Rouse, Margitta.
Anne-Katrin Federow and Kay Malcher, eds. Troja Bauen: Vormodernes Erzählen von der Antike in Comparatistischer Sicht (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter,
2021), pp. 203-26.
Explores ellipsis, ekphrasis, lists, allusions, and their combinations as techniques and thematic devices in HF. Focuses on "elliptical ekphrasis" of source material as axiological choice, and as a method of literary generation and renewal, with…
Rowe, Britta B.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Virginia, 2017. Open access at https://libraetd.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/br86b3919; accessed May 26, 2024.
Articulates Chaucer's Catholic orthodoxy in CT, contrasting it with Wycliffite heterodoxy, and arguing that, in Chaucer, a robust poetics of pious hope is evident, despite his satire of several ecclesiastical characters. Focuses on the…
Rowe, Donald W.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press,
TC is best understood in terms of the tradition of "discordia concors," the harmonization of opposites, which Chaucer saw exemplified in the "school of Chartres" and Jean de Meun. Chaucer's profound philosophical insight, which linked the perfection…
Rowe, Donald W.
Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Thinness of critical response shows modern failure to perceive LGW's intended complexities. The question of which version of the Prologue was written first has not been settled. In a discussion based on F, Rowe identifies the daisy and Alceste as…
In The General Prologue, Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women Prologue, The Friar's Tale, and The Summoner's Tale, Chaucer probes the indeterminacy of language and his own precarious use of words as means to truth. Discusses Diomede's use…
Rowe, Elizabeth Ashman.
Florilegium 8 (1986): 169-86.
The form of KnT not only is characterized by "layers of order and disorder" but also is "circular, interlocking, and repeating." Structurally, the tale can be divided into five parts: a prologue (lines 1-1032), the conflict between Palamon and…
Rowland, Amy.
Chapel Hill, N. C.: Algonquin, 2014.
A novel about a modern-day transcriptionist who works for a New York newspaper. Obsessed by a recent suicide, her distrust of truth and language grows. Includes recurrent references to Chaucer and his works, most extensively in Chapter 6, "Chaucer's…
Rowland, Beryl
Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 209 (1972): 273-82.
Studies details, allusions, and shifts in speech patterns in WBP, especially those connected with the Wife's false dream of blood and the "tantalizing ambiguous" circumstances of the death of Wife's fourth husband, arguing that they indicate a…
Identifies analogues to the Wife of Bath's contrast between wheat and barley breads (WBP 3.143-44), arguing that she has herself baked "Priapic" barley loaves and that the description in its context exemplifies the combination of "exegetical and…
Rowland, Beryl B.
Chaucer Review 5.2 (1970): 140-46.
Reads Chaucer's reference to "game" in MilT 1.3186 as a reference to mystery drama and discusses allusions to cycle plays in the details and correspondences of the Tale, including aspects of the Fall, the Flood, the Annunciation, the Slaughter of the…
Rowland, Beryl, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Twenty-two essays by noted Chaucerians on a range of topics: individual works, biography, backgrounds, source study, genre, etc. The essays survey fundamental critical issues and bibliography. For individual essays, search for Companion to Chaucer…
Rowland, Beryl, ed.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1974
Thirty-six essays by various authors on late-medieval literature and manuscripts, accompanied by an appreciation of Robbins's career and list of his publications. For seventeen essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer and Middle English…
Rowland, Beryl.
American Notes and Queries 03 (1964)
Explores anatomical and associative parallels between Alison of MilT and the weasel, an animal to which she is likened via simile (1.3234); maintains that the connections lend symbolic depth to the characterization.
Rowland, Beryl.
Florilegium 9 (1990, for 1987): 125-45.
ParsT is a collage, drawing mainly on penitential materials, variously rendered in paraphrase, word-for-word translation,free idiomatic redaction, and adaptations that appear to derive from more than one source. Ssome sections are sermonlike,…
Rowland, Beryl.
John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986. (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987): pp. 3-14.
Rowland reviews Chaucer biography, noting the reluctance of most SAC contributors to explore Chaucer's life and their interest in his "mentality." Recent biography leaves a number of unresolved problems, difficulties, and mysteries in Chaucer's…
Rowland, Beryl.
Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 137-49.
Interpretations of the Wife of Bath through socioeconomic readings work less well than symbolic-aesthetic readings. The Wife's weaving reveals her less a businesswoman than an archetypal woman such as Eve or Mary, both portrayed as weavers of life.
Rowland, Beryl.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 4 (1981): 33-51.
The reaction of Chaucer's contemporary listeners was more confident and unequivocal than our own because of the way the reader presented the poetry through oral delivery.
Rowland, Beryl.
Revue de l'Universite d'Ottawa 51 (1981): 163-71.
Chaucer's address to Thought in the Invocation to book 2 stresses the function of memory in his art. Love tidings are words from old books. Books are still the activator of new poems, even though "auctorite" may be enriched by "experimentum." The…
Rowland, Beryl.
English Studies in Canada (Toronto): 7, 2 (1981): 129-40.
The narrator establishes a relationship with the audience to give the impression that they are jointly and empirically exploring human nature. His continuous presence and the mode of oral delivery enables the narrator to impose his views on the…
The Augustans were the last English poets to possess enough confidence in their own idiom to attempt to make Chaucer their contemporary. Dryden's modernization of Chaucer was intended to achieve verisimilitude for his 17th-century audience. It…
Rowland, Beryl.
Studia Neophilologica 51 (1979): 205-13.
Like his French predecessors, Chaucer employs a commonplace detail and dialogue to impart to his fabliaux a sense of domestic, small town, and rural life. However, while unity in design and treatment characterize the French fabliaux, Chaucer's are…
Rowland, Beryl.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 117-42.
Chaucer's figurative language is mostly traditional, but its effect usually transcends the merely visual: it is emotional and intellectual--aiming at more than concrete realism. Often, however, the nature of this imagery eludes us because Chaucer's…
If the Pardoner is taken as a hermaphrodite, it is easier to approach the question of how he can explain his false practices and still expect his listeners to be taken in by them. According to late medieval writers, the hermaphrodite's dual nature…
