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Sudo, Jun.   Poetica (Tokyo) 13 (1982): 50-74.
By comparing Chaucer's TC with Boccaccio's "Filostrato" in sounds, grammar, word choice, similes and metaphors, ambiguities, and construction, the article investigates Chaucer's literary and linguistic imitation and humorous innovation.

Carruthers, Leo.   Roger Lejosne and Dominique Sipiere, eds. Mariages a la mode anglo-saxonne (Amiens: Sterne, 1995), pp. 40-50.
Examines Chaucer's involvement with the royal family and shows how one of his descendents became heir to the throne in 1484.

Ikegami, Tadahiro.   Bishu Saito, ed. In Introduction to English Literature--Society and Literature (Tokyo: Shuppan Pub. Co., 1978), pp. 68-72.
In Japanese.

Trigg, Stephanie.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 297-323.
Trigg considers recurrent issues in the reception of Chaucer: responses to his self-shaped "poetic signature," admiration for his rhetoric and sentiment, and mourning for the loss of his genius by poets who seek to emulate him. Surveys rewritings and…

Winston, Robert P.   American Literature 56 (1985): 584-90.
Harry Russecks, miller of Church Creek, Md., is based on the miller of RvT. Barth's spirit of ribaldry is influenced by MilT.

MacDonald, Donald.   Medium Aevum 39 (1970): 21-27.
Identifies three aspects of Robert Henryson's uses of proverbial wisdom in his "Fables," locating precedent for each of them in a work by Chaucer: use of proverbs by fable characters (NPT), comic misapplication of proverbial wisdom (MilT), and…

Benson, C. David.   Notes and Queries 216 (1971): 127-30.
Shows that the characterization of Calchas in TC influenced the fifteenth-century "Sege of Troy."

Shigeo, Hisashi.   Hisao Turu, ed. Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess. Medieval English Literature Symposium Series, no. 5 (Tokyo: Gaku Shobo Press, 1991), pp. 142-70 (in Japanese).
Analyzes the relationship of the real world to the dream world in BD and surveys noncourtly innovations derived from French romances, taking account of Chaucer scholarship of the late twentieth century.

Lynch, Kathryn L.   John M. Hill, Bonnie Wheeler, and R. F. Yeager, eds. Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2014), pp. 115-28.
Explores metaphors of eating, drinking, hunting, and food preparation, within the framework of the "storytelling performances" of the Wife of Bath in WBT and the unnamed Wife in ShT.

Myles, Robert.   Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1993): 172A.
Although Chaucer has been seen as a medieval nominalist or realist, or both at once, he should actually be recognized as an "intentional realist" in the modern (John F. Searle) sense.

Lightsey, Scott.   James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 171-85
Contends that Chaucer's "international presence," due to his European travels connected to his position and service within the court, "instilled in him a European sensibility distinctly at odds with his modern image as the avatar of Englishness."

Hicks, James E.   Essays in Medieval Studies 3: 78-98, 1986.
In PardPT, Chaucer inverts three major precepts of Augustinian sermon rhetoric ("De Doctrina Christiana"): the preacher must pray before preaching, the preacher must maintain a grave and appropriate demeanor, and the preacher must maintain Christian…

Ginsberg, Warren.   Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Developing Walter Benjamin's model of translation and seeking to "rethink the dynamics of cross-cultural translation," Ginsberg explores how Chaucer's borrowings from and dependencies on Italian literature "disarticulate" the legacy of Dante,…

Larner, John.   Chaucer and the Italian Trecento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 7-32.
Examines the cultural, social, economic, religious, and literary aspects of Italy in Chaucer's day.

Donovan, Mortimer J.   Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: Univeristy of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 59-69.
Glosses in Class Alpha mss of Claudian's "De Raptu Proserpinae," which Chaucer could have used at school, explain his description of Pluto and Proserpina as Fairies, his "many a lady" following Proserpina, the terrifying tone of Pluto's "grisely…

Carlson, David R.   New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Chaucer's occupations--domestic servant, customs agent, justice of the peace, and clerk of the King's Works--shaped his literature, and his "servility" enabled him to become the "father" of English poetry. His biography and his works alike reveal…

Scattergood, John.   Notes and Queries 51.3 (2004): 233-34.
Argues for the adoption of "thy selven" instead of "they shynen" (line 1015) as the "lectio difficilior: and as the reading supported by Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 16, the copy-text for most editions of HF.

Silar, Theodore I.   Philological Quarterly 69 (1990): 409-17.
The epithet "joly" or "jolif," used seven times to characterize Absolon in MilT, is inadequately translated as "jolly." Chaucer makes use of many Middle English meanings of the word to portray Absolon as "happy and light-hearted, amorous, a…

Galway, Margaret.   Times Literary Supplement, April 4, 1958, p. 183.
Argues from the evidence of life-records that Chaucer might well have accompanied Prince Lionel to Milan in 1368 when the latter wedded Violanta Visconti. Presents this in support of Ethel Seaton's discussion of PF (Medium Aevum 25.3 [1956]: 168-74)…

Saito, Isamu.   Poetica: An Internatioanl Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 41 (1994): 51-58.
The two references to kneeling in SumT help create irony. The friar's kneeling in the first half of the tale "forecasts" his "spiritual downfall" in the last scene.

Barr, Helen.   English Review 12.2: 2-3., 2001.
The GP description of the Knight engages late-medieval questions of war and pacifism, confronting the audience with an "ethical and political dilemma."

Watson, Christopher.   Critical Review 22 (1980): 56-64.
Characterizes the Knight as an "enlightened pragmatist" and interprets various details and stylistic devices of KnT (including "occupatio" and various kinds of opposition) as evidence that the teller is a man who seeks to affirm "ordering principles"…

Mroczkowski, Przemyslaw.   Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988), pp. 40-58.
Elucidates the puzzling portrait of the GP Knight by "historical information on chivalry" and especially on knights who went to Prussia as "Crusaders"; modifies opposing views of the Knight (as chivalric ideal or murderous hypocrite).

Lester, G. A.   Notes and Queries 226 (1981): 200-202.
Similarities between Chaucer's description of the knight and the descriptions in "Warwick Pageant," a fifteenth-century complimentary biography of the Earl of Warwick, indicate that Chaucer's description contains not irony but praise.

Sánchez Martí, Jordi.   SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval EnglishLanguage and Literature 7: 153-60, 1997.
Characterizes the GP Knight based on his participation in Christian crusades and his worthy "non-involvement" in the Hundred Years War.
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