Echard, Siân.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30: 185-210, 2000.
Cultural and institutional practice has frequently estimated the status of Gower's poetry and the value of his manuscripts, not through assessment of his own achievements, but through his historical and literary proximity to Chaucer.
Echard, Siân.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Echard studies the "postmedieval life of medieval texts" as they are embodied in material form, exploring strategies for representing the authenticity of the texts and for reimagining them for new audiences. The book includes chapters on design…
Echard, Siân.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 167-83.
Explores the "unexpected points of contact between" Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale" and Chaucer's poetry, discussing ways that the film and KnT focus on tilting arenas and order, their affinities with pastiche, their concern with the power of the…
Ecker, Roland L.
Palatka, Fla.: Hodges and Braddock, 1993
A defense of evolution cast as an imitation of CT, with a prologue and several arguments in iambic pentameter, presented as the tales of the Astronomer, the Philosopher, the Physicist, the Biblical Scholar, the Cosmologist, etc. Revised editions in…
Ecker, Ronald L., and Eugene J. Crook, trans.
Palatka, Fla.: Hodges & Braddock, 1993.
Translates the full text of CT, based on Robinson's edition (1957), presenting the poetry in close imitation of Chaucer's verse forms and approximating Chaucer's syntax in the prose. Includes brief glossary of people, places, and terms.
In an effort to rehabilitate the medieval romance, argues that Th, when read through the prism of the Auchinleck MS, shows more affection for the form than is generally believed.
Eckert, Kenneth.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 22.2 (2014): 131-46.
Connects the "Tale of Gamelyn" to Chaucer with respect to concerns of class, legal, and cultural issues, and focuses on the theme of vulnerability as an important conceit of the poem.
Eckert, Kenneth.
Review of English Studies 68, no. 285 (2017): 471-87.
Reads Th as a "brilliant joke at the Host's expense": not a satire or parody of tail-rhyme romances but a repudiation of the Host's "crude homosocial bantering," his "puerile tastes," and his "pretensions" as a literary critic. Includes comments on…
Eckhardt, Caroline D.
Yearbook of English Studies 5 (1975): 1-18.
The observable final total of pilgrims is 33, a symbolically significant sum. The Pilgrim Chaucer's two tales may have been meant as a center-point signifying a shift from game to earnest. The initial statement that there were 29 may demonstrate…
Eckhardt, Caroline D.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
In addition to sections on editions; bibliographies, indexes, and other research tools; general criticism and cultural background; language, metrics, and studies of manuscripts; and the springtime setting, this bibliography of 1,387 entries includes…
Eckhardt, Caroline D.
Modern Philology 87 (1990): 239-48.
Chaucer's descripiton of the Franklin as a "vavasour" (GP 360) reflects his acquaintance with the Vavasour family. Like Chaucer, Sir William Vavasour testified in the Scrope-Grosvenor controversy; other Vavasours held offices similar to the…
Eckhardt, Caroline D.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 6 (1984): 41-63.
As a translation of "Roman de la Rose," Chaucer's Rom is remarkably faithful; nevertheless, Chaucer did make changes to create greater "ease" and intimacy."
Eckhardt, Caroline D.
Comparative Literature 58 (2006): 313-38.
Traces conceptualizations of Europe available to fourteenth-century English chroniclers and then explores the use of these by the chroniclers, especially Robert Mannyng and John Trevisa. TC and LGW reflect a tradition that sees Europe as a territory…
Economou, George D.
Philological Quarterly 54 (1975): 679-84.
The uses to which Chaucer put the Bird-in-the-Cage image (in MilT, SqT, and ManT), which he derived from Boethius and Jean de Meun, reveal the precision and complexity of his literary adaptations.
Seven essays and a critical introduction, with a brief chronology of Chaucer's life and works, and a short selected bibliography. For the Introduction and the seven essays, search for Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles under…
Economou, George D.
Carl Woodring and James Shapiro, eds. The Columbia History of British Poets (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), pp. 55-80.
Surveys Chaucer's works and their reception, emphasizing his innovation and experimentation. Introduced by a brief section on Chaucer's reading, discussions of each of his major works summarize the sources Chaucer used and his adaptations of them.
Economou, George D.
Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior, eds. Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), pp. 290-301.
Economou considers a range of possibilities--that Chaucer and Langland knew each other, knew each other's works, or shared the same literary context. Focuses on GP and Ret of CT.
Economou, George D.
Ferrante, Joan M., and George D. Economou, eds. In Pursuit of Perfection: Courtly Love in Medieval Literature (Port Washington, NY, Kennikat, 1975), pp. 17-50.
Distinguishes two kinds of love associated with Venus in the Middle Ages, both of them subsets of earthly love: one "legitimate, sacramental, natural, and in harmony with natural law; the other, illegitimate, perverted, selfish, and sinful." Traces…
Economou, George D.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Traces the uses and development of personified Nature in classical and medieval traditions, focusing on Boethius, Bernard Silvestris, Alain de Lille, Jean de Meun, and Chaucer's relations with all of them in PF. Following tradition, Chaucer presents…
Economou, George D.
Comparative Literature 17.3 (1965): 251-57.
Argues that the image of the mirror of January's mind in MerT (4.1577-87) derives from the "Roman de la Rose" and connects with Chaucer's garden setting to underscore the selfish narcissism of January's distorted love-seeking.
Economou, George D., ed.
George D. Economou, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles (New York: McGraw Hill, 1976) pp. 1-14.
Chaucerian study has given rise to differing though complementary schools of criticism, as exemplified by Kittredge, Robertson, Donaldson, etc. The relationship of MilT and RvT exhibits Chaucer's power as an innovator.
