Caballero-Torralbo, Juan de Dios, and Javier Martın-Parraga, eds.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015.
Collection of essays that provides various approaches to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for New Medievalisms under Alternative Title.
Brewer, Charlotte.
Review of English Studies 66, no. 276 (2015): 744–65.
Argues that while quotations of Austen in the revised OED have increased in number overall, those of female authors are still extraordinarily low when compared to the canonical literary male authors: Shakespeare (c. 33,000), Walter Scott (c. 15,000),…
Creates a literary history of the "night side of literature" in London from the Middle Ages to the mid-nineteenth century. Considers Chaucer's "nightwalkers" in MilT, CkT, WBT, and LGW.
Barrington, Candace, and Jonathan Hsy.
Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media 2,2(2015): n.p.
Reflects on the "Global Chaucers" project, which creates a forum for world-wide nonanglophone reworkings of Chaucerian material. Presents challenges and goals for future projects in response to scholars' diverse interests and expanding discoveries.
Oka, Saburo.
Yuichiro Azuma, Kotaro Kawasaki, and Koichi Kano, eds. Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki (Tokyo: Kinseido, 2015), pp. 3-19.
Begins with attempts to position Chaucer, TC, and the reading subject (the author himself ), and reads the Prologue and Epilogue of TC in literary, historical, and anthropological terms. In Japanese.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Yuichiro Azuma, Kotaro Kawasaki, and Koichi Kano, eds. Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki (Tokyo: Kinseido, 2015), pp. 358-79.
Examines the implications of "siege" in TC from cognitive viewpoints. Argues that the siege of Troy as a prototype of "siege" is repeated in metaphorically diversified forms such as Pandarus's enclosure of Troilus and Criseyde, and that this "siege"…
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Yuichiro Azuma, Kotaro Kawasaki, and Koichi Kano, eds. Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki (Tokyo: Kinseido, 2015), pp. 121-41.
Discusses the various ways in which the treatment of space in TC functions in relation to the characterizations, the development of the plot, and the changing role of the narrator. In Japanese.
Ikegami, Keiko.
Yuichiro Azuma, Kotaro Kawasaki, and Koichi Kano, eds. Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki (Tokyo: Kinseido, 2015), pp. 30–43.
Discusses SNT from several perspectives related to saints' legends, including the representation of the saint in SNT, the
etymology of Cecilia, the sources of SNT, the Second Nun as a narrator, SNT's position in CT, and Chaucer's attitude toward…
Matsuda, Takami.
Yuichiro Azuma, Kotaro Kawasaki, and Koichi Kano, eds. Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki (Tokyo: Kinseido, 2015), pp. 44–59.
Argues that the medieval notion of wonder helps to explain the Franklin's interruption of SqT.The Squire presents the marvels in his tale as explainable in scientific terms, in accord with the philosophical notion of wonder. The Franklin similarly…
In Japanese. For seven articles that pertain to Chaucer, search under Alternative Title for Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki.
Collection of essays covers a comprehensive range of medieval-related media, including literature, film, TV, comic-book adaptations, electronic media, performances, and commercial merchandise and tourism. For three essays that pertains to Chaucer,…
Wang, Denise Ming-yueh.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 22, no. 2 (2014): 1-27.
Discusses Chaucer's English inheritance from a Taiwanese-Chinese point of view. Reviews multilingualism in Chinese and medieval English cultures, and examines Chaucer's cross-cultural and multilingual literary experience in fourteenth-century…
Strmelj, Lidija.
ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 14.1 (2014): 37–47.
Assesses examples from GP, KnT, MilPT, WBPT, and SNPT, deducing that medieval metaphors of emotion are similar to modern ones, although they depend more closely upon social categories, with negative metaphors typical of middle-class speakers, and…
Simonin, Olivier.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 87 (2015): 123–44.
Explores the notion of commitment in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and briefly mentions MilT in relation to the several meanings of the term "hend(e)."
Schendl, Herbert.
Language and Literature 24.3 (2015): 233–48.
Discusses the main functions of code-switching in the poetry and drama of medieval England. Emphasizes how the friar in SumT uses the French phrase "je vous dy" to increase his authority and learnedness.
Ohno, Hideshi.
Bulletin of Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts 20 (2015): 131–46.
Provides an overview of Chaucer's use of the absolute infinitive, and introduces its various types. Focuses especially on the uses of "seien," "speken," and "tellen" in parenthetical construction and discusses their function based on statistical…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki, Akiyuki Jimura, and Noriyuki Kawano.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 59 (2015): 1–34.
Compares frequencies of different negative forms as well as syntactic, lexical, and semantic negative patterns in the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts and two critical editions by Blake and Benson, respectively. Tabulates the result as statistical…
Murchison, Krista A.
Chaucer Review 49.3 (2015): 371–75.
Argues that the word pair "gent and smal," used in the description of Alisoun in MilT, meant "well-built," with connotations of noble looks and behavior.
Hadbawnik, David.
Dissertation Abstracts International A76.11 (2015): n.p.
Considers the diction of Chaucer, his successors, and CT editor Thomas Tyrwhitt as part of a larger argument for the interrelationship of late medieval and early modern poetic language.
Farrell, Thomas J.
Chaucer Review 50.1-2 (2015): 178–97.
Argues that in CT, "wight" could indeed mean a supernatural being and refer to Jesus Christ as Creator, which questions a long-standing editorial emendation by E. Talbot Donaldson in WBP, 117.
Bourgne, Florence
Cahiers de recherches medievales et humanistes 29 (2015): 199–214.
Examines Chaucer's literary exchanges with contemporary French writers, including his interest in "Flaundres, in Artoys, and Pycardie." Offers
how Chaucer's translation of Rom confirms his fascination with the duchy's growing empire, where Picard…
Barrington, Candace.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 22 (2015): 21–32.
Describes writing assignments, for an upper-division Chaucer course, that help students read CT in Middle English. Demonstrates how breaking the assignments into smaller steps promotes a greater understanding of fluency and discovery of unfamiliar…
Novacich, Sarah Elliott.
Philological Quarterly 94, no. 3 (2015): 201–23.
Discusses the idea of "poetic feet" of versification in poetry, and examines how travel narratives are linked to poetic language. Compares CT (particularly ParsT, MkT, KnT, Tho, Mel, and TC, to Dante's "Inferno" and Mandeville's travel narrative.
