Utz, Richard [J.]
Richard Utz and Tom Shippey, eds. Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1998), pp. 359-78.
Curtius sought to "cleanse" the study of medieval texts from emerging aesthetic and sociological readings by demonstrating the superiority of philological scholarship in his extensive review of Hans H. Glunz's study, "Die LiterarĐsthetik des…
Kaske, R. E.
Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 114-18.
"Clericus Adam," a short anti-feminist poem from the twelfth century, makes one wonder whether Chaucer may not be playfully saying, "Look here, 'Clericus Adam', you little bungler, don't you disfigure my handiwork the way your namesake disfigured…
Kelen, Sarah Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3928A.
Identified by Caxton as "historiographs," Chaucer and Langland write as historians and consider the meaning of writing history. In TC, Chaucer discusses sources and antiquity as marks of authority and hindrances to reading. The English literary…
Fyler, John M.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 87 (1986): 564-68.
"Cloude," the word that ends the narrator's description of his celestial journey, calls attention to the diminished vision of Geffrey compared to that of Boethius's Thought, and the blurred understandings and dream categories offered in HF. The word…
Takada, Yasunari.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1999), pp. 107-21.
Argues that Jürgen Habermas's concept of the "public sphere" shares features with Chaucer's notion of "commune profit" in PF. Both concepts suggest or insist that the political body must be open and generative, cognizant of the physical as well as…
Hanna, Ralph,III.
A. J. Minnis, ed. Latin and Venacular Studies in Late-Medieval Texts and Manuscripts. York Manuscripts Conferences: Proceedings Series, University of York, Centre for Medieval Studies, vol. 1. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Wolfeboro: Boydell & Brewer, 1989), p. 1-11.
Considers WBP as a compilation, "pieced together of verbatim translation" from a fuller text by Jerome. WBP represents "Englished" Latin, cut free from "control and indoctrination" of a closed Latin tradition and thus "seditious and dangerous,"…
Looks at confessional elements in works by Chaucer, Langland, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve, ultimately arguing that such practice is central to an understanding of early English vernacular literature.
Walker, Denis.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 173-80.
Questioning the validity of searches for unity, Walker posits structural disunity residing in 'contentio' to account for how PF "hangs together."
Hirshberg, Jeffrey Alan.
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1978): 6741A-42A.
Chaucer stands firmly in the tradition of "Phaedrus" and "Timaeus" by virtue of the "imagistic" and figural view of reality he presents in CT. References to Boethius' "Consolation of Philosophy" further emphasize the Platonic approach to rhetoric. …
Abraham, David H.
Chaucer Review 11 (1977): 319-27.
The recognition of the sexual puns on the words "cosyn" and "cosynage" determines the structure of ShT, as the narrative shifts its balance from relationship to deception.
Levey, David.
UNISA English Studies 25:2 (1987): 1-6.
Levey surveys recent critical articles and reviews relevant to courtly love (as well as "fin'amour" and "fals'amour") and examines the convention as it is used in Rom, exploring the validity of charges that the concept is literary, esoteric, and…
Dvorak, Marta.
Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 81-91.
Troilus's illicit love causes his involvement with the Seven Deadly Sins.
Jungman, Robert E.
Mississippi Folklore Register 14 (1980): 20-23.
In SumT "covent" refers not only to the Friar's house, but also to witches' "coven," as indicated by various references to witchcraft or demonology--thus suggestiong that the friar is a witch.
Rejects the traditional three-part structure of HF and assesses the "structural function of its two juxtaposed narratives," i.e., the summary of Virgil's "Aeneid" and the journey, considering the poem's relation with Dante's "Divine Comedy, the…
Jember, Gregory K.
American Notes and Queries 15 (1977): 82-86.
The use of the ambiguous word "greyn" in 7.662 indicates that Chaucer had more than one meaning in mind. One of the intentional referents probably was a grain of salt, because of the religious significance of salt. "Greyn" also suggests the seed,…
D'Arcy, Anne Marie.
Elaine Treharne, ed. Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts (Cambridge: Brewer, 2002), pp. 117-36.
Examines traditional depictions of Jews; points to a parallel between the murder of the clergeon in PrT and ritual murder; links the clergeon with Christ and the Prioress with the Virgin; and concludes that PrT functions as a divinely inspired…
Tintner, Adeline R.
Henry James Review 15 (1994): 10-23.
Daisy Miller was modelled on "another martyr to love": Alceste of LGWP. Tintner documents James's familiarity with Chaucer and his imitations of Chaucerian diction. She reads Daisy as an inexpert, desperate lover similar to the victims of love in…
Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen].
Dante and Modern American Criticism, a special issue of Annali d'Italianistica 8 (1990): 384-94.
Explores American fascination with Dante as a way to get "some purchase on Dante," e.g., K. Taylor's contrast of "Dante with Chaucer to erect Chaucer the 'anti-Dante'." Examines the influence of Dante on LGWP and briefly on HF. Shoaf concludes that…
Modeled on Chaucer's BD, although reshaped "radically," Spenser's "Daphnaida" is less a "traditional lament" than a "warning against grieving too much." Compares and contrasts the two poems to clarify their similarities and differences, and discusses…
Terasawa, Yoshio.
Key-Word Studies in "Beowulf" and Chaucer 1 (1980): 17-22.
The article analyses and describes a Chaucerian key-word "danger" and its derivative "dangerous" in respect of etymology, semantic development, frequency of occurence, form, riming structure, grammatical and semantic collocation, association, and…
Hamaguchi, Keiko.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 123-44.
The verbal play on "debt" is elaborate and systematic in ShT, clarifying the social role and response of the wife.
Barisone, Ermanno.
Paola Carbone, ed. Congenialità e Traduzione: Barisone/Chaucer, Bacigalupo/Wordsworth, Kemeny/Byron, Righetti/Browning, Parks/Calasso (Milan: Mimesis, 1998), pp. 21-31.
Describes the process and challenge of translating Chaucer into Italian. The volume also includes a round table discussion of translation, including comments about Chaucer, London standard, and Chaucer's stylistic and linguistic variety (pp. 91-103).
