Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr.
Uwe Boker et al., eds. Of Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and Its Impact Through the Ages. Festschrift for Karl Heinz Goller on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004), pp. 17-45.
English translation of a German essay that was first published in 1969, assessing the narrative techniques, structure, characters, and major themes of TC.
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005): 129-69
Compiles evidence for the presence of Jews, Muslims, and other non-Christians in late medieval England, using as sources public records, sermons, and toponyms. Chaucer likely had significant contact with non-Christians--or recently converted…
Carruthers, Leo, and Adrian Papahagi, eds.
Paris : Harmattan, 2005.
Eleven articles in French and English by various authors exploring the themes of youth and age in Old and Middle English literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Jeunesse et vieillesse under Alternative Title.
Sadlack, Erin A.
Dissertation Abstracts International 66 (2005): 1782A
In a larger discussion of women's letter-writing, Sadlack notes that "Ovid, Chaucer, and Gower suggest that letters are often the best means for women to communicate."
Caie describes features of manuscript ordinatio, material, glossing, etc. to show how late medieval English vernacular manuscripts (especially those of Chaucer and Gower) lay claim to authority even while their authors assert that they are only…
Quinn, William A.
Studies in Medievalism 14 (2005): 200-216.
Monroe's essay "Chaucer and Langland," published in her journal Poetry in 1915, argued that Chaucer's preference for French forms and rhythms had cut off later English poetry from the true native tradition represented by Langland's alliterative…
Cannon, Christopher.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Cannon combines Marxist and Hegelian ideas of "form" to argue that "form is that which thought and things have in common" (5), enabling a valuation of form as a record of thinking in and about a culture. Formalist criticism (in this sense) of Middle…
Assesses the socio-political assumptions and implications of mid-nineteenth-century German study of Chaucer, especially pre-academic translations and commentary.
Richmond, Velma Bourgeois.
Christianity & Literature 54 (2005): 363-96.
Four historical paintings by Ford Madox Brown (1821-93) exhibit the interplay among literature, art, and religion in Victorian medievalism. Chaucer is the primary focus in The Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry (1845) and Chaucer at the Court of…
Explores issues of exemplarity and applicability in examples of Middle English literature--"Book of the Knight of the Tower," Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Lydgate's "Fall of Princes," Henryson's "Testment of Cresseid," and CT and TC. Chaucerian…
Duncan, Thomas G., ed.
Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, N.Y. : D. S. Brewer, 2005.
An introduction and twelve essays by various authors survey critical issues related to Middle English lyrics - courtly, popular, religious, political, etc. Individual essays consider topics such as manuscripts, meter and editing, carols, lyrics in…
Saunders, Corinne [J.]
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary. (Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2004), pp. 85-103.
Chaucer transcended and transgressed the commonly accepted conventions of "romance": Th parodies the genre, while BD elevates its status by associating romance with classical works. Th, KnT, SqT, FranT, and WBT reflect a variety of approaches to…
Consideration of authorial agency enables professors and students to explore relationships between personal ethos and literary texts. Ethical criticism frames discussions of whether Chaucer raped Cecily Chaumpaigne or whether Flannery O'Connor was a…
Brewer, D[erek] S.
Poetica (Tokyo) 15-16 (1983): 128-35.
Brewer surveys the presence (and absence) of music in Chaucer's work, suggesting that Chaucer knew its celestial, theoretical underpinnings and enjoyed its zesty, earthy pleasures.
Van Dyke, Carolynn.
Madison, [N. J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005.
Examines agency as theme and narrative technique throughout Chaucer's corpus, considering the "multifariousness" of the topic. Agency does not refer exclusively to the human will; it also "embraces innumerable forces that operate interdependently" -…
Hanks, D. Thomas, Jr.
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. 219-36.
Surveys Chaucer's concern with the coexistence of a beneficent God and the suffering of humans in KnT, MLT, ClT, and FranT. Chaucer often poses this issue by alluding to Job.
Ellis, Steve, ed.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Thirty-six essays on individual topics, plus an introduction (by Ellis) and a postscript (Julian Wasserman). Part 1 (historical contexts): Chaucer's life (Ruth Evans), society and politics (S. H. Rigby), nationhood (Ardis Butterfield), London (C.…
Richardson, Catherine.
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.
Introduces Chaucer and his works, with focus on CT, and provides commentary on context, themes, and critical approaches. The guide is aimed at high school students or students early in college.
