Heijnsbergen, Theo van.
Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 17 (1987): 115-28.
Compared to Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato," TC is characterized by ambivalence in language, imagery, dialogue, theme, structure, and character, seen particularly in Criseyde as she follows her own sense of reality and social code while Troilus obeys the…
Boheemen, Christel van.
Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 9 (1979): 1-27.
The fundamental distinction in KnT is not between Palamon and Arcite, but between them and Theseus. The Dionysian misrule of Thebes is symbolically contrasted to the Apollonian order or Athens. The mythic structure of the narrative prepares a…
Dunning, T. P.
Duthie, G. I., ed. English Studies Today, Third Series: Lectures and Papers Read at the Fifth Conference of the International Association of Professors of English Held at Edinburgh and Glasgow, August 1962 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1964), pp.89-106.
Contrasts the "quasi-heretical," "so-called Augustinian" views of sex in marriage as always sinful with those of Thomas Aquinas and others who treat sexual love in marriage as sinless when consistent with "amicitia" (friendship) and reason, arguing…
Burrow, J. A.
Dyson, A. E., ed. English Poetry: Select Bibliographical Guides (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), pp. 1-14.
Discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies, including subsections on texts, critical studies and commentary, biographies, bibliographies, and background reading.
Pratt, Robert A.
E. Bagby Atwood and Archibald A. Hill, eds. Studies in Language, Literature, and Culture of the Middle Ages and Later (Austin: University of Texas, 1969), pp. 303-11.
Adduces details from MLT, PardT, Anel, SqT, FranT, Purse, MkT, and PhyT to show that Chaucer was influenced, not only by Trevet's Constance narrative, but by his "Cronicles" more broadly.
Norman, Arthur.
E. Bagby Atwood and Archibald A. Hill, eds. Studies in Language, Literature, and Culture of the Middle Ages and Later (Austin: University of Texas, 1969), pp. 312-23.
Describes the episodic symmetrical structure of MLT; comments on the characterization of Constance; identifies the rhetorical uses of occupatio and elaboration in the Tale; and (in footnote 1) summarizes its concern with astrology, fate, and Boethian…
Gasse, Rosanne.
E. L. Risden, ed. "Sir Gawain" and the Classical Tradition: Essays on the Ancient Antecedents (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006), pp. 121-34.
Gasse reads references to Achilles in TC as indications that the story of Achilles "is clearly the mirror of Troilus's narrative." References to Achilles in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" can help readers…
Blake, N. F.
E. Rombauts and A. Welkenhuysen, eds. Aspects of the Medieval Animal Epic. Medievalia Lovaniensia, Ser. 1, no. 3 (Louvain University Press; The Hague: Nijhoff, 1975), pp. 53-65.
The "Roman de Renart" has been overemphasized as a source for NPT and for other Middle English works; English animal fables, perhaps influenced in part by the "Roman," are more likely sources and should be explored more thoroughly.
Ando, Shinsuke.
Earl Miner, ed. English Criticism in Japan: Essays by Younger Japanese Scholars on English and American Literature (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1972), pp. 3-18.
Comments on Chaucer's formal descriptions of women in Rom, BD, RvT, and MilT, focusing on his uses of rhetorical conventions, Continental models, and native English alliterative phrases and vocabulary.
Kennedy, Jennifer T.
Early American Literature 36.2 : 201-34, 2001.
Kennedy analyzes Benjamin Franklin's self-presentation in his Memoir, commenting on his validation of his surname by reference to Chaucer's GP sketch of the Franklin and other early sources.
Fredell, Joel.
Early Book Society Newsletter 3:2 (1998): [7-12]
Categorizes patterns of paragraphing in the "landmark" manuscripts of CT as "sparse" or "dense," arguing that the patterns emphasize the "florilegium qualities" of CT and focusing on uses of paraphs in SqT.
D'Anca, Christene.
Early Middle English 4 (2022): 87-95.
Clarifies the "nuanced semantic versatility" of "hende" in romances and fabliaux, with particular attention to MilT and "Dame Sirith," showing how various connotations obtain in differing contexts, and suggesting that editors "might apply distinct…
Laam, Kevin.
Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1 (2008): n. p. [Electronic publication]
Influenced by courtly Chaucerian conventions earlier in his career, George Gascoigne emulated Chaucerian penitential seriousness in "The Grief of Joye." Laam comments on Gascoigne's and George Puttenham's uses of Chaucer, and briefly explores the…
Ludwikowska, Joanna.
Early Modern Literary Studies 20, no. 1 (2018): 1-51. Open access journal at https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/emls/index (accessed February 6, 2022).
Argues--with qualifications--that the Reformation did not have "any direct, significant influence on the changes in the discourse on female vices and virtues" in the early modern period. Focuses on social conditions, conduct literature, and fiction,…
Barney, Stephen A.
East Lansing, Mich.: Colleagues Press, 1993.
Addresses problems in producing editions of medieval poems, focusing on TC and the editions and textual commentaries by Windeatt and Root as well as on Barney's own contribution to "The Riverside Chaucer." Considers such issues as Chaucer's…
Dane, Joseph A.
East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1998.
Eleven studies on the publishing history of Chaucer's works attempt to correct misconceptions about the nature of book production, extant editions and issues of Chaucer's works, and the reliability of bibliographical descriptions.
Morrison, Susan Signe.
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 10, no. 1 (2019): 40-59.
Contemplates similarities and analogies between reading and walking and between medieval and modern pilgrimage narratives, commenting on ecopoetics, biopoetics, and topopoetics, and on relations between design and contingency, human and nonhuman…
Morrison, Susan Signe.
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 11, no. 2 (2020): 118-27.
Draws on debates about slow cinema to suggest how ClT evokes a "slow eco-aesthetics" with an ethical impact. Based on the notion that medieval pilgrimage texts evoke a slow aesthetic, the strategies of slowness and patience in the tale of Patient…
Reis, Huriye.
Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (Hacettepe University) 20.1 (2003): 140-49.
Reads LGWP as an indication of Chaucer's theory that writing is based largely on the reading of others. Chaucer's narrator is confronted with the implications of this theory.
Reis, Huriye.
Edebiyat fakültesi dergisi (Hacettepe University) 29.2 (2012): 123-35.
Comments on the role and status of women in the fabliau genre, and argues that May of MerT and Alisoun of MilT are "women of resistance . . . concerned with regaining partial control over their own bodies through adultery." The two characters produce…
