Nachtwey, Gerald R.
Essays in Medieval Studies 20: 107-20, 2003.
Nachtwey applies the "vertical" social relations of chivalry as understood by Geoffroi de Charny to MLT and FranT. As a perfect Christian, Constance "muddles" the chivalric ideal of a wife, and Dorigen's rashness makes her somewhat inconsistent with…
Nachtwey argues that chivalry was "a pragmatic institution" that created a framework for understanding/controlling knightly violence. Further argues that this concept of chivalry is apparent in the works of Froissart and Chaucer (especially in TC and…
Nafde, Aditi.
Journal of the Early Book Society 16 (2013): 55-83.
Compares Chaucer's and Hoccleve's manuscripts in terms of authorial control, contrasting the "muddle of disparate exemplars" of CT with Hoccleve's detailed attention to format. Specifically contrasts Hoccleve's "mid-stanza paraph" in his autograph…
Nafde, Aditi.
D.Phil Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2012. Dissertation Abstracts International C73.08 and C81.07(E). Fully accessible at https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b2c67783-b797-494a-b792-368c14d1fe49. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Includes analysis the "mise-en-page" of twenty-four Chaucer manuscripts, including assessment of "borders, initials, paraphs, rubrics, running titles, speaker markers, glosses and notes," and arguing that--like Gower and Hoccleve manuscripts--they…
Argues that members of the "School of Christian Interpreters" err when seeing the transcendent ending of TC as implicit throughout the poem, and evaluates the actions of Troilus and Criseyde in terms of courtly love and the operation of Fortune,…
Nagucka, Ruta.
Jacek Fisiak, ed. Middle English Miscellany: From Vocabulary to Linguistic Variation (Poznan: Motivex, 1996.), pp. 233-44.
Assesses the spatial prepositions in Astr, arguing that the availability of the instrument to the audience of Astr made it possible for Chaucer to use imprecise indicators of space, that the prepositions used are "semantically transparent," and that…
Explores Criseyde's "Boethian pragmatism" and her agency in TC, considering how they conflict with social gender-based social constraints and the constraints of the romance genre. The "incompatibility of Boethian philosophy and the romance genre…
Nakamura, Tetsuko.
Roger Ellis and Rene Tixier, eds. The Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age, 5 ([Turnhout, Belgium] : Brepols, 1996), pp. 322-33.
Surveys eighteenth-century translations of portions of Chaucer's CT, examining Ogle's translation of ClT as an example in which the translator adapted the original to contemporary taste. Ogle's Walter and Griselda are a couple with human feelings…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki and Masatsugu Matsuo.
Tomonori Matsushita, A. V. C. Schmidt, and David Wallace, eds. From Beowulf to Caxton: Studies in Medieval Languages and Literature, Texts and Manuscripts (Bern: Lang, 2011), pp. 151-64.
A report on a project creating a comprehensive textual collation between the text of TC in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS 61 (Cp) and Barry Windeatt's 1990 edition of TC. Using Cp as a copy text, Windeatt not only attempted to reconstruct…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki, Akiyuki Jimura, and Masatsugu Matsuo.
Junsaku Nakamura et al., eds. English Corpora Under Japanese Eyes (an anthology commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies) (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004), pp. 139-50.
Project proposal for a computer-assisted comparison of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT, focusing on how the manuscripts represent compound words, the use of double and single letters, the omission and addition of letters, the use of…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki, Akiyuki Jimura, and Noriyuki Kawano.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 59 (2015): 1–34.
Compares frequencies of different negative forms as well as syntactic, lexical, and semantic negative patterns in the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts and two critical editions by Blake and Benson, respectively. Tabulates the result as statistical…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki, and Tadahiro Ikegami.
Koichi Kano, ed. An Invitation to Chaucer's Cosmos (Tokyo: Yushokan, 2022), pp. 51-91.
Examines readings in CT manuscripts that are not found in most critical editions. Reviews history of textual criticism of CT up to the Riverside edition, with special reference to Ralph Hanna's scholarship. Considers merits of the electronic…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Michio Kawai, ed. Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honour of Michio Masui. The English Association of Hiroshima (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1991), pp. 343-60.
Discusses the language of romance in Th, focusing on seven types of "deviation."
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
English and English-American Literature (Yamaguchi University) 26 (1991): 55-75.
Explores Chaucer's ambiguities in light of rhetorical tradition, the state of the language, Chaucer's poetic self-consciousness, and the textual history of his works. (In Japanese)
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 37 (1992): 14-26.
Discusses ambiguity in TC, first from the standpoint of the reader, then as a key to meaning, and finally from the imaginary standpoint of an ideal reader who can be at once sympathetic and detached.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Phoenix 15 (1979): 3-20. [Graduate School of English Philology and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Hiroshima University].
Connotations of proverbs depend on their contexts--addresser, addressee, situation, purpose, etc. Chaucer's maturity in art is particularly discernible in his "misapplication" of them. This deviant use provides him with ample linguistic resources…
