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Mapstone, Sally.   Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone, eds. The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 51-69.
The 'Kingis Quair' is distinct from the "Chaucerian tradition" insofar as the former deals with public issues as well as personal ones. Its presentation of Boethian philosophy contrasts with that in TC and KnT, from which it "self-consciously…

Phillips, Helen.   Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone, eds. The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 71-97.
Attempts to define fifteenth-century "Chaucerian poetry," commenting on the historical use of the term and positing several thematic and formal features, especially the "meta-fictive and self-reflexive virtuosity" that results from various kinds of…

Gillespie, Vincent.   Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone, eds. The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997): pp. 273-311.
One of the ways that Skelton sought to achieve a status as high as Chaucer's was to present himself as a combination of poet, priest, and prophet in "Replycacion."

Osborn, Marijane.   Helen Damico and John Leyerle, eds. Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period: Studies in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger, Jr. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 32 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1993), pp. 313-30.
Argues against over-ingenious readings of the dayraven in "Beowulf" and of the stone with which Alison threatens Absalon in MilT (3708, 3712), clarifying the commonplace nature of each.

Sturges, Robert S.   Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 120-44.
Focuses on TC's connections with Dante's "Convivio" and "Vita nuova." Although there is no "evidence for direct borrowing from the 'Vita nova,'" Sturges claims that Chaucer's and Dante's "sensory aspects of love" are similar in the three works,…

Johnston, Andrew James.   Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 145-68
Explores relationship between "astrology and governance," and Chaucer's ekphrastic descriptions of classical and Italian architectural and visual arts in KnT.

Flood, Victoria.   Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 169-92.
Examines the significance of the eagle as a "common symbol of empire in medieval political prophecy." Discusses how the "Dantean figure of the Eagle" in the "Inferno" is transformed by Chaucer into a "humorous--and human--personality" in HF.

Rossiter, William T.   Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 17-44
Emphasizes Chaucer's diplomatic experience in Italy to "show how Chaucer drew on the work of Petrarch and Boccaccio to experiment with fictionalised
forms of the ambassadorial process."

Schwebel, Leah.   Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 193-216
Associates the genre of the "poetic triumph," found in examples from Ovid and Virgil, with an analysis of "Chaucer's 'Trophee'" in MkT.

Robinson, James.   Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 45-90.
Demonstrates "intertexuality" linking Chaucer with Dante's "Inferno," 10, and Boccaccio's "Decameron," 6.9. Argues for Chaucer's rich understanding of his Italian source material, which he uses "purposefully and playfully."

Fulton, Helen.   Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 91-120.
Presents examples from the "classical genres of chorography and topography" in analysis of ClT. Argues that Chaucer's "untypical use of chorography . . . draws attention to Italy's international trade routes" and reinforces the economic transactional…

Kennedy, Teresa A.   Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: Unversity of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 217-40.
Argues that the dream vision aspects of HF and NPT can be read "through their shared preoccupations with writing, reading and problematic quest for 'authority' by vernacular texts." Addresses the importance of textual authority, allegory, and parody,…

D'Arcens, Louise.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 201-17.
Explores the possibilities of "transhistorical feeling" for assessing what "Chaucer's 'persone', and especially his face" mean to "post-medieval audiences." Argues that "intersubjective" perception of "geniality" in visual and verbal Chaucer…

Grady, Frank.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 109-24.
Identifies associations between hunting and Fortune in various Middle English romances, exploring the "shared formal and thematic ambitions" of BD and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" as "two members of this hunting-and-Fortune group." Shows how the…

Prendergast, Thomas A.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 125-37.
Considers possible motives for the "Beryn" scribe to include the "Prologue" and the "Tale of Beryn" in one of the CT mansucripts that he copied, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, MS 455 (Nl), arguing that he was responding to the "agency of the text,"…

Matthews, David.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 138-52.
Gauges Tudor awareness of and attitudes toward earlier English, comparing comments and lexical choices made by William Caxton in two of his printed volumes: the second edition of CT and John of Trevisa's translation of Ranulf Higden's…

Strohm, Paul.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 14-23
Contemplates the notion that "identification" with a given author is a "frequent, if unacknowledged, component of literary appreciation." Theorizes the notion in Freudian terms and those of reader-response criticism, exploring the processes and…

Knight, Stephen.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 153-71.
Identifies and quotes from a range of generally unnoticed references and allusions to Chaucer and his works drawn from the "mass media" of the nineteenth-century English-speaking world, primarily newspapers. Arranged chronologically in discursive…

Lynch, Andrew.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 172-87.
Focuses on nineteenth-century critical attention to Chaucer as childlike, simple, or fresh for the ways that it contributed to later inattention to Chaucer as a religious poet, particularly inattention to Chaucer as an English Catholic poet. Examines…

Ganim, John M.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 188-200.
Argues that the "erotics" of William Morris's "News from Nowhere" constitute "an allegorical emblem of its politics," and suggests that the narrative stance of the novel may have been influenced by Chaucer's dream-vision narrator, an "inquisitive, if…

Simpson, James.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 218-33.
Proposes as an epistemological and hermeneutical concept that "literary cognition is fundamentally a matter of re-cognition," exploring recognition as cognition in literary texts and in the apprehension of literary texts. Examines Virgil's "Aeneid"…

Robertson, Elizabeth.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 25-41.
Assesses Troilus's and Criseyde's first looks at one another in TC as examples of physiological sense perception, rather than as mental or emotional processes or stages. Resists feminist and patristic readings of these gazes, and reads them in light…

Cooper, Helen.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 42-55.
Examines similarities between the maidens who yearn for the love of Thopas--despite his chastity (Th 7.742-45)--and lovesick women "who offer themselves" in analogous romances, particularly "Ipomadon" and the romances cited in Th 7.897-900. Suggests…

Evans, Ruth.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 56-73.
Laments critical inattention to the prevalence of rhyme-breaking in Chaucer's poetry, and explores precedents in continental medieval verse and its critical traditions. Clarifies the term, and gauges the effects and functions of the device in a…

Downes, Stephanie.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 74-90.
Studies the "narratological representation of the non-normative exemplarity of facial pallor" in Chaucer's poetry, exploring associations of facial paleness with facial expressions and emotional reactions, contrasting paleness with blushing, and…
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