The problems of rendering Chaucer into Chinese are formidable,but the fact that much of Chaucer's language and culture seems foreign even to native readers today makes the task somewhat less difficult than treating certain contemporary authors.
Lewis, R. W. B.
Yearbook of Comparative Literature 10 (1961): 7-15.
Explores difficulties of translating Virgil's "Aeneid," opening with commentary on HF 143-44 as "Chaucer's witty little critical essay on the problem."
Livne, Shachar.
Studies in Philology 118 (2021): 605-30.
Contrasts the hermeneutics of ekphrastic scenes in "Purgatorio" and HF: the viewing by Dante's viator of bas-reliefs in the first cornice of Purgatory (X.25ff.) encourages emotional detachment when searching for truth in art; Geffrey's compassion…
Alderson, William L.
Modern Language Notes 71.3 (1956): 166-67.
Comments on two 1954 publications (by John Owen and Philip Williams respectively) that pertain to Chaucer allusions, observing that both had been previously noticed and that the latter failed to identify a so-called "saying of Chaucer" as a refrain…
Ajiro investigates editorial differences in manuscript readings between Robinson's second edition of PF and the text in Benson's The Riverside Chaucer; considers what manuscripts were used in their editing.
Examines differences in punctuation between Robinson's second edition of PF and the text in Benson's The Riverside Chaucer. Concludes that modern punctuation might sometimes distort Middle English style, especially in colloquial speech.
Tenn, William, ed.
Westlake, Donald, ed.
New York: Macmillan, 1968.
Includes a modern prose translation of PardT in an anthology of twenty-two short stories of crime fiction by authors not usually associated with the genre.
Minnis, Alastair.
Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager, eds. Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), pp. 287-315.
Exploring the "cultural sources and significance of the humor which Chaucer brings into play" in PardT (288), Minnis examines medieval relics, shrines, and cures and suggests that if we understand more about these practices, "we may gain a better…
Eyler, Joshua R., and John P. Sexton.
Chaucer Review 40 (2006): 433-39.
Following Arcite's death in KnT, Theseus designates for his funeral "that selve grove" (1. 2860) where Arcite and Palamon first fought privately, which technically would have been "destroyed" to erect the lists for the public tournament in which…
Ingpen, Robert.
Port Melbourne, Victoria: Lothian Books, 1999.
Includes drawings of each of the Canterbury pilgrims, plus a scene of the gathering at the Tabard Inn, interspersed with short quotations from GP (Nevill Coghill translation) and a brief introduction.
Honda, Takahiro.
Research Reports, National Institute of Technology, Fukushima College 61 (2020): 161-68.
Analyzes the concepts of mutability and instability in MLT, arguing that Chaucer constantly approaches these concepts in relation to worldly authorities, and that this implies lessons for such authorities. In Japanese, with English abstract.
Lewis, F. D.
A. A. Seyed-Gohrab, ed. Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry (Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2012), pp. 137-203.
Describes and discusses two analogues to the pear tree episode in MerT (and in Boccaccio's "Decameron"), one in Persian by Rumi in his "Mathnavī," and one in Arabic by Ibn al-Jawzi in his "Kitāb al-adhkiyā'." Also describes and discusses two…
Although twentieth-century editors of Chaucer have produced increasingly sophisticated and tasteful editions of CT, their practices reject methodology dependent on purely objective criteria.
Tajima discusses the status of English study in Japan, providing a discursive bibliography of studies on linguistic topics: parts of speech, metrics, onomastics, etc. Addresses Old English to Modern English, with significant attention to Chaucer.…
Bunt, G. H. V., and E. S. Kooper, eds.
Amsterdam: Garland, 1987.
Seventeen papers read at the Centenary Conference, Groningen, Jan.15-16, 1986. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities under Alternative Title.
Garrison, John.
Medievalia et Humanistica 36 (2010): 25-47.
The friendship between Troilus and Pandarus synthesizes Cicero's "pure friendship" with "potential for mutual gain," emblematized in Troilus's offer to procure any woman Pandarus wants. Portraying friendship in economic terms, TC reveals more…
Eckhardt, Caroline D.
Comparative Literature 58 (2006): 313-38.
Traces conceptualizations of Europe available to fourteenth-century English chroniclers and then explores the use of these by the chroniclers, especially Robert Mannyng and John Trevisa. TC and LGW reflect a tradition that sees Europe as a territory…
Suggests that after studying in CT the relationship of different poetic styles to different social or cultural classes, one might examine the visual art of the Limbourgs' Calendar in the "Tres Riches Heures." The stylistic iconographics of the poet…
Crick, Mark.
Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of Literature in 17 Recipes (London: Granta, 2005), pp. 89-92.
Presents a soup recipe, posed as a conversation in modern iambic pentameter between Chaucer's Host and the "Exciseman of London," who describes the preparation of the soup. Includes a color plate of a faux stained glass medallion of Chaucer as a…
