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…
Cherniss, Michael D.
Chaucer Review 6.4 (1972): 235-54.
Argues that the Clerk's Envoy "generates a unifying theme which runs through" MerT--the possibilities of "perfection and imperfection in marriage, expressed as paradise and purgatory"--an echo of the concern with "purgatory" in WBPT. Explores the…
Cherniss, Michael D.
Papers on Language and Literature 8 (1972): 115-26
Argues that the obtuse narrator's misreading of the Ovidian story of Ceyx and Alcyone in BD misleads him and underlies the poem's general encouragement that people must accept misfortune. The narrator within the dream is not obtuse, but he does not…
Cherniss, Michael D.
Chaucer Review 5.1 (1970): 9-21.
Contrasts the form of Anel with that of Mars and compares its form and themes with those of Chaucer's dream visions and its characterizations with those in KnT. Also hypothesizes what Chaucer may have intended to do further in Anel with the source…
Cherniss, Michael D.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 68 (1969): 655-65.
Details way in which the dialogue between the Dreamer and Black Knight in BD "closely follows the pattern of the first two books" of Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," with the Dreamer paralleling Philosophy and the Knight the character…
Outrage at Walter's treatment of Griselda, seeing Griselda's story as a religious allegory of patience, even seeing it as a folk tale rewritten--such responses indicate that ClT is a poem "divided against itself." One way to resolve these conflicts…
Chetwynd, Marvin Gaye, illus.
London: Four Corners, 2014.
Art edition of selections from CT: GP, MilT, RvT, FrT, MerT, WBT, SumT, and PardT, with collage-like illustrations that combine imagery from medieval and modern sources,
Chewning, Susannah M.
R. F. Yeager and Brian W. Gastle, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower (New York: Modern Language Association, 2011), pp. 188-93.
Addresses issues of teaching Gower and Chaucer in college survey classes.
Chewning, Susannah Mary, ed.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020.
Fourteen essays by various authors, with an introduction and a "Personal Tribute" by the editor, offering accounts and analyses of Gower's works, influence, and reception. For three essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Studies in the Age of Gower…
Chewning, Susannah Mary.
Robert S. Corrington and John Deely, eds. Semiotics 1993 (New York: Peter Lang, 1993), pp. 373-79.
Explores Emily's moments of speech and silence in KnT to argue that, at the end of the narrative, she is "the perfect example of the silent signifier," lacking any personal meaning beyond what is inscribed by the prevailing courtly attitudes.
Chewning, Susannah.
Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 165-80.
To alleviate disappointment at Criseyde's lack of agency, readers should appreciate her not as a "real" woman but as an embodiment of the medieval masculine imagination. Criseyde follows the pattern of many of Chaucer's female characters: caught in a…
Chiappelli, Carolyn Pace.
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1978): 4839A.
The opposition of knowledge in HF suggests the fourteenth-century reaction to the scholastic efforts of the thirteenth century to forge a synthesis between reason and faith. However, this dissertation does not argue that Chaucer was a reformer. The…
