Uses selected Arthuriana to describe the development of chivalric romance and offer a descriptive definition of the genre. Emphasizes the non-centered, unstable nature of the romance, although contrasting it with postmodernist works. Notes Chrétien…
Cavill, Paul, and Heather Ward.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2007.
Summaries of literary works, plus study questions designed for self-teaching, ranging from works of Bede and Caedmon to those of Philip Larkin and Edna O'Brien, with a summary of biblical plots, Christian history, hymns, and a glossary of terms. Two…
Cavin, John A., III.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 198A.
Considers the opposing theories of James Thorpe and G. Thomas Tanselle and emphasizes the need for full understanding of the aesthetic of meter, as with Chaucer's "heroic" line.
Cawley, A. C.
A. C. Cawley, ed. Chaucer's Mind and Art (New York: Barnes & Noble; Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1969), pp. 125-39.
Reads the garden in PF as a "picture of the world in a fallen state," in contrast with Scipio's "celestial paradise." The contrast is highlighted by different "time-schemes," and the work leaves unresolved the paradoxes of love's varieties.
Cawley, A. C.
Review of English Literature 3.2 (1962): 9-19.
Compares HF and Alexander Pope's adaptation of it, "Temple of Fame," focusing on their uses and meanings of the word "fame." Surveys Chaucer's uses of "fame" in his corpus, and traces the rise and fall of its meanings in HF, from rumor to renown and…
Cawley, A. C.
Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (Literary and Historical Section) 8 (1956-1957): 173-80.
Assesses "unsavory" details of the GP description of the Summoner, the "bad feeling" between the Friar and the Summoner (WBP 3.829ff. and FrP 1265ff.), and concerns that link the GP Summoner and the summoner of FrT, clarifying the Friar's "attack" on…
Cawley, A. C., ed.
New York: Barnes & Noble; Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1969.
Ten essays by various authors, six of them previously published. For the newly published essays, search for Chaucer's Mind and Art under Alternative Title.
Cawley, A. C., ed., with an Introduction by Derek Pearsall.
New York: Knopf, 1992.
Reprints the 1958 Everyman edition of the complete CT, with bottom-of-page glosses. Includes a new introduction (pp. vii-xxiii) and bibliography by Derek Pearsall. The introduction considers the "unfinished and improvisatory state" of CT, its…
Cawsey examines the impact of assumptions about audience in the criticism of six twentieth-century Chaucer scholars (Kittredge, Lewis, Donaldson, Robertson, Dinshaw, and Patterson). These assumptions include whether the audience is diachronic or…
Cawsey, Kathy, and Jason Harris, eds.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007.
Ten essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors and a comprehensive index. Topics range from Jerome's theory of translation to Julian of Norwich to Protestant reception of medieval literature. For three essays that pertain to…
Six previously published essays by individual authors, an introduction, and a conclusion look at how Chaucer addresses audiences and how contemporary audiences interpret Chaucer's works. Describes the "audience function" and traces the "effect of…
Cawsey, Kathy.
University of Toronto Quarterly 73 (2004): 972-79
Cawsey suggests an emendation to HF 1124 and argues that the image of an "ice mountain limned in light, illuminated with gold, covered with melting writing" indicates Chaucer's concerns about literary transmission.
Cawsey, Kathy.
Studies in Philology 102 (2005): 434-51.
Cawsey examines features of medieval tales of Tutivillus and explores how representations of female "discursive communities" and gossip in WBPT and plays about Noah illuminate these features through similar concerns with marginalized speech.
Cawsey, Kathy.
Kathy Cawsey and Jason Harris, eds. Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), pp. 189-206.
Cawsey surveys the legacy of the plowman figure in England from the late Middle Ages into the Renaissance, focusing on the composite work "I Playne Piers." The Plowman's Tale was used and reused in multiple ways, presented variously by editors and…
Late medieval manuscript illuminations show Danes and other northern pagans with costumes and weapons that are emblematic of the Near East. Like MLT and Gower's Tale of Constance, these images indicate that the term Saracen included various…
Explores why Chaucer sets CT in April, rather than the traditional month of May, and concludes that the disruption of expectations leads the reader to reflect and realize the tales are a mix of the secular and the sacred.
Cawsey, Kathy.
Ada S. Jaarsma and Kit Dobson, eds. Dissonant Methods: Undoing Discipline in the Humanities Classroom (Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2020), pp. 33-49.
Exemplifies the theory and practice of "evental pedagogy," describing the classroom experience of teaching WBPT in the context of a "scandal" and "media uproar" at Dalhousie University (Halifax) in 2015. Comments on rape, "restorative justice"" and…
Cawsey, Kathy.
Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2020), pp. 13-43.
Argues that in its adaptations of poetic traditions (particularly representations of the four elements and "ars grammatica") and in dealing "explicitly with the problematics of language and poetry," HF is "almost an anti-'ars-poetica'." In it,…
Explores images and metaphors in various works in Middle English to disclose their "implicit theories of language," with numerous references to Chaucer and his works throughout, including discussion of birdsong as oral language in PF and comparison…
Cawthorne, Natalie.
Dissertation Abstracts International 81C (2019): n.p.
Presents a novel modeled on CT that emulates Chaucer's frame-narrative collection of stories, "reinventing" his setting at a modern murder trial, and using a variety of narrative forms to represent the tales of the jury. The accompanying analysis…
Caxton, William, ed.
London: Cornmarket, in association with Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1972.
Item not seen; the note in WorldCat quotes the following: "This facsimile edition of Chaucer's Canterbury tales as printed by William Caxton is limited to 500 copies, of which this in number 280 ..."/ "The present facsimile reproduces for the first…
Cayley, Emma, and Susan Powell, eds.
Liverpool, Liverpool niversity Press, 2013.
Foreward by Derek Pearsall. Essays address issues of packaging, presentation, and consumption of manuscripts. Also discusses producers, owners, and readers of manuscripts and early printed books. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for…
Argues that the right use of anger in proper, hierarchical social relationships in SumT affirms aristocratic authority while undermining the pretenses of Friar John and Jankyn the clerk.
Cerezo Moreno, Marta.
Ángeles de la Concha, ed. El sustrato cultural de la violencia de género: Literatura, arte, cine, y videojuegos (Madrid: Síntesis, 2010), pp. 19-44.
Analyzes how art--canonical literature, in particular--helps to construct, consolidate, and transmit patriarchal ideologies that support violence and female subjection. Assesses KnT as an example of how a masculine gaze affects female identity.…
