Yasui, Michael.
Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (Tokyo Metropolitan University) 479 (2013): 1-10.
Discusses how origins of the meaning of TC are "decentred" on different levels. Argues that complicated use of external sources obfuscates the meaning of the text and that the subject-positions of Pandarus and the narrator create a "disruption" in…
Yang, Mingcang Y. M.
Sun Yat-Sen Journal of Humanities 32 (2012): 1–22.
In Chinese; item not seen. The subject listings and the notes in the record of the online MLA International Bibliography indicate that the essay treats HF, "Pearl," Lollard writing, and work(s) by George Herbert. The record also indicates that a…
Reorients the critical habit of assessing the structure and details of HF in light of Gothic architecture, arguing that the poem affiliates "Gothic" and "Other," and "dramatizes" the narrator's encounter with the "familiar world of the self and the…
Yang, Ming-Tsang.
Studies in Language and Literature (National Taiwan University) 10: 27-49, 2001.
Yang considers several aspects of translation and the rhetoric of translation in TC: the narrator's "double role" as translator and author, Pandarus as translator, Diomede as a "force of the translation process," Criseyde as "text" that is…
Yamanaka, Toshio.
Sophia English Studies 4 (1979): 11-22.
The keywords to determine Theseus's roles in KnT are "lord," "governour," "conquerour," "hunter," "servant," and "judge." Theseus is analogous to Mars, Venus, and Diana, as "conquerour," "servant," and "hunter," symbolized in his construction of the…
Yamanaka, Toshio.
University of Saga Studies in English 20 (1992): 69-129.
The summary of "Somnium Scipionis" is closely linked with the dream, distinguishing the past narrator, who reads the "somnium" and dreams the dream, from the present narrator, who summarizes the "Somnium" and his dream. (In Japanese.)
Yamanaka, Margaret.
Bulletin of Gifu Women's University 47 (2017): 11-18.
Compares two travel diaries by Jerry Ellis (1974-). Includes a detailed description of "Walking to Canterbury--A Modern Journey through Chaucer's Medieval England," which contains references to NPT, SumT, WBT, and ParsT.
Yamamoto, Toshiki.
Hisao Turu, ed. Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess. Medieval English Literature Symposium Series, no. 5 (Tokyo: Gaku Shobo Press, 1991), pp. 244-67 (in Japanese).
Relates the dream vision in BD to the tradition of the religious vision and the speeches of the Knight in Black to the resurrection theme.
Yamamoto, Dorothy.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Explores relationships of the human body to human identity in Middle English literature, focusing on representations of the animal world and of "wild men" as they define the margins (and hence the center) of the human. Includes discussions of…
Lines 878-81 of WBT have been glossed incorrectly to suggest that while an incubus would get a woman pregnant, a friar would cause only dishonor. In fact, the tradition of the incubus is much darker, for this individual, associated with evil, had…
Chaucer weaves heraldic allusions into the portraits of Lygurge and Emetreus, the two kings who support Palamon and Arcite in the tournament. These allusions indicate the contemporaneity of KnT.
Yamaguchi, Eriko.
Gengobunka Ronshu (University of Tsukuba) 53: 17-44, 2000.
Assesses the chest--a significant piece of furniture as both a container and a bench in the Middle Ages--as an image in CT, discussing "possession" and the body-space formed on/in the chest by the act of sitting on it.
Yamaguchi, Eriko.
Eigo Seinen 146.8: 502-04, 2000.
Analyzes three types of pleats or folds in CT: graceful or classical drapings of the cloak of the Prioress; artificial folds "pynched" on her wimple, characteristic of Gothic art; and "wyndynge," which the Parson reproaches as a waste of cloth and…
Yager, Susan.
Once and Future Classroom 16, no. 1 (2020): 1–14.
Offers multiple examples of ways to play with the scansion of Chaucer's verse as means to engage student interest, nuanced readings, and enjoyment. Examples include scenes of awakening, bird-talk in HF and NPT, and wedding celebration in MLT and WBT,…
Yager, Susan.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 68-79.
Argues that humor and multiple points of view make Chaucer's work essential reading in the "polemical atmosphere" of the present time. Contends that readers must pay careful attention when interpreting Chaucer's frequent ambiguities, reversals, and…
Yager, Susan.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 99-112.
Outlines the basics of Middle English orthography and pronunciation, and Chaucer's vocabulary and literary models for students. Claims that learning to read Middle English, and understanding concepts of manuscript study, editing, and translation,…
Yager, Susan.
Susan Yager and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds. Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord (Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013), pp. 65-78.
Addresses Chaucer's Host as both character and rhetorical device. The Host's speech is characterized, in GP, by pauses, asides, and delayed rhyme, creating Lydgate (or "broken-backed") lines and a prosaic tone. The Host's speech also displays his…
Yager, Susan.
Literature and Belief 27 (2007): 55-68.
The BBC's 2003 adaptation of MLT updates Chaucer's Tale, incorporating plot, character names, and thematic elements such as faith, exile and return, trauma and healing, and time and repetition. Constance, a Nigerian refugee, finds love and fellowship…
Yager, Susan.
Ann W. Astell and J. A. Jackson, eds. Levinas and Medieval Literature: The "Difficult Reading" of English and Rabbinic Texts (Pittsburgh, Penn.: Duquesne University Press, 2009), pp. 35-56.
Examines parallels between Levinas's writing and medieval allegory. Yager reads ClT in a Levinasian mode to generate an open-ended reading or "an exercise in ifs." ClT can be read as an ethical allegory; Chaucer, as an ethical allegorist. Yager…
Explores the "kinship" between hypertext theory and the mode of analysis in Donald Howard's The Idea of the "Canterbury Tales" (1976), commenting on memory and associative thinking, nonlinearity and closure, and the technology of the book. Also…
