Von Kreisler, Nicholai.
Modern Philology 68 (1970): 62-64.
Explores Chaucer's intensification of emotion through his uses of variations on loving "with good wille, body, hert, and all," echoes of a biblical injunction.
Konas, Gary.
Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 13 (1993): 50-55.
Argues that MilT is a "farce," using the definition of Eric Bentley in "The Life of the Drama" (1967). Academic criticism of MilT has not confronted its farcical elements.
Edwards, A. S. G.
Notes and Queries 266, no. 1 (2021): 25.
Contends that Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 215 may be the manuscript referred to as "7574 Boethius’s Consolat.of Philosophy, translated by Chaucer, 'imperfect,' 2s 6d” in the 1770 sale catalogue of London bookseller Thomas Payne, since it is…
Leighton, H. Vernon.
Notes on Contemporary Literature 42.1 (2012): 11-12.
Provides evidence that much of John Kennedy Toole's knowledge of Boethius, important to his novel "A Confederacy of Dunces," came through the Chaucer class that he took from Robert Lumiansky.
Cable, Thomas.
Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002), pp. 177-82.
Critiques Youmans and Li's assessment of Chaucer's verse (in this same volume, pp. 153-75), urging metricists to avoid "importing phonological analyses" into theory of meter.
CT is basically religious in spite of its various secular elements. The religious connotation depends rather on Chaucer's Catholic views of life than on the outward signs. All the characters and their tales, both sacred and secular, are equally…
The heavily annotated copy of Thynne held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University shows what a sixteenth-century reader found of interest in Chaucer's story-telling, language, and moral vision.
Ridley, Florence H.
Donald M. Rose, ed. New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism (Norman Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981), pp. 37-51.
Descriptive rather than interpretative approaches are preferred for Chaucer literary studies, according to Bloomfield, but we need to know "how" the poet constructed his work; thus semantics, the philosophy of speech acts, sociology, etc., are…
Sponsler, Claire.
American Literary History 22 (2010): 831-37.
Sponsler comments on the "appropriation theory" underlying Candace Barrington's analysis of a Chaucer-themed Mardi Gras pageant of 1914, raising broader questions about the ideology, methodology, and disciplinary implications of "American…
Michelson, Bruce.
American Literary History 22 (2010): 773-80.
Explores the intensity of America's involvement in the Chaucer Society discussed by Matthews in "Chaucer's American Accent," focusing on the rise of British national tourism and the Gothic Revival, as well as on American romantic notions of…
Harms, Gary.
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 84-93.
Comments on five critical essays that pertain to RvT.
Ramsey, Roy Vance, ed., with a foreword by Henry Ansgar Kelly.
Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2010.
A corrected reprint of Ramsey's 1994 publication (see SAC 18 [1996], no. 31), with Kelly's summary of the importance of the volume and its arguments concerning the relationships of the manuscripts (especially Hg, El, and Dd) and the editing of…
Booth, Wayne C.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Anatomizes irony as a literary device. Includes one example from Chaucer: details of the Monk's description (GP 1.177-82) describing it as straightforward irony that is stable, covert, and local, "firm as a rock" when "discovered by the proper…
Halford, Donna Allard.
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1991): 547A.
Of the five parts of classical rhetoric, "memoria" (including semiotics) has been insufficiently recognized. Chaucer's dream visions reveal interaction of memory and invention; "memoria" is also significant in Renaissance and Romantic poetry.
Oizumi, Akio,and Hiroshi Yonekura; programmed by Kunihiro Miki.
Hildesheim,
A computer-generated alphabetical concordance of rhymes in Chaucer's poetry, based on "The Riverside Chaucer," arranged by rhyme elements (e.g., "-aas," "-aat," "-abbe") within individual works. Includes for each work, in addition to the basic…
Spearing, A. C.
A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford: Clarenden, 1997), pp. 1-22.
Surveys critical opinion about the narrator of TC, arguing that the narrator is not best regarded as unreliable, that it is difficult to separate narrator from author, and that is is unwise or impossible to construct a single stable narratorial…
Includes ten short stories, plus a Prologue and an Epilogue, all overtly modeled in topic and tone on CT and Boccaccio’s "Decameron," both works referred to in the Prologue and alluded to in titles such as “The Reeve’s Sister’s Tale.”
Kern-Stahler, Annette.
Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2002.
Examines interior space in late medieval English architecture, manuscript illumination, and literature, focusing on homes, churches, and their imagery as they helped to shape feminine identity.
Taylor, Ann M.
Nottingham Medieval Studies 24 (1980): 51-56.
Chaucer's presentation of a Trojan parliament unanimously resolving, despite the reasonable objections of Hector, to exchange an innocent Criseyde for a wicked Antenor (TC IV, 141-217), makes allusions to the trial of Christ before Pilate; Chaucer's…
Higuchi, Masayuki.
Michio Kawai, ed. Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honour of Michio Masui. The English Association of Hiroshima (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1991), pp. 266-76.
Examines Chaucer's use of descent and ascent, particularly in NPT, a successful comedy.
The phrase "as he/she that," a calque from French "com cil/cele qui," developed polysemic use in Chaucer's day. The article includes a chart of occurrences of the English phrase from ca. 1000 to Caxton, indicating Chaucer's uses by work and…
