Adelman, Janet.
Dewey R. Faulkner, ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Pardoner's Tale: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973), pp. 96-106.
Critical appreciation of PardT as "brilliantly constructed, simultaneously a parody of the very truths it purports to be about and a joke in which we are never quite sure of the butt"; pays particular attention to its "ragged structure" and how it…
Miller tallies a number of "hybrid derivatives" from before 1500, focusing on top-frequency suffixes. Examples and conclusions involve Chaucerian usage, including Chaucer's tendency to develop "non-technical hybrids" and to use "non-prestige French…
Sharma, Manish.
Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism 45.2 (2017): 54-83.
Shows how NPT, FranT, and Ret reveal the rigor of Chaucer's philosophy, comparing matter-form distinctions underlying these works with the positions of a wide range of notable philosophers, from Plato and Aristotle to Jacques Lacan and François…
Black, Merrill.
Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey, eds. Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A Reader (Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2003), pp.85-95.
An autobiographical reading of WBPT by a woman who was for a time an abused wife. Black records three different responses to Chaucer's materials at three different stages in her life, focusing on the Wife's responses to abuse by her husbands.
Kraman, Cynthia.
Diane Watt, ed. Medieval Women in Communities (Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1997), pp. 138-54.
In MerT, the marginal communities of females and Jews maintain ambiguous statuses, serve as subtext to the "Tale," and assert the seductiveness of the suppressed. The ambiguity of the garden--exciting but exclusionary--is associated with female…
Vélez-Sainz, Julio.
Dicenda: Estudios de lengua y literatura españolas 37 (2019): 363-76.
Describes treatments of the Griselda story from Boccaccio's "Decameron" to Joan Timoneda's "El patrañuelo" (1567), tracing its transformation from a story intended to present Griselda as a model for humankind to a "manual for wives-to-be," including…
Vélez Sainz, Julio.
Dicenda: Estudios de lengua y literatura españolas 37 (2019): 363-76.
Compares versions of the Griselda story: Boccaccio's original; Petrarch's translation; and other rewritings by Bernat Metge, Christine de Pizan, and Chaucer (ClT), as well as the Spanish story in "Castigos y doctrinas que un sabio daba a sus hijas"…
Identifies a series of "parallels in plot and language" between Charles Dickens's "The Cricket on the Hearth" and MerT, arguing for Chaucer's influence on "Cricket," on the Strong subplot of "David Copperfield," and on Dickens's "Chaucerian aesthetic…
Robertson, Michael.
Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 43 (2022): 55-93.
Accounts for seventeen words found in the glossaries of Speght's 1598 and 1602 editions of Chaucer's works that are labeled "unidentified" in Jürgen Schäfer's "Early Modern English Lexicography" (1989), tracing them "to manuscript variants and…
Linke, Hansjürgen.
Die Neueren Sprachen: Zeitschrift für Forschung und Unterricht und Kontaktstudium auf dem Fachgebiet der Modernen Fremdsprachen n.v. (1962): 485-96.
Examines the style and techniques of Chaucer's quasi-optical, quasi-cinematic ("quasi-optische," "quasi-filmescher") scene changes in CT, with particular attention to those in MerT. Focuses on relations between external and internal drama in such…
Burnley, John David.
Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger, eds. Language Contact in the History of English (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2001), pp. 17-34.
Challenges "over-simple dichotomies" between English and French in late-medieval England and illustrates the "pragmatic complexity" of the use of Anglo-French texts. Assesses grammar, style, "speaker attitudes" (with reference to CT and TC), and…
Markus, Manfred.
Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger, eds. Language Contact in the History of English (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2001), pp. 217-31.
Markus examines several features of Chaucer's spelling--digraphs, vowel doubling, "ee" versus "e"--drawing data from ParsT and arguing that inconsistencies in vowel-doubling are related to vowel length's "having lost its former phonemic identity."…
Stockwell, Robert P, and Donka Minkova.
Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger, eds. Language Contact in the History of English (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2001), pp. 337-62.
Stockwell and Minkova argue that Chaucer's prosodic innovation is rooted in his familiarity with the "Romance decasyllabic model." The article focuses on duple and triple rhythmic units, suggesting that Chaucer imposed native iambic rhythm on romance…
Mazzon, Gabriella.
Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger, eds. The History of English in a Social Context: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics. Trends in Linguistics; Studies and Monographs, no. 129. (Berlin and New York: Gruyter, 2000), pp. 135-68.
Mazzon demonstrates a "clear correlation between discourse strategies and pronoun use and switching" in CT. You and thou forms indicate "politeness" as well as social status, gender, and characterization.
Utz, Richard (J.)
Dieter Kastovsky, Gunther Kaltenbck, and Susanne Reichl, eds. Anglistentag 2001 Wien: Proceedings (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002), pp. 253-63.
Surveys the German reception of Chaucer's works between 1934 and 1947, specifically the role of philological approaches and their adaptability or resistance to Nazi ideologies. Utz stresses Ernst Robert Curtius's role in re-establishing prestige and…
Mehl, Dieter.
Dieter Mehl. Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction to His Narrative Poetry (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 98-119
The reader shares Chaucer's struggle with the difficulties of retelling the classical myths. Traces the adaptation of the persona to "Heroides," and Chaucer's renderings of stories to indeterminate readings and judgments. The use of sources entails…
Bordalejo, Barbara, and Adam Alberto Vázquez
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021), 46 pp.
Compares "manual and computer-assisted approaches to collation methods," drawing examples from the texts of TC, CT, Dante's "Commedia," and the Greek New Testament. Argues for full-text rather than selected-text analysis, the importance of variant…
Dase, Kyle, and Nicole Atkings.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 29 pp.
Describes the use of the online text-editing platform Textual Communities in ongoing developments of the Canterbury Tales Project, clarifying advantages and limitations of using such a platform, and offering advice for future changes to the project…
Bordalejo, Barbara, Lina Gibbings, Richard North, and Peter Robinson.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 32 pp.
Reviews the history, planning, making, distribution, an early use of the CantApp edition of GP (2020), designed to be accessed on a mobile device, the first of its kind. Offers suggestions for similar efforts in the future and includes description of…
Bitner, Kendall, and Kyle Dase.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 34 pp.
Explains the "necessary compromises and more efficient practices" that underlie changes to the original transcription principles of the Canterbury Tales Project, offering illustrative examples, and emphasizing the goal of making textual materials…
Bordalejo, Barbara.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 36 pp.
Describes "computer-assisted methods for the analysis of textual variation within large textual traditions," clarifying phylogenetic methods, the goal of maximum parsimony, software decisions and usage, variant management, and the crucial importance…
Bordalejo, Barbara.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 8 pp.
Recounts brief personal history of experience with the Canterbury Tales Project, describes scholarly inattention to the project, and introduces the five essays in this special issue. For the five essays search for Digital Medievalist 14, special…
Spearing, A. C.
Digital Philology 4.1 (2015): 59-105.
Questions the "narrator theory of narration," critiquing the "concept of the internal, potentially unreliable narrator"; examining "the history of the term narrator"; studying "the theories of narration implied by scribal annotations in some medieval…
Singh, Devani.
Digital Philology 9.2 (2020): 177–98; 4 color illus.
Explains the important place in the tradition of Chaucer portraiture of John Speed's engraving made for Thomas Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer's "Workes". Comments on relations with the manuscript portrait of Chaucer that accompanies Thomas…
