Baker, Alison A.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 23.1 (2016): 351-61.
Proposes a "mnemonic device" for six of the Roman classical gods (Apollo, Diana, Venus, Mars, Minerva, and Bacchus) "that can be used to teach and understand" them in CT and in Spenser's "Faerie Queene."
Yamanaka, Margaret.
Bulletin of Gifu Women's University 47 (2017): 11-18.
Compares two travel diaries by Jerry Ellis (1974-). Includes a detailed description of "Walking to Canterbury--A Modern Journey through Chaucer's Medieval England," which contains references to NPT, SumT, WBT, and ParsT.
Wallace, David.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Focuses on Chaucer's "global renaissance" and the importance of Chaucer's range of writing, which combines poetry, science, tragedy, and astrology to influence writers from Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath.
Turner, Marion.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Scholarly Research Reviews. Free access available at http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.001.0001/oxfordhb-97 80199935338-e-58?skey=ycbEz7&result=1. 2015 (accessed February 23, 2019).
Surveys "current critical trends" in Chaucer studies, focusing on "twenty-first-century interest in interconnectedness, intersubjectivity, and cultural networks." Then discusses "Chaucer's own understanding of the construction of the self in relation…
Surveys representations of the virtues and vices in western art and literature from Plato and Aristotle to C. S. Lewis and Paul Cadmus, offering excerpts and brief discussions of individual works. The section on medieval representations, "The…
Describes the erudition of Anne of Bohemia, reads CT "alongside contemporaneous works in Czech, German, and Latin" (languages familiar to Anne), and maintains that Anne was Chaucer's "imagined reader" who "shaped the way he wrote and what he chose to…
Sutherland, John.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Surveys the history of literature "from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter," including a chapter called "English Tales: Chaucer" (pp. 26-32) that summarizes Chaucer's life, TC, and CT, characterizing both poems as "supremely great" and…
Smith, Sheri.
Dissertation Abstracts International C75.01 (2016): n.p.
Examines answers to prayer in BD, HF, KnT, FranT, "hagiographic tales" (SNT, PrT, MLT, and ClT), and TC, arguing that Chaucer engages significant "theological and philosophical issues."
Sisk, Jennifer.
Eva von Contzen and Anke Bernau, eds. Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015), pp. 116-33.
Explores how Chaucer addresses the sacred authority of hagiography, posing it in tension with the poet's own authority in LGWP, and examining authority and authorization in the "pseudo-hagiographies" of CT (MLT, ClT, and PhyT) where Chaucer…
Robertson, Kellie.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
Discusses how Aristotelian natural philosophy--physics--was debated in the Middle Ages, and its influence on the aesthetic practice of Latin and vernacular writers, including Chaucer, Jean de Meun, Guillaume de Deguileville, and John Lydgate. Argues…
Ramirez-Arlandi, Juan.
Salvador Pena and Juan Jesus Zaro, eds. De Homero a Pavese: Hacia un canon iberoamericano de clasicos universales (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2017), pp. 39-64.
Analyzes the translation techniques used in the Spanish version of MilT and RvT made between 1949 and 1956 by Chilean scholar, theater director and translator Jorge Elliott Garcia. Claims that the purpose of this verse translation was to increase the…
Pugh, Tison.
Karina F. Attar and Lynn Shutters, eds. Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 215-28.
Comments on the advantages of using new media to help students gain appreciation and expertise in studying Chaucer; includes descriptions of undergraduate classroom activities that use cinema, Chaucer blogs, YouTube videos of rap versions of…
Novacich, Sarah Elliott.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Explores how "poetic form, staging logistics, and the status of performance" contribute to our understanding of how medieval thinkers imagined the "ethics and pleasures of the archive." Includes discussion of HF, MLT, MilT, and Rom.
Nakley, Susan.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017.
Examines the views that accept Chaucer's nationalism as a given and those that focus on his international or European identity and vision. Draws on concepts of sovereignty and domesticity appearing "primarily in romantic and household contexts," and…
Moseley, C. W. R. D.
Critical Survey 29.3 (2017): 1-6.
Emphasizes the way in which Chaucer's poems engage in dialogue with his audience, changing the way we can engage with "the fundamental questions of knowledge, understanding, beauty, and pleasure."
Lavezzo, Kathy.
Eileen A. Joy, ed. Still Thriving: On the Importance of Aranye Fradenburg (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Punctum, 2013), pp. 25-31.
Considers the value of retaining the Chaucer Division of the Modern Language Association, maintaining its importance as long as "attention to [Chaucer's] corpus continues to unhinge, transform, and trouble received ideas about being in the world."…
Knudson, Karen R.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.03 (2016): n.p.
Includes discussion of Chaucer's "two brief glimpses" of Solomon as a figure of wisdom in CT, and more extended discussion of Solomon as author in Mel, WBP, MerT, and ParsT.
Newhauser, Richard G.
Annette Kern-Stahler, Beatrix Busse, and Wietse de Boer, eds. The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England (Boston: Brill, 2016), pp. 199-218.
Explores the "full sensory expression" in Chaucer's "construction of space," emphasizing the interconnectedness of the five senses in medieval understanding and their ethical dimensions that require proper training to engage volition correctly.…
Kern-Stahler, Annette, Beatrix Busse, and Wietse de Boer, eds.
Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2016.
Collection of essays presenting perspectives on interrelations between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. For essay on Chaucer, search for The Five Senses in Medieval and…
Describes several ways of addressing modern "experimental poems 'as' criticism," and suggests that, adumbrating such metapoetic practice, the juxtaposition of Th and Mel "constitutes a wondering literary-theoretical response to Boethius'…
Hsy, Jonathan.
David Hillman and Ulrika Maude, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 24-40.
Explores how disability studies have expanded to include consideration of relations between "embodiment and literary form," focusing on representations of deafness in the fifteenth-century Castilian "Arboleda de los enfermos" (Grove of the Infirm) of…
Hines, Jessica N.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.09 (2017): n.p.
Considers how Chaucer (in ClT, LGW, and ParsT) develops the concept of pity from European sources, and privileges the concept in English literary discourse.
Harbin, Andrea. R., and Tamara O'Callaghan.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 21.2 (2014): 111-26.
Considers the utilities of "hyperprint" texts for teaching medieval literature, offering an extended example of the first twenty-five lines of MilT, augmented by five "fiducial markers" (QR-coded) that enable a reader/user, without leaving the…
