Items not seen; reported in WorldCat, which indicates three interrelated items: 1) a cassette recording of GP and MilT (with projected images?), 2) written corrections and commentary (in German) on this recording, and 3) an introduction (in German)…
Critical review of two applied textual theories, exposing their weaknesses in light of recent theory and revealing their ongoing utility. Includes discussion of Laura Hibbard Loomis's arguments that Th indicates Chaucer's firsthand knowledge of the…
Porter, Gerald
Risto Hiltunen, Marita Gustafsson, Keith Battarbee, and Liisa Dahl, eds. English Far and Wide: A Festschrift for Inna Koskenniemi (Turku: Turun Yliopisto, 1993), pp. 59-74.
The figure of the miller has a dual tradition as it develops from oral to literary presentation: that of a carnivalesque artisan and that of a social-climbing tradesperson. Porter traces literary depictions of millers from the fourteenth to the…
Porter, Peter, and Anthony Thwaite, eds.
London: Secker &Warburg, 1974.
An anthology of English poetry, interspersed with ongoing commentary. Includes in Middle English (pp. 1-16) sections of GP (opening, Prioress, and Pardoner) and much of PardT, with commentary that emphasizes Chaucer's "variety of moods and…
The ending of CT is intentionally ambiguous,leaving the choice of a final meaning--if there "is" one--to the reader. The most characteristically "Chaucerian" reading of the ending is also the most modern: to choose not to make a choice is to make…
Recent debates over editing of "Canterbury Tales" reflect "best-text" (Hengwrt) versus "best-book" (Ellesmere) views, but both sides continue to make editorial assumptions about unity and closure.
Postmus, Bouwe
Tony Bex, Michael Burke, and Peter Stockwell, eds. (Contextualized Stylistics: In Honour of Peter Verdonk. Amsterdam.: Rodopi, 2000), pp. 103-11.
Argues that a seventeenth-century play, "The Wisest Have Their Fools About Them," may reflect the influence of Chaucerian fabliau and some late-medieval stage traditions. Baldwin's analysis focuses on stereotypical characters.
Poteet, Daniel P., II.
Notes and Queries 217 (1972): 89-90.
Connects John's separation from Alison in the tubs of the MilT with enjoinders to remain sexually separate in the Noah mystery plays and Mirk's "Festial."
Divides Chaucer's allusions to Jove into two groups: those that present him as dream-like or fantastic and those that present him as actual or historical. Chaucer consistently presents Jove in allegorical ways even when he does not relegate him to…
Chaucer used English as a revolutionary gesture: "the vernacular destroyed the intellectual and political control of the aristocrats of church and state." Potter addresses several 14th-century English concerns: aristocratic control exercised…
Potter, Russell Alan.
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1992): 3276A.
Chaucer's works have been treated variously through the centuries: vernacular text teaching a diverse audience in debates over "Englishing" the Bible; both model and subject for translation to the Neoclassics; basis for study in the nineteenth…
Tallies and comments upon various irreversible paired words in Chaucer's works (e.g., "joy and bliss," "word and dede," wele and wo," etc.), observing where modern usages vary or continue medieval practices.
Introduces and anthologizes examples of humor in English literature, and critical analyses of it, arranged topically by humorous technique; includes Nevill Coghill's modern translation of the GP descriptions of the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner under…
Poulton, Mike.
London: Nick Hern, in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company, 2005.
Selections from CT adapted for the stage in modernized iambic couplets (with MLT, PrT, and ClT in rhyme royal stanzas), arranged in two plays, each with two parts, with intervals. Part One opens with a truncated GP, as most of the descriptions of the…
Pound, Ezra, and Marcella Spann, eds.
New York: New Directions, 1964.
Includes selections from GP (1-27, 118-26 and 150-62 [Prioress], 165-66 and 177-87 [Monk], 270-75 [Merchant], and 309-22 [Sergeant at Law]), MerB, and the "Roundel" from PF. In Middle English, without notes or glosses.
Pouzet, Jean-Pascal.
Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres 1 (2004): 169-213
Pouzet surveys the late medieval activities of Augustinian canons in the production of Anglo-Norman and Middle English manuscripts and texts. Considers evidence of the commitment of members of the order to the transmission of Chaucer material.
Powell, Brian.
Maria Isabel Toro Pascua, ed. Actas del III Congreso de la Asociacion Hispanica de Literatura Medieval (Salamanca, 3 al 6 de octubre de 1989), II. 2 vols. (Salamanca: Biblioteca Espanola del Siglo XV, Departamento de Literatura Espanola e Hispanoamericana, 1994), pp. 789-96.
Compares narrative aspects of CT and Juan Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor," especially their uses of irony and an author-narrator; also explores relations between the Prioress and Ruiz's Dona Garoca.
Powell, Jason E. and William T. Rossiter, eds
Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013. ix, 256 pp.
"Examines the duality of the roles of author and ambassador through a study of the connection between the discourses and practices of authority and diplomacy in the literature of the late medieval and early modern periods." Essays "argue that…
Although the link between ManT and ParsT has been seen as tenuous, ManT leads symbolically and actually into ParsT, and it simultaneously extends the piety of ParsT back into CT as a whole.
Powell, Susan, and Jeremy J. Smith, eds.
Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2000.
Thirteen essays by various authors: seven interpretations of alliterative poems and six textual analyses of Middle English works. Includes a memoir by Derek Pearsall. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for New Perspectives on Middle…
Powers, Tom.
Carmina Philosophiae 26-27 (2020 for 2017–18): 1-194.
Presents a modern English translation of the facing-page 1868 edition of Chaucer's Bo. Claims in introduction that "this is not a work of scholarship but of love and gratitude." Adjusts "punctuation and paragraphing of the Middle English text in…
In playing on Alan's "theological epic" in HF, Chaucer projects a view of readerly interpretation as a key component of literary production, thus challenging the notions that poetry springs solely from inspiration and "that textual meaning could be…
