This volume, the work of a group of Chaucerians from the University of Adelaide, is the latest in the University of Toronto Press's Chaucer Bibliography series, a series which aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's works. It summarizes twentieth-century commentary on the three fabliaux of Fragment 1 of The Canterbury Tales: the Miller's, the Reeve's, and the Cook's tales. There are separate sections for editions, translations and modernizations, sources and analogues, lexicographical and linguistic studies, for the tales considered as a group and for each tale considered separately. Annotations are arranged chronologically within each section, facilitating a quick grasp of the changing critical attitudes towards these tales, and showing how earlier neglect (resulting from embarrassment at the naughtiness of their subject matter) has given way, in the second half of the twentieth century, to universal admiration for their astonishing artistry. The general introduction and the separate section introductions comment on and evaluate the varying critical approaches. The detailed index facilitates research on particular characters, themes, or approaches, as well as on the work of individual commentators.

Chaucer's Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales: An Annotated Bibliography 1900-1992 (Chaucer Bibliographies)

Literature & Fiction

Burton, T. L.

Greentree, Rosemary

British & Irish

University of Toronto Press

<p>The Middle English lyrics and short poems form a varied group that ranges over most aspects of life to include lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and mundane rhymes of everyday life. Thus there are expressions of devotion, ethereal or earthly, theological expositions, and knowledge needed for life. The poems are disparate and generally anonymous, and their survival owes much to chance. The bibliography assembles neutral annotation of collections and criticism of the works, arranged chronologically to show the course of criticism and the growing appreciation of these poems and all they can tell us. The introduction considers these matters, problems of definition of the genre, and the isolable lyrics, and seeks to reconcile some first impressions of the poems, as disparate and slight, with the rewards of close study. ROSEMARY GREENTREE is currently Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of English, University of Adelaide.</p>

The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem (Annotated Bibliographies, 7) (Volume 7)

History & Criticism

D.S.Brewer

Henryson's Narrator acts as reader, teller and teacher of his Moral Fables, as he guides his audience with direct addresses and manipulation of responses. The development of character and motif, his use of language and mood, and the relation of moralitates to tales are examined in the study of the Narrator's techniques. The themes of the work are introduced in the early tales and summarized in the last fable. The repetition and variation of themes support acceptance of the order used in the Bassandyne Print, a source which presents the thirteen fables as a formed, complete and balanced work.

Reader, Teller and Teacher: The Narrator of Robert Henryson's «Moral Fables» (Scottish Studies International)

Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

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