Falstein, Mark, trans.
Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Globe Fearon Educational Publishers, 1999.
Selections from CT, adapted and abridged in modern English for a juvenile audience; includes GP, KnT, MLT, NPT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, ClT, FranT, PardPT, CYPT, and Ret, with linking material. Illustrated by Laurie Harden.
Fanale, James Francis.
Dissertation Abstracts International 48 (1987): 387A.
Fanale examines pertinent materials to construct a portrait of the confessor figure in fourteenth-century English literature, including the God of Love in LGWP, Pilgrim Parson, Gower's Genius, and the Green Knight.
Fanego Lema, Teresa, ed.
Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1993.
Thirty literary and linguistic essays from the SELIM IV conference (September 1991), on topics ranging from "Beowulf" to Robin Hood and including discussions of lyrics, drama, dream visions, and various individual works and themes. For essays that…
Offers essays that reflect the variety of critical viewpoints of medieval writers, including William Langland and Chaucer. Part 2 is devoted to Chaucer scholarship. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval English Literature…
Farber, Annika.
Studies in Philology 105 (2008): 207-25.
Reexamines the anonymous and neglected Chaucerian "Isle of Ladies," accepted as a work by Chaucer from the time of Speght's 1598 edition of the works of Chaucer until its rejection by Skeat in his edition. Uses "Isle of Ladies" to reread Chaucer's BD…
Chaucer's changes to source material emphasize what shapes a person and how she comes to understand and experience the world. If Virginia had continued to refuse her father and Virginius had cut off his daughter's head despite her protests, the Tale…
Farber, Lianna.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Farber examines the "idea of trade . . . in medieval writing from the middle of the twelfth to the early fifteenth century," examining theoretical treatises and literary depictions of trade and its relations to valuation, marital exchanges, and…
Considers the "floral atmosphere" of the House of Rumor in HF and sees it as a "place of production [that] appears as entwining, encircling vegetation."
Farina, Peter M.
USF Quarterly 10.3-4 (1972): 23-26.
Suggests that the Monk's "celle" of GP 1.172 is a storeroom rather than a subordinate monastery, and hypothesizes that the storm that occasions Troilus's clandestine visit to Criseyde in TC is based upon the legend of St, Benedict and his sister…
Farina, Peter M.
USF Language Quarterly 9.3-4 (1971): 29-32.
Critiques prior attempts to resolve the discrepancy between Chaucer's reference to twenty-nine pilgrims (GP 1.24) and the headcount of those actually mentioned. Focusing on the Prioress's entourage (GP 1.163-64), offers a new resolution that depends…
Examines two major medieval turning-points in the relationship between rich and poor: the revolution in charity of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and the era of late medieval crises when the vulnerability of the poor increased and charitable…
Farnham, Anthony E.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
Designed as a textbook for study of the history of the English language; includes 24 samples of English prose and poetry, with facing-page translations and brief intoductions. Two selections from Chaucer's works: ABC (pp. 63-75) and Bo 1.prose 6…
Farnham, Anthony E.
Chaucer Review 1.4 (1967): 207-16.
Argues that the opposition between "feyned" worldly love and true heavenly love posed at the end of TC produces "dialectical" irony in which the alternatives "share equally in the truth of experience." Secrecy and deception interact with idealism…
Farrell, Robert T.
Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell, eds. J. R. R. Tolkien: Essays in Memoriam (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979), pp. 159-72.
Previous criticism often finds an unresolved tension between tale and teller in MLT and in the tale itself, leading a critic like Edward A. Block to declare the work "poor art." However, the admitted tensions within the tale between a feeling of…
Farrell, Robert T.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 71 (1970): 239-44.
Contends that Chaucer introduced into the plot of MLT (2.463-504) the motif of the help of God, helping to explain Constance's survival at sea at the beginning of Part 2 of the Tale; the motif is not found in Nicholas Trevet at this juncture.
Farrell, Thomas (J.)
Medieval Perspectives 15.2: 34-48, 2000.
Defines the assumptions underlying J. Burke Severs's analysis of the relation of ClT to Petrarch's version of the material and clarifies how Farrell's own assumptions differ from those in his analysis for Sources and Analogues II. Severs was more…
MilT serves as a corrective to KnT (where chaos in effect breaks down order) by exceeding the typical symmetry of the fabliau (a genre in which order properly has no part). Departing from the "pryvete" set up in its many senses, MilT develops and…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Studies in Philology 86 (1989): 286-309.
Whether or not Chaucerian, the glosses reveal medieval responses to ClT; they emphasize the introduction of important thematic material and highlight the difference between the Clerk's restrained rhetoric and the ornate style of Petrarch's 'Seniles'…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Chaucer Review 20 (1985): 61-67.
The introductory lines in question (Th-MelL *2143-54), if analyzed syntactically, lexically, and rhetorically, indicate that the "litel tretys" is Mel itself, rather than CT generally or the source of Mel.
Farrell, Thomas J.
Thomas J. Farrell, ed. Bakhtin and Medieval Voices (Gainesville: University Press fo Florida, 1995), pp. 141-57.
Assesses the utility of applying Bakhtinian analysis to Chaucer's works and examines the monologia of ClT in light of the "Tale's" intersections of "Ecclesiastes time" and figural time.
Farrell, Thomas J.
David G. Allen and Robert A. White, eds. Subjects on the World's Stage: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Newark: University fo Delaware Press, 1995), pp. 38-53.
Uses of the word "fyn" by Criseyde, Pandarus, and the narrator invite the reader to consider the teleology of the various parts of the work.
