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Chaucer's Historical Present: A Discourse-Pragmatic Perspective.
Nakayasu, Minako.
Liliana Sikorska and Marcin Krygier, eds. Evur Happie & Glorious, Ffor I Hafe at Will Grete Riches (New York: Peter Lang, 2013), pp. 41-60.
Clarifies the nature and functions of the historical present tense in English, and examines Chaucer's "discourse pragmatic" uses of it in KnT, particularly alternations of "present and past tenses in discourse" where the narrator "dynamically…
Chaucer's Historical Present: Its Meaning and Uses.
Benson L[arry] D.
English Studies 42 (1961): 65-77.
Explores the "stylistic rationale" for Chaucer's uses of the historical present tense, identifying the fundamental "connotation of continuing action" of the grammatical form, and assessing its rhetorical, semantic, and tonal effects in various…
Chaucer's History-Effect
Justice, Steven.
Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway, eds. Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013), pp. 169-94.
Examines how Chaucer uses "ordinary structures of narrative inference to create the mirage of subjective depth" in his development of characters in TC. Refers to Chaucer's unique "experiment" with characterization in TC as the "subjectivity-effect."
Chaucer's Horseman: Word-Play in the 'Tale of Sir Thopas'
Hanley, Katherine, C.S.J.
Northeast Modern Language Association Newsletter 2.2 (1970):112-114.
Describes the multiple puns on "prick" in Tho, denotative and connotative.
Chaucer's Horses.
Fisher, John H.
South Atlantic Quarterly 60 (1961): 71-79.
Explores Chaucer's stylistic virtuosity in his references to horses and riding, commenting on appropriateness, suggestive naming and coloring, metaphoric and imagistic implications, and comic effects. Includes comments on horses in TC, LGW, and CT.
Chaucer's Host
Hussey, S. S.
Edward Donald Kennedy, Ronald Waldron, and Joseph S. Wittig, eds. Medieval Studies Presented to George Kane (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Wolfeboro, N.H.: D. S. Brewer, 1988): pp. 153-65.
Examines the Host as the "unifying feature of the whole pilgrimage fiction." Chaucer's "revisions" of the character and function of the Host increase his "realism" and serve as a structural device.
Chaucer's Host and Harry Bailly
Burnley, J. D.
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 195-218.
Chaucer's characters are not psychologically consistent but (like the Host, or Pardoner) are illusions based on familiar voices and attitudes to engage the audience in moral concerns, as in MerT, PardT.
Chaucer's Host: The Character of Harry Bailly.
Harlow, Benjamin C
McNeese Review 19 (1968): 36-47.
Characterizes the Host as a "delightful traveling companion," summarizing details of his GP description and of his interactions with the other pilgrims in the links between the tales. He is "sometimes pompous, often impudent, and always forceful," a…
Chaucer's Host: Up-So-Doun
Cullen, Dolores L.
Santa Barbara, Calif.: Fithian Press, 1998.
Allegorical reading of the CT Host as an image of Christ, a figure of the Eucharist associated with joy, heroism, and omnipotence. The Host is a guide of others and the only pilgrim not in need of penance. His name, his language, and his leadership…
Chaucer's House of Cards: Modes of Authority in 'The House of Fame'
McKenna, Steven R.
Jackson State University Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal 12 (1988): 67-78.
Each of the three modes of authority--textual, experiential, visionary--complicated by the fictive dream-vision form, "fails to be authoritative because each demonstrates the lack of finality and absoluteness presumed to be characteristic of…
Chaucer's House of Fame 111-18 : A Windsor Joke?
Davenport, Tony.
Notes and Queries 246: 222-24, 2001.
Argues that the pilgrimage of HF 116 was to the medieval hermitage of St. Leonard, two miles west of Windsor Castle; the associated weariness evokes the use of pilgrimages for amorous trysts.
Chaucer's House Revisited.
Jimura, Akiyuki.
Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature 33 (2018): 1–27.
Discusses how Chaucer's own familial relationships and home life are reflected in depictions of home and familial relationships in his works.
Chaucer's Humor: Critical Essays
Jost, Jean E.,ed.
New York and London: Garland, 1994.
