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Karpova, Olga M., and Olga M. Melentyeva.   Faina I. Kartashkova and Olga M. Karpova, eds. Multi-Disciplinary Lexicography: Traditions and Challenges of the XXIst Century (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2013), pp. 73–95.
Surveys the hard-word tradition of lexicography in Chaucer and Shakespeare studies, particularly in editions of their works, and suggests that new works are still needed to serve twenty-first-century users.

Miller, T. S.   Chaucer Review 47.2 (2012): 25-47.
Focuses on how Chaucer was perceived in Scotland in the fifteenth century, and how deliberate misattributions of Chaucer's writings created a "vehicle for 'Scottish' culture, identity, and nationalism."

Boyd, Beverly, ed.   Lawrence, Ks.: Allen Press, 1978.
Edits Caxton's earliest Chaucer publications, except for the first printing of CT, including PF (aka "The Temple of Brass"), Henry Scogan's "Treatise" that includes Chaucer's Gent, the lyric "Wyth empty honde" that Chaucer alludes to in WBP (3.415)…

Bowers, John M.   Denise N. Baker, ed. Inscribing the Hundred Years' War in French and English Cultures (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000), pp. 91-125.
Using postcolonial theory, events of the 100 Years' War, and speculations about Chaucer's war experiences, Bowers analyzes Chaucer's literary productions--from his early translations from French through LGW--as a reaction against French literary…

Bowers, John M.   Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed. The Postcolonial Middle Ages (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000), pp. 53-66.
Reads CT as a "decolonizing project" and a "narrative of nationhood" whereby Chaucer resisted Richard II's renewed attachment to French culture and took steps to invent English society. Assesses how several issues in CT reflect English postcolonial…

Jones, Christine.   Robert Myles and David Williams, eds. Chaucer and Language: Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001), 71-82 and 203.
Jones considers language and its ability to represent reality in Th-MelL, arguing that unlike post-structuralist thinkers (such as Richard Rorty), Chaucer retains the "traditional distinction between history and fiction" even while cognizant of their…

Dobbins, Austin C.   Modern Language Quarterly 18 (1957): 309-12.
Identifies previously unrecorded allusions to Chaucer, most of them reflecting his "reputation as a religious leader and reformer," some based on works attributed to him falsely.

Boswell, Jackson C.   Notes and Queries 222 (1977): 493-95.
Unnoted allusions to Chaucer (and pseudo-Chaucer) in thirteen sixteenth-century works.

Bowden, Betsy.   Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.
Concerned with textual ambiguity and flexibility in oral performance, Bowden compares varying interpretations of passages from CT. Pedagogical interpretative slant.

McCall, John P.   University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979.
Discusses the ways in which Chaucer uses classical materials in comedy, tragedy, and allegory; in theme, action, and character, to make available the world of Virgil, Ovid, and Lucan--sometimes through Dante, Graunson, Boccaccio, and Froissart.

Downer, Mabel Wilhelmina.   Dissertation Abstracts International 43 (1982): 1537A.
Significant Victorian writers, concerned with social problems as encountered in the past as well as in their own day, revolutionized Chacuer's reputation.

Utz, Richard.   Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 189-201.
Traces the "growing fascination" with Chaucer, his language, and his works in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, linking it with the cultural imagining of Chaucer "as a predecessor to" Victorian "preferred aesthetics, ideologies, and…

Kean, P. M.   Review of English Studies 34 (1983): 388-94.
Italian poetry influenced Chaucer's style and technique, especially his use of cadence and rhythm.

Edwards, A. S. G.   Medium Aevum 81.1 (2012): 135-38.
Suggests that the diction of "Adam" indicates that it was not written by Chaucer.

Duncan, Edgar Hill.   Interpretations 9 (1977): 7-11.
The source of CYT 1431 is not, as Chaucer says, the "Rosarium" of Arnald of Villa Nova, but his lesser known "De secretis naturae." Chaucer cited the more famous "Rosarium" but quoted from "De secretis" because it contains appropriately mystifying…

Haruta, Setsuko.   Masachiyo Amano and others, eds. Kotoba to Bungaku to Bunka to: Ando Sadao Hakushi Taikan Kinen Ronbunshu (Language, Literature, and Culture: Essays to Honor Sadao Ando). Tokyo: Eicho-sha Shiusha, 1992), pp. 305-14.
In KnT, neither the narrator nor the characters comprehend the ideal of courtly love. In BD, Chaucer depicts it fully; in TC, he reveal its weakness when confronted with reality. FranT reflects a bourgeois distortion of courtly love.

Gray, Douglas.   G. H. V. Bunt, E. S. Kooper, et al., eds. One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987), pp. 1-27.
"Gentilesse" for Chaucer implied honor or "good name," as well as good words and deeds. His ideas on the concept are rooted in the classics and in Christianity but also look forward to the humanists. FranT is probably nearer to a last word on this…

Pratt, Robert A.   E. Bagby Atwood and Archibald A. Hill, eds. Studies in Language, Literature, and Culture of the Middle Ages and Later (Austin: University of Texas, 1969), pp. 303-11.
Adduces details from MLT, PardT, Anel, SqT, FranT, Purse, MkT, and PhyT to show that Chaucer was influenced, not only by Trevet's Constance narrative, but by his "Cronicles" more broadly.

Gray, Douglas.   Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell, eds. J. R. R. Tolkien: Essays in Memoriam (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979), pp. 173-203
"Pite" and its synonym "routhe" occur almost always in their original erotic context in Chaucer's earlier works: Pity, TC, PF, and FranT. It may be equated with "generous self-sacrifice" on the part of the lover. As Chaucer broadens the concept,…

Wood, Chauncey.   Texas Studies in Literature and Language14 (1972): 389-403.
Examines the characterization of Chaucer's pilgrim-narrator in CT, focusing on the scene in ThP where the Host requests a tale from this narrator and exploring the ironies of the Host's expectations, the readers' knowledge of earlier Chaucerian…

Schibanoff, Susan.   Studies in Scottish Literature 13 (1979): 92-99.
Although Pandarus did not appear in literature until Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato," 1336, by 1440 his name had degenerated into a common noun in English. This rapid development argues against the dualism and complexity modern critics find in him. The…

Frank, Robert Worth Jr.   Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Evaluates LGW as a series of brief narrative poems, assessing LGWP as an account of Chaucer's experiment with choosing a new subject matter for poetry (one that is "essentially alien to the code of courtly love") and gauging the importance of the…

Yamamoto, Toshiki.   Essays on Classical Studies (March 1980): 40-50.
A discussion of the characteristics of Nature in PF.

Axton, Richard.   Toshiyuki Takamiya and Richard Beadle, eds. Chaucer to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Shinsuke Ando (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992), 33-43.
Explores the performative rather than formal aspects of tragedy in Chaucer, surveying contemporary use of the term and Chaucer's projections of his narrative personae as tragedians in TC, LGW (Philomene), MkT, and PhyT. Notes the incompatibility of…

Johnston, Andrew James.   New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 1,1 (2020): 18-25.
Contemplates "Medieval English Studies in Germany" as a model for cultivating a “truly global,” interdisciplinary ideal of medieval studies, describing critical trends, boundaries, and bridges in several subdisciplines, and commenting briefly on…
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