... frustrating. LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY WILLIAM J. COOPER, JR. Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales. By V. A. Kolve. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 551. $39-50. In import as well as physical size, V. A. Kolve s book makes a major contri­ bution...

...George P. Wilson Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 Chaucer and Oral Reading George P. Wilson Guilford College The purpose of this paper is to lay down some general principles and to discuss certain facts relating to these principles which will tend to establish the probability...

...John H. Fisher Poetry and Crisis in the Age of Chaucer . By Muscatine Charles . Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 1972 ( University of Notre Dame Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature, Volume 4 ). Pp. vii , 168 . $5.95 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke...

...Norman E. Eliason 484 The South Atlantic Quarterly stances, it testifies to the intellectual vigor both of the American Institute program and of Norwegian interest in America. DUKE UNIVERSITY CARL L. ANDERSON Chaucer Life-Records. Edited by Martin M. Crow and Clair C. Olson. Oxford: Clarendon...

...P. F. Baum Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde . Edited by Warrington John . London : J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. ; New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. , [ 1953 ]. Pp. ix , 337 . (Everyman’s Library, 992.) $1.65 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 166...

... in American literature now planned will be as helpful as this. Ashbel G. Brice. Geoffrey Chaucer of England. By Marchette Chute. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1946. Pp. 347. $3-75- Books of this sort, written in a deliberately popular style to catch the ear of the common reader, can do no harm...

...Allen R. Benham Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 Three Chaucer Studies Allen R. Benham The University of Washington I CHAUCER AND THE RENAISSANCE Every age has a philosophy of life, which reaches and af­ fects, in greater or less degree, the thought and action of all its members...

... passages have not already made him a suicide. Lewis Leary. Medieval Skepticism and Chaucer. By Mary Edith Thomas, Ph.D. New York: The William-Frederick Press, 1950. Pp. 184. $3.00. The subtitle indicates the character of this ambitious little book: An evaluation of the skepticism of the 13th and 14th...

...P. F. Baum Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales By Lawrence William Witherle . New York : Columbia University Press , 1950 . Pp. xi , 184 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 285 Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales By William Witherle Law­ rence...

...Paull F. Baum English Poetry: The Main Currents from Chaucer to the Present . By Bush Douglas . New York : Oxford University Press , 1952 . Pp. ix , 222 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 489 they pointed out the goals to be sought. And so...

...Louise O. Fradenburg Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Louise O. Fradenburg My Worldes Blisse : Chaucer s Tragedy of Fortune How can Chaucer s poetry help us think about domestic tragedy, a genre believed by its own practitioners to have appeared in the early eigh­ teenth...

...Lee Patterson Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Lee Patterson No man his reson herde : Peasant Consciousness, Chaucer s Miller, and the Structure of the Canterbury Tales Aux yeux de l historien, la revolte agraire apparait aussi inseparable du regime seigneurial que, par exemple...

...David Lorenzo Boyd David Lorenzo Boyd Compilation as Commentary: Controlling Chaucer s Parliament of Fowls An authority has a wax nose, which means that it can be bent into taking on different meanings. [Auctoritas cereum habet nasum, id est, in diversum potest flecti sensum.] Alan of Lille Texts...

...Joseph Bentley Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Chaucer s Fatalistic Miller Joseph Bentley An housbande shal not been inquisityf Of Goddes pryvetee, nor of his wyf. There are no doubt many who consider the Miller s Tale little more than an obscene joke an extraordinarily well...

...Paull F. Baum Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 CHAUCER S NAUTICAL METAPHORS PAULL F. BAUM READERS of the Troilus have often noticed a series of nautical metaphors to give them a crude name in Book I and a diminishing number of them throughout the rest of the poem. And some have...

...John H. Fisher Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 John H. Fisher CHAUCER S HORSES Not only were horses necessary and ubiquitous in the Middle Ages, but they served as status symbols and touchstones of taste and character, much as automobiles do today. We might expect that a poet...

...F. Elaine Penninger Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Chaucer s Knight s Tale and the Theme of Appearance and Reality in The Canterbury Tales F. Elaine Penninger Among the small body of opinions about the Knight s Tale with which the rational mind can scarcely argue...

.... 103 . $2.00 . Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde: Rendered into Modern English Prose . By Lumiansky R. M. . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1952 . Pp. xii , 217 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 478 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...C. N. Stavrou Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 SOME IMPLICATIONS OF CHAUCER S IRONY C. N. Stavrou IRONY AND HUMOR require a high degree of intellectual maturity. The ironist or humorist must be a master of perspec­ tive. He must be able to see life steadily and to see it whole...

... as late as Chaucer s time, the idealized knight of popular tradition in the brightest primary colors. Proud, loyal, fearless, yet also devout, magnanimous, humble, merciful, courteous, and cultured, these traditional literary wonders ride about the countryside, seemingly Chairman of the English Department...