Oizumi, Akio,and Hiroshi Yonekura; programmed by Kunihiro Miki.
Hildesheim,
A computer-generated alphabetical concordance of rhymes in Chaucer's poetry, based on "The Riverside Chaucer," arranged by rhyme elements (e.g., "-aas," "-aat," "-abbe") within individual works. Includes for each work, in addition to the basic…
Oizumi, Akio,and Hiroshi Yonekura.
Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok, eds. Etudes de linguistique et de litterature en l'honneur d'Andre Crepin. Greifswalder Beitrage zum Mittelalter 5, WODAN ser., no. 20. (Greifswald: Reineke, 1993), pp. 281-88.
Identifies characteristic features of the rhymes and rhyme-elements in CT; a prolegomenon to an in-progress "Rhyme Concordance to the Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer."
Oizumi, Akio.
Toshiyuki Takamiya and Richard Beadle, eds. Chaucer to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Shinsuke Ando (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992), 67-73.
Describes the methods and goals of a volume projected as a supplement to the author's Complete Concordance to the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Hildeshiem: Olms-Weidmann, 1991).
Oizumi, Akio.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica: Essays Presented to Professor Yoshio Terasawa on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, Ltd., 1988) pp. 455-66.
Compares Bo with Jean de Meun's and other versions and discusses Chaucer's translation technique and style. Scholars need more information on Chaucer's use of Jean de Meun and on medieval French translations of "De consolatione philosophae."
Oizumi, Akio.
Jacek Fisiak and Akio Oizumi, eds. English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998), pp. 287-95
Describes the technology and principles of concordancing that underlie The Rhyme Concordance of the Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (SAC 19 [1997], no. 6).
Oizumi, Akio.
Hildesheim, Zurich, and New York : Olms-Weidman, 2003.
A lemmatized concordance, arranged alphabetically, based on the text and corpus of The Riverside Chaucer. Each entry includes a headword, part of speech, references to standard dictionaries (MED, OED, and others), definitions, frequency of…
Oizumi, Akio.
Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2008.
A two-volume lemmatized concordance to Bo, arranged alphabetically, based on The Riverside Chaucer. Each entry includes a headword, part of speech, references to standard dictionaries (MED, OED, and others), definitions, frequency of occurrence, a…
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.
Oka, Fumiko.
Takashi Suzuki and Tsuyoshi Mukai, eds. Arthurian and Other Studies Presented to Sunichi Noguchi. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 231-40.
Analytic survey of "herte" and its derivatives when used to mean "endearment" in TC. Follows Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 61.
Oka, Saburo.
Thought Currents in English 63 (1990): 79-109.
The tale of Philomela involves a love triangle of one male and two females. Chaucer's narrative focuses on Philomene whereas Gower's analogue focuses on both Philomene and Progne. Chaucer achieves his most important transformation of the story by…
Oka, Saburo.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 399-411.
Compares love and the transformation of love in RvT with presentations in analogues to the poem, considering them as versions of the one-male, two-female love triangle.
Oka, Saburo.
Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature 11 (1996): 1-20.
The love triangle of TC (Troilus, Criseyde, and Diomede) is mirrored in a narrative triangle, in turn reflecting a Trinitarian religious outlook. Chaucer's narrative anxiety parallels his anxiety that his religious message may not be fully…
Oka, Saburo.
Hans Sauer and Renate Bauer, eds. "Beowulf" and Beyond. Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, no. 18. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007, pp. 223-34.
Oka compares various classical and medieval descriptions of Troilus and then offers "The Book of Troilus" or simply "Troilus" as a more appropriate title for Chaucer's TC. Also traces the personal development of Troilus from a "fierse and proude…
Oka, Saburo.
Yuichiro Azuma, Kotaro Kawasaki, and Koichi Kano, eds. Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki (Tokyo: Kinseido, 2015), pp. 3-19.
Begins with attempts to position Chaucer, TC, and the reading subject (the author himself ), and reads the Prologue and Epilogue of TC in literary, historical, and anthropological terms. In Japanese.
Okamoto, Hiroki.
Bulletin of the Society for Chaucer Studies 5 (2017): 3–21.
Reconsiders the role of the clerks' northern dialect in RvT as well as the Reeve's Norfolk dialect, paying particular attention to the fading of the former within the tale.
Okamoto, Hiroki.
Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture 33 (2022): 658-83.
Claims that by composing his poetry in English, Chaucer participated in the European movement of promoting the vernacular literatures. Argues that Chaucer's neutral depiction of dialectal features in the two clerks' speeches in RvT affirms the…
Okuda, Hiroko.
Studies in English Literature (Tokyo) 66 (1989): 3-15.
Examines KnT with special attention to Arcite's definition of love, presented with deep sympathy by the narrator--a sympathy infused, nonetheless, with a strong sense of despair. (In Japanese.)
