Peterson, Joyce E.
Chaucer Review 10 (1976): 326-36.
Like Vice of morality drama, the Pardoner plays a part calculated to lure his audience toward sin by making them treat wickedness as a joke they can innocently enjoy, but the Host thwarts this gibe. Thus the Pardoner, again like Vice, becomes the…
Sherman, John Stores.
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976): 995A.
Chap. I studies Chaucer's awareness of the assets and liabilities of working within a tradition in PF and Purse. Chap. II argues that HF is finished. Chap. III sees the contradiction between the Pardoner's confession and tale as an effort to put…
Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y., and Bege K. Bowers, with the assistance of Hildegard Schnuttgen et al.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 10 (1988): 219-87.
Continuation of SAC annual bibliography (since 1975); based on 1986 MLA "Bibliography" listings, contributions from an international bibliographic team, and independent research. A total of 336 items.
The 1987 report of the Committee on Chaucer Bibliography and Research lists 354 Chaucer studies. Listings are devoted primarily to Americian Chaucerians.
Oizumi, Akio.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica: Essays Presented to Professor Yoshio Terasawa on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, Ltd., 1988) pp. 455-66.
Hornsby, Joseph A.
Chaucer Review 22 (1988): 255-68.
By establishing a truer picture of the fourteenth-century Inns of Court, we can see the improbability of Chaucer's having been educated there. First, Chaucer's education at the Inns of Court is questionable. Second, the fourteenth-century Inns of…
Howard, Donald R.
New York: E. P. Dutton; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
This very readable biography by the late Donald Howard brings together "Chaucer, the man and the poet, and the age in which he lived." Howard traces developments in Chaucer's life from birth to death, setting Chaucer's works contextually within the…
McGalliard, John C.
Philological Quarterly 54 (1975): 1-18.
Chaucer's characterization is sophisticated. The monk, merchant, and wife are complex personalities rather than flat stereotypes. The merchant is not duped or punished because of character flaws; he has none. The tale emphasizes the success of the…
Rice, Nancy Hall.
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1975): 875A.
The mistaken belief that sin was connected with death and sexuality led to the need to find a scapegoat. The result was virulence against women, Jews, or other denigrated casts. The virulence of the dominant group against the Jews in PrT can be…
Conley, John.
Studies in Philology 73 (1976): 42-61.
It is not likely that Chaucer links the topaz primarily with chastity in naming his knight Thopas. Rather, the poet uses the superlative reputation of the topaz as brightest of gems in a general chivalric context.
Because the description of Sir Thopas underscores his artificiality and contains references to puppetry, the knight may be viewed as a puppet of Chaucer-Pilgrim, himself a puppet manipulated by Chaucer-Poet. This metaphor clarifies the operation of…
Chaucer's statements in the "Thopas-Melibee" link, which critics have interpreted in at least three different ways, are significant only as a continuation of the Pilgrim Chaucer's pose of literary innocence. They serve to indicate a switch from…
Van Arsdale, Ruth.
American Notes and Queries 13 (1975): 146-48.
George Williams is wrong to claim homosexual implication for Th, in the light of a re-examination of the knight himself, the forest through which he rode, and Chuacer's use of "prike" in the tale. To find sexual connotations in the tale is to read…
Hoffman, Richard L.
Classica et Mediaevalia 30 (1969): 552-77.
Defends Mel as a meaningful allegory, considering in turn Chaucer's use of the name "Sophia," his reference to wounded feet, and the "extended account" of Christ's passion which indicate framing attention to the Crucifixion. Then tabulates "three…
While using the Italians' narrative structures in MkT, Chaucer twists the styles and themes of Dante and Boccaccio. The pathos and direct narrative of Chaucer's Hugelyn supplant the horror and ambiguities of Dante's Ugolino. Chaucer's Cenobia…
The labors of Hercules, employed by Boethius to show how man may determine his own fortune, are misused by the Monk, who sees the "Consolation" only as a source for secular tales.
Kehler, Joel R.
English Language Notes 12 (1975): 184-87.
Joseph's Conrad's epigraph to "The Rescue" quotes FranT 5.1342-44, and the two works share concern with "chivalric idealism" and 'amour courtois'." The heroines of the two works are "captives of illusion," and they abandon courtly suitors when…
Chaucer sees joy in Boethian terms as arising form what a man loves. Unlike the Man of Law and the Monk, the Nun's Priest affirms both worldly joy and heavenly bliss; he suggests that lost joy may be recovered if one, like Chauntecleer, actively…
DuVal, John.
Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 1.3 (1975): 15-24.
The French story is only a part of the larger whole of the fox's adventure; the English is not, though linked thematically with the Marriage Group. Love for Pertelote makes Chauntecleer ignore his dream; in the French it is pride. Narrative…
