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."
Tornwall, William Allen.
Dissertation Abstracts 16.09 (1956): 1676.
Ranges throughout Chaucer's corpus, exploring imagery in a wide variety of works, arranged in five chapters: "Chaucer's Imagery and the Colors of Rhetoric," "The Appropriateness of the Subject Matter in Chaucer's Imagery," "Chaucer's Treatment of…
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…
Argues that, although derived from differing sources, the three parts of PF--the prelude, the garden of love, and the debate--are unified in their presentation of three perspectives on love. Framed as a conventional love vision, the poem juxtaposes a…
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…
Critics differ in their assessment of the structure and the nature of the consolation in BD. Chaucer uses juxtaposition as his structural principle. The consolation is Boethian, transcending the intensity of human grief, but Chaucer insists upon…
Deligiorgis, S.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 70 (1969): 297-306.
Analyzes the relations between verse form and meaning in ShT and PF. In the first, patterns of closed and open couplets (where rhymes do or do not "coincide with syntactical closure") align with sententiousness and its uses; in the second, the…
Valdes Miyares, Ruben.
Teresa Fanego Lema, ed. Papers from the IVth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1993), pp. 305-13.
Mutual concern with mystical wholeness and unity in Chaucer, Langland, and Malory derives from literary and intellectual tradition rather than from the authors' philosophical acceptance of such an ideal. The ideal is unattainable in their works,…
