PF, an exercise in "rhetorical outdoing" and discovery, shows Chaucer generating "newe science" from the formal "topoi" of "auctores." The episodes of PF conform to Macrobian categories of fabulous narrative, but these are transformed to provide a…
Olsson, Kurt.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 9 (1987): 123-53.
"Securitas" as defined by William of Conches, Phillip of Bergamo, William Peraldus, and others explains both the Knight's response to other pilgrims in the narrative frame of CT and his relation to Theseus in KnT. Both the Knight and Theseus attempt…
Chaucer's hedonist monk tells unexpectedly conservative tales. But his "accessus" and first four tales betray him as a "grammaticus" bent on "curiositas," evoked by hunting (Augustine) and "vagatio" (Peter Damian). The rest define "what is man" by…
Olszewska, E. S.
Notes and Queries 211 (1966): 209.
Identifies four medieval instances (three from Mel) of collocation of forms of "passen" and "gon" that predate the OED's two quotations for "past and gone," from 1598 and 1897.
Ono, Hideshi.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 43 (1988): 1-15.
Ono examines Chaucer's personal and impersonal uses of the verbs "meten" and "dremen" to refer to dreams. The personal use emerged in the fourteenth century.
Ono, Mana.
Studies in Medieval Language and Literature (Tokyo) 1 (1986): 93-105.
Comparing the use of "gentil" and "gentilesse" in Bo 3, pt. 6, 9, with Latin and French texts shows that Boethius had a great influence on Chaucer through Jean de Meun and that Chaucer uses the words in his own skillful way, as seen in works such as…
Ono, Shigeru.
Jacek Fisiak, ed. Studies in English Historical Linguistics and Philology: A Festschrift for Akio Oizumi. Studies in English Language and Literature, no. 2 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 405-17.
Argues that scribes altered Chaucer's modal auxiliaries, dative verb constructions, infinitives, and negations, simplifying Chaucer's syntax and making his stylistic compactness apparent by contrast.
Tabulates the "frequency and percentage" of the modal auxiliaries shall/will and should/would in CT, presenting in eight tables the statistical data in relation to grammar (types of sentences and clauses, person, etc.), mode (poetry and prose), and…
Opie, Iona and Peter, eds.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
An anthology of British narrative verse, ranging from Chaucer to W. H. Auden; includes Middle English versions of NPT ("The Cock and the Hen") and PardT ("Death and the Three Revellers"), with bottom-of-the-page glosses and diacritical marks to…
Opie, Iona and Peter, eds.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1973.
An anthology of samples of English verse for children, ranging from selections by Chaucer and Lydgate to works by A. A. Milne and T. S. Eliot. Includes one sample from Chaucer: "Controlling the Tongue" (i.e., ManT 9.319-42), in Middle English, with…
Opus Anglicanum.
Farnham, Surrey: Herald AV, 1999.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that it includes passages from GP read in modern English by John Touhey, interspersed with sung music from Chaucer's time, recorded at Dorchester Abbey (1994).
Modeled on Chaucer's BD, although reshaped "radically," Spenser's "Daphnaida" is less a "traditional lament" than a "warning against grieving too much." Compares and contrasts the two poems to clarify their similarities and differences, and discusses…
Oram, William A.
David A. Richardson, and A Kent Hieatt, eds. Spenser at Kalamazoo: Proceedings from a Special Session at the Thirteenth Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 5-6 May 1978 (Cleveland: Cleveland State University, 1978), pp. 238-53.
Comparative analysis evinces how Spenser adapts Chaucer's BD in creating his "Daphnaida." The impact changes, however, as Chaucer's "Man in Black presents Gaunt with an idealized version of himself," while Spenser's poem presents his friend, Arthur…
Ordiway, Frank Bryan.
Dissertation Abstracts International 51 (1991): 2373A
Unlike Dante, who recognizes his poetic "fathers" in the Divine Comedy and sees himself as surpassing them, Chaucer in TC adopts the stance of the translator of an ancient text but questions the value of its tradition.
Posits a connection between literature, subjectivity, and the diagnosis of medical symptoms in the late Middle Ages. Uses CT and other literary and medical works.
Uses HF, which sets "archival totality" in an uncertain relation to the experience of reading, to introduce a discussion of how in our reading "discursive systems, rather than particular texts, become objects of knowledge." Aims to theorize a…
Reads HF as an example of how a literary work constructs "discursive scale," making us self-conscious about how we read and interpret, when we read closely, and when we distance ourselves and see the text in relation to genres and systems, history,…
Orlemanski, Julie.
In Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds. Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 125-45.
Argues that the Ceyx and Alcyone episode in BD, unlike its antecedents in Ovid and Machaut, reveals the inadequacy of "elegiac poetics," particularly the formal strategy of prosopopoeia, to "voice" the dead. Similarly, in the body of the dream, White…
Orlemanski, Julie.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Explores "mortal embodiment" in KnT, particularly in the descriptions of Arcite's lovesickness, injuries, and death, contrasting their physicality with the metaphysical perspective of Theseus's final speech. Designed for pedagogical use, includes…
Orlemanski, Julie.
Katie L. Walter, ed. Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 161-81.
Focuses on Cresseid's leprosy in Henryson's "Testament," with attention to how the disease can help to chart the "ethical relationship" between his poem and Chaucer's TC.
Orlemanski, Julie.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Studies medical language and the "etiological imagination" of late medieval England, i.e., the "envisioning, arbitrating among, and emplotting [of] intricate causal chains" that seek to represent or explain the "frictional interface of causation and…
Orme, Nicholas [I.]
New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 2001.
Orme surveys medieval childhood, from the seventh to the mid-sixteenth century, with emphasis on England. Topics include birth and family life, danger and death, children's literature, learning to read and reading for pleasure, play, children and the…
