Ambrisco describes teaching SqT as an "unsolved problem in Chaucerian reception"--SqT is a work favored by the Franklin and early readers such as Spenser and Milton, but decried or ignored by formalist critics. Opening class discussion to the…
Archibald, Elizabeth.
Journal of Medieval Latin 11 (2001): 27-49.
Archibald surveys accounts of Oedipus and of Semiramis in classical and medieval texts, focusing on their concern or lack of concern with incest. Recurrent mention of Dante, Boccaccio, Christine de Pizan, and Chaucer-in particular TC, MLT, PF, and…
Ashton, Gail.
Literature and Theology 16: 235-47, 2002.
Uses Luce Irigaray's notion of the "ethics of alterity" to explore the fusion of masculine and feminine in the depiction of angels in several medieval narratives, including Marian accounts and Chaucer's and Bokenham's stories of St. Cecilia. In SNT…
Baldwin, Elizabeth.
Wim Hüsken and Konrad Schoell, eds. Farce and Farcical Elements (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002), pp. 85-105.
Argues that a seventeenth-century play, "The Wisest Have Their Fools About Them," may reflect the influence of Chaucerian fabliau and some late-medieval stage traditions. Baldwin's analysis focuses on stereotypical characters.
Conversions in TC are modeled ironically on those of St. Paul and St. Augustine. Like Paul, Troilus cannot escape his fate; he can only accept and serve. Like Augustine, Criseyde vainly tries to master the narrative that is out of her control.
Baughn, Gary.
English Journal 93 (Sept): 60-65, 2002.
Pedagogical approach to CT for an eleventh-grade honors survey of British literature, combining popular twentieth-century music with activities related to CT: analysis of GP descriptions, story-telling, and writing assignments.
Dor, Juliette.
Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), 139-55.
The Wife of Bath's "wanderings" reflect the multivalent meanings of the word. She contravenes the codes governing female behavior, including the standards for governing noble women and the values involved in "What the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter."…
Finley, William K., and Joseph Rosenblum, eds.
New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003.
Includes an introduction by the editors and ten essays and three appendices by various authors, who describe and discuss visual depictions of the Canterbury pilgrims and their tales in books and paintings, from the Ellesmere manuscript into the…
Ackroyd discusses Chaucer within the larger context of describing and defining the distinctive qualities of English imagination, focusing on Chaucer's themes of remembrance, science, and truth as part of the process of becoming English. Considers HF,…
Ajiro investigates editorial differences in manuscript readings between Robinson's second edition of PF and the text in Benson's The Riverside Chaucer; considers what manuscripts were used in their editing.
Allen, Mark, and Bege K. Bowers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25: 459-546, 2003.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 295 items, plus listing of reviews for 85 books. Includes an author…
Blake, Norman, F., ed.
Okayama : University Education Press, 1995.
A comprehensive rhyming dictionary showing a full line for each rhyme word (showing seven lines for rhyme royal), based on Blake's text from the Hengwrt manuscript.
Examines differences in punctuation between Robinson's second edition of PF and the text in Benson's The Riverside Chaucer. Concludes that modern punctuation might sometimes distort Middle English style, especially in colloquial speech.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Yukio Oba et al., eds. Currents in Linguistic Research: A Festschrift for Professor Kazuyuki Yamamoto on the Occasion of His Retirement from Yamaguchi University. Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 1999, pp. 231-46.
Discusses external causals, one of the pragmatic features in the use of Chaucer's moot / moste. Clarifies the fusion of fate, divine intervention, and the speaker's subjective factors.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
English and English Teaching, Vol. 2: A Festschrift in Honour of Kiichiro Nakatani. Hiroshima: Department of English Faculty of School Education, Hiroshima University, 1997, pp. 23-42.
Discusses the semantic unity of shal / sholde in TC, focusing on degrees of subjectivity on the part of the speaker.
Borroff, Marie.
Traditions and Renewals: Chaucer, The Gawain-Poet, and Beyond (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 2003), pp. 50-70.
Clearly implied but not stated, May's pregnancy in MerT results from having sex with Damian and helps to punish January's foolishness. In similarly covert ways, the parson of RvT is punished by the pregnancy of Malyne, and all pardoners are…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Masahiko Kanno, Masahiko Agari, and Gregory K. Jember, eds. Essays on English Literature and Language in Honour of Shun'ichi Noguchi. Tokyo: Eihosha, 1997, pp. 17-34.
Discusses Chaucer's uses of moot / moste, focusing on the fusion of social objective factors and the speaker's subjective implications.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Masahiko Kanno, Gregory K. Jember, and Yoshiyuki Nakao, eds. A Love of Words: English Philological Studies in Honour of Akira Wada (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1998), pp. 79-102.
Explores the "ambiguity of causality as a measure of the moral status" of the narrator and characters of TC, particularly Criseyde. Nakao tabulates and examines causal phrases beginning with "because," "since," and "for" in light of their contexts…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Yoshiyuki Nakao and Akiyuki Jimura, eds. Originality and Adventure: Essays on English Language and Literature in Honour of Masahiko Kanno (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2001), pp. 225-59.
Discusses how and why ambiguity is likely in TC, focusing on the relations between verbal elements such as contiguous structure.
