Includes sixty trans lyric poems, presented in a "transliteration of English--Chaucerian in affect, but revolutionary in effect," with spelling reminiscent of Middle English.
By skewing their narrative deployment, Chaucer simultaneously undermines the viability of heroic and courtly romance themes in FranT and reevaluates their relationship to lived human experience. He does so through narrative pacing, repression and…
Charnley, Susan Christina De Long.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 2030A.
Examines right relations of individuals in the medieval Christian hierarchy as shown in the writings of Chaucer, Gower, Langland, the "Pearl" poet, Julian of Norwich, and Guillaume de Deguileville.
Item not seen; described in an online review by Joy Calderwood (http://www.reviewers-choice.com/the_insomniac_tales.htm) as thirteen "Chick Lit" short stories by various women writers in imitation of CT.
Chaudhuri, Aparna.
Dissertation Abstracts International A82.04 (2019): n.p.
Studies obedience in Middle English literature, including discussion of the theme in LGW and Ovid's "Tristia" and comparison of ClT and "Pearl" as works which indicate that imperfect obedience "is as culturally and theologically important and perhaps…
Studies Ovid's "Tristia" and LGW and argues that "Ovid's literary autobiography" revealed in the "Tristia" is "assimilated and elaborated" by Chaucer in LGWP. This connection not only allows Chaucer "to convey . . . a sense of his own Ricardian,…
Chaudhuri, Sukanta, ed.
New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.
The introduction and notes include commentary on Shakespeare's debts to Chaucer in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," focusing on the characterization of Theseus, the "rite of maying"" and elements of the fairy world. Discusses KnT most extensively, but…
Chaudhuri, Supriya, and Sukanta Chaudhuri, eds.
Calcutta : Allied, in collaboration with the Department of English, Jadavpur University, 1996.
Eleven essays by various authors, on topics relating to Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Petrarchan tradition, Renaissance ballads and drama, and George Herbert. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Writing Over under Alternative Title.
Chelis, Theodore.
Ph.D. dissertation. Pennsylvania State University, 2022.
Abstract accessible at https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/22564tbc126 (accessed November 15, 2023).
Argues that "the vernacular literature of late medieval England contributes importantly to the theorizing of psychological subjectivity and that this theorizing is connected fundamentally with the history of shame"; focuses on selected works by…
Chen, Hsiaojane Anna.
Dissertation Abstracts International A70.06 (2009): n.p.
Considers Astr and CT within a larger analysis of the formation of intra- and extra-familial kinship bonds. Such bonds are rooted in education and common experiences.
Cheney, Liana De Girolami, ed.
Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1992.
This illustrated collection of twelve essays on Pre-Raphaelite art and literature and their medieval heritage includes an introduction by the editor and a bibliography. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Pre-Raphaelitism and…
Cheney, Patrick.
Curtis Perry and John Watkins, eds. Shakespeare and the Middle Ages (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 103-25.
Cheney examines how Shakespeare's "The Phoenix and Turtle" echoes PF, particularly as "a poem about the politics of authorship." As a "great poet of self-crowning," Spenser responds to Chaucer's self-effacing pursuit of fame. Shakespeare sets these…
Cheney, Patrick.
Patrick Cheney and Frederick A. de Armas, eds. European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 231-67.
Argues that in his references to Tityrus in the "Februarie" eclogue of "The Shepheardes Calender" Spenser represents a "Chaucerian" model of a career path for poets, one that emphasizes novelty and poses a third alternative to the classical Virgilian…
Cheng, Elyssa Y.
Patricia Haseltine and Sheng-Mei Ma, eds. Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture (Langham, Md.: Lexington, 2016), pp. 69-85.
Reports briefly on the study of English language and literature in Taiwan and describes a pedagogy for teaching a course in early British literature, including discussion of the advantages of using, among others, a "painting and drawing technique" to…
Caroline Spurgeon's (1925) attribution of the first German essay on Chaucer to J. J. Eschenburg (1793) is inaccurate. Karl Friedrich Flogel published a short Chaucerian essay a decade earlier in "Geschichte der komischen Literatur" (1784-87). …
Cherewatuk, Karen, and Carson Koepke.
Chaucer Review 53.4 (2018): 449-84.
Explores the cultural ties between the Anglican Church on the American frontier and the Church of England through Elizabeth Whipple's Chaucer portrait.
Cherniavsky, Michael, and Arthur J. Slavin, eds.
Waltham, Mass.: Xerox College Publishing, 1972.
Textbook anthology for use in history classrooms, combining classical, medieval, and Renaissance sources with modern assessments of the status, activities, and treatments of people of lower classes. In a section called "Ideal Types in Traditional…
Cherniss, Michael (D).
Chaucer Review 20 (1986):183-99.
LGWP may be viewed as the poet's last of four experiments in the dream-vision form and as a self-contained dream poem rather than a simple prologue. Chaucer affirms the visionary's initial views and attitudes but mocks the authority of its central…
Cherniss, Michael D.
Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1987.
Studies six medieval poems in a genre structured by the "Consolation of Philosophy," beginning with an exploration of Boethius's literary strategies and shaping influence and continuing to examine "De planctu naturae," "Roman de la Rose," "Confessio…
Cherniss, Michael D.
Chap. 9 in Michael D. Cherniss, ed. Boethian Apocalypse: Studies in Middle English Vision Poetry (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1987), pp. 169-91.
Two factors have prevented BD from being recognized as a Boethian Apocalypse: its elegiac nature and its debt to French love vision. Chaucer reshapes the "Boethian structure" in various features: the troubled first-person narrator, the dialogue,…
Cherniss, Michael D.
Chap. 7 in Michael D. Cherniss, Boethian Apocalypse: Studies in Middle English Vision Poetry (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1987), pp. 119-47.
Demonstrates how PF uses the naive Boethian narrator--who, confused about love, turns "Ciceronian virtue and vice into varieties of 'love'." Reader expectation is frequently thwarted: the narrator misperceives his "own relationship to the locus of…
