Dessart, Jamie Marie Thomas.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 4003A, 1999.
Meanings of the words "women," "authority," and "language" change throughout Chaucer's works, depending on the complex and shifting relationships of speaker, persona, scribe, and audience, plus pervasive irony. Treats TC, LGW, ClT, FranT, and SNT.
Deusen, Nancy van, ed.
Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2013.
Ten essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor that consider the influence of Cicero on western language and literature from late Antiquity to the early modern era. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Cicero Refused to…
Although of "no use to chaucerians," the fragmentary text of John Rastell's version of PF reflects the humanist's admiration of Chaucer's works even though he mangled the text.
Devereux, James A., S.J.
Philological Quarterly 44 (1965): 550-52.
Identifies similarities between Criseyde's address to Troilus in TC 3.1309 with "levation" prayers, i.e., popular devotional prayers aligned with the "looking at the host at the elevation of Mass."
Devlin, Mary
San Jose, Calif.: Writers Club Press, 2000.
A murder mystery that incorporates details from Chaucer's life and from CT, featuring Chaucer in the role of detective seeking to solve three murders on the pilgrimage to Canterbury, with the aid of John of Gaunt.
A murder mystery that incorporates details from Chaucer's life, featuring investigations of two murders, the involvement of Philippa and John of Gaunt, and Chaucer's interests in poetry and astrology.
DeVoto, Marya.
Studies in Medievalism 9 (1997): 148-70.
Lanier in the early 1880s produced versions of Malory, Froissart, the Percy ballads, and other works aimed at exposing boys to the chivalry and simple piety of the Middle Ages. The introduction to "The Boy's Froissart" cites Chaucer as a "large and…
DeVries, David N.
Studies in Scottish Literature 27 (1992): 113-27.
The major interpretations of Dunbar's poem fall into two groups: those arguing the poem is representational and those arguing it is reflexive. Comparing "Golden Targe" to Chaucer's dream poetry and to other dream poetry by Dunbar reveals that both…
DeVries, David N.
Chaucer Review 32 (1998): 391-99.
Despite David Wallace's assertion that London is "absent" in Chaucer, and D. W. Robertson's contention that medieval Londoners were content within "an hierarchical classless society," CT depicts London as an "underworld," where unscrupulous…
DeVries, David N.
Nancy M. Reale and Ruth E. Sternglantz, eds. Satura: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honour of Robert R. Raymo (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001), 248-62.
Assesses the intertextual relationship of Lydgate's "A Balade in Commendation of Our Lady" with TC and with Alan de Lille's "Anticlaudianus," exploring how aureate diction contributes to the poem's "connection between poetry and redemption in…
Critiques editorial decisions in punctuating and glossing TC 3.1751-57, comparing the passage with its original in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy."
Chaucer uses 636 proper names (excluding about 300 additional topographical and geographical names). They fall into four categories: astrological, Biblical, classical, and mythological. Names from Latin and Greek appear in the oblique case (e.g.,…
DeZur, Kathryn Michelle.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 414A, 1999.
Analyzes the relationships of "interpretation, authority, and female sexuality" in works by Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Sidney. TC and WBPT contrast a lady seduced by her reading with a woman empowered by hers.
An anthology compiled to promote reading among young readers in Eritrea. Includes international tales, ancient to modern, in modern English adaptation, including ClT (here titled "The Scholar's Tale: The Test of a Good Wife."
A "center-free analysis" of MLT discloses that Donegild is "an embodiment of a folklore motif," while the Sowdanesse (Sultaness) is a hostile ideological construct.
Studies the "co-articulation of the transhistorical issues of gender, race, and sex" in WBPT and Zadie Smith's "Wife of Willesden," arguing that they "invoke similar forms of sexual assault and feminine abuse while undermining analogous abstractions…
di Carpegna Falconieri, Tommaso, and Lila Yawn.
Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones, eds. The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 186–215.
Briefly invokes Chaucer, noting Pasolini's 1971 film, "The Canterbury Tales," and its adaptation of Chaucer's work to highlight increasing cultural degradation as works are transmitted.
Di Gangi, John J.
American Notes and Queries 13 (1974): 50-51.
Hende Nicholas of MilT and Frere N. Lenne, a source of "Astr," both refer to the Oxford astronomer and mathematician Nicholas of Lynne. This is borne out by chronological, local, and occupational similarities among the three.
Di Pasquale, Pasquale, Jr.
Philological Quarterly 49 (1970): 152-63.
Contends that both Troilus and Criseyde submit to Fortune in TC by pursuing a form of worldly "sikernesse" (security), reflecting their lack of the awareness advised by Philosophy in Boethius's "Consolation." Only after leaving the world does Troilus…
Di Profio, Luana.
Encyclopaideia: Journal of Phenomenology and Education 26 (2022): 1-13.
Explores "the special connection that exists between travel and narration," especially when traveling in a group, assessing international narratives of travel from CT to Haruki Murakami's "Drive My Car." Includes an abstract in English and in…
Di Rocco, Emilia.
Revista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate 55 : 373-92, 2002.
Contrasts Chaucer's concern for the role of authors in the preservation of historical "fame" with Pope's emphasis on the enduring value of art. Di Rocco shows how Pope's personal interest in fame is tempered by humility like that of Chaucer's…
Examines law and literature in the works of Chaucer, Gower, and Langland, focusing on three major topics: marriage, crime, and covenants. An introductory chapter explores the relations between law and literature. Throughout, there is comparison of…
An introduction to CT, including discussion of Chaucer's life, the structure of CT, plots and themes of the tales, analyses of the pilgrims and major characters in their tales, and Chaucer's language and meter. Includes bibliographies for each…
Di Rocco, Emilia.
Michelangelo Picone, ed. La letteratura cavalleresca dalle "Chansons de Geste" alla "Gerusalemme Liberata." Atti del II Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Certaldo Alto, Giugno 21-23, 2007 (Pisa: Pacini, 2008), pp. 191-205.
Di Rocco explores the role of Chaucer's works in the development of romance in England, commenting on the poet's fusion of classical material and romance in KnT and TC, the concern with gentilesse and trouthe in WBT and FranT, and the reference to…
Diamond, Arlyn.
Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 93-102.
To be part of the courtly love tradition, TC must exist outside the patriarchal feudal order and allow male and female equal power. However, the reality of a hierarchical social order creates ambivalence in the narrator toward his material.
