Haskell, Ann (S.)
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 193-98.
The walled-garden images in KnT, MerT, the GP sketch of the Prioress, WBT, FrT, and BD illustrate that walls not only provide safety but also exclude women from the knowledge needed to progress from virginity to motherhood and to "wise womanhood." …
Haskell, Ann S.
Rossell Hope Robbins, ed. Chaucer at Albany (New York: Franklin, 1975), pp. 105-24.
Chaucer's allusions to saints were used to evoke different associations on different occasions. Two allusions to St. Nicholas offer striking contrasts in different contests.
Because the description of Sir Thopas underscores his artificiality and contains references to puppetry, the knight may be viewed as a puppet of Chaucer-Pilgrim, himself a puppet manipulated by Chaucer-Poet. This metaphor clarifies the operation of…
Haskell, Ann S.
Marlene Springer, ed. What Manner of Woman. Gotham Library. (New York: New York University Press, 1978), pp. 1-14.
The romance, reflecting a male dominated society, depicts heroines as stereotypically as the less popular fabliau depicts lower class women. Later literature gives more access to women's lives, particularly middle class ones. Chaucer's Wife…
Haskell, Ann S.
Chaucer Review 7.3 (1973): 221-26.
Explicates features of the reference to St. Giles in CYT (8.1185), drawing on the various traditions of Giles as patron saint of "'those struck by some sudden misery, and driven into solitude.'"
Haskell, Ann S.
English Symposium Papers 3 (1973): 1-45.
Characterizes medieval lyrics and various sub-genres by illustrative examples; then comments on several themes and topoi in Chaucer's lyrics and lyrical passages from his longer works.
Haskell, Ann S.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 72 (1971): 723-34.
Finds three kinds of character doubling in TC: Hector is an "echoic or reflective doubling" of Troilus, Pandarus and Troilus double as complementary portions of one lover, and Diomedes is Troilus's "dramatically opposing" double.
Argues that "linguistic irony which results from [an] extended pun on 'amor'" runs throughout CT, supported by the diction and imagery of gold. Spiritual love is associated recurrently with positive images of gold; earthly love, with negative ones.
Contends that the "Joce"/"croce" rhyme in WBP 3.483-84 is not just a convenient rhyme but a set of sexual puns, dependent upon the association of St. Joce with a staff.
Includes ten essays by the author (1) The Host's "precious corpus Madrian" (rpt.), (2) The Pardoner's St. Ronyan, (3) The St. Giles Oath in CYT (rpt.), (4) The St. Loy Oath Reconsidered, (5) Hende Old St Nicholas in MilT (rpt.), (6) St. Nicholas and…
Haskell, Ann Sullivan.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 67 (1968): 430-40.
Identifies the referent of the Host's oath (MkP 7.1892) as the Greek martyr St. Adrian, explaining his history and legends, familiarity to Chaucer's audience, and appropriateness to the context of the Host's complaint that his wife Goodelief had not…
Argues that Chaucer and several rhetoricians deliberately construct verbal portraits of the female body and feminize language to engage readers in the pursuit of textual pleasure; this engagement is predicated on a particular way of looking at,…
Hass, Robin Ranea.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3949A-50A
In the light of medieval "artes poetriae," rhetoric is perceived as feminine. Chaucer's hagiography, courtly romance, and fabliaux demonstrate rhetoric in various modes: as chaste, "pedestal," and wanton, especially as voiced by the Clerk and the…
Twenty-five tales in modern iambic verse, told by various travelers on a cruise ship headed to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, but beset by the COVID-19 pandemic. Modeled on CT.
Examines the "psychological realities" of Troilus's fear of losing Criseyde after she departs from Troy, comparing Chaucer's and Boccaccio's versions to show how, in TC, the hero's "immoderate fear distorts perception" and causes him to judge…
Hatcher, Elizabeth Roberta.
DAI 33.05 (1972): 2327A.
Defends the notion that TC presents an ambivalent view of human love, grand yet transitory, arguing that this ambivalence is rooted in Chaucer's treatment of love as mythic material.
The Old Man of PardT, wretched because of his inability to die, embodies a lesson of "contemptus mundi" that should correct the rioters' "rash wish" to overcome physical death,but due to their spiritual blindness, they fail to heed his warning.
Studies Chaucer's similes and metaphors to trace the "development of imagery in each of [his] works" from BD through CT, suggesting that Chaucer shows a "progressive awareness of the image as an essential tool of his art." Results of statistical…
Hatton, Thomas J.
Studies in Medieval Culture 4 (1974): 452-58.
The Squire's concupiscence and selfishness contrast with the Knight's love of chivalric virtues. Through the Squire and his tale Chaucer may be suggesting that the knights of Richard II's court return to the values represented by his own perfect…
Hatton, Thomas J.
Proceedings of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 02 (1993): 81-89.
Both the Miller and characters in his "Tale" exhibit "curiositas," defined by medieval Church fathers as the exercise of curiosity in pursuit of idle knowledge, i.e., knowledge not directly leading to salvation.
Hatton, Thomas J.
Language and Style 7 (1974): 261-70.
Generalizes that John Dryden's compositional technique (in which abstractions precede concrete details) has precedent in the medieval "rhetorical poetic." Then shows how the details of KnT are "the vehicle for the presentation of certain Boethian…
