Blandeau, Agnès.
Colette Stévanovitch, Elise Louviot, Philippe Mahoux-Pauzin, and Dominique Hascoët, eds. La Formule dans la Littérature et la Civilisation de l'Angleterre Médiévale (Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Regards Croisés sur le Monde Anglophone, 2011), pp. 273-99.
Focuses on Ackroyd's use of Chaucer's "formulism" (Zumthor) and reflects on how successful the accumulation of medieval formulas and sayings really is.
McGillivray, Murray.
Florilegium 27 (2011 for 2010): 159-76.
Proposes that a "computer facilitated re-spelling of a reconstructed archetype" ought to be the basis for future editions of LGW, Anel, HF, PF, and BD because the textual situations of these poems are "precarious." The reconstruction would use the…
Taking its editor's preface as a cue, an examination of this edition, which has heretofore been labeled a reprint of John Bell's 1782 edition, reveals that it is in fact "a considerable re-evaluation of Chaucer's works."
Facing-page poetic translation of GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, ClPT, MerPT, FranPT, PardPT, PrPT, Thop and prologues to Thop and Mel, NPPT, ParsP, and Ret. Follows Chaucer's verse forms. Includes biographical and cultural backgrounds (pp.…
Within the context of an examination of the English Renaissance, submits that the 1598 edition of Chaucer connects manuscripts and print culture, while lending Chaucerian authority and canonicity to print editions.
Aloni, Gila.
Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec, eds. Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England (New York: Plagrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 157-73..
Chaucer rewrites his source in Ovid "Metamaphorses" 6 to show the strong bond between the sisters who provide solace to each other. The same kind of bond is shown among the women who support the raped maiden in the WBT. The meaning of rape in…
Vial, Claire.
Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec, eds. Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England (New York: Plagrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 175-91.
Awareness of generic ancestry offers evidence of the palimpsestuous nature of the "true" Middle English Breton lays. Reference is made to Chaucer's FranT among other so-called Breton lays.
Bourgne, Florence.
Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec, eds. Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England (New York: Plagrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 115-36.
Vernacular authors anxious about the fragility of texts due to the impermanence of the medium and scribal transmission called attention in their writing to forms of engraving in stone and wax. As writing habits changed, the depiction of writing…
Carruthers, Leo, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec, eds.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
This collection dedicated to André Crépin contains an introduction and eleven essays on different aspects of palimpsests, both in the technical and literary senses of the word. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Palimpsests and…
Bestul, Thomas H.
Medieval Feminist Forum 45.1 (2009): 68-92.
Biographical sketch of Bressie, focusing on her work with John M. Manly, Edith Rickert, and Lilian Redstone on the Chaucer life-records and her unsuccessful competition with Martin Crow to publish works related to Chaucer. Bestul admires Bressie's…
Boswell, Jackson Campbel.
Chaucer Review 45 (2011): 435-65.
Adding to the work both of Spurgeon in "Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion" and of the author and Holton in "Chaucer's Fame in England," this annotated bibliography presents forty-five new citations, including one to a hitherto…
Allen, Mark, and Bege K. Bowers.
SAC 33 (2011): 389-461.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 205 items, plus listing of reviews for 82 books. Includes an author…
Flinthart, Dirk, ed.
[Wollongong, N. S. W.]: Agog! Press, 2008.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat as a collection of science fiction stories. The online descriptions indicate eighteen stories, written by individual authors, set in a futuristic frame narrative involving a delayed nuclear-powered train headed to…
Contrasts the "opposing principles of conduct" that underlie the main characters in FranT and MerT, arguing that the "values" expressed there are "dramatized and explored" throughout CT. Moreover, the view of "gentilesse" expressed in FranT sums up…
Thiébaux, Marcelle.
Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1974.
Traces the varieties of the stag-hunt motif in the art and literature of the Middle Ages, including classical roots, considering hunting manuals, imagery and fictive presentations, and allegorical uses. Includes recurrent references to Chaucer's…
Spearing, A. C., and J. E. Spearing, eds.
London: Edward Arnold, 1974.
An anthology of Middle English verse, with individual introductions and facing-page glosses and notes. The General Introduction (pp. 1-40) considers prosody and poetic techniques, genres, and various linguistic concerns. Includes FrT (discussed as…
The Pardoner's interruption of the WBP causes shifts in her tone and subject, but also alerts us to parallels between the two characters: wide travels, sermon-like autobiographical prologues, and tales which feature central characters who are…
Howard, Donald.
Robert S. Kinsman, ed. The Darker Vision of the Renaissance: Beyond the Fields of Reason (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974), pp. 47-76.
Proposes that "purposeful" alienation that was characteristic of humanist thinking between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries: contempt for the world that belies an underlying fascination with it. Assesses the presence of the sentiment in several…
Duncan-Jones, Katherine.
Review of English Studies 25.98 (1974): 174-77.
Suggests a possible "echo" of HF and PF in Philip Sidney's "Old Arcadia," where "philosophical reflections by the dreamer are partly burlesqued" in the vision which follows.
Moseley, C. W. R. D.
Modern Philology 72.2 (1974): 182-84.
Suggests that the influence of Mandeville's "Travels" on SqT and on alliterative poetry including "Pearl" may have been due to the circulation of the work at the Lancastrian court of John of Gaunt.
Millichap, Joseph R
Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 28.4 (1974): 102-08.
Considers the imagery of transubstantiation and transformation in PardPT and in the GP description of the Pardoner. In traditional Christian terms, the Pardoner fails to use properly the things of the world for spiritual purposes; in terms of Jungian…
Johnson, William C., Jr.
Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 28.2 (1974): 57-65.
Compares the miracles in MLT with those in its source in Nicholas Trevet, arguing that by emphasizing emotion over religion Chaucer renders the narrative more powerful and humanistic.
An alphabetical dictionary that lists people, personifications, and allusions (direct and indirect) in Chaucer's works, providing brief identifications and exhaustive citations of occurrences. Entries for sources, such as the Bible, Boccaccio, Dante,…
