Booth, Wayne C.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Anatomizes irony as a literary device. Includes one example from Chaucer: details of the Monk's description (GP 1.177-82) describing it as straightforward irony that is stable, covert, and local, "firm as a rock" when "discovered by the proper…
Psychoanalytic analysis of WBT and ClT, reading the two as parallel transformation stories. The first "seems to commemorate the event of the separation of consciousness"; in the second, Griselda "achieved individuation by recognizing her animus."…
Shaner, Mary Carol Edwards.
DAI 34.02 (1973): 739A.
Surveys medieval attitudes toward the women featured as protagonists in Chaucer's LGW and reads Chaucer's characters in light of these attitudes, observing that they vary as "not-so-good" women and "not-so-bad" ones, a reflection of the limits of…
Haskell, Ann S.
English Symposium Papers 3 (1973): 1-45.
Characterizes medieval lyrics and various sub-genres by illustrative examples; then comments on several themes and topoi in Chaucer's lyrics and lyrical passages from his longer works.
Sequeira, Isaac.
K. P. K. Menon, M. Manuel, and K. Ayyappa Paniker, eds. Literary Studies: Homage to Dr. A. Sivaramasubramonia Aiyer (Trivandum: St. Joseph's Press, for the Dr. A. Sivaramasubramonia Aiyer Memorial Committee, 1973), pp. 34-43.
Explores seven aspects of Chaucer's satiric presentation of the Monk and his failure to follow monastic ideals: claustration, hunting, Benedictine rule, monastic study, poverty, asceticism, and celibacy.
Studies the "meaning of the dream-poems," exploring Chaucer's concerns with the "nature and causes" of dreams, the importance and role of imagination, tensions between courtly and commonplace ideals, and the "contest" between "authority and…
An introduction to Chaucer's "life, times, and works" (originally published in 1953; 2nd ed. 1965) which attempts "to suggest (rather than to describe) something of the general quality of Chaucer's age, and to note the chief events of Chaucer's early…
An introduction to "those aspects of Chaucer studies which involve manuscripts and incunabula," designed for classroom use, including discussion of binding, manuscript production and materials, decoration and illumination, paleography, book trade and…
Fifield, Merle.
Muncie Ind.: Ball State University, 1973.
Seeks objective analysis of the "oral-aural" aspects of word stress and metrical stress in Chaucer's "stress system," commenting on linguistic borrowings, affixing, grammatical function, phonetic juncture, and the difficulties of inferring Middle…
Emonds, Joseph.
Braj B. Kachru, and others, eds. Issues in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Henry and Renée Kahane (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973), pp. 185-93.
Anatomizes Chaucer's uses of the "'ing'-morpheme," arguing that "Chaucer's dialect did not contain a gerund as a normal grammatical device" (even though examples exist) and that English "participles and derived nominal had become phonetically…
Mann, Jill.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
Establishes that GP is an example of the medieval literary genre of estates satire, i.e., a "satiric representation of all classes of society," based on occupation. Surveys the tradition of the genre, including works that only draw on "estates…
Rofheart, Martha.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
Historical novel about the life of Owen Glendower (Owen ap Griffith of Wales), presented as a series of first-person recollections by Glendower and several people of his time. Chapter 2 is "Told by Geoffrey Chaucer, squire, customs clerk,…
Gordon, Ida L.
W. Rothwell, W. R. J. Barron, David Blamires, and Lewis Thorpe, eds. Studies in Medieval Literature and Languages in Memory of Frederick Whitehead (New York: Barnes and Noble; Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1973), pp. 117-31.
Tallies Chaucer's techniques of characterization in TC and explores how and where he "manipulates his characters in the interest of his theme," identifying differences between his major characters (especially Troilus) and their sources in Boccaccio's…
Hodapp, Marion F.
M. Criado de Val, ed. El Arcipreste de Hita: El Libro, El Autor, La Tierra, La Epoca (Barclona: S.E.R.E.S.A., 1973), pp. 285-308.
Tallies various similarities between Chaucer's works and that of Juan Ruiz, the Archpriest of Hita, comparing techniques and concerns of Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor" with CT, TC, and other Chaucerian works.
Surveys the influence of Petrarchan materials and traditions in European literature of various eras, including brief comments (p. 45) on Chaucer's uses of Petrarchan materials.
Kennerly, Karen, ed.
New York: Random House, 1973.
An anthology of brief fables and fable-like poems, narratives, and literary selections from various cultures and epochs. Includes John Dryden's "The Cock and the Fox Or, The Tale of the Nun's Priest, from Chaucer" (pp. 191-217) as an example of a…
Knight, Stephen
Sydney: Angus and Roberstosn, 1973.
Argues that Chaucer's "poetic powers" are consistently evident throughout CT and that the formal qualities of his poetry are as important to his high reputation as are his wit and humane sensibility. Reads CT sequentially, tale by tale, focusing on…
Kohl, Stephan.
Frankfurt am Main: Akadermische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1973.
Assesses Chaucer's knowledge of medieval sciences, especially astrology and medicine, arguing that CYPT and the Physician's materials indicate that Chaucer "had no expert knowledge of these sciences." Seeks nevertheless to gauge his attitude toward…
