Smilie, Ethan K., and Kipton D. Smilie.
Interdisciplinary Humanities 31.3 (2014): 32-52.
Surveys Marxist scholarship concerning "class clowns" in American school rooms, classroom management of them, and their vocational potential. Then discusses Nicholas of MilT and John and Aleyn of RvT as students "who 'work the system' for the sake of…
Peksenyakar, Azime.
Interactions: Ege Journal of British and American Studies / Ege Ingiliz ve Amerikan incelemeleri dergisi 25.1-2 (2016): 149-59.
Explores spaces, places, and gendered power relations in MilT and RvT, arguing that Alisoun, Malyne, and Symkyn's wife all use trickery to evade spatial oppression and achieve pleasure.
Heffernan, Carol F.
Neophilologus 97 (2013): 191-97.
Suggests the "possible influence" of Horace's Ode 1.9 on Alisoun's laugh in the dark in MilT, observing similarities in erotic setting, imagery, and opposition between youth and age.
Explores how the figure of a drunken man, originating in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and "De topicis differentiis," and used by Chaucer in Arcite's complaint in KnT, I.1260–67, "blurs the line between universal and particular" and…
Wadiak, Walter.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016.
Traces the evolution of the romance to the start of the sixteenth century, and its repositioning from an aristocratic genre to one that was embraced by the common audience. Claims this move marks a shift from violence in its early stages to one of…
Tasioulas, Jacqueline.
Medium Aevum 82.2 (2013): 213-35.
Explores "the role of the imagination" in KnT, with attention also to MilT and RvT, focusing on the "cerebral process" in the "amorous desire" of the characters, especially Arcite, whose lovers' malady results from his "lack of imaginative control."…
Rogerson, Margaret.
Jan Shaw, Philippa Kelly, and L. E. Semler, eds. Storytelling: Critical and Creative Approaches (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 167–80.
Observes how KnT signals transitions, scene changes, gestures, and even costuming, perhaps inspiring Shakespeare and Fletcher to create "The Two Noble Kinsmen" by dividing the Chaucer poem into written "parts" for actors before assembling their…
Lee, Dong Choon.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 25.1 (2017): 49-66.
Analyzes the architectural constructions (especially walls) in KnT and TC. Claims that the "effect of a wall in Chaucerian narratives is the double-sidedness," because walls can invite and discourage connections between inside and outside spaces.
Johnston, Andrew James.
Gabriele Rippl, ed. Handbook of Intermediality: Literature--Image--Sound--Music (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015), pp. 50–64.
Describes "medieval approaches to vision, to the relations between text and image and to ekphrasis" before assessing KnT as Chaucer's critique of "attempts to essentialise and keep separate different media and genres, especially the verbal and the…
Johnston, Andrew James.
R. Howard Bloch, Alison Calhoun, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Joachim Kupper, and Jeanette Patterson, eds. Rethinking the New Medievalism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), pp. 181-97.
Explores how in KnT ekphrasis (here the "verbal depiction of fictional images rather than of real ones") serves "a specific politics of representation" in which "the verbal and the visual" and "the classical and the medieval" are locked in…
Cross, Cameron.
Iranian Studies: Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies 48 (2015): 395-422.
Uses KnT as a "comparand" in understanding the tension between "outrage and reason" in the tale of Rostam and Sohrab in Fardowsi's medieval Persian frame-tale narrative "Shahnameh" (Book of Kings). Like Fardowsi's, Chaucer's Tale struggles and…
Cervone, Cristina Maria.
English Language Notes 53.2 (2015): 103-17.
Explores "inversions of the material and the immaterial" in the description of the temple of Mars in KnT, describing how the narrator of the description is both "subjectless and immaterial," and investigating "how we think about what we imagine we…
Argues that Chaucer spent much of the 1380s and 1390s in Southwark as a recipient of a sort of patronage from William Wykeham, chancellor of England, alongside others such as Gower and John Cobham. Asserts that GP is based on the format of the 1381…
Matsuda, Takami.
Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature 32 (2017): 1-15.
Points out that a reference to a palmer in GP recalls both the pilgrimage for one's own penance and the vicarious pilgrimage. Argues that the system of pardon and vicarious pilgrimage are burlesqued in PardPT and SumT. Suggests that the idea of…
Kowalik, Barbara.
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture 3 (2013): 27-41.
Discusses "erotic desire and the motif of going on pilgrimage" in the opening of GP and in Shakespeare's Sonnets, reading Chaucer's lines 1–18 closely as a kind of sonnet and observing numerological patterns that reinforce a transition from erotic…
Dogan, Sadenur.
Tarih kultur ve sanat aras¸tırmaları dergisi/Journal of History, Culture, and Art Research 2.2 (2013): 49-56.
Describes how in GP the descriptions of the Knight, the Parson, and the Plowman reflect the ideals of their respective social estates, and how the descriptions of the Monk, the Reeve, and the Wife of Bath exemplify Chaucer's uses of estates satire…
Wong, Hui-wai.
Sun Yat-Sen Journal of Humanities 36 (2014): 115-42.
Discusses the narrative frame of H. G. Wells's "The Time Machine" as part of the "story-within-story narrative model" epitomized by CT, describing features of Chaucer's frame-narrative and arguing that Wells's presentation is unique in that the…
Frames and analyzes the pilgrims of CT in terms of the social contexts surrounding their professions in Chaucer's lifetime and the antecedent few decades, interestingly moving directly against perceived social ordering to do so. Begins with the rural…
Lawton, David.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Approaches late medieval vernacular culture in terms of "voice," and suggests that "voice" is the subject of CT. Argues that Chaucer "frames" his work "between the praise of voice and the censure of it prevalent in pastoral rhetoric and represented…
Khoshbakht, Maryam, Moussa Ahmadian, and Shahrukh Hekmat.
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 2.1 (2013): 90-97.
Compares CT with Farid al- Din Attar's "The Conference of the Birds," observing similarities in the shared motif of spiritual journey and techniques of narration and characterization. Differences between the religious backgrounds of the two poets,…
In a chapter called "Renaissance to Enlightenment, 1300- 1800," includes a section (pp. 68–71) entitled "Turn over the Leef and Chese Another Tale: The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387–1400), Geoffrey Chaucer" that describes CT, its innovations, and…
Breckenridge, Sarah Dee.
Dissertation Abstracts International A75.04 (2014): n.p.
Examines a series of English literary texts in which "the portrayal of landscape does both elegiac and political work." Includes CT, which "represents a new sphere of civic and economic movement within established space."
