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Chaucer and Leigh Hunt

Clogan, Paul (M.) Medievalia et Humanistica 9 (1979): 163-74.

Like most of the early nineteenth-century critics, Leigh Hunt strove to bring about a popular revival of Chaucer. But more important, he was among the first to attempt a technical analysis of Chaucer's poetry and to link his poetry with the idea of…

The Figural Style and Meaning of 'The Second Nun's Prologue' and 'Tale'

Clogan, Paul (M.) Medievalia et Humanistica 3 (1972): 213-40.

Surveys criticism of SNPT, describes the genre of hagiography, and summarizes the popularity of the St. Cecilia legend. Then argues that SNP heralds SNT in "theme, pattern, and imagery," effectively functioning "to focus and epitomize" its "figural…

The Imagery of the City of Thebes in 'The Knight's Tale'

Clogan, Paul M. Hugh T. Keenan, ed. Typology and English Medieval Literature (New York: AMS, 1992), pp. 168.

Building on medieval conventions in which the city was a metaphor for the human condition, Thebes--known for fratricide and civil war--symbolizes disorder and chaos. Theseus, especially through his subjugation of the queen of the lawless and violent…

The Knight's Tale and the Ideology of the Roman Antique

Clogan, Paul M. Medievalia et Humanistica 18 (1992): 129-55.

KnT participates in the Roman Antique tradition by expressing a political ideology found in other medieval retellings of classical stories. The Tale argues for harmonizing passion and wisdom through marriage and rewrites Theban history to conceal…

Chaucer in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Clogan, Paul M. Miklos Szaboksi and Jozsef Kovacs, eds. Change in Language and Literature (Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1986), pp. 347-48.

Romantic criticism of Chaucer was characterized by popular revival of his poetry and was interested in gaining for Chaucer a reading public.

Lactantius Placidus's Commentary on the 'Thebaid'

Clogan, Paul M. Stella P. Revard, ed. Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Wolfenbutel (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1987), pp. 25-32.

Known to Boccaccio and possibly Chaucer, Lactantius Placidus's commentary is one of the earliest on the classics that deeply influenced the tradition of medieval mythography. Composed in the fifth or sixth century, it circulated widely in the early…

Literary Criticism in the 'Liber Catonianus'

Clogan, Paul M. I. D. McFarlane, ed. Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Sanctandreani (Binhamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1986), pp. 569-78.

The distinctive form of literary criticism in the medieval canon of classics in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries is evidenced by an examination of one of the characteristic types of treatise that resulted from the association of poetry with…

Criseyde's Book of the Romance of Thebes

Clogan, Paul M. Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 13.1 (1985): 18-28.

A shortened version of a paper in Medievalia et Humanistica 12 (1984): 167-85.

The Theban Scenes in Chaucer's 'Troilus''

Clogan, Paul M. Medievalia et Humanistica 12 (1984): 167-84.

In TC 2.78ff., Chaucer distinguishes between Statius's "Thebiad" and the "Roman de Thebes" to characterize Pandarus and Criseyde, to emphasize the uncle-niece relationship, and to affect tone and atmosphere. In 5.145ff., he uses Statius to develop…

Literary Criticism in William Godwin's 'Life of Chaucer'

Clogan, Paul M. Medievalia et Humanistica 6 (1975): 189-98.

Godwin's literary criticism of Chaucer's poetry contributed to the Romantic conception of Chaucer the man. His "Life" gives insight into the idea of the Middle Ages in early-nineteenth-century England.

Literary Genres in a Medieval Textbook

Clogan, Paul M. Medievalia et Humanistica 11 (1982): 199-209.

The pedagogic techniques in "Liber Catonianus," a standard textbook used by Chaucer, show the combination of grammar and morality, the study of the "artes" as a study of ethics,and the integration of the ethical in the "Septennium" of the liberal…

The Narrative Style of the Man of Law's Tale

Clogan, Paul M. Medievalia et Humanistica 8 (1977): 217-33.

The narrative of MLT depends less on organic structure to develop the story than on exemplary episodic narrative sequence. Lack of descriptive detail is an effect of the narrator's interest in action, and the mode of presentation and the style of…

Two Verse Commentaries on the Ending of Boccaccio's 'Filostrato'

Clogan, Paul M. Medievalia et Humanistica 7 (1976): 147-52

Of the six additional new manuscripts of Boccaccio's "Filostrato," three contain verse commentaries on the ending of Boccaccio's poem. The two texts of the verse commentaries, edited here for the first time, may shed new light on the ending of…

Lydgate and the 'Roman Antique'

Clogan, Paul M. Florilegium 11 (1992): 7-21.

While the "Siege of Thebes" can be read in terms of Lydgate's anxiety about his relationship to KnT, its combination of narrative and moralizing is principally influenced by developments within the tradition of the "roman antique." Lydgate's work is…

Visions of Thebes in Medieval Literature

Clogan, Paul M. Gerald Gillespie, Margaret R. Higonnet, and Sumie Jones, eds. Visions of History, Visions of the Other. Vol. 2 of Earl Miner, gen. ed. ICLA '91 Tokyo: The Force of Vision. 6 vols. Proceedings of the XIIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1995), pp. 144-51.

Depictions of Thebes indicate various medieval views of history. "Roman de Thebes" blurs contrasts between pagan and Christian, classical and historical. Boccaccio's "Teseida" resists the modernization and secularization of romance tradition. TC…

Chaucer's Use of the "Thebaid."

Clogan, Paul M. English Miscellany 18 (1967): 9-31.

Explores the "artistic impact" of Statius's "Thebaid" on Chaucer, particularly the influence of Statius's style and his "portrayal of the ideals of Theban antiquity," tracing Chaucer's allusions to and uses of the epic in Pity, BD, Mars, HF, Anel,…

Chaucer's "The Legend of Good Women," 2422.

Clogan, Paul M. Explicator 23.8 (1965): item no. 61.

Suggests that Chaucer's reference to "Thorus" as a sea-god derives from a misunderstanding of Statius's "theori" in the "Achilleid" and its medieval gloss.

Chaucer and the "Thebaid" Scholia.

Clogan, Paul M. Studies in Philology 61 (1964): 599-615.

Describes the commentaries and glosses that are included in medieval manuscripts of Statius's "Thebaid," and shows that Chaucer was influenced by such glosses in details and passages of HF, Anel, TC, and KnT. The influence of Statius and the glosses…

"Chaucer's Cybele and the "Liber Imaginum Deorum."

Clogan, Paul M. Philological Quarterly 43 (1964): 272-74.

Suggests that the explanation of Cybele as the "flower of spring" in the "Liber Imaginum Deorum" of Albricius I (also known as Mythographer III, perhaps Alexander Neckham) may be the source of Chaucer's reference to Cybele in his praise of Alceste…

Chaucer and the Medieval Statius,

Clogan, Paul Maurice Dissertation Abstracts International 22.10 (1962): 3641.

Studies the "form in which Chaucer may have known Statius' poetry," focusing on "medieval glossed manuscripts" in order to identify correspondences between the poetry of Statius, commentaries on it, and Chaucer's works. Assesses the status of Statius…

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