Candeloro, Antonio.
1616: Anuario de la Sociedad Espanola de Literatura General y Comparada 5 (2015): 163-87.
Analyzes Chaucer and Shakespeare in Javier Marıas's novel, "Ası empieza lo malo." Chaucer's concepts of "fame" and "rumor," as described in HF, are central to Marias's depiction of contemporary men and their incapacity to face rumor and establish…
Canfield, J. Douglas.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
Treats selected major figures and works of English literature from "Beowulf" to Congreve, concentrating on the feudalistic idea of the "pledged word," as a shaping "master trope." By elevating the word to sign, Canfield applies theories of Derrida,…
Canitz, A. E. C.
Medievalia et Humanistica 17 (1991): 81-99.
Documents Douglas's theory of literal translation, "with its stress on the integrity and inviolability of the text," and gauges his success in achieving his goal. Douglas's theory is evident in his critiques of Caxton's translation of the "Aeneid"…
Canitz, A. E. Christa, and Gernot R. Wieland, eds.
Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 1999.
Sixteen essays by various authors on Eastern and Western medieval literature and medievalism, plus a bibliography of Manzalaoui's publications. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for From Arabye to Engelond under Alternative Title.
Canitz, A. E. Christa.
A. E. Christa Canitz and Gernot R. Wieland, eds. From Arabye to Engelond: Medieval Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Manzalaoui on His 75th Birthday (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999), pp. 131-53.
Argues that LGW critiques the rigidity of highly conventionalized literary genres for failing to represent human experience adequately. Chaucer's conflation of hagiography, courtly romance, and epic myth reveals the "flaws" in each genre, especially…
Cannon Christopher.
Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, eds. Medieval Crime and Social Control (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp. 156-85.
Legal records reflect the struggles of medieval women to gain legal (and verbal) representation. A similar struggle is evident in the court case of Lady Meed of Piers Plowman, as well as in Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love, The Book of Margery…
Cannon, Christopher David.
Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1994): 4100A.
Though hailed as an innovator by his successors and subsequent critics, Chaucer adapted existing traditions in innovative ways. "Colloquial" and "aureate" styles had already been developed in English, but he juxtaposed them. He was less the…
Cannon, Christopher, intro.
Larry D. Benson, gen. ed. The Riverside Chaucer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. iva-ivh.
Foreword to the reissue of the paperback version of The Riverside Chaucer, assessing the legacy of the Riverside text in light of editorial theory and modern computers.
Examines the word "raptus" in late-fourteenth-century English law and concludes that it meant "forced coitus." Also prints a newly discovered document relating to Cecily Chaumpaigne's case against Chaucer and suggests that the phrase "de raptu meo,"…
Linguistic claims that Chaucer's English is the origin of English literary language are self-fulfilling, based on the "myth," in the sense of Levi-Strauss, that Chaucer originated English poetic tradition. The OED credits Chaucer with the first…
Cannon, Christopher.
Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Historical analysis of Chaucer's complete lexicon, arguing that his English is traditional rather than innovative. Chaucer naturalizes French and Latin words in ways similar to those of his English predecessors, often fusing foreign and native forms.…
Cannon, Christopher.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22: 67-92, 2000.
We remain uncertain about the meaning of Cecily Chaumpaigne's release of Chaucer from a charge of rape, but the topic of rape (and forced marriage) in Chaucer's poetry reflects his sensitivity to the complex "definitional problems" of raptus. Chaucer…
Proposes a Wittgensteinian approach to Chaucer's language that eschews the inherent limitations of linguistic description and stylistic analysis. The poet's works are about language.
Cannon, Christopher.
Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer, 2d ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), pp. 233-50.
Though traditional at root, Chaucer's diction, syntax, and rhetoric are made fresh by the poet's careful combination and articulation of traditional features. Doubleness (as in mixed styles, ambiguity, and irony) is characteristic of his style and a…
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…
Cannon, Christopher.
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006, pp. 31-54.
Cannon observes parallels between the "forms of life Chaucer made in his poems" and "what can be reconstructed from his own life from the public record." Suggests that both the textual lives and Chaucer's biography derive "in part from social…
Cannon, Christopher.
Mark Chinca, Timo Reuvekamp-Felber, and Christopher Young, eds. Mittelalterliche Novellistik im Europäischen Kontext: Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven (Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2006), pp. 326-46.
Cannon explores the critique in MilT of the limited Boethianism of KnT. The double plot of MilT and its emphasis on turning harm to joke are more genuinely Boethian than is the tragic emphasis of KnT.
Cannon, Christopher.
Paul Strohm, ed. Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 177-90.
Cannon summarizes medieval theories of literary form, including that of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, as adapted by Chaucer in TC. Applies the theories to various works in Middle English.
Surveys the forms, topics, and contexts of Middle English writing, clarifying its construction from various literary traditions set against a number of social, economic, and political conditions. The discussion is divided into five broad categories…
Cannon, Christopher.
Textual Practice 24 (2010): 407-34.
Explores medieval definitions and aesthetic responses to proverbs by examining "The Proverbs of Alfred" and Mel, exploring how each depends upon "acts of recognition that are produced by the repetition of well-worn truths." Both works are examples of…
Cannon, Christopher.
Christopher Cannon and Maura Nolan, eds. Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature: Essays in Honour of Jill Mann (Cambridge: Brewer, 2011), pp. 25-40.
In their attention to language as "an active part of social life," the FranT, NPT, and ManT constitute a language group whose tales are deeply rhetorical in the sense that they look closely at how language works as "an entity, process or phenomenon,"…
