Salzberg, Albert C.
Translation Review 42-43 (1993): 19-23.
Critiques Theodore Morrison's translation of GP for its inaccuracies, losses of irony, and poor poetry, supplying instances of each. The Morrison translation appears in the "Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces" and the Macmillan "Literature of…
Suhamy, Henri.
Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok, eds. Etudes de linguistique et de litterature en l'honneur d'Andre Crepin. Greifswalder Beitrage zum Mittelalter 5, WODAN ser., no. 20 (Greifswald: Reinede, 1993), pp. 383-91.
GP prefigures the comedy of humours in its emphasis on body language, while the depth and complexity of Chaucer's wit make him a forerunner of Shakespeare and Dickens.
Ransom, Daniel J.
David Raybin and Linda Tarte Holley, eds. Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson's Tale (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2000), pp. 77-93.
Preliminary collations of The Parson's Tale lines 10.75-551 indicate that de Worde's 1498 edition of the Tale derived from a high-quality manuscript rather than from William Caxton's second edition. Such editorial effort reflects high regard for The…
Pigott, Margaret B.
Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 7266A
The variations in narrative structure from BD to PF reveal a shift in Chaucer's belief from faith in the capacity of experience, book, and dream as sources of absolute truth to skepticism about these same medieval traditions.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Yoshiyuki Nakao and Yoko Iyeiri, eds. Chaucer's Language: Cognitive Perspectives (Suita: Osaka, 2013), pp. 47-77.
Proposes that Th is not merely a parody of romance but is composed according to the principle of "progressive diminution," demonstrating its "prototype" and "extension" from geographical to temporal, social, to linguistic "domains."
Forni, Kathleen.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 56-66.
Posits that Chaucer's box-office appeal is limited in the U.S. by his "relatively low cultural profile," his association with "British linguistic and literary nationalism," and the "paradoxical stigma" of being both too high-brow and too bawdy.…
Leland, Virginia E.
Medieval English Studies Past and Present. (Tokyo: Center for Medieval English Studies, 1990), pp. 56-60.
Discusses the careers of Manly and Rickert, their initiation of the Chaucer Project at the University of Chicago in 1924,and their techniques for collating Chaucer manuscripts. Emphasizing the professionalism and influence of the two scholars,…
Borges, Jorge Luis.
New York: New Directions, 2013.
Based on student transcriptions of Borges' 1966 lectures. Chapters are divided into chronological class sessions; lecture topics begin with the fifth century and conclude with nineteenth-century writers. Describes the history of the English language…
Gilles, Sealy, and Sylvia Tomasch.
Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior, eds. Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), pp. 364-83.
Describes the "scientific humanism" that underlies the scholarship of Manly and Rickert and that prompted them to construct Chaucer as "an ideal bourgeois." Their efforts to establish Chaucer as an originary ideal through a wholly authoritative text…
Mooney, Linne R.
Derek Pearsall, ed. New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference (York; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, in association with Boydell and Brewer, 2000), pp. 131-41.
Surveys the techniques and functions of identifying manuscripts produced by the same scribe (especially manuscripts relating to Chaucer and Gower) and calls for a digital archive of known hands to help identify related manuscripts.
Meyer, Cathryn Marie.
Dissertation Abstracts International A68.05 (2007): n.p.
Meyer examines confessional discourse in John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Chaucer's LGW, "The Book of Margery Kempe," and Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," assessing how this discourse "produc[es] truth" and conveys "textualized bodies."
Hanna, Ralph, III.
A. J. Minnis and Charlotte Brewer, eds. Crux and Controversy in Middle English Textual Criticism (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992), pp. 109-30.
Calls for an editing approach that attempts to replicate the contextual and intertextual aspects of manuscripts. Suggests various editions for various purposes, each sensitive to the radical differences of variants, the importance of the manuscript…
Gordon, Ida L.
W. Rothwell, W. R. J. Barron, David Blamires, and Lewis Thorpe, eds. Studies in Medieval Literature and Languages in Memory of Frederick Whitehead (New York: Barnes and Noble; Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1973), pp. 117-31.
Tallies Chaucer's techniques of characterization in TC and explores how and where he "manipulates his characters in the interest of his theme," identifying differences between his major characters (especially Troilus) and their sources in Boccaccio's…
Twenty-three essyas by various authors delivered at the "Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature" 10-12 October 1996, topics ranging from medieval to modern. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer search for…
Fernandez Nistal, Purificacion,and Jose Ma Bravo Gazalo, eds.
Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 1995.
For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the VIth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature under Alternative Title.
Lyall, Roderick J.,and Felicity Riddy,eds.
Stirling/Glasgow: Department of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, 1981.
Twenty-eight essays by various authors on Scottish language and literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature…
Includes thirty-eight essays. For eight essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature under Alternative Title.
Brandt, Bruce E., and Michael Nagy, eds.
Brookings, S.Dak.: English Department, South Dakota State University, 2006.
Thirteen papers on topics ranging from Old English to eighteenth-century British literature. For three papers that pertain to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the 14th Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature under Alternative…
Sauer, Michelle M., ed.
Minot, N.D.: Minot State University, 2003.
Twenty essays by various authors on topics in British literature before 1800: five essays on Shakespeare; three on medieval uses of Christ's death (in Beowulf, Song of Roland, and El Cid). Other topics include Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe,…
Hornero, Ana María, and María Pilar Navarro, eds.
Zaragoza : Institucion Fernando el Catolico (CSIC), 2000.
Twenty-six essays by various authors, with eight that pertain to Chaucer. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of S.E.L.I.M. under Alternative Title.
Popova, M. K.
Vestnik Leningradskogo Universiteta. Serija Istorii, Jazyka i Literatury 14 (1980): 50-55.
In Russian; with English summary (p. 55): "The realistic tendencies of 'The Canterbury Tales,' a result of Chaucer's cultivating the traditions of medieval literature, are considered. According to contemporary scholars, the basis for these tendencies…
Varnaite, Irena.
Literatūra: Lietuvos TSR Aukštųjų Mokyklų Mokslo Darbai 15.3 (1973): 19-33.
Comments on aspects of convention, generic variety, and characterization in BD, PF, HF, LGW, and TC as evidence of Chaucer's status as a "great representative of the mediaeval culture and a pioneer of Renaissance art." In Russian, with Lithuanian and…
Pearsall, Derek
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991): 5-14.
Justifies writing a new biography of Chaucer despite objections that it may be impossible, useless, or superfluous. The exceptional nature of Chaucer's life and the richness of his historical context make the undertaking worthwhile.
