Kumamoto, Sadahiro.
Michio Kawai, ed. Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honour of Michio Masui. The English Association of Hiroshima (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1991), pp. 322-42.
Observes what kinds of words in the Roman de la Rose are likely to be borrowed by Chaucer as rhyme words, what alterations are made when they are transferred to Rom, and what sorts of words are added in the rhyme position in translation.
Wentersdorf, Karl P.
Chaucer Review 15 (1980): 101-26.
A clandestine "marriage" was not fornicatory but simply unlawful, since the church insisted on an eventual ceremony. Chaucer adds the troth plight to his source, thus raising the story above amorous intrigue and heightening the poignancy of…
Duffell, Martin J.
Language and Literature 17 (2008): 5-20.
Provides statistical analysis of 300-line samples from the verse of eight poets who wrote in English (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Longfellow, and Browning), comparing percentages of inversion and "erosion" among iambic…
Sudo, Jun.
Michio Kawai, ed. Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honour of Michio Masui. The English Association of Hiroshima (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1991), pp. 361-73.
The proem of each book of TC summarizes the gist of the following story and establishes a suitable mood through invocation to appropriate gods.
Brewer, Derek.
Uwe Boker et al., eds. Of Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and Its Impact Through the Ages. Festschrift for Karl Heinz Goller on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004), pp. 47-59.
Traces the history of romance as a genre as it adumbrates the modern novel. Includes recurrent references to TC.
Kanno, Masahiko.
Bulletin of the Aichi University of Education (Humanities) 43 (1994): 1-13.
Friar John is guilty of the sin of gluttony, which he discusses. Diction relating to foodstuffs recurs throughout SumT, as does "in-and-out" imagery, culminating in scatological diction that reflects John's degraded state of mind.
Iwasaki, Haruo.
Key-Word Studies in Chaucer 1 (1984): 15-32.
Gives frequency of "gan" in each work by Chaucer, an exhaustive list of verbs in this construction, and rhythmical patterns according to frequency. Chaucer used the "gan" periphrasis in a conscious, stereotyped way.
Kumamoto, Sadahiro.
Kumamoto Journal of Culture and Humanities (Kumamoto University) 71: 109-29, 2001.
Focuses on the following: (1) the kind of governing verbs; (2) the ratio of bare infinitives and (for) to-infinitives; and (3) the structure of the infinitive clause, supplementing Kenyon (1909) in many respects.I
Jimura, Akiyuki.
Yoko Iyeiri and Jennifer Smith, eds. Studies in Middle and Modern English: Historical Change (Osaka: Osaka Books, 2014), pp. 115-32.
Examines the meaning of "meat and drink" in Chaucer's texts, referring to the "OED" and biblical uses. Discusses the "process of idiomatization" of this expression by looking into its uses through Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and Dickens.
Brewer, Derek.
Corinne Saunders, ed. Cultural Encounters in the Romance of Medieval England. Studies in Medieval Romance, no. 2 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005), pp. 117-33.
Chaucer indicates that same-sex friendship is threatened when complicated by issues of "sexual love" (127). Considering TC, PF, WBPT, and FranT, Brewer calls for reinstatement of friendship "as a recognizable, uncontentious area of love" and praises…
Brewer, D[erek]. S.
Poetica (Tokyo) 1 (1974): 1-20.
Examines the word "sad" in ClT to show that meaning and nuance in Chaucer's poetry derive, not from patterns of similarity or metaphor, but from metonymic contiguity, which functions much as does the "creative contiguity" of Gothic juxtaposition.…
Drucker, Trudy.
New York State Journal of Medicine 68 (1968): 444-47.
Describes various disorders, discomforts, and diseases among the Canterbury pilgrims and in their tales, commenting on medieval and modern understandings of symptoms and causes.
A detailed examination of Chaucer's principal direct source on significative dreams, Robert Holcot's commentary on The Book of Wisdom, "Super Sapientiam Salomonis," and of Chaucer's method of constant mixture of various viewpoints (especially those…
Wetherbee, Winthrop.
George D. Economou, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles (New York: McGraw Hill, 1976), pp. 75-91.
Chaucer deals with a concern of earlier poets--humanity's place in the universe--and with concerns of his own time--the bases and abuses of civil and ecclesiastical authority, the limits of human freedom, and the implications of will and…
Wetherbee, Winthrop.
Lawrence D. Roberts, ed. Approaches to Nature in the Middle Ages: Papers of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 16. (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1982), pp. 47-62.
Discussion of nature and woman in twelfth-century latin works of Bernardus Silvestris ("Cosmographia") and Alain de Lisle ("De planctu naturae")l, with comments on PR and the Wife of Bath.
Examines the significance of astrological allusions to the "form and meaning" of CT, particularly how they reflect and contribute to the work as a "dramatic allegory" of human pilgrimage through worldly sorrow.
Stavrou, C. N.
South Atlantic Quarterly 55 (1957): 454-61.
Rejects Matthew Arnold's claim that Chaucer lacked "high seriousness," commenting on the "close interrelationship between the ironist and moralist" in the older poet's works, and suggesting that, though genial in his acceptance of human variety and…
Offers a "new look at Chaucer's folktales," distinguishing between written and oral analogues to portions of CT, focusing on oral motifs, and categorizing the tales in accord with the numbering system in the 1961 revised version of Stith Thompson's…
Explores Chaucer's uses of narrative terms, such as "storie," "tale," "fable," "tretys," "tragedye," "legend," etc.," focusing on their relative degrees of exposition, fictionality, and historicity and the faithfulness of the narratives to source…
Madsen, Reta Margaret Anderson.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57.11 (1997): 4755A.
Argues that Chaucer modified, extended, and developed the "conventions" of medieval rhetoric (including the "doctrine of three styles"), exploring his uses in light of the "Poetria Nova" of Geoffrey of Vinsauf and the pseudo-Ciceronian "Rhetorica ad…
Silvia, Daniel S.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 153-63.
Distinguishes between two kinds of manuscripts of CT: those in which the entire poem is the sole item or the dominant one and those in which individual tales appear in anthologies. Focuses on the second kind, observing the moral or courtly nature of…
Ingham, Muriel Brierley.
Dissertation Abstracts International 68.10 (1968): 4132-33A.
Identifies and analyzes the motifs and imagery of death in England in the fourteenth century to the sixteenth, including discussion of the relatively positive depictions of death in TC and CT.
Ikegami analyzes in OE and ME literature formal problems of verse and prose, narratives, manuscripts and incunabula, Latin and vernaculars, to explain the differences between medieval and modern English literature.
