Item not seen; reported in the MLA International Bibliography as a discussion of syntax, impersonal constructions, and variants in CT manuscripts. In Japanese.
Morris, Lynn Campbell King.
Dissertation Abstracts International 44 (1984): 3681A.
Describes methodology of this index to source and analogue criticism, covering 1598-1980, with annotated bibliography of 1,300 titles, and four indexes: authors, Chaucer's works, genres, and sources of analogues.
Takamiya, Toshiyuki.
Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995), pp. 327-35.
Summarizes the development of Chaucerian studies in Japan, noting major Japanese scholars of Chaucer, the founding of the Centre for Medieval English Studies at the University of Tokyo, the inception of "Poetica: An International Journal of…
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y.
Lorrayne Y. Baird-Lange and Hildegard Schnuttgen, eds. A Bibliography of Chaucer (Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, 1988, for 1987), pp. xi-liv.
Reviews developments in Chaucer studies 1974-85 within the context of major twentieth-century critical controversies (including modern critical theories) and notes possible trends for the future.
Roney, Lois.
Liam O. Purdon and Cindy L. Vitto, eds. The Rusted Hauberk: Feudal Ideals of Order and Their Decline (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994), pp. 268-98.
In Chaucer's three most noble, most feudal tales, the meaning of the characters' oaths is subjectively conditioned by their makers--reflecting a decline from the feudal ideal that oaths could be objectively understood. The subjectivity of oaths is…
Buffoni, Franco.
Trieste: Nuova Del Bianco Industrie Grafiche, 1981.
The CT are seen as a single unit. In particular, Mel and MLT are analyzed in the light of Marsilio of Padua's "Defensor Pacis" and Wyclif's religious position.
Gabrovsky, Alexander N.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Considers Chaucer's fascination with contemporary theories of change, both in readily visible physical form and also less visible self-reform. The book is divided into three sections: Physics, Alchemy, and Logic. The Physics section discusses HF as a…
Borlenghi, Patricia, and Giles Greenfield.
London : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 1999.
A collection of animal stories set in a frame-tale of animals on pilgrimage to Assisi. Twelve children's stories from international folk traditions. Text by Borlenghi; illustrations by Greenfield. Commemorates 600th anniversary of Chaucer's death.
In light of the abuses of power in the medieval forest industry, the forest as backdrop to romance tales, and the hunt as an aristocratic privilege, FrT critiques administrative bureaucracy through a re-working of the "devil-and-advocate" fable.
Fletcher, Alan J.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25: 53-121, 2003.
Chaucer deploys his "appropriations of the culture of heresy with versatility" in ABC, LGWP, and CT (Pardoner, Friar, Summoner, Monk, and Parson). Fletcher measures these appropriations against the shifting political fortunes of Lollardy in Chaucer's…
Mitchell, Jerome, and William Provost, eds.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973.
Includes an Introduction, four essays, a Panel Discussion, and an Afterword, with a subject index. For individual entries, search for Chaucer the Love Poet under Alternative Title.
Eliason, Norman E.
Jerome Mitchell and William Provost, eds. Chaucer the Love Poet (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973), pp. 9-26.
Comments on the varieties of love in Chaucer's poetry (Christian, philosophic, courtly, and allegorical) and focuses on "ordinary" love in TC, where the personal experience of love is "not merely displayed" but probed with thoughtfulness, honesty,…
Baugh, Albert C.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies. Rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 1-20.
Despite several still unresolved problems, Chaucer's life is well documented in the nearly 500 citations of the Crow and Olsen "Chaucer Life Records," based on the previous researches of Manly, Rickert, and Redstone.
Traces Chaucer's attention to his own authorial fame, putting it in the context of medieval anonymity, book production, and the "idea of authorship." Compares and contrasts the narrators and attendant "fictive illusion" in his works, especially HF.…
Coleman, Joyce.
Julia Boffey, ed. Performance, Ceremony and Display in Late Medieval England: Proceedings of the 2018 Harlaxton Symposium. Harlaxton Medieval Studies, no. 30 (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020), pp. 95-109.
Reconstructs from documentary evidence aspects of Elizabeth de Burgh's holiday entertainment at Hatfield House in 1357-58, when Chaucer was her page, positing that Chaucer's mature recollections of performative readings can be found in BD, 349-61,…
Barron, Caroline L.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 24-41.
Discusses the character of Chaucer the pilgrim in GP. Includes history of Chaucer's life at Aldgate, his work as controller of customs, and later years when he moved away from London.
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…
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."
