Ingham, Patricia Clare.
Patricia Clare Ingham and Michelle R. Warren, eds. Postcolonial Moves: Medieval Through Modern. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 47-ı70.
Ingham urges a "contrapuntal" postcolonial approach to premodern texts - i.e., an approach that observes differences and distinctions that are oppositional without overdetermining them. She explores how Chaucer's MLT and Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"…
MLT extends the concerns with wooing and governance that are developed in Part 1 of CT, especially when considered in light of the extended version of CkT found in Bodley MS 686, which is edited and appended to this essay.
Horsley, Katharine Frances.
Dissertation Absracts International 65 (2005): 3796A.
As part of a larger consideration of dream poems and medieval ritual, Horsley argues that Chaucer intended liturgical elements of LGWP to evoke saints' day ceremonies recorded in the Sarum Missal.
Brown, Sarah Annes.
Translation and Literature 13 (2004): 194-206
Surveys versions and adaptations of the Philomela-Procne-Tereus story from Euripides through Timberlake Wertenbaker's "Love of the Nightingale" (1988), observing overt and submerged motifs of incest and lesbianism. In LGW, the motifs are underscored…
Renda, Patricia A.
Dissertation Abstracts International 66 (2005): 1759A.
Considers Chaucer's rendition of Lucrece (in LGW) as part of a series of narratives that transform Lucrece's story into a text that "reveal[s] an evolving patriarchal ideology."
Greenwood, Maria.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littrature dans les textes médiévaux anglais. Collection GRENDEL, no. 5. Nancy: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2005, pp. 157-75.
Greenwood examines the meaning of "manly" as applied to the character of Theseus in KnT.
Williams, Tara Nicole.
Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2005): 4190A
In exploring development of the word/concept "womanhood," Williams discusses KnT and ClT, as well as works by Gower, Lydgate, Henryson, Kempe, and Julian of Norwich.
Boehler, Karl E.
Dissertation Abstracts Interbational 66 (2005):1348A
Boehler employs the concept of "shame culture" (which emphasizes satisfaction and honor over personal happiness, or even survival) as a means to examine medieval heroes (including those in KnT.) Ultimately, shame culture contributes not only to the…
Greenwood, Maria.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littrature dans les textes médiévaux anglais. Collection GRENDEL, no. 5 (Nancy: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2005), pp. 133-56.
Greenwood contrasts Chaucer's and Malory's uses of models and antimodels in depictions of chivalry and courtly love.
Discusses the "amatory fatalism" of KnT as Chaucer's means to explore "problems of chance, destiny, and Providence." Somewhat different from TC in this regard, KnT poses love as analogous to fate. Chaucer uses the analogy to focus on human perception…
Thomas, Paul R.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 19-35.
Argues that Palamon and Arcite in KnT are very carefully balanced, "even equivalent" as warriors, lovers, and husbands to Emelye. Explains aspects of the symmetry by means of fin amor, or courtly love.
Keen, Maurice.
Matthew Strickland, ed. Armies, Chivalry and Warfare in Medieval Britain and France: Proceedings of the 1995 Harlaxton Symposium. Harlaxton Medieval Studies, no. 7 (tamford, Lincolnshire: Watkins, 1998), pp. 1-12.
Keen surveys a range of late medieval attitudes toward chivalry, knighthood, and warfare, especially a "streak of puritanism" that criticized the vainglory of chivalry. He considers a range of texts, including Chaucer's ParsT and the GP description…
In GP, "Belmarye," one of the Knight's destinations, might well be glossed as a reference to Almerin (a province between Granada and Algezir), spelled "Balmarie" in a mid-fifteenth-century manuscript.
Bellamy, Elizabeth Jane.
Alan Shephard and Stephen D. Powell, eds. Fantasies of Troy: Classical Tales and the Social Imaginary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004), pp. 215-35.
Bellamy considers Paridell's undermining of Britomart's "nostalgia for the fallen Troy" in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 3, and argues that the "slippages" between fame and rumor in HF influenced Spenser's presentation.
Summarizes the Augustinian psychology of memory and its relationship to language, arguing that these concepts underlie the narrator's "'educational' pilgrimage" in HF. The end of the poem reflects the transformation of fiction into reality.
Simeroth, Rosann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 66 (2005): 2207A.
Beginning with Boethius's feminine Philosophia, Simeroth examines "her" transformation in such texts as the "Roman de la Rose" (where she becomes Reason); Boccaccio's "Convivio" (where she is a gentle lady); and HF, where Chaucer merges Philosophia…
Yvernault, Martine.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais (Nancy: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2005), pp. 229-46.
Yvernault explores the representation of space(s) and the problem of deconstruction in HF, focusing on the poem as textual architecture.
Minnis, A. J.
Phillip Lindley and Thomas Frangenberg, eds. Secular Sculpture: 1300-1550 (Stamford: Shaun Tyas), 2000, pp. 124-43.
Minnis considers possible sources or inspirations for Chaucer's techniques of describing the architecture and statuary in the Temple of Venus of HF, surveying previous scholarship. Despite the possible influence of actual art and architecture or the…
Compares the attitudes toward fame and poetic fame in HF and in Skelton's The Garlande of Laurell, arguing that Chaucer's willingness to accept the Boethian transience of fame contrasts a greater desire for certainty in Skelton.
Allen, Valerie.
Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 35-52.
Allen explores the showiness and ideology of tournaments in late medieval England, not only for knights but also for archers, focusing on Roger Ascham's "Toxophilus" for information about the latter. Allen comments on Chaucer's GP Yeoman as an absent…
Assesses the political character of late medieval English poetry, arguing that it extends the political thinking found in contemporary legal writing. Focuses on the notion of "diversity" in "Piers Plowman" and other alliterative verse as an extension…
Kendrick, Laura.
Teodolinda Barolini, ed. Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity: Essays in Honor of Joan M. Ferrante (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005), pp. 103-15.
Kendrick compares GP to the vernacular compilations of lives of the troubadours in fourteenth-century songbooks. A revised version of "Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales and the 'Lives' of the Troubadours," published in 2001.
Hodges, Laura [F.]
Rochester, N.Y.; and Woodbridge, Suffolk : D. S.Brewer, 2005.
Assesses the details and implications of the clothing and accoutrements of the clerical and academic pilgrims in GP, discussing the Prioress, Monk, Friar, Clerk, Physician, Parson, Pardoner, and Summoner. More richly symbolic than secular dress,…
Finlayson reads FrT as anticlerical comic satire rather than a moral exemplum, exploring similarities between the Tale and Boccaccio's story of Ciapellatto in Decameron 1.1. The probable source of FrT is a sermon by Robert Rypon, but Boccaccio may…
Examines several aspects of Middle English tail-rhyme romances, contrasting them with couplet romances, comparing them with Japanese "sekkyo," and exploring their relations with the "cult of the Virgin," the Holy Family, and contemporary visual art.…
