Uses examples from CT, TC, and the anonymous Middle English Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf, read in a context created by Bakhtin's theory of "speech genres," to demonstrate the power of proverbs to transform the situations in which they are…
Stanbury, Sarah.
Andrew James Johnston, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse, eds. The Art of Vision: Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015), pp. 36-54.
Examines relations between ekphrasis and inventory lists in Form Age. Reflects on "relationship between material things and the categories that classify them in multilingual England."
Schuerer, Hans Jurgen.
Andrew James Johnston, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse, eds. The Art of Vision: Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015), pp. 224-42.
Argues that ekphrasis in MerT is an "engagement with the union of language and the inner senses." In particular, examines "ekphrastic moments . . . between physical expression and the psyche" in Chaucer's treatment of marriage in MerT.
Johnston, Andrew James, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse, eds.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015.
Collection of essays on ekphrastic discourse from the eleventh to the seventeenth century in texts written in Middle English, but also Medieval Latin, Old French, Middle Scots, Middle High German, and Early Modern English. For four essays that…
Knapp, Ethan.
Andrew James Johnston, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse, eds. The Art of Vision: Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015), pp. 209-23.
Explores the "function of faciality" in medieval poetry of Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve. Examines Chaucer's portraits of faces in GP, MLT, and TC.
Bowers, John M.
Andrew James Johnston, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse, eds. The Art of Vision: Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015), pp. 55–76.
Explores Chaucer's uses of ekphrasis as "expressions of an increasingly anxious desire to allow literary images to speak for themselves" in KnT, BD, and HF.
Discusses the stylistic device of inverting or rearranging word order for poetic effect. Highlights the writing of William Dunbar, who acknowledged Chaucer to be included among the "masters who by making were remade."
Focuses on how Chaucer influenced the writings of Cotton Mather, Anne Bradstreet, and Nathaniel Ward in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century New England.
Warren, Michelle R.
postmedieval 6.1 (2015): 79–93.
Reviews references to how Chaucer is represented and appropriated in Anglophone Caribbean literature and critical essays. Includes example of "fictional allusion" to CT in Jean Rhys's "Again the Antilles."
Tambling, Jeremy.
English 64, no. 244 (2015): 42-64.
Analyzes the influence of Chaucer on several Romantic thinkers and their subsequent influence on Dickens, as well as Dickens's own reference and allusions to CT. Focuses on how "Our Mutual Friend" reflects medievalism in such aspects as the…
Rogers, Cynthia A.
Dissertation Abstracts International A76.11 (2015): n.p.
Explores a Middle English scrapbook from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries that includes some Chaucerian love literature, and considers the book's role in a performance of gentility, particularly on the part of its women readers.
Examines Caroline's Bergvall's five Chaucer poems in her "Meddle English" (2011), including discussion of their relations with Chaucer's originals. Focuses especially on Bergvall's "Fried Tale."
Munro, Lucy.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Explores the use of "archaic linguistic and poetic style" in poetry and drama, 1590–1674, analyzing how combinations of anachronism and nostalgia help to influence the idea of English "nationhood." Includes recurrent comments on lexical…
The stanzas known as "The Tongue" in the Findern manuscript use source material from Lydgate's "Fall of Princes" and Chaucer's TC to create a coherent poem that is consistent with the manuscript's broader themes and is indebted to the literary legacy…
Kendrick, Laura.
Cahiers de recherches medievales et humanistes/Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies 29, no. 1 (2015): 215–33.
Examines how Deschamps's balade 285 is a surprisingly generous recognition and glorification of Chaucer as a pioneering translator from Latin and French into English, and as an "illuminator" or enlightener of his native England. Reveals how this…
Historical novel set in London, Kent, Calais, and during a pilgrimage to Durham, 1386; the second in a series that features John Gower as first-person narrator investigating criminal and political events, in this case a mass murder that involves…
Hanna, Ralph.
Review of English Studies 66, no. 275 (2015): 449–64.
Proposes that when Langland revised B into C, the literary landscape was very different (from Edwardian to Ricardian poetry). Chaucerian dream vision, especially PF with its "emphasis upon the poetic figure who seeks to understand the world through…
Gomez, Francesc J.
Magnificat: Cultura i literature medievals 2 (2015): 159–96.
Taking as a starting-point the study of a chapter from the "Tractat de les penes particulars d'infern" by Joan Pasqual (c. 1436), traces the dissemination (and the "stemma narrationum") of two narrative motifs: the fake alchemist and the king…
Davis, Isabel, and Catherine Nall, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015.
Eleven essays and an introduction (by Davis) deal with Chaucer's concern with poetic fame and/or with his poetic reputation among his contemporaries, down to the twenty-first century. The introduction (pp. 1–19) describes the essays and comments on…
Strakhov, Elizaveta.
Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 57-74.
Reviews the presence of Statius's "Thebaid" in TC, exploring in detail the juxtaposition of Statian and Ovidian material in Cassandra's explanations of Troilus's dream of the boar, explaining Chaucer's elision of Boccaccio from his poem as Chaucer's…
