Kendrick, Laura.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Using "paradigms" of human behavior drawn from psychology, psychoanalysis, and anthropology, Kendrick studies play in CT. Chaucer's tales involve either "pathetic fictions that foreground individual accommodation to exterior reality or public…
Hansen, Elaine Tuttle.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Explores the relationship between gender and subjectivity in the works of Chaucer, assessing from a feminist critical perspective the traditional "adulation" of the poet. Hansen examines the "feminization" of Chaucer's characters and narrators and…
Delany, Sheila.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Analyzes LGW as an under-appreciated work, using an ecletic combination of approaches derived from semiotic, historicist, and feminist theories. LGWP and the separate legends are coherent but not organic; they combine in their recurrent…
Hallam, Elizabeth, and Andrew Prescott, eds.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Photographic reproductions of records from British cultural history, arranged chronologically from the departure of the Romans to late-modern multi-culturalism. Reproduces in color (p. 31) three images that pertain to Chaucer: a page from the…
Neuse, Richard.
Berkeley. Los Angeles, and Oxford: University of California Press, 1991.
CT responds to Dante's Commedia in a "conscious attempt " to continue its "poetic tradition" of pilgrimage narrative. Chaucer's pilgrims "comment or focus on one or more aspects of the Dantean pilgrimage," and both works define the human image and…
Minkova, Donka, and Robert Stockwell, eds.
Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.
Nineteen essays by various authors, divided into three sections--Millennial Perspectives; Phonology and Metrics; and Morphosyntax/Semantics-and an envoy. Includes author and subject indexes. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for…
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…
