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Blandeau, Agnès.   Sandra Gorgievski and Xavier Leroux, eds. Le Moyen Âge mis en scène: Perspectives contemporaines. Babel, no. 15. [Toulon]: Université du Sud Toulon-Var, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 2007, pp. 17-31.
Blandeau explores how three films capture the spirit if not the letter of CT.

Rossignol, Rosalyn   New York : Facts on File, 2007.
Revised, expanded version of the author's "Chaucer A to Z. The Essential Reference to His Life and Works" (1999; SAC 23 [2001], no. 5), with a more extensive biographical introduction to Chaucer, critical summaries of each of his works, and a more…

Rogers, Shannon L.   Westfield, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
Nearly 200 encyclopedia entries on wide-ranging topics, allusions, and sociohistorical contexts, many with illustrations and all with suggestions for further reading. Does not include entries for individual works by Chaucer but surveys them in the…

Brown, Peter, ed.   Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2007.
Thirty-eight essays by various authors, arranged in seven subheadings: "Overviews"; "The Production and Reception of Texts"; "Language and Literature"; "Encounters with Other Cultures"; "Special Themes"; "Genres"; "and Readings." Each essay includes…

Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.   Year's Work in English Studies 86 (2007): 279-309
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2005, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.

Allen, Mark, and Bege K. Bowers.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 29 (2007): 565-660
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 333 items, plus listing of reviews for 85 books. Includes an author…

Sturges, Robert S.   College Literature 33 (2006): 52-76.
Sturges assesses the Pardoner and Kit from the Prologue to Beryn as "comic critiques" of fifteenth-century urban concerns about class and gender. Three metaphors define urban space in the narrative: cathedral, walls, and tavern.

Scattergood, John.   Ardis Butterfield, ed. Chaucer and the City (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 162-73.
Chaucer's begging poem reflects his anxieties about money within the complex moneyed economy of fourteenth-century London. Reprinted in Scattergood's Occasions for Writing: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Politics, and Society…

Holsinger, Bruce.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 179-212.
Holsinger explores each of Chaucer's lyrics and short poems, explicating tensions of form and theme and explaining Chaucer's "cagey manipulation" of metrical and lyric conventions - English, French, and Italian. Rarely an inventor, Chaucer was a…

Hirsh, John C., ed.   Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005.
A classroom anthology with notes, marginal glosses, introductions, bibliographical citations, and occasional illustrations. Fifty poems arranged by topic into ten categories, with three appendices of additional poems, including one appendix titled…

Boffey, Julia.   Ursula Schaefer, ed. The Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 61-70.
Analyzes the terms - "song," "dite," "tretyse," etc. - used for short poems in Middle English, including terms in Chaucer's works.

Yvernault, Martine.   Colette Stévanovitch, ed. Marges/Seuils: Le liminal dans la littérature médiévale anglaise (Nancy: AMAES, 2006), pp. 197-208.
Yvernault explores the relationships among marginal spaces, architectural frames, sense, and self-assertion.

Yvernault, Martine.   Caietele Echinox 10 (2006): 358-73.
Analyzes the metaphors of space and architecture in relation to textual construction in TC.

Windeatt, Barry.   Helen Cooney, ed. Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 81-97.
Windeatt assesses the uncertainties and experiences of love in TC and considers aspects of Chaucer's humanism and experimentalism. Rather than condemning worldly love, TC explores its many variations.

Summit, Jennifer.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 213-42.
Book-by-book examination of TC, with consistent concern for the characters (especially Criseyde) and the construction of their subjectivities. Summit explores the poem's ongoing concern with how textuality and literary transmission are deeply related…

Sell, Jonathan P. A.   Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 48 (2004): 193-204.
Sell identifies "verbal parallels" and "ontological similarities" between Criseyde and Chaucer's version of Boethius's Fortune. Association with Fortune undermines "sentimental views of Criseyde" that Chaucer the narrator may share though Chaucer…

Saunders, Corinne [J.]   Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 134-55.
Saunders traces elements of Chaucer's "rarefied treatment of love" to Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, troubadours, trouvères, and Ovid, arguing that Chaucer developed a notion of "fin' amors" to treat philosophical questions as well as the…

Rossiter, W. T.   Marginalia 3 (2006): n.p.
Argues that, despite critics' dismissal of the idea, a clandestine marriage is as likely in Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato" as in TC.

Ransom, Daniel J.   Chaucer Review 41 (2006): 206-12.
Troilus's reference to Apollo speaking "out of a tree" (TC 3.543) is likely not a reflection of Chaucer's misunderstanding Ovid. Numerous authors Chaucer may have read, including Bartholomaeus Anglicus, provide grounds for the conclusion that the…

Nolan, Barbara.   Ardis Butterfield, ed. Chaucer and the City (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 57-75.
Troy is insistently present in TC as a model of subjective citymaking.

Nakao, Yoshiyuki.   SIMELL 21(2006): 55-63.
Briefly sketches the methodology of Nakao's 2004 study The Structure of Chaucer's Ambiguity, proposes a framework to describe how Chaucer's ambiguity may occur, and examines TC 5.1084 within that framework.

Nair, Sashi.   Parergon 23.2 (2006): 35-56.
Explores Criseyde's "Boethian pragmatism" and her agency in TC, considering how they conflict with social gender-based social constraints and the constraints of the romance genre. The "incompatibility of Boethian philosophy and the romance genre…

Morgan, Gerald.   Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2005.
Morgan contends that TC is coherent; it has no sudden reversals, palinodes, or "unresolved dialectics." He discourages attention to Andreas Capellanus's theory of courtly love and encourages viewing TC in light of Dante's "Commedia," demonstrating…

Mieszkowski, Gretchen.   New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Western tradition bifurcates the go-between into two separate traditions: the first, working for idealized love; the second, working for lustful sexual conquest. Mieszkowski surveys go-between figures in medieval tradition and discusses how Pandarus…

Lynch, Andrew.   Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 113-33.
Lynch explains the centrality of the legend of Troy to European narratives as a symbol of human instability and as a mirror of the present, especially in late medieval London. In comparison to its sources, TC keeps war on the periphery of the love…
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