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…
Russell, J. Stephen.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1988.
Dream visions of Langland, Chaucer, and the "Pearl"-poet use "not simply a common external form but one that contains an internal, intrinsic dynamic or strategy as well"; it derives from the "skepticism and nominalism of Augustine,…
Barr, Jessica.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010.
In chapter 7, "Discrediting the Vision: The House of Fame" (pp. 184-207), Barr argues that HF portrays an active, unreliable visionary, one who unsuccessfully employs cognitive faculties to try to understand the contents of divinely granted vision.…
Williams, Tara.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011.
Argues that Middle English writers employ gendered terms at moments when they are probing new ideas about women's roles; writers "invented womanhood" to describe women's experiences beyond their relation to men. KnT and ClT use gendered language to…
Fisher, Matthew.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012.
Focuses on the role of authorship within the scribal process, and emphasizes "intertextuality" as an important facet of medieval historiography. Briefly discusses how Chaucer "de-authorizes" Adam Scriveyn's work, yet reveals his own authorship in…
Hsy, Jonathan.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013.
Examines multilingualism in the Middle Ages, in particular its role in medieval literature, and focuses on merchants and their transportation of language as well as goods. Chapters 1 and 2 deal extensively with Chaucer's exposure to "London's many…
Johnston, Andrew James, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse, eds.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015.
Collection of essays on ekphrastic discourse from the eleventh to the seventeenth century in texts written in Middle English, but also Medieval Latin, Old French, Middle Scots, Middle High German, and Early Modern English. For four essays that…
Somerset, Fiona, and Nicholas Watson, eds.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015.
Includes essays dedicated to Richard Green Firth that explore a variety of medieval topics. Examines issues related to oral and written cultural networks, book and social history, vernacular studies, and media studies. For three essays that pertain…
Scala, Elizabeth.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015.
Presents Lacanian analysis of desire in CT that focuses on the "circulation of the signifier" and the generative power of misrecognition/misreading. Clarifies the meaning and function of fundamental concepts (subject, signifier, Other, aggressivity,…
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne, and Tison Pugh, eds.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016.
Seventeen essays that explore representation of Chaucer and CT on film and television, with recurrent attention to the limited number and scope of such adaptations. The introduction by the editors, "Chaucer on Screen," (pp. 1-16) comments on…
Nowlin, Steele.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016.
Examines the process of medieval poetic invention expressed in the poetry of Chaucer and John Gower. Draws on contemporary affect theory to present ways that both poets present "invention as an affective force" in representations of emotional…
Edwards, Robert R.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2017.
Investigates the rhetorical and creative potentials of the idea of authorship as it developed in medieval English literature and established the basis of authorial "prestige and power" for future literary tradition. Individual chapters assess works…
Contzen, Eva von, and James Simpson, eds
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022.
Collects ten essays by various authors that discuss lists and listing as epistemological, rhetorical, and poetic devices, with an introduction by the editors ("Enlistment as Poetic Stratagem"), and a comprehensive index. For four essays that pertain…
Lochrie, Karma, and Usha Vishnuvajjala, eds
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022.
Collects twelve essays that celebrate friendship among women in medieval literature, with an Introduction by the editors, an Afterword by Penelope Anderson, and a cumulative Index. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Women's Friendship…
Petrosillo, Sara.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2023.
Assesses various medieval works to show that training instructions for medieval falconry "offer a means of understanding how poetic languageworks, and particularly how it works to represent women." One section describes how metaphors of mewed hawks…
Strakhov, Elizaveta.
Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2022.
Studies uses in late medieval England of French lyric models (formes fixes) as "reparative" translation of francophone culture, and response to linguistic and political trends and tensions of the Hundred Years War. Includes discussion of Chaucer's…
Terrell, Katherine H.
Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2022.
Describes a "widespread nationalistic feeling" in late medieval and early modern Scotland, with particular attention to Latin chroniclers, court poets in the reign of James IV, and their similar uses of Scottish myths of origin in resistance to…
