Gray, Douglas.
Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1990), pp. 81-90.
King James, Henryson, Dunbar, and Douglas were influenced by Chaucer rhetorically and stylistically, as well as in their choices of genre; but Gray emphasizes the influence of Chaucer's ideas and themes--noting particularly how Chaucer's "powers" of…
Heffernan, Thomas J.
Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1990), pp.155-67.
Chaucer's canon evolved alongside a substantial body of virtually contemporary apocryphal texts attributed to him. But before the end of the last century, judgment concerning a text's authenticity was often indebted to extratextual biases: the…
Scattergood, John.
Keith Busby and Erik Kooper, eds. "Courtly Liberature: Culture and Context" (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1990), pp. 499-508.
Much of the scholarship on Chaucer's "Adam" has focused on identification. But "many of Chaucer's shorter poems are genre pieces in which personal statement emerges by way of a treatment of conventional matters; a traditional type of poem is…
Crampton, Georgia Ronan.
Medium Aevum 59 (1990): 191-213.
Provides critical analysis of Chaucer's "ABC," examining in turn its genre, plot, two characters, style, and reception, and comparing it to its source.
Watts, William H.
Dissertation Abstracts International 51 (1990): 1224A-1225A.
Though read as tragedy, comedy or satire, TC can be understood as "compilatio" or Bakhtinian "polyglossa." With Boccaccio's plot of tragic love, Chaucer incorporates a subtext of Boethian philosophy (as treated by Jean de Meun) and allusions to…
Despite pressures of late-twentieth-century scholarship to make Chaucer's poetry as difficult and allusive as possible,scholars need to distinguish between Chaucer's use of sources that would have been obscure or unobtainable for his…
Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen].
Bruce Henricksen and Thais E. Morgan, eds. Reorientations: Critical Theories and Pedagogies (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990) pp. 77-92.
In medieval studies, which are threatened by pluralism, medievalists can communicate the intent of the originals (now translated) by using literary theory to examine "punning, allusion, quotation, and voice." Examines puns, etc. in TC, Dante's…
Shigeo, Hisashi.
Meiji Gakuin Ronso 453: English and American Literature 75 (1990): 1-32.
Criseyde's love of Troilus could be the cause of her love affair with Diomede. This article corrects, supplements, and reinforces the conclusion of an article by the same name in "Poetica" 29-30 (1989): 39-57.
Orr, Patricia R.
Jane Chance, ed. The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1990), pp.159-76.
Traces the allegorical tradition of the Judgment of Paris from Fulgentius through Bersuire and other fourteenth-century writers (especially sources of the Troilus story) and examines Chaucer's use of and allusions to the myth. The journey of Troilus…
Kokonis, Michael.
Yearbook of English Studies (Thessalonika) 1 (1989): 367-99.
Reviews recent rhetorical analyses of TC, examining how and how much "rhetoric affects the composition" of TC. Kokonis first reviews the "history and evolution of rhetoric"; then shows how rhetoric became part of "medieval aesthetic tradition," and…
Hiscoe, David W.
David G. Allen and Robert A. White, eds. Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990), pp. 35-49.
Although the narrator of TC tries to separate pagan from Christian and body from spirit, the poem's allusions to 2 Corinthinians are an "indictment of (his) disastrous attempt to sunder the heavenly and the earthly."
Heffernan, Carol F.
Neophilologus 74 (1990): 294-309.
Considers the medieval medical views on "amor hereos" and Chaucer's descriptions of it, first in KnT and BD, then in TC. In TC 1, Chaucer shows Troilus as suffering from the lover's disease, to which the consummation of his love in bk. 3 is, from a…
Hanly, Michael G.
Norman, Okla. : Pilgrim Books, 1990.
Investigates "topics relevant to the central question: Did Chaucer use the 'Roman de Troyle' of Beauvau, Seneschal of Anjou," in the composition of TC? Hanly reviews a number of candidates for authorship of the "Roman" and concludes that Chaucer…
Fleming, John V.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
Engages major critics of TC on the matter of interpretation, accepting the Robertsonian definition of TC as a tragedy and viewing Robertson's work as implicit in three decades of critical controversy. Examines textual dilemmas basic to the…
Delahoyde, Michael.
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 3223A.
Chaucer's prosody has been underrated. With its unity, completeness, and carefully developed stanzas, TC demonstrates Chaucer's mastery of sound and sense.
Cronan, Dennis.
Studia Neophilologica 62 (1990): 37-42.
Examines TC 2.442-76, Criseyde's first interview with Pandarus. The passage shows a Criseyde "who is essentially innocent, but who has a capacity for self-deception." Most of her sleight is practiced against herself, not against Pandarus.
Brewer, Derek.
Reingard M. Nischik and Barbara Korte, eds. Modes of narrative: Approaches to American, Canadian, and British Fiction. (Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 1990,) pp. 166-78.
TC is a dramatic monologue delivered by a narrator who is distinctly detached from Chaucer himself. Brewer reexamines the narrator's position and function in TC and the history of the concept of that narrator.
Brainerd, Madeleine.
Dissertation Abstracts International 51 (1990): 1236A.
TC yields diametrically opposed readings to a feminist and a semiotician. Through alteration and modulation of critical assumptions, a new model for medieval literature may be set forth.
An understanding of Virgilian tragedy, which entails not only a perspective but also a 'retro'spective, helps clarify Chaucer's description of TC as "tragedye."
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
Chaucer Review 24 (1990): 306-308.
Not only does Troilus's address to the "paleys desolat" of Criseyde echo the lament over the deserted Jerusalem in the first two chapters of Lamentations, but also Troilus's fixation upon that house is designed to evoke the self-punishing behavior…
Reed, Thomas L.,Jr.
Thomas L. Reed, Jr. Middle English Debate Poetry and the Aesthetics of Irresolution (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1990), pp. 294-362.
Discusses irresolution, style, persona, the "experiential labyrinth," Chaucer's sources, and the relationship of PF to the contemporary political world. The term "Parlement" evokes the university and law. The chapter is divided into five parts: …
