Schendl, Herbert.
Language and Literature 24.3 (2015): 233–48.
Discusses the main functions of code-switching in the poetry and drama of medieval England. Emphasizes how the friar in SumT uses the French phrase "je vous dy" to increase his authority and learnedness.
Putter, Ad.
Herbert Schendl and Laura Wright, eds. Code-Switching in Early English (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011), pp. 281-302.
Explores "how and why Middle English poets switch into French," confronting distinctions between switching dialects (diglossia) and switching languages as well as acknowledging the complicating conditions of social discourse (footing). Discusses…
Ma, Ruen-Chuan.
Dissertation Abstracts International A79.01 (2017): n.p.
Examines the treatment of books as physical objects in the works of Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve, suggesting that this treatment may create a way of perceiving the text on the part of the reader.
Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 11-27.
Outlines the numerous problems surrounding BD's dating, occasion, early transmission history, title, and text. Because of the small number and lateness of manuscript witnesses, BD evinces significant "textual uncertainty"; consequently, literary…
Iyeiri, Yoko.
Yoshiyuki Nakao and Yoko Iyeiri, eds. Chaucer's Language: Cognitive Perspectives (Suita: Osaka, 2013), pp. 5-25.
Pointing out the coexistence of various forms of negation in the Middle English period, the author analyzes choices of negative forms in Mel, ParsT, and Astr from cognitive viewpoints. The analysis particularly focuses on elaboration of styles (in…
Koivisto-Alanko, Päivi.
Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers, and Pivi Pahta, eds. Writing in Nonstandard English (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1999), pp. 205-23
Quantitative analysis of the language of cognition (e.g., "intellect," "knowing," "wit") in Chaucer reveals how such language entered English usage. Borrowings from French and Latin entered with specific, high-prestige philosophical or scientific…
Chapman, Don.
Jacek Fisiak, ed. Studies in English Historical Linguistics and Philology: A Festschrift for Akio Oizumi Studies in English Language and Literature, no. 2 (Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 37-49.
Describes the variety of ways Chaucer uses noun-adjective compounds to produce "strong connotations or heightened effects."
Ellison, Katherine E., and Susan M. Kim, eds
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Collects twelve essays that provide context and background to the work of Manly, Rickert, and their collaborators as cryptologists, writers, and scholars, including recurrent mention of their work in Chaucer studies. For an essay that pertains to…
Witcher, Heather Bozant.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Chapter 4--"Typographical Adventures: William Morris, Community, and the Kelmscott Press"--includes discussion of the "sympathetic collaboration" (a concept theorized by William Morris) between Edward Burne-Jones and Robert Catterson-Smith in…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Christa Jansohn and Bodo Plachta, eds. Varianten - Variants - Variantes. (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005), pp. 79-90.
Edwards comments on the conceptualizations and uses of variants in textual studies of CT and "Piers Plowman," particularly those by Manly and Rickert and by Kane and Donaldson, arguing that some manuscripts are better regarded as separate versions of…
Explores the advantages of computerized collation programs such as "CASE," "TUSTEP," and "Collate," commenting on how they can expedite traditional editing. Cites many applications to CT.
Wimsatt, James I.
Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 33-51.
Analyzes three manuscript collections (Pennsylvania French 15, Westminster Abbey 21, and Bibl. Nat. Nouvelles acquisitions fr. 6221) to infer their late forteenth-century exemplars.
Iglesias-Rábade, Luis.
Studia Neophilologica 83 (2011): 54-66.
Compares and contrasts late medieval English adverbial usage in a number of legal texts with those found in a "Reference Corpus," the latter including a number of examples from Chaucer's works.
Bowers, John M.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 116-31.
Bowers describes Chaucer's treatment of Latin texts throughout his "literary insurgency against [a] foreign incursion"--a kind of postcolonial resistance that is also consistent with Lollard vernacularization. Reads MLT as a "rejection" of Bede's…
Yoshimura, Koji.
Kansai University of Foreign Studies Journal 49 (1989): 19-42.
Shows that color expressions in TC are elaborately calculated to represent the characteristics of Troilus and Criseyde and that the color terms vary in almost every book.
Beckman, Sabina.
College Language Association Journal 20 (1976): 68-74.
In TC, though color words are sparsely used, green, red, blue, white, black are tellingly employed, frequently serving symbolically to connote psychological states of being, sexuality, and emotions, particularly in relation to "eros" and "agape."
Scott, Anne.
Cynthia Kosso and Anne Scott, eds. The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity Through the Renaissance (Boston: Brill, 2009), pp. 407-26.
Scott addresses use of water imagery in medieval narratives. In MilT, flood imagery affects all classes of society and provides a common experience through which the satire of each individual class can occur.
Hanning, Robert W.
R. A. Shoaf, ed. Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: "Subgit to alle Poesye": Essays in Criticism. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, no. 104. Pegasus Paperbacks, no. 10 (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992), pp. 120-37.
In Filostrato, Troilo's accurate decoding of Criseyde's language enables him to discover her reciprocal desire, leading to fulfillment. In TC, fulfillment is more complex as Troilus, Pandarus, and the narrator each construct their own meaning of…
Brewer, Derek.
Piero Boitani, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 95-109.
Encased in a larger, comic vision of "potential human freedom and happiness," Troilus's tragic misfortunes acquire new meaning in Chaucer's TC, which is neither comedy nor tragedy but a "curious mixture" of the two.
Hussey, S. S.
Elizabeth Maslen, ed. Comedy: Essays in Honour of Peter Dixon by Friends and Colleagues (London: Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, 1993), pp. 1-13.
The comedy of MerT is brought out through Chaucer's manipulation of various literary sources and styles.
Leonard. Frances McNeely.
DAI 33.11 (1973): 6316-17A.
Despite the apparent clash between comedy and moral allegory, writers from Chaucer to Spenser combine the two, a fusion rooted in 'La Roman de la Rose.' Treats BD and HF as well as works by Gower, Dunbar, Skelton, and Spenser.
Heffernan, Carol Falvo.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2009.
Exploring the question "When is Chaucer known in Italy?" Heffernan surveys other scholars who have examined Chaucer's writings within the Italian tradition and focuses on shared comedic themes in the works of Boccaccio and Chaucer. She reviews…
Considers TC to be "amphibious," both a tragedy and, ironically, a comedy, when read in light of Chaucer's changes to Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and his additions from Boethius's "Consolatio."
