Shimodao, Makoto.
Yuko Tagaya and Kanno Masahiko eds. Words and Literature: Essays in Honour of Professor Masa Ikegami (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2004), pp. 181-97.
Shimogasa, Tokuji.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 25 (1980): 13-28.
Several Middle English adverbs of affirmation ("ywis," "wytterly," "sikerly," and "verayment") found in many medieval romances and in many of Chaucer's works function primarily as words of elaboration.
Frequently used in ParsT, colloquial anaphora enhances the homiletic style in such repetitious expressions as "Now Comth...," "Look forther...," "Certes...," and "Soothly,...."
Shimogasa, Tokuji.
A Collection of Essays in Honour of Professor Hiroshige Yoshida. (Shinozaki Shorin Press, 1980), pp. 30-43.
Chaucer's "-less" words deserve our special consideration. Some ninety percent of all the "less" words occur in verse. Though the total frequency is not so high, they may be said to fulfill an important function seen from a syntactical, stylistical,…
Shimogasa, Tokuji.
Nobuyuki Yuasa et al., eds. Essays on English Language and Literature in Honour of Michio Kawai (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1993), pp. 37-43.
Demonstrates through word study that Griselda is "the personification of the virtues of meekness, humility, fortitude, and modesty," a figure of medieval love.
Shimomura, Sachi.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 2483A, 1999.
From Old English representations of doomsday to medieval romances, "layered narratives" provide audiences with visual judgment. The fair-to-foul transformations of Old English sermons and "Christ III" give way to the foul-to-fair transformations of…
Shimomura, Sachi.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Set against the eschatology of the Last Judgment, medieval narratives prompt their audiences to employ complex - often deferred - criteria for interpretation or evaluation. Shimomura considers how audience judgment is engaged and complicated in…
Addresses how "manipulations of time" affect the narrative structure of KnT, and "recreate instabilities inherent to fourteenth-century chivalric ideas." Views Theseus, Palamon, and Arcite as the "walking dead," since they only "exist in literature…
Shimonaga, Yuki.
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. 100-10.
Points to the position of ParsT as the last tale of CT, and discusses reasons for this placement by taking into account Harry Bailly's attitude toward the Parson, the meaning of evening time, and Chaucer's adoption of prose rather than verse for…
Shimonomoto, Keiko.
Keiko Shimonomoto. The Use of Ye and Thou in the Canterbury Tales, and Collected Articles (SAC 26 [2004], no. 151), pp. 93-100.
Examines scribal uses of ye versus thou in manuscripts of WBP, excluding the so-called "additional" passages. Variants indicate that second-person pronouns were subject to individual manipulation for "interpersonal goals or creative effects."
Shimonomoto, Keiko.
Tokyo : Waseda University Enterprise, 2001.
Examines the indicators of politeness and social categories (class, degree of intimacy, etc.) in the speech of romance characters in CT and TC, with attention to forms of address and second-person pronouns (ye/thou). Also considers politeness…
Shimonomoto, Keiko.
Tokyo : Waseda University Enterprise, 2001.
Reprints the author's 1986 University of Sheffield M.A. thesis on second-person pronouns, forms of address, and use of the imperative in CT. Includes eight additional articles: four on Chaucer, three on Nicholas Love, and one on linguistic…
Shimonomoto, Keiko.
Keiko Shimonomoto. The Use of Ye and Thou in the Canterbury Tales, and Collected Articles (Tokyo: Waseda University Enterprise, 2001), pp. 83-92.
Originally published in the Journal of Liberal Arts (Waseda University) 100 (1996), the article surveys criticism of Chaucer's prose style in Bo. Shimonomoto calls for more appropriate discourse analysis, examining two passages in which Chaucer uses…
Shimonomoto, Keiko.
Keiko Shimonomoto. The Use of Ye and Thou in the Canterbury Tales, and Collected Articles (Tokyo: Waseda Univesity Enterprise, 2001), pp. 93-100.
Originally published in the Bulletin of the Institute of Language Teaching (Waseda University) 51 (1996). Challenges M. A. K. Halliday's 1988 description of the prose style of Astr, focusing on the use of second-person pronouns and calling for…
Shimonomoto, Keiko.
Keiko Shimonomoto. The Use of Ye and Thou in the Canterbury Tales, and Collected Articles (Tokyo: Waseda University Enterprise, 2001), pp. 64-71.
Originally published in English Literature (Waseda University) 70 (1994). Ambiguities of speech and thought in TC, particularly Criseyde's, are more likely functions of narrative strategy than reflections of individuated consciousness or…
Shimotao, Makoto.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 413-26.
Explores the religious connotations and associations of Middle English "entente," arguing that it suggests spiritual or moral motivations in FrT.
Shinsuke, Ando.
Studies in English Literature, English number (1970): 63-74.
Adduces examples of formulaic phrasing, diction, and rhymes in fragment A of Rom as evidence of Chaucer's familiarity with native English literature; also shows where such evidence appears in his later works.
Shippey, T. A.
Times Literary Supplement (London), Nov. 30, 1979, pp. 73-74.
Medieval scholarship and criticism suffers from reading texts without contexts, allowing modern perspectives to influence the interpretation of medieval writers, and careless translation.
Chaucer's knowledge of medieval mathematical imagery is evident in several ways, beginning with his reference to "Argus, the noble countour," who is Algus, the great Arab mathematician Al-Khwarizmi. By refiguring the beginnings and endings of…
