Pearsall, Derek.
Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1992.
Traces Chaucer's life and the development of his works in relation to court life and the affairs of contemporary London. Divides his life into six periods of professional activity and explores his changing status as a public servant, the growth of…
Bowers, John M., ed.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.
Includes editions of Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes, The Ploughman's Tale, an expanded version of CkT, eight spurious links, and a combination of The Canterbury Interlude and the Merchant's Tale of Beryn. For each, Bowers provides an…
Recorded Books, pub.
New York and Prince Frederick, Md.: Recorded Books, 1992.
Nine audio cassettes of readings of GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, WBT, FrT, ClT, MerT, FranT, PardT, ShT, PrT, and NPT. Modern pronunciation, following the text in the edition of Michael Murphy.
Dane, Joseph A.
Studies in Bibliography 44 (1991): 164-83.
Examines the use and misuse of W. W. Greg's term "copy-text" in recent editions of Chaucer and in the Kane-Donaldson Piers Plowman. Confusions among "copy-text," "base text," and "best text" will be alleviated only when editors use the terms…
Kendrick, Laura.
South Atlantic Quarterly 91 (1992): 835-64
Writing fixes texts, inviting marginal explication and commentary. Dante, Boccaccio, Deschamps, Langland, Gower, and Chaucer annotate their own texts to "authorize" them, although modern scholarship has been reluctant to accept glosses as…
Partridge, Stephen Bradford.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 1529A.
A comprehensive study of CT glosses (except Mel and MkT), indicating that Chaucer himself provided many of them; summary of previous scholarship and descriptions of the glosses.
Brownlee, Kevin, and Sylvia Huot, eds.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
A collection of essays treating literary approaches to the Roman de la Rose, its iconographic tradition, and its reception in and out of France. Includes a revised reprint of Lee Patterson, "For the Wyves Love of Bathe," SAC 7 (1985), no. 156.
Calabrese, Michael Anthony.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 804A.
Ovid and the Ovidian tradition provided Chaucer with a poetic ranging from the "game" of Ars Amatoria to the "ernest" of Tristia. Chaucer uses rhetoric to various ends with the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and the Canon. In Ret, however, Chaucer…
Analyzes Chaucer's self-consciousness as a writer though the narrator in the prologue, the proems, and the ending of TC. Not the result of naivete, the contradictions, emotional involvement, and irony suggest that the narrator's design is to whet the…
Dunton-Downer, Leslie Linam.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 1508A.
In contrast with Augustinian models, the poetic use of obscenity provides a nontraditional method of self-definition. For Rutebeuf, the obscene served to establish his own poetic identity; for Chaucer, it provided a means for characters to establish…
Thomas Becket translated the Decret de Gratien. As chancellor,he (like the Man of Law) must have known "caas and domes all, / That from the tyme of king William were falle" and "every statut . . .pleyn by rote." He must have used this mastery to…
McKinley, Kathryn Lillian.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 1155A.
Though Ovid's influence on Jean de Meun and Chaucer has long been recognized as far as mythology and irony are concerned,Ovid's "neoteric" narrative techniques also provided models for the two writers; cf. Chaucer's BD, TC, and WBT.
Nolan, Barbara.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Nolan analyzes continental verse narratives from which Chaucer borrowed for KnT and TC--namely, the Roman de Troie, Roman de Thebes, Roman d'Eneas, and Boccaccio's Filostrato and Teseida. TC uses Ovidian fine amor as a "fulcrum," and history as a…
Benson, C. David.
Modern Language Quarterly 53 (1992): 23-40.
Describes the writers' approaches to their source in Chaucer: Lydgate as a "scholarly commentator" and Henryson as a poet who exploits "Chaucer's innovative literary devices" in an original way. …
Berry, Craig Allen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 1920A.
As poets representing themselves in their works and as civil servants, Chaucer and Spenser shared much. Instead of misreading his predecessor, Spenser reveals more grasp than previously noted of Th, SqT, and PF.
Fisher, John H.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.
Explores how Chaucer expanded the boundaries of the English literary idiom. Chaucer's innovations capitalize on the rise of a new audience, a class of bureaucrats and businessmen who shared his education at the inns of court and chancery. Details…
Lyall, Roderick J.
Studies in Scottish Literature 26 (1991): 1-18.
A historical survey of Scottish literary canons reveals three distinct systems of canonicity. Of particular interest is the effect of Chaucer on the canonicity of the New Chaucerians.
