Millett, Bella.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 93-103.
Invoking recent attempts by Minnis and by Allen to establish a medieval literary theory by which to measure Chaucer, Millett analyzes Chaucer's use in TC of the "auctor," "Lollius," a "transparent literary artifice." Through his "parody of the…
Baugh, Albert C., comp.
Arlington Heights, Il.: AHM, 1977.
Designed for "graduate and advanced students," this selective bibliography includes 3215 citations (more than 800 added to 1st edition, 1968), arranged in fourteen categories and sub-divided in several subordinate categories, with separate sections…
Hager, Peter J.,and Ronald J. Nelson.
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 36 (1993): 87-94.
Astr shows how technical writers can "judiciously incorporate into their writing such central rhetorical components as coherent structure, appropriate content, accurate and precise descriptions, personable tone, effective metadiscourse, and varied…
"The Pilgrimage of the Lyf of the Manhode," the ME translation of de Guilleville's "Pelerinage de la vie humaine," leads to an emendation of Chaucer's lyric, which should probably read (lines 38-39): "So litel shal thanne in me be founde / That but…
The "Legend of Dido" explicitly evokes its pretexts: the narrator names Virgil and Ovid and summarizes, paraphrases, and purposefully distorts the texts.
Wallace, David.
American Notes and Queries 23 (1984): 1-4.
In his adaptation of Boccaccio in TC, Chaucer Latinizes his source, pretending to follow the classical "Lollius." The same tendency may be observed in vocabulary, as Chaucer adds several words of Latin origin to the lexicon, glossing them with the…
Examines the textual tradition of ABC in its manuscripts and early editions, describing its popularity in manuscripts and its relatively late appearance in print in 1602.
The shift from the first person of Anelida's complaint to the third person of the narrator's commentary is not an artistic flaw. Attributing the commentary to the Chaucerian narrator is consistent with that character's pose as inexperienced and…
Norton-Smith, John.
P. L. Heyworth, ed. Medieval Studies for J. A. W. Bennett (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), 81-99.
As suggested by the manuscripts, Anel is a complete, finished poem (with the omission of an unchaucerian final stanza). It is concerned with the theme of poetry as an art functioning as a record of history. Its closest affiliations are with the…
Cherniss, Michael D.
Chaucer Review 5.1 (1970): 9-21.
Contrasts the form of Anel with that of Mars and compares its form and themes with those of Chaucer's dream visions and its characterizations with those in KnT. Also hypothesizes what Chaucer may have intended to do further in Anel with the source…
Murtaugh, Daniel M.
Chaucer Review 44 (2010): 461-70.
When used in direct discourse, "as" often functions as a "discourse particle" in a manner similar to "the multivalent 'like' that seasons the more youthful dialects of Modern English." Such words allow interlocutors to convey meanings while not…
Bay, Marjorie Caddell.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 1460A.
This triad, repeated through the romances and the Marriage Group, and the unifying figure of the Host, in both GP and the links, demonstrate Chaucer's command of rhetoric and his originality.
Stevens, Martin.
John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, eds. The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne (Madison, N.J., and London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 130-48.
Th, MkT, and SqT are "double-voiced"; they reveal CT's central concerns with "narratological competence" and Chaucer's self-awareness about his storytelling.
Seeks to identify the "Latin manuscript closest to Chaucer's source for his translation" of Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy'," examining features and variants in manuscripts of Boethius's treatise.
Wong, Jennifer.
Carmina Philosophiae 11: 93-116, 2002.
In mood and details, Form Age and For enable us to see Chaucer's pessimistic attitudes toward "Boethian concerns." Truth, Gent, and Sted also emphasize the wretchedness of the present world rather than recognition of divine order and the consolation…
Discusses the concerns with suffering and pity in BD as aspects of universal nature that binds together everything and thereby makes possible the consolation in the poem for the Black Knight (John of Gaunt), the Dreamer (Chaucer), and the audience.…
Knedlik, Will Roger.
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1978): 1538A-39A.
The body of this dissertation consists of a chronological compendium made up of an individual abstract-like annotation for each significant piece of scholarship (published before 31 December, 1969) which has treated BD during the first 600 years…
Dean, James.
Modern Language Quarterly 46 (1985): 235-49.
Probably written before Chaucer knew Boethius well, BD is a courtly poem offering the consolation of art, the solace that one can achieve through "makyng" or listening to poetry. The alleged Boethian aspects of BD reflect the French…
Aers, David.
Durham University Journal 38 (1977): 201-05.
BD is about art as well as consolation--the art that engages real attention with its game and objectifies grief only to escape into its own fixity and so shatter finally on the existentiality of loss.
Broughton, Bradford B.
Bradford B. Broughton, ed. Twenty-Seven to One: A Potpourri of Humanistic Material Presented to Dr. Donald Gale Stillman on the Occasion of His Retirement from Clarkson College of Technology ([Potsdam, N. Y.], 1970), pp. 71-84.
Assesses various historical documents that pertain to the marital life and legacy of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster, arguing that the evidence indicates John was dedicated to Blanche, even after her death.
Merrill, Rodney
Eric Rothstein, ed. Literary Monographs, Volume 5 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973), pp. 1-62.
Challenges traditional perceptions of Mars and Ven as separate poems, arguing that they are better recognized as a single work, "The Broche of Thebes." Traces the history of scribal, editorial, and critical receptions of the complaints, analyzing…
Merlo, Carolyn.
College Language Association Journal 25 (1981): 225-26.
The symbolic meaning of the color brown in Chaucer's works depends on the context in which the word is used. Examples can be noted in TC, BD, Rom, HF, and CT.
Examines GP 369-84 in light of the guild feud in London in the 1370s and 1380s, reviewing opinions of Kuhl and Fullerton, and Skeat. "In his attitudes toward the guildsmen...the pilgrim Chaucer shows himself as more petty-bourgeois than bourgeois."
