Courtney, Eleanor Lewer.
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976): 327A
The Introduction is a survey of trends in Chaucer criticism 1964-71. Robertson's 'Preface to Chaucer' and Jordan's 'Chaucer and the Shape of Creation' are found especially influential. The second part is an annotated bibliography of 1218 items,…
Scott, A. F.
London: Elm Tree; New York: Taplinger,1974.
An annotated glossary of personal names, arranged alphabetically within sections. CT is treated separately from BD, HF, LGW, PF and TC. Each of these sections is followed by a list of animal and personal names, with the line references for their…
Chaucer's childhood was pleasant and stimulating. He was a close and lifelong friend of John of Gaunt. Alice Perrers was likewise his close friend and patron. Richard was an intelligent, sensitive ruler, more sinned against than sinning. In 1398,…
Robbins, Rossell Hope, ed.
New York: Franklin, 1975.
Ten essays by various authors, originally presented at the Chaucer Conference at the State University of New York in Albany, November, 1973. For ten essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer at Albany under Alternative Title.
Bateson, F. W.
Essays in Criticism 25 (1975): 2-24.
By intention Chaucer like Shakespeare was a phonetic speller, so that manuscript variations in spelling provide clues to his metrics. The text of the LGW Prologue in MS. Gg of the Cambridge University Library is perhaps the nearest to Chaucer's…
Finnie, W. Bruce.
Chaucer Review 9 (1975): 337-41.
In two recent articles discussing Chaucer's assonance (JEGP, 71; PMLA, 88) Percy Adams fails to make critical distinctions between phonemes that differ quantitatively, thus seriously undermining his own conclusions about assonance and obscuring…
Jambeck, Thomas J.
Journal of Narrative Technique 5 (1975): 73-85.
The Miller's narrative manner is adapted to the level of discourse expected of his social status. The disorganized syntax suggests a disorganized world view.
Medieval and classical notions of space and time cause "pryvetee" to be related to "oiseuse" and "otium." Spatial relationships emphasize that major events, like the little fall which occurs in the carpenter's house in MilT, are arranged around a…
Holley, Linda Tarte.
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 8075A.
Medieval thinkers reverenced the word for its power to give order to experience, but Chaucer throughout his writings calls attention to the unreliability of the word.
Huntsman, Jeffrey F.
Modern Philology 73 (1976): 276-79.
Medieval English and Latin dictionaries such as the "Medulla gramatice" can often be of great value in textual criticism,offering solutions to several Chaucerian cruces: "stot" (CT III, 1630) "whore"; "nakers" (CT I, 2511) "horns"; "astromye" (CT I,…
Mandel, Jerome.
Papers on Language and Literature 11 (1975): 407-11.
The word "boy" occurs infrequently in contexts evocative of demonic connotations when ordinary denotations of the word are not appropriate. Boys whose actions in CT seem to be supernaturally evil illustrate the possibility that one connotation of…
Gilbert, Dorothy.
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976): 288A.
Chaucer's line shows tension between accentual-syllabic meter and strong stress. The result is a complex prosody full of variety. Chaucer's prosody should be studied in texts that use the virgule because modern punctuation blurs the prosody.
Smoot, Maxine Bixby.
Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 6735A
Chaucer artfully uses meter to support meaning. The tensions between meter and speech rhythm, enjambment and run-on lines, rhyme and alliteration, and denotation and onomatopoeia all display his technical virtuosity.
Bachman, W. Bryant,Jr.
English Language Notes 13 (1976): 168-73.
The appearance of Mercury in Arcite's dream is usually thought to be derived from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', I. A more probable source, however, is Virgil's 'Aeneid', IV, where Mercury commands the hero to hasten on to Italy, just as in Chaucer Arcite…
Brown, Emerson,Jr.
George D. Economou, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles (New York: McGraw Hill, 1976), pp. 37-54.
Chaucer's poetry is highly dependent on Latin, French, and Italian works and genres, and on medieval thought in general. In his day his various works represented stages in the development of different medieval literary traditions; he borrowed from…
Ehrhart, Margaret Jean.
Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 7299A-300A.
Through study of Machaut's 'dits', we begin to get a sense of what Chaucer saw in Machaut's work. In addition to appreciation of his style, Chaucer must have recognized in Machaut's constant theme--human love, rightly and wrongly ordered--a sense of…
