Staley, Lynn.
University Park : Pennsylvania State University, 2005.
Explores how late medieval English literature helps us to understand contemporary political events and aristocratic efforts to develop a successful rhetoric of power amid shifts in control. Chapter 1 focuses on Richard II, political discourse, and…
Williams, Jon Kenneth.
Dissertation Abstracts International A71.02 (2010): n.p.
Through a close reading of various Ricardian texts, Williams examines the building of what appears to be a contemporary anti-Ricardian rhetoric. Astr implies loyalty to English monarchy, rather than personal loyalty to Richard; KnT and Mel offer a…
Yoo, Inchol.
Dissertion Abstracts International A71.02 (2010): n.p.
Argues that Chaucer's texts engage translation as a political tool. Rom indicates a balance of resistance to France and outreach to its cultural products; Bo can be read as suspicious of royal power during the late Ricardian period; and ClT…
Ostade, Ingrid Tieken Boon van, and John Frankis, eds.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991.
Sixteen essays encompass the interpretation of textual cruxes in Middle English, lexicography in the past and present, current and older problems in English usage, and the history of English spelling.
For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search…
Hadbawnik, David.
Dissertation Abstracts International A76.11 (2015): n.p.
Considers the diction of Chaucer, his successors, and CT editor Thomas Tyrwhitt as part of a larger argument for the interrelationship of late medieval and early modern poetic language.
Williams, David.
Naples: Fla.: Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2007.
Chaucer is a philosophical realist whose naïve narrators, tale-within-a-tale structuring, and focus on irony and linguistic slippage enable him to assert Truth while exposing the limitations of individual human perspectives. Williams examines the…
Taylor, Karla.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 99-115.
Taylor surveys the development of attention to language and linguistics in Chaucer studies, commenting on the usefulness of developments that enable increased attention to sociolinguistic uses rather than philological forms. She reads RvT as a work…
Hickey, Raymond, and Stanislaw Puppel, eds.
Berlin and New York : Mouton, 1997.
One hundred and thirty-five selections by various authors, ranging widely in linguistics theory and practice, English language history, contrastive linguistics and language acquisition, and discourse analysis. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer,…
Kastovsky, Dieter, and Arthur Mettinger, eds.
Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 2001.
Seventeen essays on various issues in Old and Middle English linguistic study: language contact, borrowing, code-switching, spelling, versification, etc. For four essays pertain to Chaucer, search for Language Contact in the History of English under…
Fyler, John M.
Studies in Philology 112 (2015): 415-52.
Comments on a wide variety of examples—comic and/or serious—of boundaries and sutures between languages in the late medieval literature, exploring issues of translation, including biblical translation; perceived contrasts between "supposedly…
Historical analysis of early women's speech; describes early modern England's regulations of women's speech and women's subversive strategies to represent themselves as subjects in masculine discourses (including court depositions). Examines speech…
Kane, George.
Christian J. Kay and Louise M. Sylvester, eds. Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts. Costerus New Series, no. 133. (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001), pp. 161-71.
Argues for "literary" rather than "historicist" analysis, examining the tone and rhetoric of the reference to the uprising of 1381 in NPT and arguing that Chaucer was "distancing" himself from the events.
Stadnik, Katarzyna.
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 41 [54] (2015): 127-41.
Summarizes aspects of cognition theory and posits that the "knowledge accumulated by past generations is encapsulated in language" and that, like a "palimpsest," imagery retains "vestiges" of the worldviews of the past. Discusses examples of…
Harwood, Britton J.
Chaucer Review 6.4 (1972): 268-79.
Tallies Chaucer's modifications of his sources in ManT, especially the digressions he adds, to show that the "subject of the tale is language." In his tale, the Manciple "sneers at" people who "can be distracted from empirical reality by language,"…
Fyler, John M.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Following an exposition of received biblical history and medieval commentaries in which the Fall and Babel represent declensions from unity and clarity, Fyler addresses Jean's Roman, Dante's Commedia, HF, SNT, and CYT intertextually and in the…
Johnston, Andrew James, Ferdinand von Mengden, and Thim Stefan, eds,
Heidelberg : Winter, 2006.
Twenty-four essays by various authors, presented as a festschrift for Klaus Dietz. Includes a wide variety of topics within German and English linguistics and medieval studies. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer; search for Language and Text…
Forty-two essays, including thirteen on Chaucer. For individual essays on Chaucer, search for Language and Style in English Literature under Alternatuive Title.
Blake, N. F.
Jacek Fisiak, ed. Studies in Middle English Linguistics (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997), pp. 59-78.
Fifteenth-century scribal additions and changes to manuscripts of CT indicate the "linguistic and stylistic prejudices and attitudes" of scribes and their audiences. Treats Hengwrt as a base text and explores how changes in Ellesmere, British…
Speed, Diane.
Geraldine Barnes, John Gunn, Sonya Jensen, and Lee Jobling, eds. Words and Wordsmiths: A Volume for H. L. Rogers (Sydney: University of Sydney, 1989): pp. 119-36.
A study of language in PhyT reveals intricate patterns of cohesion among elements sometimes regarded as disparate. The text invites the reader to consider several ethical and literary issues.
Keiser, George R.
Chaucer Review 12 (1977): 147-61.
Characters in ShT use imprecise language such as swearing to obscure the meaning of their actions. The narrator, who uses similar language, and fails to notice the implications of his tale, resembles the pilgrim of uncertain identity in the Endlink…
Pearsall, Derek.
Nigel Saul, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 245-76.
Surveys English language and literature from the Anglo-Saxon invasions to Thomas Malory, briefly discussing Chaucer as a court poet and as the one who brought "England fully into the stream of contemporary French and Italian poetry," making English…
Johnson, Ian.
Chris Given-Wilson, ed. An Illustrated History of Late Medieval England (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996), pp. 127-51.
A survey of genres and topics in Middle English literature, including Chaucer's "diversity of literary forms and [the] strategies he took to negotiate literary authority."
Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, and others, eds.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2009.
Thirty-four essays by various authors (and an introduction by the editor) on a variety of linguistic and literary topics. Essays are arranged in four categories: (1) Language and Socio-Linguistics; (2) Crossing the Conquest: New Linguistic and…
Blank, Claudia, and others, eds.
Frankfurt-on-Main, Bern, New York, and Paris: Peter Lang, 1992
A collection of 100 essays on linguistic topics categorized as diachronic linguistics, linguistics and cultural studies, computer linguistics, varieties of English, and synchronic linguistics. For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for…
