Dobbins, Austin C.
Modern Language Quarterly 18 (1957): 309-12.
Identifies previously unrecorded allusions to Chaucer, most of them reflecting his "reputation as a religious leader and reformer," some based on works attributed to him falsely.
Dobbs, Elizabeth [Ann]
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992): 31-52.
Analyzes the tale-telling contract in the context of late-medieval English legal terminology. Explores Chaucer's use of legal diction and situation to establish both the telling of the tales as a form of pleading and the Host's role as judge until…
Dobbs, Elizabeth A.
Chaucer Review 40 (2006): 289-310.
Aurelius's comparison of himself to the nymph Echo early in FranT enables glimpses of Narcissus in Dorigen and emphasizes the importance of speech and interpretation in the Tale: in particular, Aurelius's Echo-like interpretations of Dorigen's…
Dobbs, Elizabeth A.
Christianity and Literature 62.2 (2013): 203-22.
Observes that St. Matthew's account of the Canaanite's interaction with Christ is far more descriptively verbose than the version recorded by St. Mark, and argues that in SNP Chaucer very purposefully chose Matthew's version in order to augment his…
Dobbs, Elizabeth Ann
Chaucer Review 32 (1998): 400-22.
TC contains a series of images of windows both open and closed, which are added to (or changed from) Chaucer's sources and which provide a commentary on the relationships between the lovers. Views out of windows are limited views, or "fictions,"…
Dobbs, Elizabeth Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976): 960A.
The action of TC takes place in both naturalistic and schematic space. This opposition is reinforced by the creation of an intrusive narrator and a fictional audience. Schematic space functions as a principle of limitation, reinforcing the…
Situates Chaucer's attitudes toward law and legal process in late-medieval thought, discussing statute law, legal procedures of resolution by love, and Italian, Thomistic, post-Glossarian philosophy of law. Tale-telling and pilgrimage represent two…
Dobyns, Ann.
Kathleen Dubs and Janka Kaśčáková, eds. Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 226-42.
Explores similarities between ambiguity and rhetorical invention in rhetorical tradition from Plato to the twenty-first century. Then discusses three examples of "conscious exploitation of the potential of ambiguity": "Sir Gawain and the Green…
Dodds, M. H.
Notes and Queries 201 (1956): 317-18.
Responds to a query by Lisle C. John (Note and Queries 201 [1956]: 97-98), suggesting that "borrow" may mean borwe" (pledge) or "borough" (referring to Canterbury).
Doederlin, Sue Warrick.
Comparative Literature 33 (1981): 156-66.
In his translation of KnT, Dryden imposed a number of pictorial effects--colors, emblems, icons, static scenes, and landscapes--to transform Chaucer into a seventeenth-century gentleman.
Dogan, Sadenur.
Tarih kultur ve sanat aras¸tırmaları dergisi/Journal of History, Culture, and Art Research 2.2 (2013): 49-56.
Describes how in GP the descriptions of the Knight, the Parson, and the Plowman reflect the ideals of their respective social estates, and how the descriptions of the Monk, the Reeve, and the Wife of Bath exemplify Chaucer's uses of estates satire…
Doherty, Mary Jane Margaret.
Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1978): 1539A.
Equates "mistress-knowledge" of Sir Philip Sidney's "Defence of Poesy" with the "concept of an architectonic . . . usually related to self-knowledge as an ideal," traces the concept from classical to Renaissance treatments, and applies the critical…
Doherty, P. C.
New York: St. Martin's; London: Headline, 1994.
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a lawyer, modeled on Chaucer's Man of Law, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about gruesome murders and the underworld of medieval London. Also published with the…
Doherty, P. C.
New York: St. Martin's; London: Headline, 1994.
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a knight, modeled on Chaucer's Knight, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about age-old vampires, mysterious deaths in Oxford, and a blind exorcist.
Doherty, P. C.
New York: St. Martin's; London: Headline, 1996.
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a franklin, modeled on Chaucer's Franklin, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about a mysterious murder linked to the battle of Poitiers and the parentage of one of the…
Doherty, P. C.
New York: St. Martin's; London: Headline, 1997.
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a priest, modeled on Chaucer's Parson, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about a series of mysterious hauntings and deaths involving Knights Templar.
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a carpenter tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about the solving of mysterious murders.
Historical gothic detective fiction set in the frame of the CT, in which a student, modeled on Chaucer's Clerk, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about murder, exorcism, star-crossed love, and returns from the dead. Published in the U.S. as…
Historical detective fiction set in the frame of CT, in which a doctor, modeled on Chaucer's Physician, tells a story to the rest of the pilgrims about sorcery, exorcism, and deaths involved with the mysterious figure of the Midnight Man.
Dolan, Michael James
Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 4511A-12A.
Chaucer's poetry must be read as "in dialogue" with his neoplatonic sources such as Boethius, Macrobius, etc. BD is a study of the root cause of "letargye"--the lack of harmony between the real and the ideal. PF is an analysis of man's…
Dolan, T. P.
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 61-72.
Examines details from GP (in particular the description of the Friar) and ParsT, arguing that Chaucer held the "orthodox view" that the poor should be protected because they were precious to God. Yet Chaucer also indicates that "there is nothing…
Doltas, Dilek.
Hacettepe Bulletin of Social Sciences and Humanities 3 (1971): 157-75.
While depicting love and marriage in the Marriage Group, Chaucer presents the "delights of both the flesh and the soul." The group opens with Mel; WBPT, ClT, and MerT offer extreme but lively views. FranT presents an ideal secular solution, while…
Discusses kitsch as a "counter aesthetic" that results from a "failed dialectic of beauty and ugliness," and explores the Nazis' "Anti-Kitsch Law," Theodor Adorno's aesthetic theory, the Prioress's "countrefete cheere" and sentimentality, the gore…
Dominick, Gina A.
Ph.D. dissertation (New York University, 2022), Dissertation Abstracts International A 84.01(E).
Explores how texts such as Julian of Norwich's "A Revelation of Divine Love," CT, and Thomas Malory's "Morte Darthur" "unsettle the medieval aesthetic-ethical form of "formosa deformitas," or, the 'beautiful ugly,' " and "bring attention to the…
Donabeita Fernandez, Maria Louisa.
Teresa Fanego Lema, ed. Papers from the IVth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1993), pp. 43-53.
A deconstructive-psychoanalytical reading of WBP that examines the gaps left in the Wife's discourse, exploring implications of rape, sexual economics, and prostitution.
