Iglesias-Rábade, Luis.
Studia Neophilologica 83 (2011): 54-66.
Compares and contrasts late medieval English adverbial usage in a number of legal texts with those found in a "Reference Corpus," the latter including a number of examples from Chaucer's works.
Includes a chapter entitled "Chaucer's English" (pp. 56-71) that focuses on the growth of the dominance of the East Midland dialect over other dialects of Middle English, with commentary on Chaucer's English and CT, the "Gawain"-poet, Wyclif, the…
Crystal, David.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Examines the heritage of English from locations throughout Britain. Chapter 20, "Talbot Yard, London SE1: Chaucer and Middle English," comments on Chaucer's influence on the English language.
Considine, John.
Notes and Queries 256 (2011): 490-91.
Shows that "rake" in the proverbial simile "thin as a rake/rail" (first attested in English in the GP description of the Clerk's horse, I.288) means a fodder crib.
Explores the etymology and pronunciations of "Lithuania" in English, including an explanation of why Chaucer renders it "Lettow" in the GP description of the Knight (CT 1.54).
Announces a forthcoming board game, "The Road to Canterbury" (Gryphon Games), created by Alf Seegert. The game focuses on the Pardoner, who is traveling with "seven of Chaucer's pilgrims, each of whom is afflicted with one of the seven deadly sins."
Contends that Cresseid's maturation in Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" includes an evolving contemplation of free will, as one finds in Boethius and in Chaucer's depiction of Troilus in TC.
Teramura, Misha.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.12 (2016): n.p.
Considers Shakespeare's intersections with Chaucerian works (e.g., KnT and TC) with regard to the idea of plays gaining regard as literary works in and of themselves.
Sweet, W. H. E.
Vincent Gillespie and Kantik Ghosh, eds. After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), pp. 343-59.
Assesses the use of secular and sacred topics in Lydgate's corpus, arguing that his expressions in his late poems of regret for writing secular verse in mid-career are sincere. Contrasts Lydgate's "retractions" of his poetry in "Testament" and…
Practical handbook to literacy training, with exercises that include using lines from GP to inspire literacy, from a chapter titled "Exploring Geoffrey Chaucer: A Start" (pp. 181-84).
Roy, Kari Anne.
David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, eds. Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (New York: Norton, 2012), pp. 213-14.
Offers a satire of "hipster pilgrims" at a modern music festival, rendered in faux Middle English.
Öğütcü, Murat.
In Evrim Doğan Adanur, ed. IDEA: Studies in English (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 289-99.
Assesses the "multilayered constitution" of TC "as a polysemous text" that celebrates "the flesh and the divine simultaneously," reading the poem as the recreation of the "suppressed sexual experience" of Chaucer's youth in his old age, an…
Küçükboyaci, Uğur E.
Evrim Doğan Adanur, ed. IDEA: Studies in English (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 272-83.
Surveys commentary on Chaucer's uses of postmodern techniques in CT, focusing on his experimentation and evasiveness, and his concern with meaning and with the possibilities whereby literature may or may not be considered literal. Discusses…
Reis, Huriye.
Evrim Doğan Adanur, ed. IDEA: Studies in English (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 261-71.
Examines the "construction of parenthood" in medieval literature and criticism, focusing on Chaucer's role as "father" of English literature, which lacks a parallel "mother" figure.
Adanur, Evrim Doğan, ed.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
Includes forty-six papers presented at the fifth international IDEA conference, held at Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey in 2010. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for IDEA: Studies in English under Alternative Title.
Pugh, Tison.
Journal of Popular Culture 42.2 (2013): 411-32.
Considers the status and functions of mystery novels as a form of popular culture, employing distinctions posed by Pierre Bourdieu and exploring the use of allusion in the genre. Then investigates three mystery novels by Philippa Morgan that feature…
Peverley, Sarah L.
Juliana Dresvina and Nicholas Sparks, eds. The Medieval Chronicle VII (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011), pp. 167-203.
Describes how in the first version of his "Chronicle" John Hardyng was influenced by Lydgate in his descriptions of royal power and social harmony--moments of "great joy and triumph"--while depending upon Chaucer and Walton for his concern with…
Pastoor, Jennifer.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.05 (2016): n.p.
Considers the use of women and their bodies as metaphorical vehicles for the consideration of Christian life, with particular attention to MLT and SNT.
Murphy, Russell E.
Yeats Eliot Review 28.1–2 (2011): 3-29.
Reconsiders CT as the source of the opening line of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," exploring intertextual relations with the opening of Dante's "Divine Comedy" as well. Also clarifies the importance of Chaucer's role in the English tradition of…
A novel of suspense mystery in which historian Lizzie Manning follows the steps of the Wife of Bath and learns that Alisoun and her descendants had impact on English art and on the location of the bones of Thomas Becket.
Lerer, Seth, and Deanne Williams.
Shakespeare 08 (2012): 398-410.
Argues that Shakespeare's reading of Thomas Speght's edition of Chaucer's "Works" (1598) provoked his creative imagination as well as providing source material, looking closely at how Chaucer's depiction of Julius Caesar's death in MkT affected…
Leighton, H. Vernon.
Notes on Contemporary Literature 42.1 (2012): 11-12.
Provides evidence that much of John Kennedy Toole's knowledge of Boethius, important to his novel "A Confederacy of Dunces," came through the Chaucer class that he took from Robert Lumiansky.
Demonstrates that Chaucer "occupies a more prominent place" in Samuel Johnson's "Dictionary" than has been acknowledged. Corrects some misconceptions of previous scholars and adds new data about attention to Chaucer in the "Dictionary"--quotations of…
Larson, Eric.
Dissertation Abstracts International A77.09 (2016): n.p.
Investigates eighteenth-century modernizations of Chaucer's work (especially CT), with an eye toward the period's political issues and a consideration of those modernizers' contributions to later scholarly apparatus.
