Saville, Jonathan.
New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1972.
Characterizes the "alba scene" of TC (3.1408-1533) as "in many ways the culminating point in the medieval development of the genre," even though Chaucer places the scene in the context of tragic mutability, a context unique for the genre. Considers a…
Clogan, Paul (M.)
Medievalia et Humanistica 3 (1972): 213-40.
Surveys criticism of SNPT, describes the genre of hagiography, and summarizes the popularity of the St. Cecilia legend. Then argues that SNP heralds SNT in "theme, pattern, and imagery," effectively functioning "to focus and epitomize" its "figural…
Howard, Donald R.
Medievalia et Humanistica 3 (1972): 99-115.
Gauges the value of historicist approaches to medieval literary study, compared with other approaches, suggesting that a phenomenological approach aligned with humanistic awareness of individual consciousness is desirable. Recurrent references to…
Economou, George D.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Traces the uses and development of personified Nature in classical and medieval traditions, focusing on Boethius, Bernard Silvestris, Alain de Lille, Jean de Meun, and Chaucer's relations with all of them in PF. Following tradition, Chaucer presents…
Defines "courtly love" and "parody" and examines three protagonists as parodic courtly lovers (Aucassin of the anonymous "Aucassin and Nicolette," Troilus of TC, and Calisto of Fernando de Rojas's "Celestina"), assessing them in light of Northrup…
North, J. D.
Scientific American 230 (1974): 96-106.
Describes the construction and functions of the astrolabe, an instrument "used for both astronomical and terrestrial observations," and an "analogue computer" for "determining the local time." Surveys historical descriptions of the construction of…
Robinson, Ian.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.
Treats Chaucer as a "great" poet and the "father" of English literature, commenting on the "wonderful" range of tones in his poetry, its relations with French and Italian works, its similarities with other late-medieval English works, and the…
Traces the meanings and nuances of "discrecioun" (moral and rational judgment) in classical and medieval traditions, examining Chaucer's uses of the word and its thematic implications across his career as a poet. Includes references to most of his…
Reads the Pandarus/Troilus relationship in TC as a variation on the priest/pupil motif also found in works by Ovid, Andreas Capellanus, Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun, and John Gower.
Traces the theme of the decline of the world in biblical and medieval tradition, examining three literary texts: Bernard of Cluny's "De Contemptus Mundi," John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," and ClT, where the virtues of "steadfastness and patience"…
Studies the historical underpinnings of the GP descriptions of the Knight and Squire and discusses KnT and SqT for the ways they reflect the development of the Squire's "Romantic Chivalry" out of the Knight's "Religious Chivalry," questioning the…
Treats various characters of CT as figures in or of isolation: Arcite (KnT), John (MilT), Constance (MLT), Friar John (SumT), Thomas (SumT), and the Pardoner. As such, they share characteristics with figures in Old English poetry.
Hammil, Carrie E.
Ph. D. Dissertation. Texas Christian University, 1972. DAI 33.05 (1972): 2326A.
Recurrently linked with the neo-Platonic notion of the harmony of the spheres, the dream-vision motif of the celestial journey recurs in works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden.
Hatcher, Elizabeth Roberta.
DAI 33.05 (1972): 2327A.
Defends the notion that TC presents an ambivalent view of human love, grand yet transitory, arguing that this ambivalence is rooted in Chaucer's treatment of love as mythic material.
Johnston, Grahame.
K. I. D. Maslen and H. Winston Rhodes, eds. Proceedings and Papers of the Fourteenth Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association Held 19-26 January 1972 at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (Dunedin: AULLA, 1972), pp. 230[-]40.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography.
Considers evidence in CT and TC that Chaucer was influenced by Thomas Bradwardine, often mediated by John Wyclif, and that he shares outlooks with John of Gaunt, John Gower, and Ralph Strode.
Describes the presentations of selections from CT in nineteen fifteenth-century manuscripts, and explores what these presentations indicate about understandings of the tales.
An alphabetical glossary of obscene, sexual, and scatological references, puns, and allusions in Chaucer's works. Individual entries define and analyze the terms and phrases, providing bibliographical citations to previous critical discussions; the…
Rowland, Beryl.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1972.
An alphabetical listing of animals, mythical and actual, with discussion of their iconography and symbolism in oriental, classical, biblical, and medieval traditions. The index includes nineteen references to Chaucer and his works.
Studies commentaries on the biblical Song of Songs written before the sixteenth century, and explores the motif of spiritual marriage in various literary works, including works by Chaucer.
