Farrell, Thomas J.
Chaucer Review 37: 346-64, 2003.
Farrell argues that clear differentiation among types of analogues may enable us to analyze Chaucer's works with more subtlety. A "source" is a work we are certain Chaucer knew; a "hard analogue" is a work that was available to him; a "soft source"…
Looking beyond the OED's definition of "span"--a length of roughly nine inches--to a range of medieval senses of the word suggests that the width of the Prioress's forehead "offers no meaningful foothold for objecting to her."
Despite their diverse emphases, critical responses to the Monk's portrait in GP evince the same "close reading instinct" that generated E. Talbot Donaldson's "Chaucer the Pilgrim" essay and that has persisted "in an almost universal unwillingness . .…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 30 (2008): 39-93.
Analyzes the "range of discourses" in several GP descriptions, particularly those of the Monk, Friar, Parson, Clerk, Sergeant at Law, and Prioress. In various ways, Chaucer combines estates satire, free indirect discourse, the opinions of the…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Medieval Perspectives 18 (2011 for 2003): 113-31.
Analyzes varying treatments of the "sergeant" character in Chaucer, the Anonymous French, Petrarch, and Boccaccio by considering the character's rhetorical effect in each. Rather than imitating a character either cruel (as in the French) or not-cruel…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Medieval Perspectives 23 (2011 for 2008): 31-42.
Unlike "free-indirect discourse," Bakhtin's "hybrid discourse" readily allows analysis of written and spoken language in narrative, especially in texts before 1900. The portrait of the Squire, hybridizing both estates satire and "Le Roman de la…
Farrell, Thomas J.
John M. Hill, Bonnie Wheeler, and R. F. Yeager, eds. Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2014), pp. 142-64.
Studies over 15,000 occurences of n-stem and r-stem nouns in the "Corpus of Middle English Verse and Prose," and uses the information to assess "his lady grace" (GP 1.88) and the incoherences in the Squire's performance of "chivalry," "courtliness,"…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Textual Cultures 9.2 (2015): 27-45.
Cautions editors against eclectic emendation, assessing George Kane's method and observing how its rigor is undercut by subjectivity, particularly notions of authorial "genius." Uses WBP 3.838 (the Summoner jeering at the Friar) as a case study to…
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.
Farrell, Thomas J.
Chaucer Review 52.4 (2017): 396-425.
Traces the use of the minuscule "a" in the Latin quotations of the Ellesmere manuscript to support the argument that these annotations derive from the ways Chaucer imagines the form of CT.
Farrell, Thomas J.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 120.1 (2021): 93–129.
Contends that data from the Canterbury Tales Project have not been widely used in Chaucer studies, partly on account of misunderstanding the project's purpose and function. That function is to produce evidence through analysis of witness groups, not…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Journal of the Early Book Society 25 (2022): 71-110
Analyzes the textual record of RvT and identifies nineteen witnesses "committed to accurate transmission" of its northernisms whereas others translate northern dialect features or fail to recognize them (e.g., "sal" for "shall"). Discusses the…
Farrell, Thomas J., ed.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995.
Eleven essays by various authors including three on Chaucer. Each essay applies the critical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin to one or more works of medieval literature. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Bakhtin and Medieval Voices…
Farrell, William J.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 5 (1963): 64-78.
Treats Chaucer's use of rhetorical lists or catalogs as an indication of his growth as a poet, from BD and its use of lists as "pure amplification" to PF where listing is "occasionally but not always subjected to the artistic needs of the entire…
Farris, R. S.
Essays in Medieval Studies 32 (2016): 57-63.
Focuses on the relationship between WBT and its analogue, "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle," to show how such a study traces cultural shifts.
Farvolden, Pamela Laura.
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 1965A.
The inadequacies of the two previous editions of Lydgate's "Fabula" call for this full treatment, based on all manuscripts and annotated with references to related works, including KnT.
Farvolden, Pamela, ed.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016.
Edits Lydgate's two poems for classroom study, and includes as an appendix the Latin source of his "Guy of Warwyk." The introduction to the "Fabula" addresses Lydgate's debts to Chaucer in this poem: particularly how its view of friendship was…
Farvolden, Pamela.
Muriel Whitaker, ed. Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature (New York and London: Garland, 1995), pp. 21-45.
In KnT, courtly love seems antithetical to brotherhood in arms, but the eventual disposal of Emelye reinstates male friendship. Lydgate offers a related, more explicit model of supposedly benign homosocial exchange.
Faulkner, Dewey R., ed.
Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1973.
An anthology of thirteen new and previously printed essays and excerpts pertaining to PardPT, with a critical introduction, a brief chronology, and a selected bibliography. The Introduction (pp. 1-14) focuses on characterization, the place of PardPT…
Faulkner, Nancy.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.
Historical novel for juvenile readers, set in London in 1381. Follows the growing romantic friendship between Kate, serving maid to Chaucer in his Aldgate residence, and a young commoner, Adam, who chooses to remain in London after the Uprising…
Faulkner, Peter
Peter Lewis, ed. William Morris: Aspects of The Man and His Work (Loughborough, Leicestershire: Loughborough University of Technology, 1978), pp. 28-49.
Gauges the originality and success of William Morris's poetry, commenting in passing that "The Lovers of Gudrun" is written "in the rather casual couplet form which Morris derived from Chaucer" (37), even though he fails to exploit the "variety" of…
Faulkner, Peter.
Journal of William Morris Studies 16.2-3 (2005): 56-79.
Discussion of the Alcestis account in Morris's 'Earthly Paradise' and in Ted Hughes's adaptation of Euripedes's 'Alcestis,' including comments on the influence of Chaucer's LGWP on Morris.
