Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen].
Bruce Henricksen and Thais E. Morgan, eds. Reorientations: Critical Theories and Pedagogies (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990) pp. 77-92.
In medieval studies, which are threatened by pluralism, medievalists can communicate the intent of the originals (now translated) by using literary theory to examine "punning, allusion, quotation, and voice." Examines puns, etc. in TC, Dante's…
Yeager, R. F.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 6 (1984): 135-64.
Caxton's Chaucer is "moral," while Thynne's is "gentle." In their selection and rejection of texts both were guided by established critical principles.
Butterfield, Ardis, Ian Johnson, and Andrew Kraebel, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Comprises twelve essays by various authors on topics relating to medieval literary interpretation and theory, rhetoric, and manuscript study, with an introduction by Andrew Kraebel, an account of Minnis's "Career and Contributions" by Vincent…
Strouse, A. W.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.09 (2017): n.p.
Uses WBT as a case study in the development of circumcision's use as a metaphor for situations ranging from shifting of intellectual ground to the process of reading itself.
Rubey, Daniel Robert.
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1982): 3154A.
Medieval romances reflect changing attitudes toward social conflicts with chronologically developing alterations in their audiences. Chaucer's romances are studied briefly.
Examines HF as a literary satire, a comic send-up of the love vision genre, evident in the naiveté of the narrator and his failure to attain love or information about it. The poem's "central structural idea" is "comic disillusionment," underscored…
Wright, Monica L.
Sarah-Grace Heller, ed. A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), pp. 159-72.
Explores medieval literary representations of clothing, nudity, and fashion. Includes discussion (pp. 160-63) of how the Wife of Bath's clothing indicates her "personality" and "the crisis of legibility in the fashion system in England"; reproduces…
Patterson, Lee, ed.
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990.
A collection of seven articles on late-medieval culture, literature, and the problems of historical interpretation. Treats Chaucer, Langland, and others.
Johnston, Andrew James.
Sabine Volk-Birke and Julia Lippert, eds. Anglistentag 2006 Halle. Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English, no. 28 (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007), pp. 147-57.
Johnston discusses the treatment of political concerns in PF and Clanvowe's "Book of Cupid." PF defuses the political conflicts it conjures up through a conscious policy of aesthetic deferral, whereas the "Book of Cupid" openly shows the violence…
Claims that Chaucer, Spenser, and Dryden may be understood as a collective devoted to the project of "reviving or supplementing destroyed, deferred, and unfulfilled stories." Demonstrates the recursive, rather than linear, relations among these…
Caballero-Torralbo, Juan de Dios.
Juan de Dios Caballero-Torralbo and Javier Martın-Parraga, eds. New Medievalisms (Newcastle upon Tyne: 2015), pp. 149–76.
Surveys themes and plots in HF, comments on its sources, and discusses its "narrator-character."
Ten essays address correspondences between late-medieval nominalism and literature, including Julian of Norwich, "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight," Jean Molinet, and Chaucer.
Penn, Stephen.
Hugo Keiper, Richard J. Utz, and Cristoph Bode, eds. Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 157-89.
Nominalism and literature were never parts of a single, seamless discourse; influences between them are at best complex and indirect. Penn surveys research on literary nominalism in late-medieval (mostly Chaucerian) texts, arguing that sources other…
It is commonly held that a large number of Old French loan words in Middle English were literary borrowings. However, a study of a restricted group (designating articles of dress and fabrics) shows that most such words were current before the…
An anthology of comic selections, including (pp. 9-17) the Nevill Coghill translation the GP description of the Wife of Bath and selections from WBP, with a brief introduction. The volume includes a commentary on literary humor, illustrations by…
Daiches, David, and John Flower.
New York: Paddington Press, 1979.
Explains topographical references in the works of various British writers, from Chaucer to Robert Louis Stevenson and James Joyce, and explores how various locales contributed to various works of literature, including works by Shakespeare, Dr.…
Wright, Steven Alan.
Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1987): 4400A.
Medieval literary influence should be understood through borrowing not only of phrasing but also of literary devices. Chaucer's grasp of the totality of Jean de Meun's technique pervades Chaucer's handling of allegorical conventions.
Justice, Steven.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 199-214.
Justice explores "historicism's liabilities" and their consequences for the prospects of an aesthetic "turn." Traces the interactions between historicism and "theory" in debunking formalism and comments on this process in medieval studies,…
Lerer, Seth.
Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp.75-91.
Lerer assesses the mid-sixteenth-century versions of Truth and TC in Tottel's "Miscellany" (among other texts) as evidence of Renaissance reception of medieval literary history.
