Examines differences in punctuation between Robinson's second edition of PF and the text in Benson's The Riverside Chaucer. Concludes that modern punctuation might sometimes distort Middle English style, especially in colloquial speech.
Ajiro investigates editorial differences in manuscript readings between Robinson's second edition of PF and the text in Benson's The Riverside Chaucer; considers what manuscripts were used in their editing.
Akahori, Naoko.
Research Reports of the Nagaoka Technical College 32.1 (1996): 3-10.
In Sted and Mel, Chaucer either could not or did not make his attitude about the political and religious problems of his day clear. Akahori examines why he gave his hearty, moral advice to Richard II and what he really intended to say.
Akahori, Naoko.
Bulletin of the Institute of Women's Culture (Showa Women's University) 34 (2007): 29-38.
Akahori analyzes characteristics of May in MerT, focusing on her presence in January's garden and nuances of the adjective "fressh." Exploring instances of the word throughout CT, the author shows that its use in MerT is sarcastic.
Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, and James Simpson, eds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Offers a comprehensive, “stereoscopic,” and wide-ranging view of Chaucer’s culture and connections in a collection of essays focusing on current work in Middle English studies. For twenty-nine individual essays by various authors, search for Oxford…
Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, and James Simpson.
The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 1-7.
Argues that every handbook or guide to Chaucer is invested in time. Demonstrates how the essays in this volume bring together noted Chaucerians alongside experts in other fields. Provides an overview of previous handbooks and guides to Chaucer, and…
Akbari, Suzanne Conklin.
Kathryn Lynch, ed. Chaucer's Cultural Geography (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 102-34.
Comments on such terms and concepts as "nacioun," "degree," "countre," race, and geography in KnT, SqT, MLT, and WBT, indicating that in CT the world is ordered by the principles of geography and nation. Nationalism is emergent in CT, but Orientalism…
Akbari, Suzanne Conklin.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Tracks developments in the theory and practice of personification allegory in medieval literature (especially the "Roman de la Rose," works by Dante, and works by Chaucer) in relation to optical theory and epistemology. As confidence in the…
Assesses three of Sheila Delany's critical essays (including "Geographies of Desire: Orientalism in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women'") for the ways that they have "dramatically shifted the direction of critical discourse in emergent subfields of…
Explores three "models" for considering medieval studies in the context of world literatures--"Mediterraneans," "distant reading," and "moving things"--using the last to compare MLT and the Ethiopian "Kebra nagast" and assess "Mandeville'sTravels"…
Akbari, Suzanne Conklin.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 368-85.
Considers Nicholas Trevet’s Anglo-Norman chronicle and discusses "the ways in which Trevet’s larger vision of history is reflected in Chaucer's writing." Catalogues the various models for history available to and used by Chaucer, including Geoffrey…
Akehurst, F. R. P.,and Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden, eds.
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Nine essays by various authors on representation of and attitudes toward strangers in medieval literature and society. Topics include merchants as strangers, Jews in France, Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Wolfram, Renaut de Montaubon," the German poet…
Suggests Arabic texts not as sources for MerT, but as fellow exemplars of certain similar "universal" archetypes (tree, garden, billet-doux, key). Juxtaposes Arabic tales (some from "The Arabian Nights") with MerT, and organizes stories by tree type…
Al-Hariri of Basra.
Cooperson, Michael, trans.
New York: New York University Press, 2020.
Translates al-Harırı's Arabic classic "Maqamat," with sections imitating
or emulating the styles of various writers in English (Mark Twain, Virginia
Woolf, John Lyly, etc.). The "Author's Retraction" is "modeled on" Ret.
Al-Hariri of Basra.
Cooperson, Michael, trans.
New York: New York University Press, 2020.
Translates al-Harırı's Arabic classic "Maqamat," with sections imitating or emulating the styles of various writers in English (Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, John Lyly, etc.). The "Author's Retraction" is "modeled on" Ret.
Al-Saleh, Asaad.
Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 45.1 (2012): 35-47.
Describes the idea of the "servant-become-warrior" in the Japanese "Tale of Heike" and in KnT, commenting on the etymological roots of "samurai" and "knight" and exploring how concepts of determinism, service, and Foucauldian disciplinary power…
Alamichel, Marie-Françoise.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes 58: 5-37, 2000.
Examines medieval English widows. While Old English literature shows a general lack of interest in marriage and widowhood, Middle English literature is rich in various forms of testimonies. None of the widows surveyed shows true sorrow after the…
Alamichel, Marie-Françoise.
Claire Vial, ed. 'Gode is the lay, swete is the note': Résonances dans les lais bretons moyen-anglais / Echoes in the Middle English Breton Lays (2014): n.p. (web publication).
Addresses landscape descriptions in Middle English Breton lays. Focuses on two literary categories of landscapes: romance and magical settings.
Alamichel, Marie-Francoiseand Derek Brewer,eds.
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1997.
Eleven essays study the influence and impact of the Middle Ages on Western life and culture from the sixteenth century to the present. The essays cover a wide range of topics--literature, stylistics, lexicography, art, the cinema, philosophy,…
Alberghini, Jennifer.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.08 (2019): n.p.
Studies tensions between family approval and the consent of marital couples in late medieval England and its literature, arguing that TC and LGW offer conflicting views of the tension while MLT resolves it.
Albertini, Virgil R.
Northwest Missouri State College Studies 28.4 (1964): 3-16.
Identifies "traces of the primitive folk tale" that underlie the Cupid and Psyche myth and WBT, and maintains Chaucer's familiarity with some version of the myth. Compares and contrasts aspects of the Tale with its English analogues, and argues that…
