Wright, Constance S.
Constance S. Wright and Julia Bolton Holloway, eds. Tales Within Tales: Apuleius Through Time: Essays in Honor of Professor Emeritus Richard J. Schoeck (New York: AMS Press, 2000), pp. 55-72.
Compares depictions of Cupid and Psyche in Plato's Phaedrus, Apuleius's Metamorphoses, Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs, and ClT (Walter and Griselda), noting their different constructions of gender and viewing them as reflections of…
Schoeck, Richard J.
Constance S. Wright and Julia Bolton Holloway, eds. Tales Within Tales: Apuleius Through Time: Essays in Honor of Professor Emeritus Richard J. Schoeck (New York: AMS Press, 2000), pp. 97-106.
Explores various kinds of game or play in TC: rhetorical games, war games, courtly games, and the games of life. Suggests Troilus may be seen as homo ludens (man playing).
McTaggert, Anne.
Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis and Culture 19 (2012): 41-67.
Reassesses gender violence in WBPT in terms of René Girard's theory of mimesis that complicates surface oppositions and suggests that we can read the Wife of Bath as parallel to the rapist-knight rather than to the loathly lady. The mirroring of…
Milosh, Joseph.
Contemporary Literature 19 (1978): 48-57.
Gardner strikingly alters "Beowulf" by granting Grendel spiritual development, by portraying the absurdity of war, and by undercutting the validity of poetic making. The changes transforms epic material into an elusive genre characterized by its…
Personal account that assesses several influential pilgrimage/travel narratives, including Homer's "Odyssey," Dante's "Divine Comedy," and CT, with comments on Chaucer's narrator, his debt to Dante, intertextuality, and the experience of reading GP…
Illustrates a variety of ways astrology has been used in literature, drawing examples from Chaucer, Shakespeare, John Webster, and Samuel Beckett. Cites examples from Mars, MilT, and FranT, as well as Hypermnestra in LGW.
Mann, Nicholas.
Convegno Internazionale Francesco Petrarca: Roma-Arezzo-Padova-Arquà Petrarca, 24-27 Aprile 1974. Atti dei Convegni Lince, no. 10 (Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1976), pp. 59-69.
Includes very brief mention of Chaucer's uses Petratrch in TC, ClT, and CYT.
Includes discussion of Chaucer's works (pp. 35-45), commenting on the idealized settings found in BD, PF, and LGWP in comparison with their sources; also comments on the lack of such settings in TC and CT.
Discusses the Franklin "class" of late-medieval England: etymology, legal status, land tenure, wealth, rank, and social position. Adducing contemporary evidence, some of which is here discussed for the first time, the author explores the clues…
Klitgard, Ebbe.
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1995.
Emphasizes the stylistic and rhetorical innovation of Chaucer's narrative voice, arguing that it can be perceived behind his various narrators and implied authors.
Eliason, Norman E.
Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1972.
Evaluates the "style and structure" of Chaucer's poetry, exploring the interaction of pronunciation and versification and the limitations of medieval and modern rhetorics for describing and gauging Chaucer's techniques. Includes scansion of lines and…
Rogers, William Elford.
Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1972.
Prints the text of ABC along with its source, i.e., lines 10,893-11,168 of Guillaume de Guilleville's "Pélèrinage de la Vie Humaine." Discusses ABC as a "direct paraphrase," considering how deviations from the source, particularly in imagery,…
Provost, William.
Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1974.
Presents a "structural description" of TC which anatomizes its five-book construction, its "time units" and their chronology, and its "narrative units" (signaled by shifts in narrative "modes") and their patterning. The description of these various…
Benson, Robert G.
Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Batter, 1980.
Treats Chaucer's use of and experimentation with conventional gesture as modified by genetic considerations in CT, TC, PF,HF, Anel, LGW, BD, Rom, and minor poems. Includes an appendix of relevant passages.
Innes, Susan.
Copyright Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1988.
Supports the research of J. D. North by attesting that the astrological structure of SqT can be perceived through purely literary means, i.e., without astrological training or predisposition.
Dor, Juliette.
Cordelia Beattie and Kirsten A. Fenton, eds. Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 158-82.
Considers three of the CT that contain 'virago' figures and focus on an encounter between East and West at the heart of the tales. Chaucer's attitude to the set of viragos is enigmatic. By discrediting the reliability of his narrators, he blurs the…
León Sendra, Antonio R., and Jesús Serrano Reyes, trans.
Córdoba : Universidad de Córdoba, 1999.
Spanish translation of HF, with facing-page Middle English. Includes a brief introduction (pp. 1-8) and extensive notes (pp. 195-346), with lists of bibliographical references and proper names.
Serrano Reyes, Jesus L.,Antonio Leon Sendra, and Mercedes Robles Escobedo.
Cordoba: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cordoba, 1996.
Demonstrates the influence of Seneca's moral philosophy on CT by assessing Chaucer's quotations of Seneca. Translates Latin and Middle English quotations into both Spanish and modern English.
Serrano Reyes, Jesus L.
Cordoba: Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Cordoba, 1996.
Argues that Don Juan Manuel's "El Conde Lucanor" and Chaucer's CT have many parallels and that CT may have been influenced by Manuel's work. Explores the presence of both authors in Spain and compares their didactic methods and their many…
Leon Sendra, Antonio R.
Cordoba: Universidad de Cordoba, 1996.
Includes six essays about Chaucer by Leon Sendra and a summary-introduction by Jesus L. Serrano Reyes. The first essay proposes a sociolinguistic approach to Chaucer's works, based on the textual-linguistic theory of M. A. K. Halliday, and the other…
