Rose, Christine M.
College Literature 28.2: 155-77, 2001.
Use of sources and analogues in the classroom can provide baffled students a point of entry into the complexities of MLT and allow them to appreciate the importance of redaction in medieval literature. In particular, examining Chaucer's feminization…
O'Brien, Timothy D.
College Literature 28.2: 178-96, 2001.
The Wife of Bath, the Prioress, and the wife in ShT represent themselves as victims of violence to make themselves attractive to men. In doing so, they draw on texts, such as medieval saints' lives and romances, that depict violence as central to the…
Wilsbacher, Greg.
College Literature 32 (2005): 1-28.
The linked anti-Semitism and poetic virtuosity of PrT confront medievalists with a paradox, in which accurately representing the past and combating bigotry in the present are pitted against each other. Resolving this paradox by ignoring aesthetics in…
Sturges, Robert S.
College Literature 33 (2006): 52-76.
Sturges assesses the Pardoner and Kit from the Prologue to Beryn as "comic critiques" of fifteenth-century urban concerns about class and gender. Three metaphors define urban space in the narrative: cathedral, walls, and tavern.
Taylor, Willene P.
College Literature Association Journal 13 (1969): 153-62.
Attributes January's cuckholding in MerT to "his own stupidity," reading Chaucer's deployment of antifeminist motifs as deeply ironic and part of his broader thematic concern to show that "everyone is morally responsible for his own acts." Chaucer's…
Higashinaka, Hana.
Colloquia (journal by postgraduates at the Department of English and American Literature, Keio University) 44 (2023): 53-64.
Examines MilT through the lens of medieval optical theories, particularly those of Ibn al-Haytham and Roger Bacon. Argues that Chaucer's depictions of visual perception, distance, and light may be influenced by these optical theories, using them…
German translation of CT, with notes and glosses,originally produced by Adolf von Düring as part of his three-volume "Geoffrey Chaucers Werke" (Strassburg, 1883-86). Hoevel's edition was reissued in 1974.
Dramatic adaptation of GP, WBT, MerT, MilT, RvT, PardT, NPT, and FrankT, with production notes and extensive stage directions that emphasize frolicsome vitality. Text in modern English, irregular couplets.
Muscatine, Charles.
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
Fourteen previously printed pieces by Muscatine, including articles, sections of books, and reviews. The four essays that pertain to Chaucer are "The Canterbury Tales: Style of the Man and Style of the Work" (1966), "Chaucer's Religion and the…
Reed, Thomas L.,Jr.
Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1990.
A prominent feature of Middle English debate poetry from 1200 to 1450 is irresolution, a quality appreciated in the context of carnival laughter (Bakhtin). Reed rejects univocal interpretation through allegory or symbolism in favor of "experiential…
Cooke, Thomas D.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1978.
The comic climax, marked by carefully prepared effects of surprise, is the distinctive feature of the fabliaux. Action more than character development or setting characterizes the preparation. As regards genre, the fabliaux have relatively little…
Grudin, Michaela Paasche.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
A recurrent concern in Chaucer's works is the relation between society and discourse, a concern Chaucer shares with Italian humanists. In BD, Chaucer demonstrates the reciprocity of speaker and listener; the playfulness and lack of closure in HF…
Prendergast, Thomas A.,and Barbara Kline,eds.
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1999.
Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction (by Prendergast) on the relations between Chaucer's "original" texts and later adaptations of these texts. The book explores the cultural conditions that produced the adaptations, as well as the…
Kendrick, Laura.
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1999.
Explores various "developments in the image of writing in the Middle Ages and the different ways in which images empower writing from approximately the sixth through the sixteenth centuries," concentrating on early manuscripts and religious rather…
Blanch, Robert J., ed.
Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill, 1970.
Textbook edition of MerT, with brief introduction and notes, accompanied by ten selections from previously published criticism of the Tale by various authors, all from the twentieth century. Includes suggestions for student essay topics and "General…
A classroom anthology of sixteen examples of the literary mode of romance, including FranT in Nevill Coghill's modern poetic translation. The volume describes the mode of romance, offers brief biographies of the writers included, and lists discussion…
A classroom anthology of twelve examples of the literary mode of comedy, including MerT in Nevill Coghill's modern poetic translation. The volume describes the mode of comedy, offers brief biographies of the writers included, and lists discussion…
Grady, Frank, and Andrew Galloway, eds.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013.
Essays focus on the medieval idea of the "literary," with particular emphasis on the poetry of Chaucer, Langland, and Gower. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Answerable Style under Alternative Title.
Taylor, Jamie K.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013.
Focuses on devotional and legal "witnessing practices" of the late Middle Ages. Chapter 2, "The Face of a Saint and the Seal of a King," reveals how the Man of Law presents "episodes of false witness" in MLT.
Pugh, Tison.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2014.
Investigates the collision between eroticisms and anti-eroticisms in Chaucer's works in which the queer appears. When these two concepts circulate in Chaucer's stories, the characters must confront both their identity-formation and their…
Allen, Judson Boyce,and Theresa Anne Moritz.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1981.
Medieval literary theory in general, and commentary on Ovid's "Metamorphoses," the tales-in-a-frame book most certainly important to Chaucer, suggest that CT can best be understood when grouped in four kinds: natural, magical, moral, and spiritual. …
Sklute, Larry (M.)
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984.
Dream visions, TC, the "outer form" of CT, and individual tales reveal an authorial evasion of closed, authoritative determinations of meaning and moral values--correlative to the cognitive indeterminacy of late-medieval nominalism. CT is suited to…
