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Gilbert, Dorothy.   Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976): 288A.
Chaucer's line shows tension between accentual-syllabic meter and strong stress. The result is a complex prosody full of variety. Chaucer's prosody should be studied in texts that use the virgule because modern punctuation blurs the prosody.

Gilbert, Gaelen.   Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 43-57.
Claims that "Chaucer is eschatological" with a recurrent focus on "death, judgment, hell, and heaven," but that he also anticipates in Ret how readers might associate Chaucer the author with Chaucer's texts, thus encouraging "a dynamic of textual…

Gilbert, Jane, and Sara Harris.   Orietta Da Rold and Elaine Treharne, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 149-78.
Includes discussion of Astr in showing that "vernacular pride" in late medieval England was "more inclusive than exclusive of other languages and cultures." Stresses the "practical utility" of Astr and how English achieves "dignity" by association…

Gilbert, Jane.   Nicola F. McDonald and W. M. Ormrod, eds. Rites of Passage: Cultures of Transition in the Fourteenth Century (York: York Medieval Press, 2005), pp. 109-31
Gilbert's anthropological reading of BD and LGW emphasizes how in BD Blanche is represented as having successfully left the land of the living for the land of the dead. In LGW, the female protagonists resist this rite of passage and, in doing so,…

Gilbert, Jane.   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
In the chapter "Becoming Woman in Chaucer: 'On ne naît pas femme, on le devient en mourant'," Gilbert reads BD and LGW through the lenses of Robert Hertz's and Jacques Lacan's theories, respectively. BD represents a response to death that follows a…

Gildow, Jason R.   Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2005): 2981A.
Examines treatment of Theban/Oedipal myth in Chaucer, Lydgate, and Shakespeare.

Gill, Richard.   Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 2 (1981): 18-32.
Ambiguous old men in English poetry, including the one in PardT, can be illuminated by the psychological archetype of the "wise old man" that Jung describes in "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairy Tales."

Gill, Sister Anne Barbara.   Washington, D. C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1960
Surveys critical opinion about the relation of the palinode in TC to the body of the poem, and then focuses on the characters' various views of love and the narrator's "ironic mask." In contrast with the "pragmatic limitations" of Pandarus's view of…

Gillam, D.   Names 35 (1987): 64-73.
"Alys" and its diminutive "Alisoun" have interesting reverberations. The rhyme "Alys"/"talys" may link the Wife with "tales" and have a pun indicating love of drink. "Alisoun" may be a covert pun on "eleison." The popularity of the name Alys is…

Gillam, D.   A. P. Treweek, ed. Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 1969. Proceedings and Papers of the Twelfth Congress Held at the University of Western Australia, 5-11 February 1969 ([Sydney]: AULLA, 1970), pp, 435-55.
Explores the "fruyt" and "chaf" of WBT, arguing that it is "eminently suited" to the character established in GP and WBP, that the teller manipulates her narrative material intentionally, and that Chaucer signals her tendentiousness. The female…

Gillam, Doreen M. E.   Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 88 (1987): 192-99.
The charged "psychological context" of the GP description of the Pardoner as a mare can be partly reconstructed on linguistic evidence. Later English usage, as well as earlier French and Old Norse citations, indicates that the noun commonly meant…

Gillam, Doreen M. E.   English Studies 63 (1982): 394-401.
Chaucer often used the horse-and-rider image as a metaphor for sexual "maistrie." In Anel the image illustrates Arcite's failure to exercise mastery over either of his ladies, chafing like a restless horse in the service of Anelida while playing the…

Gilles, Sealy, and Sylvia Tomasch.   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. 364-83.
Describes the "scientific humanism" that underlies the scholarship of Manly and Rickert and that prompted them to construct Chaucer as "an ideal bourgeois." Their efforts to establish Chaucer as an originary ideal through a wholly authoritative text…

Gilles, Sealy.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25: 157-97, 2003.
Reads the depiction of Troilus's love-sickness against "new theories of contagion" that resulted from the devastations of the plague. Criseyde internalizes the anti-feminist "logic of disease" and names herself the "infective other." Troilus's…

Gillespie, Alexandra, and Daniel Wakelin, eds.   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
A collection of essays addressing the history of the book, manuscript studies, culture, and history of late medieval England. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Production of Books in England under Alternative Title.

Gillespie, Alexandra, and Julianna Chianelli.   In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Summarizes the "textual world" of the late-medieval England and describes the international development of the printing press. Comments on references to literacy and literate materials in Chaucer's works, explores the implications of Adam, remarks…

Gillespie, Alexandra.   Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 12.1: 1-26, 2000.
Considers 11 Caxton quarto editions of English verse (STC 17019, 17009, 17030, 1450, 17008, 17018, 17032, 4851, 5091, 5090, and 3303) that include works by Lydgate and Caxton, assessing the economy of their production and their provenances and…

Gillespie, Alexandra.   Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Analyzing the impact of print on already-existing ideas of authorship, Gillespie argues "that the medieval author was a mechanism for ordering the new meanings of texts in print," even when the understanding of that author was a result, or…

Gillespie, Alexandra.   Paul Strohm, ed. Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 86-103.
Focusing on perspectives evident in Chaucer's Adam (and the career of Adam Pinkhurst) and "Mum and the Sothsegger," Gillespie explores the importance of "the book" as a technology that spans the oral-print divide.

Gillespie, Alexandra.   Chaucer Review 42 (2008): 269-83.
Despite their empirical basis, the conclusions Linne R. Mooney draws regarding Adam Pinkhurst's relationship to Chaucer ultimately depend on literary evidence, which should remind scholars that while particular communities of readers make a work…

Gillespie, Alexandra.   Andrew King and Matthew Woodcock, eds. Medieval into Renaissance: Essays for Helen Cooper (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016), pp. 15-30.
Poses questions about the "realities and complexities of authorship and literary tradition" in Gower, the "pseudo-Chaucerian" "Plowman's Tale," Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender,: and Milton's poetry. Addresses Chaucer's reception in the sixteenth…

Gillespie, Alexandra.   Marion Turner, ed. A Handbook of Middle English Studies (Chichester: Wiley, 2013), pp. 171-85. 1 b&w fig.
Assesses relations between the "idealizing tendencies" of formalist literary studies and the practicalities of studies in book history, reading PF as a "Chaucerian theory of the book" that is similar to the theory of Maurice Blanchot. Explores how a…

Gillespie, Alexandra.   Exemplaria 30 (2018): 66-83.
Argues that in their ordering of Chaucer's text and in their various and dynamic forms, manuscripts of CT successfully instantiate Chaucer's dynamic idea of his text, the complex conditions for pre-print book production, and the disaggregated forms…

Gillespie, Alexandra.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 81-97.
Reassesses D. S. Brewer's claim about the relative paucity of the book in the fourteenth century, suggesting instead that "in Chaucer's time, new technologies and new social circumstances were making it easier, faster, and cheaper to produce and…

Gillespie, David Southard.   Ph.D. Dissertation. Michigan State University, 1971. Dissertation Abstracts International 32 (1971): 3188-89A. Fully accessible at https://d.lib.msu.edu/etd/40345; accessed April 22, 2023.
Historical analysis of the changes in the English world view preceding and following the Black Death of 1349, with particular attention to the art and literature up to 1385 and its "pessimism and macabre realism." Includes recurrent references to…
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