Yoon, Minwoo.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 16 (2008): 113-41.
Although Griselda is "translated" in three different ways in ClT (language, place,and social class), her labor is constant throughout. Her labors (domestic, wifely, and public) define her essential selfhood and grant her a kind of power that Walter…
Yoon, Minwoo.
Medieval English Studies (Seoul) 5: 215-41, 1997.
Surveys representative examples of northern English dialect ("Alliterative Morte Arthure," RvT), Scottish Chaucerians (Henryson, Dunbar), and non-Chaucerian Scottish works (Barbour's "Bruce," "The Wallace") to identify common and distinctive…
Yoo, Inchol.
Journal of English Language and Literature (Korea) 57 (2011): 1173-98.
Considers the "politics of translation" in ClT, arguing that the tale is primarily concerned with how Walter "draws out the willing submission of his subjects," manifest in the "analogical relation between Walter and Griselda as the translator and…
Yoo, Inchol.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 24.2 (2016): 27-51.
Analyzes SNT, MLT, and ClT to find forms of women's authority and determine how women's authority is constructed. Argues that women in these tales possess "charismatic, positional, and spiritual" authority as a result of their confrontations with…
Yoo, Inchol.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 19.2 (2011): 139-63.
Discusses the "political implications" of Rom as it reflects Chaucer's attitudes towards French during the Hundred Years' War, suggesting that Chaucer may be "resisting French literary culture." Also assesses Eustace Deschamps' praise of Chaucer as a…
Yoo, Inchol.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 18 (2010): 361-84.
Reads Bo as Chaucer's advice to young Richard on the subject of tyranny; later, Bo had "potential resonance" for opponents of Richard as king and may have served to support the usurpation of his crown.
Yoo, Inchol.
Dissertion Abstracts International A71.02 (2010): n.p.
Argues that Chaucer's texts engage translation as a political tool. Rom indicates a balance of resistance to France and outreach to its cultural products; Bo can be read as suspicious of royal power during the late Ricardian period; and ClT…
Yonekura, Hiroshi.
Raymond Hickey and Stanislaw Puppel, eds. Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on His 60th Birthday. 2 Vols. (Berlin and New York: Mouton, 1997), 1:229-48.
Documents that compounding was an active process of word formation in Middle English, tabulating Chaucer's compound words and showing that he favored combinations of two Old English nouns rather than combining a noun with another word form or Old…
Yonekura, Hiroshi.
Jacek Fisiak and Akio Oizumi, eds. English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998), pp. 439-53.
Summarizes the distribution of the two suffixes and compares their semantic functions. A revision of an essay originally published in "Studies in Modern English 19 (1993): 1-255.
Establishes that the "Breton" lay is a British lay composed by ancient Britons, not by minstrels of Brittany. The MED gives a British origin for most of its citations of "Britoun" and "Britaine." The validity of the sources for the other citations…
Yıldız, Nazan.
[Yildiz, Nazan]
Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 10 (2022): 83-97.
Uses Homi Bhabha's concepts of borderline community and mimicry ("The Location of Culture" [1994]) to investigate the descriptions of the guildsmen in GP, 361-78, as they relate to shifts and tensions in Chaucer’s contemporary society, focusing on…
Yıldız, Nazan.
[Yildiz, Nazan]
Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi/Selçuk University Journal of Faculty of Letters 37 (2017): 329-42.
Assesses the Franklin as a "hybrid and mimic who is caught in between the medieval acknowledged identities of the commoners and the nobility," striving upward, and searching for "for a recognisable identity" in his changing medieval society. Includes…
Yıldız, Nazan.
[Yildiz, Nazan]
Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi/Selçuk University Journal of Faculty of Letters 41 (2019): 127-42.
Explores the rebelliousness and animal imagery associated with the GP Miller and Symkyn of RvT, the in-between social status of medieval millers, and depictions of millers in accounts of the Revolt of 1381, arguing that medieval millers were depicted…
Yıldız, Nazan.
[Yildiz, Nazan]
Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (Hacettepe University) 32.2 (2015): 299-312.
Explores the social status of the Prioress as someone caught between "her former and present estates, the nobility and the clergy respectively," exploring her "hybrid identity" at this interface Includes an abstract in Turkish and in English.
Yim, Sung-kyun.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 19.2 (2011): 165-86.
Explores Edmund Spenser's adaptation of SqT in Book 4 of his "Faerie Queene," focusing on how he develops a theme of friendship. Spenser claims Chaucer as source, but it seems neither that he "completes" SqT nor focuses on the Cambel/Canacee plot. In…
Yildiz, Nazan.
Seyda Sivrioglu, and others, eds. Bati Edebiyatinda Mizah / Humor in Western Literature / L'humour Dans la Literature Occidentale / Humor in Der Westlichen Literatur (Istanbul: Kriter, 2016), pp. 345-56.
Argues that through "exaggeration of romance and courtly love elements" in TC and the "heavenly laughter" of Troilus at the poem's end, Chaucer "turns the tragic story of Troilus and Criseyde first into a comedy then into a divine comedy."
Builds on Homi K. Bhabha’s definition of hybridity and studies the pilgrims as "the hybrids and/or mimics of medieval borderline society." Contextualizes these hybrid identities within economic and social changes, and concentrates on the Knight in…
Yiavis, Kostas.
Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism 9: 13-29, 2001.
Chaucer's depreciation of the father figure (biological, theological, literary predecessor) enables him to conceive of poetry separate from the needs for stable interpretation and didactic meaning. Throughout his corpus, his "polyvocal…
An examination of Skeat's Rime-Index to Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" shows that "vowel length is an unneeded hypothesis" and Chaucer's vowels may be classified solely on the basis of "quality, not quantity."
The manipulation of narrative techniques in TC (as, for example, in the five-book structure or the epilogue) is one way in which the story reveals its value system and subtly encourages us to adopt that system.
