1973.
Analyzes narrative aspects of CT and the readers' role in understanding the functions and significance of various structural features, the pilgrimage frame, and point of view; uses late-medieval illustrations to explore and illuminate reader…
Tracing the revival of the romance genre, Santini describes in chronological order the work of amateur scholars, editors, and editorial societies that produced editions and commentary on Middle English romances between 1760 and 1860. Comments on the…
Matsushita, Tomonori, A. V. C. Schmidt, and David Wallace, eds.
Bern: Peter Lang, 2011.
Essays examine influence of classical learning, Germanic and Old Norse cultures, and Romance languages on the development of medieval English literature and language. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for From Beowulf to Caxton under…
Karpinski, Agnes.
Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel, eds. Historizing the Dream/Le rêve du point de vue historique (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2019), pp. 93-118.
Assesses relations between dreams and determinism (fate, providence, and prophecy) in three medieval narratives: Kriemhild's dream in the "Nibelungenlied," the dreams in" Der Nonne von Engeltal Büchlein von der Gnaden Überlast," and Chanticleer's…
Gimenez Bon, Margarita.
Bernardo Santano Moreno, Adrian R. Birtwhistle, and Luis G. Giron Echevarria, eds. Papers from the VIIth International Conference of SELIM (Caceres: Universidad de Extremadura, 1995), pp. 101-06.
Analyzes the medieval features of the characterization in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's "The Wife of Bath" (Dublin, 1989).
Gutiérrez Arranz, Jose M.
Bernardo Santano Moreno, Adrian R. Birtwhistle, and Luis G. Girón Echevarria, eds. Papers from the VIIth International Conferenceo of SELIM (Caceres: Universidad de Extremadura, 1995), pp. 141-48.
In PF, Chaucer's Nature fulfills a double role: a divinity who presides over weddings (classical) and a mediatrix for the Christian diety (early modern).
Manzanas Calvo, Ana M.
Bernardo Santano Moreno, Adrian R. Birtwhistle, and Luis G. Girón Echevarria, eds. Papers from the VIIth International Conferenceo of SELIM (Caceres: Universidad de Extremadura, 1995), pp. 175-85.
Key figures of the pre-modernity and pre-capitalism of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Pardoner and Margery Kempe exemplify inverted values.
Ridley, Florence H.
Bernardo Santano Moreno, Adrian R. Birtwhistle, and Luis G. Girón Echevarria, eds. Papers from the VIIth International Conferenceo of SELIM (Caceres: Universidad de Extremadura, 1995), pp. 239-56.
Assesses Chaucer's methods of drawing audiences into a mutually creative process by confronting them with questions.
Valdes Miyares, Ruben.
Bernardo Santano Moreno, Adrian R. Birtwhistle, and Luis G. Girón Echevarria, eds. Papers from the VIIth International Conferenceo of SELIM (Caceres: Universidad de Extremadura, 1995), pp. 351-59.
Chaucer is an "accommodated deconstructionist" rather than a politically committed one. Nonetheless, HF goes beyond mere textual play to historical reference, and Chaucer wavers in the uneasy contradiction between the formal presence of authority…
Mehl, Dieter.
Bernardo Santano Moreno, Adrian R. Birtwhistle, and Luis Gustavo Girón Echevarria, eds. Papers from the VIIth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Caceres: Universidad de Extremadura, 1995), pp. 187-205.
Comments on changes in the "canon" of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English literature, including the rise in importance of LGW.
