Gross, Jeffrey Martin.
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1992): 3919A-20A.
Chaucer's handling of the dreamer-narrator of BD proves sensitive and subtle in its exploration of genre, irony, tension, and artistic capability; the poem foreshadows Chaucer's later mastery.
Gross, John, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Selections of comic verse in English, from Chaucer to Glyn Maxwell. The Chaucer selection (pp. 1-4) includes the descriptions of the Monk, Summoner, and Pardoner from the GP.
Gross, John, ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Surveys parodies in English, including two brief examples from Alexander Pope that parody Chaucer, plus Stanley J. Sharpless's "The Tale of Miss Hunter Dunn [Geoffrey Chaucer Rewrites Sir John Betjeman]" (pp. 6-7).
Gross, Karen E.
Studies in Philology 109 (2012): 19-44.
Offers a "new description of Chaucer's interaction with Italian poetry," focusing on how he avoids borrowing several of its most innovative features: the "presence of a beatific lady," the tendency to elevate the poet's poetry to high authority, and…
New facets of Chaucer's writing on love, consolation, and repentance are illuminated when we assume that Chaucer did translate Pseudo-Origen's "De Maria Magdalena," as he claims to have done in LGWP G418 ("Orygenes upon the Maudeleyne").
Describes techniques used by medieval authors for presenting human emotions, drawing examples from various writers, and focusing on Chaucer's uses of the heart as a physical object or a concrete image in depicting the pains of love, whether caused by…
Compares and contrasts Pandarus's wooing of Criseyde (for Troilus) with Diomede's, assessing their patterns and details for the ways they reflect the design of the poem, its concern with time, and the "unchanged character" of Criseyde.
Describes the "typological" uses of time in the mystery cycles, the "biological time" of the heroes' actions in most romances, and the much more complex concern with time in TC, where "all action and characters" are placed in time and are given…
Explores differences between the narrator's depictions of the passing of time in TC. Books 1-4 record events consecutively, with little or no inference of simultaneity of action, and Book 5 shifts abruptly to an "outside-narrator time sequence"…
Grossi, Joseph L., Jr.
Chaucer Review 36 (2002): 298-309.
Grossi compares details of SNT with Jacob of Voragine's version in the "Golden Legend" and the Franciscan "abridgement" of the life of Saint Cecilia, arguing that Chaucer "sought to widen the intellectual divide between Roman paganism and primitive…
Grossi, Joseph L.,Jr.
Richard J. Utz, ed. Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm (Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen, 1995), pp. 147-78.
Reads ClT as a realist's attack on nominalism, with Walter depicting an unfree diety, and Griselda, rampant fideism. Chaucer moderates the Clerk's realism at the end of the Tale and in the Envoy.
Grosskopf, John Dennis.
Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin, eds. Arthurian Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008), pp. 120-27.
Grosskopf summarizes Chaucer's life and assesses allusions to King Arthur and Arthurian motifs and characters in CT, commenting on SqT, Th, NPT, WBT, and the lack of Arthurian material in KnT. Surveys related critical commentary and suggests that…
Treats KnT as a traditional, conservative work, elevated in tone and style and dependent on "French and Italian traditions of eloquence." Conversely GP is the "most original of Chaucer's poems," innovative in its "mingling" of "praise and blame"…
Grossman, Judith.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 41-54.
John Barbour in "The Bruce" (1375) depicts Sir James Douglas as conforming to the knightly ideal in character and manner,but not in physical appearance. In Chaucer's TC, Criseyde occasionally departs from the pattern of idealized heroine. Through…
Grossvogel, David L.
Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1968.
Explores the "complex dialectic between the author and his reader" as the defining feature of the novel as a literary form, offering case studies in a range of works, medieval to modern. Includes a discussion of TC (pp. 44-73) which focuses on…
Beauty and cynicism co-exist in MerT: we feel the characters capable of tenderness and right self-affirmation as well as nastiness; January's abandoning the knowledge his recovery brings shows that we see more truly by rejecting "knowing" on the…
Groves, Beatrice.
Beatrice Groves, Literary Allusion in "Harry Potter" (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 38-59.
Argues that the most "tempting objects" in J. K. Rowling's "Deathly Hallows" derive in part from the girdle in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; the "thirty pieces of silver that persuade" the biblical Judas to betray Jesus; and the "deadly pile of…
Over six centuries, Chaucer's verse has been construed in a "bewildering variety of ways." This essay surveys the reception of Chaucer's metrics from his immediate contemporaries to the present and considers the process of "transmitting metrical…
Gruber, Loren C.
William C. Johnson and Loren C. Gruber, eds. "New" Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism (Denver: Society for New Language Study, 1973), pp. 43-50.
Argues that ManT contributes to the theme of the linguistic slipperiness in CT, depicting how language fails to reflect reliably the "actual nature of the world."
Gruber, Loren C., ed., with the assistance of Meredith Crellin Gruber and Gregory K. Jember.
Lewiston, N.Y. : Mellen Press, 2000.
Twenty essays by various authors, and a bibliography of Tripp's publications. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. under Alternative Title.
Treats various characters of CT as figures in or of isolation: Arcite (KnT), John (MilT), Constance (MLT), Friar John (SumT), Thomas (SumT), and the Pardoner. As such, they share characteristics with figures in Old English poetry.
Studies the interconnected development of fabliaux, tales, and novellas in the European Middle Ages, with emphasis on the German tradition and the impact of Boccaccio. Includes discussion of CT (pp. 292-97) as an early ("früher") response to…
CT "shows a surprising array" of ways in which Chaucer "ignores, skirts, transcends, or even anticipates structural closure," engaging his readers in the "dialogic processes of discourse itself." Surveys techniques of openendedness in CT, arguing…
ManT examines the kind of language by which a poet can survive. Given the historical context of Richard II's reign and the contemporary chronicle literature that warned of the necessity of suppressing one's speech, the individual must resort to…
