Sasagawa, Hisaaki.
Journal of General Education Department, Niigata Univeristy (1984): 1-11.
Reconsiders the structure and usage of figurative negation in Chaucer treated by Hein (1983), in relation to context and rhyme and in comparison with "Roman de la Rose." Figurative negation is related to rhyme.
Higuchi, Masayuki.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 132.7 (1986): 329-31.
Explores the notion of "comedy" in the Middle Ages, which is based on the idea of the goddess Fortuna, and argues that the comedy Chaucer refers to at the end of TC was realized in NPT.
Harwood, Britton J.
Chaucer Review 26 (1992): 343-49.
The immobile house of Fame and the whirling cage of rumor are linked to each other much as a subject and a predicate are. FrT and SumT are held together by Chaucer's sense of sentences as "full-blown speech acts": in the former, the same words are…
Mann, Rachel.
Michael Schmidt, ed. New Poetries VII: An Anthology (Manchester: Carcanet, 2018), p. 98
Contemplative lyric poem (eighteen lines in threes) that refers to four of Chaucer’s pilgrims (Knight, Miller, Reeve, and Pardoner) and includes six brief quotations from CT.
Ferster, Judith.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Ferster argues that modern literary and hermeneutical theory (Gadamer and Ricoeur, etc.) can shed light on medieval works: Chaucer's characters "interpret texts and each other as texts," in readings influenced by literary tradition, prejudice,…
Hira, Toshinori.
Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities (Nagasaki University) 11 (1970): 61-69; 12 (1971): 65-76.
Discuses idealism and human foibles depicted in Chaucer's works, assessing them in light of contemporary social, political, and religious controversies and exploring how Chaucer poses ideals without denying human reality. Available at…
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne, and Tison Pugh, eds.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016.
Seventeen essays that explore representation of Chaucer and CT on film and television, with recurrent attention to the limited number and scope of such adaptations. The introduction by the editors, "Chaucer on Screen," (pp. 1-16) comments on…
Harwood, Britton [J.]
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 47-57.
"Parapractic" repetitions in PardPT indicate that the Pardoner may be an "unconscious inversion" of Chaucer's own desires for home and for his absent father.
Identifies a series of "parallels in plot and language" between Charles Dickens's "The Cricket on the Hearth" and MerT, arguing for Chaucer’s influence on "Cricket," on the Strong subplot of "David Copperfield," and on Dickens’s "Chaucerian…
Pichaske, David R.,and Laura Sweetland.
Chaucer Review 11 (1977): 179-200.
There is a parallel between Harry's rule in CT and medieval political theory. Harry progresses from the role of egocentric tyrant ruling amidst chaos to that of a more or less generous public servant ruling amidst social harmony.
Griffith, John Lance.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 24 (2016): 75-95.
Examines Chaucer's concepts of wild and wilderness in MkT and argues that the Monk's inclusion of Cenobia is in response to the Host's comments about his own wife. This exchange is a mediation on "reccheless-ness," a wildness of character that can…
Many postmodern medievalist critics combine deconstructionist rhetoric with a historicist belief in intentionality, thus attributing poststructuralist concerns to medieval authors. Alternatives exist: historical inquiry into textuality or…
Ellison, Darryl William.
Dissertation Abstracts International A75.07 (2015): n.p.
Investigates the role of Chaucerian apocrypha and adaptations in defining "Chaucerian," a concept "that was as much a product of Chaucer's later editors, adapters, and imitators as it was a product of his contemporaries and predecessors." Considers…
