Atwood, E. Bagby, and Archibald A. Hill, eds.
Austin: University of Texas, 1969.
Thirty three essays by various authors on wide-ranging topics, presented in honor of Rudolph Willard. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Studies in Language, Literature, and Culture of the Middle Ages and Later under Alternative…
Includes forty-four essays by various authors, a chronology of Margaret Schlauch's career, and a list of her publications. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of Margaret Schlauch under…
Fisiak, Jacek, ed.
Studies in English Language and Literature, no. 2. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2002.
Thirty essays by various authors, addressing synchronic and diachronic issues in English language study--lexicon, grammar, morphology, phonology, prosody, dialect, scribal variation, and syntax. Includes a curriculum vitae, a bibliography of Oizumi's…
Discusses Chaucer's epithetic adjectives, stock phrases, and asseverations. Also considers his transformations of traditional similes and metaphors into fresh ones for poetic effects.
Dean, Nancy.
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.05 (1966):1334A.
Studies Chaucer's uses of Ovid in Mars, Ven, Pity, Anel, BD, HF, and TC, focusing on complaints and depictions of women, and providing lists of observed parallels between Chaucer and Ovid, work by work. This dissertation was completed in 1963.
Hornsby, Joseph Allen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (1985): 1275A.
Although probably not formally educated as a lawyer, Chaucer shows familiarity with common law, church, and "customary" courts, as investigated in a wide variety of his works.
A collection of articles published between 1958 and 1974, including eight on the language of feeling. Discusses tone,mood, and theme, emphasizing Chaucer's use of introspective language and his growing tendency toward "emotional internalization."
A descriptive approach to Chaucer's language, including the syntax of his progressive and perfect verbal forms and the functions of his present and past participles. Also includes lexical analysis of MilT (focus on "pryvetee"), RvT ("bigylen"), and…
Kuhl, Ernest P.
Beloit, Wisc.: Belting Publications, 1971.
Reprints forty-one essays by Kuhl, originally published between 1914 and 1960, brought together to celebrate Kuhl's ninetieth birthday. Twenty-one of the essays pertain to Chaucer, many dealing with biographical details, life records, and allusions…
Barney, Stephen A.
East Lansing, Mich.: Colleagues Press, 1993.
Addresses problems in producing editions of medieval poems, focusing on TC and the editions and textual commentaries by Windeatt and Root as well as on Barney's own contribution to "The Riverside Chaucer." Considers such issues as Chaucer's…
Describes Chaucer's and Gower's uses of the present, preterit, perfect, and pluperfect verb tenses, considering them in various syntactical contexts and identifying similarities and differences in their usage. Includes a bibliography and author and…
Errors in "Cliffs Notes" and "MAX Notes" guides on the Wife of Bath lead to an unsympathetic interpretation of the character and inaccurate reading of WBT.
Garner, Lori Ann.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011.
Focuses on Anglo-Saxon architecture and poetry and draws connections between physical spaces and literary texts. Argues that Anglo-Saxon buildings should be viewed as "dynamic spaces" to enrich an understanding of development of Anglo-Saxon…
Andersen, Jennifer Lotte.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 4747A.
Though the printing press and the Reformation have long been assumed to have altered radically the concepts of reader and writing, the persistence of the architectural trope in literature indicates that technology was less important than…
Brewer, Derek S.
J. Coy and J. de Hoz, eds. Estudios Sobre los generos literarios, I: Grecia clasica e Inglaterra (Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 1975), pp. 107-18.
The character types in Chaucer's comic tales spring from the popular Aristophanic tradition; "popular" here does not exclude the learned or learning. While the humor of the tales is ambivalent and derisive, it yet elicits acceptance and sympathy.
Includes discussion of the influence of KnT on Shakespeare's play, focusing on the play's structure and its concern with "reconciling a faith in cosmic order with our experience of life's apparent chaos" (256).
Leicester, H. Marshall,Jr.
Exemplaria 2 (1990): 241-61.
Chaucer's GP actively encourages the adoption of a "disenchanted perspective" on society, on the pilgrims, and on discourse itself by constructing traditional estates-satire classifications. The narrator successively adopts and then discards first a…
Rowe, Elizabeth Ashman.
Florilegium 8 (1986): 169-86.
The form of KnT not only is characterized by "layers of order and disorder" but also is "circular, interlocking, and repeating." Structurally, the tale can be divided into five parts: a prologue (lines 1-1032), the conflict between Palamon and…
Hardie, J. Keith.
Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 3.2 (1977): 13-19.
Irony generated by the narrator's foreknowledge of the fates of his characters is subsumed to irony generated by the poet's transcendent Christian view of the narrator's limited moral judgments, whose inadequacies are signalled by images of…
