Shimotao, Makoto.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 413-26.
Explores the religious connotations and associations of Middle English "entente," arguing that it suggests spiritual or moral motivations in FrT.
Barker, David Stephen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 2199A.
Law and its applications influence literary audiences, and Chaucer exploits the possibilties variously. In KnT, trial by combat fails to effect closure; Theseus must intervene. Melibee's final verdict acts similarly in Mel. In SumT, however, the…
Carruthers, Mary (J.)
Representations 93 (2006): 1-21.
Carruthers reevaluates Troilus's weeping and lamentation in Book 4 of TC in the context of monastic tradition, including the works of Peter of Celle and Galen, that sees links "among perception, sensation, and rational process."
Coleman, Joyce.
Hildegard L. C. Tristram, ed. Medieval Insular Literature Between the Oral and the Written II: Continuity of Transmission. ScriptOralia, no.97. (Tubingen: Narr, 1997), pp.155-76.
Challenges the blunt opposition between orality and literacy, arguing from evidence in Chaucer and Langland that transitional terms are needed. Borrowing from the linguistic terms "exophoric" and "endophoric," Coleman argues that the Wife of Bath's…
Kita, Rume.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 303-18.
Considers "life" and "death" in BD, examining the role of the dream-vision genre in establishing meanings of the terms.
Tanaka, Sachiho.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 319-36.
Explores PF as an example of Chaucer's poetic technique, examining the text, sources, structure, and organic unity of the work.
Adams, Jenny.
Sharon M. Rowley, ed. Writers, Editors, and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 79-99.
Examines how Chaucer's characters in CT, particularly the Clerk in ClT and Nicholas in MilT, reveal "intersections of debt and education" and, therefore, are shapedby their participation in "late medieval England's educational economy."
Fujimoto, Masashi.
Koichi Kano, ed. Through the Eyes of Chaucer: Essays in Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Society for Chaucer Studies (Kawasaki: Asao Press, 2014), pp. 6-25.
Examines Chaucer's notion of "gentilesse" and its importance by looking into instances of its use in KnT, SqT, FranT, WBT, ParsT, and Gent. In Japanese.
Akahori, Naoko.
Research Reports of the Nagaoka Technical College 32.1 (1996): 3-10.
In Sted and Mel, Chaucer either could not or did not make his attitude about the political and religious problems of his day clear. Akahori examines why he gave his hearty, moral advice to Richard II and what he really intended to say.
Finnie, W. Bruce.
Chaucer Review 9 (1975): 337-41.
In two recent articles discussing Chaucer's assonance (JEGP, 71; PMLA, 88) Percy Adams fails to make critical distinctions between phonemes that differ quantitatively, thus seriously undermining his own conclusions about assonance and obscuring…
Oizumi, Akio.
Studies in English Literature (Tokyo) 48 (1971): 95-108.
Analyzes the variety of lexical doublets in Mel, comparing them with parallel collocations in the French source and commenting on stylistic and semantic implications.
Nohara, Yasuhiro.
Journal of Human Sciences (Momoyama Gakuin University) 24.1 (1988): 35-67 (in Japanese).
Tallies and assesses Chaucer's uses of comparative constructions using as in CT (e.g., "as . . . as," "as . . . as is a . . ."), including their functions as set phrases.
Foster, Michael.
Review of English Studies 59 (2008): 185-96.
Reconsiders the traditional dating of BD in light of the evolving relationship between Chaucer and John of Gaunt, as affected by Katherine Swynford. The date influences our reading of the poem.
Blake, N. F.
P. L. Heyworth, ed. Medieval Studies for J. A. W. Bennett (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), 101-19.
Most if not all early scribes used Hg, which avoided editorial tampering--i. e., introduction of new tales and links, revision of order of tales, "corrections" of lines, words, spellings. "The best an editor can do is follow Hg closely."
Ida, Hideho.
A Collection of Treatises on Languages and Literature 38 (2021): 35-45.
Categorizes nouns in NPT into twenty groups according to their meanings, counts the numbers of Latin-based nouns and Old English-based nouns in each category, and considers possible implications of their proportions. In Japanese.
Allen, Valerie.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Considers the imagery and implications of flatulence, wind, excrement, and refuse in medieval culture, considering anecdotes, visual imagery, religious commentary, and other literature. Occasional mention of Chaucer's works, with focused attention…
Argues that in the Dido account of LGW Chaucer "channels" deep-seated cultural "anxiety about Phoenicians as he asserts his place in a Roman-centered Western tradition." By "removing the story of Dido's diasporic leadership, and misidentifying her…
Haigh, Ken.
Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2021.
Contemplative memoir of walking the Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury, highlighted with literary and historical references and commentary. Chaucerian references include, for example, lines translated from GP (1–2, 12–18), a surmise that…
Novacich, Sarah Elliott.
Philological Quarterly 94, no. 3 (2015): 201–23.
Discusses the idea of "poetic feet" of versification in poetry, and examines how travel narratives are linked to poetic language. Compares CT (particularly ParsT, MkT, KnT, Tho, Mel, and TC, to Dante's "Inferno" and Mandeville's travel narrative.
