Knapp, Peggy A.
Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 17-29.
Uses theoretical perspectives from Raymond Williams, Emmanuel Kant, and Hans-Georg Gadamer to explain and justify a pedagogical approach to CT based on student pursuit of individual "keywords" in the text and students' selection of a single pilgrim…
Greenwood, Maria.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais, IV. Actes des journées d'etude de juin 2005 et juin 2007 à l'Université de Nancy. Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur. Collection GRENDEL, no. 9 (Nancy: AMAES, 2007), pp. 125-34.
Greenwood studies types of friendship, plus the positive and negative values attached to friendship, in FranT, MerT, and Mel.
Dubs, Kathleen E.
Tibor Fabiny, ed. "What, Then, Is Time?": Responses in English and American Literature. Pázmány Papers in English and American Studies, no. 1 (Piliscsaba, Hungary: Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 2001), pp. 71-81.
Dubs considers medieval notions of simultaneity; describes Boethius's concept of eternity; explores Chaucer's uses of the zodiac in CT (FranT, MLT, GP, NPT) and Astr; and considers spring as the natural and spiritual season of renewal connected with…
Dixon, Chris Jennings, ed.
Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 2007.
Seventy-five lesson plans for teaching writing to high school students, arranged in seven categories: Writing Process, Portfolios, Literature, Research, Grammar, Writing on Demand, and Media. Two of the plans for writing about literature focus on…
Bowen considers the treatment of stringed instruments in Chaucer's Latin sources, their treatment as symbols of "celebration and peace" for characters in CT, and connections between the instruments and concepts of bodies. Stringed instruments…
Bloom, Harold, ed.
Broomall, Pa. : Chelsea House, 1999.
Includes a brief biography, bibliography, and introduction to CT; summaries of GP, KnT, WBPT, and PardPT; and excerpts from critical studies of these sections of CT.
Late fourteenth-century traders' time of profit-making synchronizes with narrative time in Chaucer's tales, enabling the poet to articulate the relationship between time as physically experienced and Christian time, both linear and cyclical.
Blandeau, Agnès.
Martine Yvernault and Sophie Cassagnes-Brouquet, eds. Frères et sœurs: Les liens adelphiques dans l'Occident antique et médiéval. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007, pp. 229-36.
Blandeau examines meanings and connotations of the terms "brother," "brotherly," and "brotherhood" in CT and other medieval texts, from "Beowulf" to Malory's "Le Morte Darthur." Brotherhood ranges widely and can extend to a universal fraternity in a…
Bahr, Arthur William.
Dissertation Abstracts International A68.02 (2007): n.p.
Bahr explores parallels between manuscripts as compilations and groups of people as affinities in late medieval London. Chaucer in CT and Gower in Confessio Amantis differ in how they conceive of literary and social organization.
An introduction to CT designed for student use, with questions for discussion, research suggestions, and a review at the end of several topical sections: (1) biography and socioliterary setting; (2) language, style, and form; (3) reading CT; (4)…
Zeeman, Nicolette.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 29 (2007): 141-82.
Male singers in Chaucer's works recurrently--perhaps inevitably--embody narcissism and receive "brutal," scatological punishment as a result of their deserved, comic victimhood. Psychoanalytic understanding of love as "affect" and of song as…
Worsfold, Brian J., ed.
Lleida and Catalunya, Spain: Department of English and Linguistics, University of Lleida, 2005.
Thirteen essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editor and a preface by Tavengwa M. Nhongo. Literary topics include Chaucer and modern fiction and poetry. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Women Ageing Through…
Williams, David.
Naples: Fla.: Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2007.
Chaucer is a philosophical realist whose naïve narrators, tale-within-a-tale structuring, and focus on irony and linguistic slippage enable him to assert Truth while exposing the limitations of individual human perspectives. Williams examines the…
The essays in ChauR 41.3 explore Donaldson's accomplishments in "his guises as editor, philologist, and New Critic" and the continued relevance of that work in the early twenty-first century.
Warren, Michelle R.
Paul Strohm, ed. Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 51-67.
Warren challenges the notion that translations are worth less than their "originals," arguing that each work is a particular cultural manifestation. She treats Chaucer as the "text-book case of an 'author-translator'" (in contrast with Henry…
Exemplified by those of Carolyn Dinshaw and Elaine Tuttle Hansen, feminist critiques of E. Talbot Donaldson's scholarship are curiously similar to D. W. Robertson's critiques of that scholarship. These critiques find fault in its subjectivity and…
A survey of Middle English literature, designed to accompany the author's anthology "A Book of Middle English" (with J. A. Burrow; 3rd ed., 2005). Treats six topics: the English language; manuscripts, scribes, and audiences; literature and society,…
Turner, Marion.
Paul Strohm, ed. Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 258-73.
Turner asks whether "literary practice and socio-political conflict" were "mutually dependent" in Ricardian England, arguing that writers and scribes--including Chaucer and Adam Pinkhurst--worked for "politically active and volatile guilds" and…
Explores how social division and civic dissent were articulated and addressed in late fourteenth-century literature. As evident in HF, TC, and CT, Chaucer was persistently interested in the slipperiness of truth and in the power of language. Figures…
Thomas, Alfred.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007.
Studies artistic, religious, and political exchanges between England and Bohemia in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, including Anne of Bohemia's influence in England, Wyclif's influence in Bohemia, Shakespeare's formulation of Bohemia, and…
Argues for exposing students to a greater range of medieval perspectives than is afforded by traditional single-author courses on Chaucer, explaining the pedagogy of teaching Chaucer in conjunction with the TEAMS Middle English Texts anthology "The…
Swanson, R. N., ed.
Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2006.
Twelve essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor. General commentary on the theology of indulgences and more focused studies of the history and literary depiction of indulgences in European nations/institutions in the late Middle…
Summerfield, Thea, and Keith Busby, eds.
Amsterdam and New York : Rodopi, 2007.
Fourteen essays by various writers and a bibliography of works published by Erik Kooper, presented to Kooper on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. Topics range widely in English and French medieval traditions, with recurrent focus on romance.…
Strohm, Paul, ed.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Twenty-nine essays by various authors, each essay with suggestions for further reading. The volume has three indices: Medieval Authors and Titles; Names; and Subject. It seeks "to avoid settled consensus in favour of unresolved debate, to prefer the…
Solopova, Elizabeth, and Stuart D. Lee.
New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Describes "key themes, texts, terminologies and methods" related to medieval English literature, divided into four sections: (1) Introductory Key Concepts; (2) Old English; (3) Middle English; and (4) Approaches, Theory and Practice. Recurrent…
