Clark, Marden J., and Soren F. Cox.
New York: Scribner, 1970.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a textbook for college composition, with samples from literature, rhetoric, and theory for discussion; includes Chaucer's "The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe" in a section on English language history.
Clark, Roy P[eter].
Thoth: Syracuse Graduate Studies in English 14.1 (1973-74): 37-43.
Exemplifies associations of demons and scatology in folklore and early literature, arguing that they underlie Absolon's "symbolic function as demon-villain" in MilT.
Clark, Roy Peter
Annuale Mediaevale 17 (1976): 48-57.
Developing from the Pentecostal parody in the poem, Chaucer's use of the word "wit" in SumT 1789, 2291 may suggest a submerged allusion to the contemporary controversy surrounding the Wycliffite translation of the Bible.
Clark, Roy Peter.
Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 6091A
The scatalogical language and happenings in MilT and SumT can be interpreted as a serious commentary. The farting, kissing, and symbolic sodomy recall the anal character of demonic ritual. The friar's misuse of the gift of tongues may reflect the…
Clark, Roy Peter.
Studies in Short Fiction 13 (1976): 277-87.
The tale includes several oblique references to Christmas. At once comic and suggestive of serious religious ideas, these features may mark the work as an actual bawdy Christmas tale.
Clark, Roy Peter.
Chaucer Review 11 (1976): 164-78.
In SumT Friar John and Thomas parody significant features in the life of St. Thomas the Apostle. The probing of Thomas's body by the friar parodies the "doubting Thomas" legend. The references to St. Thomas provide a foil by which the audience may…
Reflects on how GP yields patterns for writers to emulate, since the first line concerns the cycle of nature, patterns of order and hierarchy, and the theme of regeneration, in a syntactically complicated periodic sentence.
Clark, Roy Peter.
In The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing (New York: Little, Brown, 2016), pp. 149-59.
Reads the opening of GP (lines 1–18) as a periodic sentence that "builds to a main clause near its end," describes its thematic concern with rebirth and regeneration, and explores the possibility of regarding weather as character or as a metaphor…
Clark, S. L.,and Julian N. Wasserman.
Chaucer Review 18 (1984): 316-27.
Hundreds of references in TC to the heart are not casual but calculated. The heart is both a vessel and something that can be placed within a vessel. Allusions contrast Pandarus and Diomede with the two lovers and also contrast Criseyde with…
Clark, S. L.,and Julian N. Wasserman.
Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 4.3 (1978): 11-17.
Secular exempla evoke Fortune's rise and fall; religious ones, divine intervention for good. They fit Constance's romance architectonically and thematically.
Clark, Susan L.,and Julian N. Wasserman.
Rice University Studies 64 (1978): 13-24.
Constance is that rarity, a romance "heroine," who, like the more familiar hero, learns through trials and difficulties. The tale is thus perhaps one of those narratives that marks the transition from matriarchy to patriarchy in European culture. …
Clarke, Catherine A. M.
Reading Medieval Studies 29: 19-30, 2003.
Clarke discusses the motif of eavesdropping in TC, KnT, and BD. Overhearing (both deliberate and accidental) places speaker and listener in a dialectic relationship.
The white eagle of Criseyde's dream of TC 2.925-931 is a "superimposition of the eagle of Purgatorio IX and the doves of Inferno V"; it links the love affair of TC with that of Dante's ruined Paolo and Francesca. The mating of doves and eagles in…
Clarke, K. P.
Oxford; Oxford University Press, 2011.
Studies how Chaucer's ClT may have been affected by the Italian textual tradition. The first part of the book concentrates on the Italian texts, particularly the Manelli codex of Boccaccio, "Decameron" X.10. The second part considers how the Hengwrt…
Clasby, Eugene.
Howell Chickering, ed., pref., and introd.; Frederic Cheyette and Margaret Switten, pref. 1983 NEH Institute Resource Book for the Teaching of Medieval Civilization (Amherst, Mass.: Five Colleges, 1984), pp. 230-31.
Compares Chaucer's treatment of order in KnT with the concept in "De consolatione philosophiae" of Boethius, the "Confessions" of Saint Augustine, and the "Commedia" of Dante.
Constance is not, as Delany (1974) claims, a character who embodies and recommends self-degradation and abject submission to power in all its forms. What is important is that Constance discovers in the course of her experience that Providence, not…
Classen, Albrecht, and Marilyn Sandidge, eds.
New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
Nineteen essays by various authors, an introduction by the editors, and a comprehensive index. Topics range from friendship in Augustine's "Confessions" to the Whitehall conference of 1655. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for…
Classen, Albrecht, ed.
New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
Twenty-three essays on literary and historical topics ranging from ideas of Rome to medieval European waste. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age under Alternative Title.
Collects essays that focus on the theme of death from the later heroic era to the eighteenth century. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times under Alternative Title.
Classen, Albrecht, ed.
Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017.
Twenty-five essays by various authors on a wide array of topics. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Magic and Magicians in the Middle and the Early Modern Times under Alternative Title.
