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Brewer, Derek.   London: Macmillan, 1984.
Eight chapters on the genre of PF; the relationship of Chaucer to English and European traditions; metonymy in Chaucer's poetry; Chaucerian poetic; popular comic tales; NPT as story and poem; the poetry of the fabliaux; and Chaucer's rationalism. …

Jones, Mike Rodman.  
Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 165-84.
Exemplifies the variety of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century versions of Chaucer, which reflects he "fragmentation, diversity, and complexity" of the English Reformation itself. Discusses Chaucer as an authority figure in the writings of polemical…

Blamires, Alcuin.   Review of English Studies 51: 523-39, 2000.
Chaucer responds to the uprising of 1381 by shifting blame for the underlying oppression from the ruling and judiciary figures to the Reeve, a rigorous despot over the lower classes. Chaucer does not write from a classless position; rather, he…

Woods, Marjorie Curry.   Chaucer Review 20 (1985): 28-39.
Chaucer portrays Criseyde both alone and with a family--a dualism of portrayal inherited from the rhetorical tradition of viewing things from both sides, as in Cicero's "De inventione."

Lindahl, Carl.   Dissertation Abstracts International 41 (1981): 5204A.
Records of medieval pilgrimages and parish guilds indicate that groups like that of CT actually gathered; thus the frame may have been modeled on the contemporary scene rather than a literary source. The pilgrim churls' mutual insults follow a…

Fifield, Merle.   Papers on Language and Literature 3, supplement (1967): 63-70.
Argues that the imagery of court revels influenced Chaucer's works: "revels imagery ornaments" MerT, "structures the opening" of SqT, and "motivates choices" in FranT.

Leana, Joyce Fitzpatrick.   DAI 35.02 (1974): 1049-50A.
Argues that HF is unified and that in its concern with the power of language it anticipates the theme of language as magic or illusion in CT. Also explores the sources of HF.

Burnley, J. D.   Chaucer Newsletter 4:1 (1985): 1, 5.; error for volume 07, number 02
Stresses the need to reconcile literary and linguistic approaches.

Mroczkowski, Przemysław.   Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 1996.
Collects sixteen essays by Mroczkowski, all previously printed, including five that pertain to Chaucer and his works.

Takada, Yasunari.   Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 133 (1987): 62-64.
Brief critical history of scholarship on Chaucer and Dante in this century and discussion of HF in this connection, stressing the contrast between "O Thought, that wrot all that I mette" (HF 523) and "O mente, che scrivesti cio ch'io vidi" (Inf.…

Kurokawa, Kusue.   Masao Wantanabe, ed. Igirisu Bungaku ni okeru Kagau Shiso (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1983). pp. 5-29.
Sees astronomical ideas as literary devices in CT, analyzing Chaucer's use of astrological lore in satirizing the pilgrims.

Gertz, SunHee Kim.   New York : Palgrave, 2001.
Gertz assesses 1337-1580 as the period of transition between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era. Dynastic ambition, science, exploration, and disasters provide contexts and stimuli for the literature. In their rhetorical dexterity and highly…

Takamiya, Toshiyuki, and Richard Beadle, eds.   Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992.
A festschrift for the sixtieth birthday of Ando, with six essays on Chaucer, seven on Shakespeare, and other essays on medieval and Renaissance topics. For essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer to Shakespeare under Alternative Title.

Pearsall, Derek, ed.   Oxford : Blackwell, 1999.
Twelve previously published historicist essays and book chapters by various authors. The volume is a companion to Pearsall's Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology. Three essays pertain to Chaucer: Mary Carruthers, "The Wife of Bath and the Painting of…

Pearsall, Derek, ed.   Oxford, and Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 1999.
Selections from "what is best and most representative" in English and Scottish writers from the period. Includes PF, selections from TC and CT (GP, MilPT, WBPT, FranPT, PardPT), and several shorter works (Adam, Truth, Scog, Purse). Also includes…

Mori, Yoshinobu.   Eigo Seinen 120 (1974): 261-62, 324-25, and 373-74.
Item not seen; a note in MLA International Bibliography online indicates that it pertains to Chaucer and astrology.

Windeatt, Barry.   Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 1-20.
The first English author to think of his writings as a whole and as having a posterity, Chaucer in the two "Prologues" to LGW, the introduction to MLT, and Ret lists his writings as an assembled corpus of individual works. "At the close of 'Troilus…

Morse, Ruth, and Barry Windeatt,eds.   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Eighteen articles by colleagues, friends, and former pupils honor Derek Brewer's retirement and serve as a tribute to his achievements in the study of medieval literature and especially of Chaucer. Responses to Chaucer and Chaucer's tradition treat…

Blanchot, Jean-Jacques.   Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 71-80.
In TC, Chaucer is both a translator and a creator. He combines the model of ancient authors with a mythological world and a symbolic construction.

Berry, Reginald.   Dissertation Abstracts International 40 (1979): 231A.
The poets' adaptations of Chaucer's work in this era reflect the nature and principles of Chaucerian transformation for the eighteenth century. In his "Fables" Dryden emphasized the moral nature of the original poems and thus established a tradition…

Thomas. Paul R.   Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 75: 82-90, 1998.
Contrasts aspects of NPT with "Roman de Renart" Branch IIIa to show that Chaucer makes his rooster more masculine and his hen more feminine than in the source. Includes a translation of Branch IIIa, 4175-4315.

Boitani, Piero.   Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead, eds. Lost in Translation? (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009), pp. 93-107.
Argues that Chaucer's adaptations of Italian literature are better regarded as intertextual rewritings than as translations, particularly in instances where he fuses materials from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Comments on portions of TC, HF, Anel,…

Yeager, R. F.   María Bullón-Fernández, ed. England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Political Exchanges. The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 189-214.
Considers the importance of Spain in Chaucer's life, in the politics of his age, and in his literary allusions, arguing that Chaucer could read Spanish and that his familiarity with the tale collections of Petrus Alfonsi and Don Juan Manuel "would…

Chatfield, Minotte McIntosh.   Dissertation Abstracts International 22.10 (1962): 3641.
Lists, describes, and evaluates some thirty translations and adaptations of Chaucer's works published in books and magazines between 1792 and 1841.

Taylor, Paul Beekman.   Lanham, Md., New York, and Oxford: University Press of America, 1998.
Twelve essays that pertain to Chaucer's "translative" use of source material, exploring less the influence of others on him than the "'affluence' his imagination sets flowing in the process of reshaping material." Recurrent issues include the ways…
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