Zhou, Yue.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 67 (2023): 19-35.
Analyzes nature-related adjectives in TC. Key findings include Chaucer's enhancement of Venus's role, symbolic natural imagery reflecting Criseyde's betrayal, and a sympathetic tone toward her in descriptions of animals and plants.
Four stanzas that seem out of place in the conclusion can be removed and reinserted, resulting in improved syntactic and thematic continuity. There is no manuscript authority for the mistaken position (all manuscripts have the order of the received…
Keller, James.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 300-313.
Examines the structure of the medieval ecclesiastical court system and the role of the summoner, or apparitor, within that system. The Summoner and the summoner of FrT, as portraits of "two damned souls," reflect Chaucer's knowledge of the "duties…
Some typical references are introduced to classify the characteristics of each period of Chaucerian scholarship from the fourteenth century to the present time. The paper also shows the necessity of trying a religious approach especially to CT to…
Hess, Lynn,and Caroline Duncan-Rose.
J. Peter Maher and others, eds. Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 13. Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, 4th series. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins B.V., 1982), pp. 293-322.
A structural analysis of discourse and narration in CT reveals that tense shifting heretofore considered a flaw by some, is actually a manifestation of Chaucer's extraordinary ear for idiom and his careful exploitation of his audience's feel for…
Arthur, Karen.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 67-85.
Demonstrates the utility of the text-retrieval program "TACT" by examining references to death and cold in TC. Sketches the "vocabulary" of death in the poem, assesses the words in their contexts (especially Pandarus's threats of death to Criseyde),…
Öğütcü, Murat.
Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 34 (2019): 183-91.
Argues that in TC Chaucer "initiates" a tradition of presenting the "multiple significations" of the story, while "Henryson makes it Scottish and Shakespeare unintentionally reflects the unification of the two countries on a literary level."…
Dane, Joseph A.
The Book Collector 48: 387-400, 1999.
Examines three copies of William Thynne's 1542 edition of Chaucer's Workes and their provenances, arguing that their differences are minimal, likely the result of booksellers' efforts to increase the works' value. The title pages are late…
Coppola, Manuela.
Journal of Postcolonial Writing 52 (2016): 305-18.
Uses postcolonial theory to argue that Agbabi and Breeze "interrogate the borders of British poetry and its 'modernity,'" by capitalizing on the "subversive elements already present" in WBPT, "from the subtle irony and the crafty use of the…
Eisner, Sigmund.
Wexford, [Ire.]: John English, 1957.
Identifies and traces developments of the sources and analogues of WBT, emphasizing the transmission of Irish roots through Welsh elaboration, Arthurian development in Brittany and France, Middle English analogues, and various parallels in…
Doherty, P. C.
New York: St. Martin's; London: Headline, 1994.
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a lawyer, modeled on Chaucer's Man of Law, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about gruesome murders and the underworld of medieval London. Also published with the…
Malcolmson, Anne, ed.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964.
Modern English verse translations of portions of CT, designed for a juvenile audience, comprising abridged versions of GP, MkT (Samson, Nebuchadnezzer, and Croesus), NPT, ClT, ManT, FranT, Th, MLT, CYT, and PardT, each introduced with brief comments…
Zacher, Christian K.
Brian Gastle and Erick Kelemen, eds. Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture: Essays in Honor of James M. Dean (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.), pp. 43-56.
Describes known examples of late medieval travel writing in English, discussing several ways they might be categorized. Includes commentary on pilgrimage narratives and on CT as a fictional example.
Brewer, Derek.
Marie-Francoise Alamichel, ed. La complémentarité: Mélanges offerts à Josseline Bidard et Arlette Sancery à l'occasion de leur départ en retraite (Paris: AMEAS, 2005), pp. 155-64.
Examines the portrayal of friendship in works by Chaucer, Lydgate, and Petrus Alfonsi.
Taylor, Karla Terese.
Comparative Literature 35 (1983): 1-20.
Argues for the influence of the Paolo and Francesca episode in "Inferno" 5 on TC, especially in shaping the reader's attitude toward stories of romantic, carnal love.
Kikuchi, Shigeo.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 32 (1987): 44-53.
Argues that a semiotic analysis of oppositions in the narrative structure of CT yields a better understanding of Chaucer's perception of the nature of reality.
Tokunaga, Satoko.
Jacob Thaisen and Hanna Rutkowska, eds. Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of Their Texts (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 157-76.
Tabulates, compares, and analyzes the "collation results" of understudied sections of Wynkyn de Worde's edition of CT and Caxton's second edition, comparing them with variants in manuscripts, and arguing that while De Worde's editorial practice was…
Ebi, Hisato.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 137:7 (1991): 345-50.
Confronting the Latin world, Chaucer established his own theory of tragedy, which had not developed completely in the English vernacular. Ebi explores the meanings of "dite," "theatrum," and "scene," concluding that Chaucer used theater imagery to…
Phelan, Walter S.
Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing 6 (1985): 39-54.
Part 1: Semantic categories of vocabulary are useful in tracing Chaucer's macrostructure for CT. Using a computerized morpheme dictionary, Phelan traces medieval static macrostructures such as the seven deadly sins--a deductive approach to his…
Juby, W. H.
ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 1 (1988): 123-25.
A proverb in LGW (LGWPF 464-65) may in fact be a (translated) borrowing from a line in Gower's "Vox clamantis." If so, this is clear evidence of the argument raised by John Fisher that Chaucer was "substantially influenced by the older poet."