Nineteen essays by various hands, plus an introduction. Nine of the pieces are previously published works or excerpts by Howard Patch, G. K. Chesterton, Paul G. Ruggiers, Thomas A. Garbaty, Derek Pearsall, Alfred David, Alan T. Gaylord, A. Booker…
Chaucer's Icarus-Complex: Some Notes on His Adventures in Theology.
Dunning, T. P.
Duthie, G. I., ed. English Studies Today, Third Series: Lectures and Papers Read at the Fifth Conference of the International Association of Professors of English Held at Edinburgh and Glasgow, August 1962 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1964), pp.89-106.
Contrasts the "quasi-heretical," "so-called Augustinian" views of sex in marriage as always sinful with those of Thomas Aquinas and others who treat sexual love in marriage as sinless when consistent with "amicitia" (friendship) and reason, arguing…
Chaucer's Idea of 'Love' and 'Goodness' in 'The Legend of Good Women'
Shigeo, Hisashi.
The Meiji Gakuin Review (October 1980): 37-54.
The stories about Hypsipyle, Medea, Lucrece, and Ariadne are treated. In each case it seems that the poet finds feminine virtue in masculine vice. Except for the case of Lucrece, simplicity and flippancy on the part of women are exempted from moral…
Chaucer's Idea of 'love' and 'goodness' in 'The Legend of Good Women'
Shigeo, Hisashi.
The Meiji Gakuin Review (November, 1979): 19-43. Meiji Gakuin University.
Chaucer's attitude toward love should be observed in the continuity of his works. LGW, which comes in between TC and CT, plays an important part in this connection. Here, human love is once again taken up to be praised with some controversial…
Chaucer's Idea of 'Love' and 'Goodness' in 'The Legend of Good Women' (4)
Shigeo, Hisashi.
Meiji Gakuin Review 323 (Tokyo, 1981): 29-45.
Some characteristics of the legend of Philomene, Phyllis, and Hypermnestra are discussed. The brief conclusion proves that the poet's attitude toward LGW is ambivalent; he seems to be mocking, satirical, and at the same time serious and even…
Chaucer's Idea of a Canterbury Game
Olson, Glending.
James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 72-90.
CT is a collection of narratives bound together in a frame with two central features: a pilgrimage and a game. The pilgrimage is the outer frame, while the game is a second, inner framing device--the organizing principle that brings the stories into…
Chaucer's Idea of the Pardoner
Rowland, Beryl.
Chaucer Review 14 (1979): 140-54.
If the Pardoner is taken as a hermaphrodite, it is easier to approach the question of how he can explain his false practices and still expect his listeners to be taken in by them. According to late medieval writers, the hermaphrodite's dual nature…
Chaucer's Idea of What Is Noble.
Coghill, Nevill.
London: English Association, 1971.
Explores the history of the idea of nobility or gentility in European tradition, tracing the etymology of "gentilesse" and Chaucer's importance in the development of the concept in English, especially in KnT, FranT, and WBT. Links Chaucer's uses to…
Chaucer's Imagery
Rowland, Beryl.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 117-42.
Chaucer's figurative language is mostly traditional, but its effect usually transcends the merely visual: it is emotional and intellectual--aiming at more than concrete realism. Often, however, the nature of this imagery eludes us because Chaucer's…
Chaucer's Imagery
Hatcher, John Southall.
DAI 29.09 (1969): 3098A.
Studies Chaucer's similes and metaphors to trace the "development of imagery in each of [his] works" from BD through CT, suggesting that Chaucer shows a "progressive awareness of the image as an essential tool of his art." Results of statistical…
Chaucer's Imaginable Audience and the Oaths of The Shipman's Tale
Keen, William P.
Topic 50 (2000): 91-103.
Assesses the six oaths by saints--Martyn, Denys, Peter, Yves, Austyn, and Jame--in ShT, arguing that familiarity with details of the saints' lives provokes the audience to condemn the characters in the Tale.
Chaucer's Imaginative and Metaphorical Description of Nature
Jimura, Akiyuki.
Yoshiyuki Nakao and Yoko Iyeiri, eds. Chaucer's Language: Cognitive Perspectives (Suita: Osaka, 2013), pp. 27-45.
Illustrates how the descriptions of nature in TC reflect main characters' cognitive processes as well as the development of love.
Chaucer's Imaginative One-Day Flood
Vaughan, M. F.
Philological Quarterly 60 (1981): 117-23.
Examines the apocalyptic tradition behind Nicholas's flood.