Oerlemans, Onno.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Explores the connection between animals and poetry, arguing for an emphasis on poetry that describes animals. Maintains that poetry's openness to experimentation with language mirrors its depiction of a blurred boundary between the human and the…
Oerlemans, Onno.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Explores the range of representations of animals in English poetry for the ways poems can generate knowledge of animal life and sympathy for it, analyzing animal fables, poems that treat animals generally, species poems, poems about individual…
Ogborn, Jane, and Peter Buckroyd.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
An introduction to satire for classroom use, directed at university students and focusing on English literature from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy; concerned with definitions, social contexts, and the transaction between reader and text. The discussion…
Ogilvie-Thomson, S. J.
Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2000.
Describes all manuscripts in the Laudian collection that contain English prose composed ca. 1200-1500, including Laud misc. 600, which includes incomplete versions of Mel (one folio lacking) and ParsT (through 10.914, completed in seventeenth-century…
Ogilvie-Thomson, S. J.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017.
Describes the contents of the 167 manuscripts in the Rawlinson Collection that include Middle English prose; the following have Chaucerian material: D.3 [1] (Astr); D.913 [9] (Astr); poet.141 [1] (Mel); poet.149 [1] (Mel); poet.149 [3] (ParsT); and…
Ogura, Michiko, ed.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006.
Sixteen essays by various authors on linguistic topics in Old and Middle English, including a survey of the teaching of medieval English in Korea. The papers were presented at the first international conference of the Society of Historical English…
Ogura, Michiko.
Akio Oizumi, Jacek Fisiak, and John Scahill, eds. Text and Language in Medieval English Prose: A Festschrift for Tadao Kubouchi (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 183-206.
Ogura examines the lexicon of emotion (anger, fear, joy, pleasure, sorrow, wonder) in translations of Boethius by Jean de Meun, Chaucer, and Elizabeth I. Chaucer effectively uses three levels of word pairs: native, foreign, and combinations of…
Ogura, Mieko.
Lexicon 8 (1979): 1-15. [Iwasaki Linguistic Circle].
In view of Kiparsky's new theory (1977), we can show the differences of the metrical rules in the specific types of mismatches allowed in each of Chaucer's works. We can say that the constraints on mismatches became severer in an orderly way from…
Ogura, Mika.
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. 138-68.
Discusses swoons or relevant scenes in Rom, BD, Anel, Mars, TC, LGW, KnT, MilT, MLT, and WBT to reveal how the swoon creates comical effects throughout Chaucer's poetry. In Japanese.
Öğütcü, Murat.
In Evrim Doğan Adanur, ed. IDEA: Studies in English (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 289-99.
Assesses the "multilayered constitution" of TC "as a polysemous text" that celebrates "the flesh and the divine simultaneously," reading the poem as the recreation of the "suppressed sexual experience" of Chaucer's youth in his old age, an…
Öğütcü, Murat.
Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 34 (2019): 183-91.
Argues that in TC Chaucer "initiates" a tradition of presenting the "multiple significations" of the story, while "Henryson makes it Scottish and Shakespeare unintentionally reflects the unification of the two countries on a literary level."…
Ohno, Hideshi, Akiyuki Jimura, Yoshiyuki Nakao, Noriyuki Kawano, and Kenichi Satoh.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 62 (2018): 1-13.
Examines linguistic features of Pynson's and de Worde's editions of KnT and discusses similarities to and difference from each other, Caxton's editions, and the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts.
Contains essays on Chaucer's use of language, speech, and tone. For essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for The Pleasure of English Language and Literature under Alternative Title.
Ohno, Hideshi.
Osamu Imahayashi, Yoshiyuki Nakao, and Michiko Ogura, eds. Aspects of the History of the English Language and Literature: Selected Papers Read at SHELL 2009, Hiroshima (New York; Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 115-29.
Tabulates features of impersonal usage in Chaucer, Gower, and Langland, using a variety of verbs and commenting on the conditions of usage.
Item not seen; reported in the MLA International Bibliography as a comparative linguistic treatment of dreams in Chaucer, Gower, and Langland. In Japanese.
Item not seen; reported in the MLA International Bibliography as a discussion of syntax, impersonal constructions, and variants in CT manuscripts. In Japanese.
Ohno, Hideshi.
Yoshiyuki Nakao and Yoko Iyeiri, eds. Chaucer's Language: Cognitive Perspectives (Suita: Osaka, 2013), pp. 79-98.
Assesses the significance of variant readings of think ("thinken" or "thenken") in SumT, line 2204, from several linguistic points of view, and emphasizes the semantic and syntactical differences between the impersonal and personal constructions.
Ohno, Hideshi.
Bulletin of Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts 20 (2015): 131–46.
Provides an overview of Chaucer's use of the absolute infinitive, and introduces its various types. Focuses especially on the uses of "seien," "speken," and "tellen" in parenthetical construction and discusses their function based on statistical…
Ohno, Hideshi.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 61 (2017): 69-84.
Focuses on words and phrases collocating with "herte," "minde," and "soule" in CT and TC and analyzes how Chaucer "exerts his influence on the reader's/audience's emotion" through the use of these words.
Ohno, Hideshi.
In Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 261-75.
Investigates the difference in use and function between the "be" + "lief" and the "have" + "lief" constructions, and between these constructions and "like" and "list" in Chaucer's works.
Ohno, Hideshi.
Akio Katami, Tomohiro Kawabata, and Fumiko Yamamoto, eds. A History of the English Language for English Teachers (Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 2018), pp. 83-105.
Introduces elements of the English language that are particularly useful for teaching English, following the ordinary division of the language's development into five stages: Old English, Middle English, early modern English, late modern English, and…
A selective bibliography of Chaucer studies, covering linguistic approaches through 1993, arranged topically under ten headings: Bibliographies (30 items); Manuscripts, Facsimiles, and Editions (26); Textual Criticism (53); English Linguistic…
Oizumi, Akio, ed. Programmed by Kunihiro Miki.
Hildescheim, Zurich, and New York: Olms-Weidmann, 1991.
Supplies every form of every word in the Chaucer corpus of The Riverside Chaucer, using KWIC format. Presents the headword in the center of the page and provides about two lines of context for the poetry. Variant spellings are listed separately,…
