Oliver, Clementine.
New Medieval Literatures 6 (2003): 167-98
Explores the identity and political career of Thomas Fovent (Favent), author of the polemical treatise on the Merciless Parliament--"Historia Mirabilis Parliament"--arguing that the treatise is best regarded as a "pamphlet," an index to the public…
Green, Richard Firth.
English Language Notes 24:4 (1987): 24-27.
A late-fifteenth-century French collection of riddles (Musee Conde Bibliotheque MS 654) may point to an origin of SumT in a familiar riddle rather than in the iconography of Pentecost.
Küçükboyaci, Uğur E.
Evrim Doğan Adanur, ed. IDEA: Studies in English (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 272-83.
Surveys commentary on Chaucer's uses of postmodern techniques in CT, focusing on his experimentation and evasiveness, and his concern with meaning and with the possibilities whereby literature may or may not be considered literal. Discusses…
McClellan, William.
James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper, and Sylvia Tomasch, eds. The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 183-96.
Both ClT and Kingston's "No Name Woman" reveal how patriarchal culture operates to disguise male complicity in women's repression, and both connect issues of knowledge and power with the construction of subjectivity, showing how these are intimately…
Responds to critiques of two books previously published by the author--"Some Types of Narrative in Chaucer's Poetry" (1954) and "The Golden Mirror: Studies on Chaucer's Descriptive Technique and Its Literary Background" (1955)--seeking to clarify…
Fernandez Cuesta, Julia
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 3 (1993): 103-16.
Pragmatic analysis suggests that the Wife of Bath in WBP and the loathly lady in WBT flout the "Quality and Quantity maxims of the Cooperative Principle" and the "maxims of Tact" of the "Politeness Principle." Targets of Chaucer's satire, the two…
Robertson, D. W., Jr.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1962.
Articulates an allegorical approach to medieval literature (also called patristic, exegetical, Augustinian, historical, or iconographical criticism), clarifying its assumptions and methods and applying them to Chaucer's works and to works that…
Eagleton, Catherine.
Journal of the Early Book Society 06: 161-73, 2003.
Eagleton identifies a fragment of Astr washed from MS 358 in the Royal College of Physicians, London. Reproduces the explicit that names Chaucer as author; six photographs; and two tables.
Laird, Edgar [S.]
Chaucer Review 34: 410-15, 2000.
Trinity College, Cambridge MS R.14.52 contains a late-fifteenth-century fragment of Astr. Its contents help illuminate previous copies of Astr and show Chaucer as a "compiler," creating a treatise out of which "other such treatises could be put…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki, Akiyuki Jimura, and Masatsugu Matsuo.
Junsaku Nakamura et al., eds. English Corpora Under Japanese Eyes (an anthology commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies) (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004), pp. 139-50.
Project proposal for a computer-assisted comparison of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT, focusing on how the manuscripts represent compound words, the use of double and single letters, the omission and addition of letters, the use of…
Higuchi, Masayuki.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 35 (1990): 26-36.
The text of Bo ("The Riverside Chaucer") retains inadequate punctuation marks from previous editions and leaves several passages quite difficult to understand, though the edition shows a number of lexical improvements. The article emends punctuation…
Sprunger, David.
Enarratio 15 (2011 for 2008): 100-123.
Comments on Chaucer's reputation as a Wycliffite reformer or Lollard that resulted from his depictions of clergymen (especially the Parson) and from apocryphal tales attributed to him. Edits and assesses a 1641 pamphlet that includes two poetic…
Challenges arguments which assert that the MLE should be followed by ShT in the order of the CT, and argues that, in "light of both external and internal evidence," the Ellesmere order is the best order, with WBPT after MLT, and an emended version of…
Jung, Verena, and Angela Schrott.
K. M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner, eds. Meaning Through Language Contrast. 2 vols. (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003), 2:345-71.
Combines historical pragmatics and translation studies, using them to clarify issues fundamental to both. Examines translations of questions in "Cantar de mio Cid" and translations of lines from WBP (ll.1-3 and 149-51), assessing in the latter case…
Using evidence of paleography, orthography, watermarks, and indications of provenance, dates booklet 1 of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C.86, as the second quarter of the fifteenth century; dates booklets 2-4 as early sixteenth century.
Benson, L[arry] D.
Derek Brewer, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background (London: G. Bell, 1974), pp. 321-51.
Descriptive survey of major developments in Chaucer criticism and scholarship, treated historically and sub-divided into eight categories: 1) canon, 2) texts, 3) language and versification, 4) biography, 5) learning, 6) sources, 7)…
Bowen, Muriel.
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Co., 1964.
Introduces Chaucer's life and works to "those who are new readers" of the poet, evoking a sense of late-medieval life, especially London, Chaucer's court life, and international contexts. Explicates the tales and tellers of CT in thematic chapters,…
Sutton, Jonathan Wayne.
Dissertation Abstracts International 40 (1979): 2052A.
The stories in LGW represent a first attempt by Chaucer in a series of framed stories to deal with the relation between experience, authority, and ideal sentiment. Comparison with their Ovidian sources and close reading reveals that even though…
