An abridged and adapted version of Bragg's book-length study "The Adventure of English, 500AD to 2000: The Biography of a Language" (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003; New York: Arcade, 2004), augmented for audio-visual recording with music, maps,…
Kouritzin, Sandra G.
Kouritzin, Sandra G., Nathalie A. C. Piquemal, and Renee Norman, eds. Qualitative Research: Challenging the Orthodoxies in Standard Academic Discourse(s) (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 67-82.
Personal account of the author's efforts to write an unorthodox dissertation, including comments about her thwarted intention of using the CT "as a template" for the dissertation.
Finney, Ross Lee, comp.
[New York, N.Y.]: Edition Peters, 2009.
Reproduction of holographic musical score, with lyrics and performance instructions, copyrighted in 1965 by Henmar Press. Headnote: "Commissioned for the Hopkins Center 'Congregation of the Arts' at Dartmouth College by Mario di Bonaventura, Musical…
A narrative history of the English language that includes a chapter entitled "Chaucer" (pp.67-76) which emphasizes Chaucer's variety of linguistic registers in CT. Also published in the U. S., with the title The Adventure of English: The Biography…
Williams, Tara.
New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 179-208.
Argues that a "relationship between magic, spectacle, and morality . . . preoccupies a number" of fourteenth-century Middle English texts, focusing on the magical objects in SqT and other instances of magic in CT to exemplify the variety and…
Reprints twenty-seven essays by Wenzel and adds one previously unpublished lecture: "Moral Chaucer?" (pp. 189-204) which considers the "moral life" of Chaucer's characters, focusing on the "decision-making" by the two main characters in TC, and…
Suggests possible sources for Chaucer's ideas on parenthood that influenced CkT, including the "Wisdom commentary of Dominican friar, Robert Holcot." Also compares Holcot's views on parental responsibility with those in PhyT.
Utz, Richard.
Studies in Medievalism 19 (2010): 160-203.
Defining Neomedievalism(s)
Uses a postcolonial approach to examine the publication and reception of Robinson's edition of Chaucer's works (1933) in its historical context, particularly the rise of scholarly productivity in the United States and attitudes toward England and…
Taylor, Andrew.
Fran De Bruyn, ed. Eighteenth-Century British Literary Scholars and Criticism. Dictionary of Literary Biography, no. 356 (Detroit, Mich.: Gale, 2010), pp. 334-47.
Biography of Tyrwhitt, with emphasis on his scholarly accomplishments, especially his 1775 edition of CT.
Takada, Yasunari.
Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 73 (2010): 55-65.
Argues that Chaucer is "constitutionally sensitive" to intellectual realism, preferring sensory experientialism instead. In BD, as in HF and PF, inconclusiveness and tentativeness defer rather than console and encourage a "broader mundane…
Swinford, Dean.
Blake Hobby, ed. The Trickster. Bloom's Literary Themes (New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010), pp. 229-39.
Explores how WBT "ironizes the quest motif at the heart" of the romance genre and assesses the extent to which the loathly lady, the knight, and the Wife of Bath may be considered to be tricksters.
Stock, Lorraine, and Betty J. Proctor.
Medieval Perspectives 25 (2010): 103-23.
Demonstrates Daniel Defoe's familiarity with CT, and documents the fundamental influence of Chaucer's Wife of Bath on the form and content of "Moll Flanders."
Stanbury, Sarah.
New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 155-67.
Considers the cat in MilT as a device of demarcation between the domesticity of John's house and the privacy of Nicholas's "elite" study, observing links between this use of an animal as a device with Derrida's contemplations on his cat. Also…
Spearing, A. C.
Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 73 (2010): 41-54.
Despite Chaucer's characteristic humility about his poetry and the absence of any references to poetry in his "Life-Records," critics are wrong to deemphasize the respect that subsequent writers accorded to his writing. Imitation of Chaucer's poetic…
Schoenberg Thomas J., and Lawrence J. Trudeau.
Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau, ed. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Volume 173 (Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2010), pp. 225-346. [Electronic book].
Reprints twelve examples of critical studies of TC published between 1962 and 2008, several in excerpts. An introduction (pp. 225-27) summarizes the plot of TC and comments on its characters, major themes, and critical reception. Closes with…
Richardson, Macolm
Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 5.2 (2010): n.p. [Electronic publication]
Recounts the experiences of teaching a British Literature survey at a Louisiana university in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in Fall 2005, exploring why student response to CT was unusually intense at that time, particularly for its concern with…
Reiner, Emily.
Dissertation Abstracts International A71.04 (2010): n.p.
Investigates various characterizations of Greeks in Old French and Middle English, including that of Diomede in TC, a depiction "informed by classical ideas and Chaucer's depictions of Jews and Saracens in other works." Troilus, in contrast, is…
Rack, Melissa J.
Medieval Perspectives 25 (2010): 89-102.
Argues that, in KnT, Chaucer does not resolve the disjunction between Aristotelian natural philosophy and Christian theology that is found in medieval university discourse; instead, he amplifies the tension to allow the "freeplay of interpretation." …
Pakkala-Weckström, Mari.
Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen, eds. Historical Pragmatics. Handbooks of Pragmatics, no. 8 (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010), pp. 219-45.
Defines pragmaphilology as a field of study, explains why Chaucer is an important focus for study in the field, surveys the pragmaphilological work that has been done concerning Chaucer, and makes suggestions for future directions. Much of the work…
Osborn, Marijane, trans.
Buffalo, N. Y.: Broadview, 2010.
Modern verse translations of romances in their original verse forms, with individual introductions and notes, a general introduction, and a commentary on the value of modern verse translation. Includes WBT and Th, along with Gower's "Tale of…
Osberg, Richard H.
Studies in Medievalism 19 (2010): 204-26.
Defining Neomedievalism(s)
Examines the role of two "false memories" of Chaucer's life in the formation of nineteenth-century attitudes toward the poet and his reputation. The spurious incidents--Chaucer's exile and imprisonment and his "retirement" to a park at…
