In later medieval thought, spinning women represent two often contradictory ideas: rebellion against hierarchical order and, paradoxically, Marian obedience. Citing scripture, Chaucer's Wife fuses both viewpoints in WBP. When Lancastrian mores…
Hill, Archibald A.
Caroline Duncan-Rose and Theo Vennemann, eds. On Language: Rhetorica, Phonologica, Syntactica. (London: Routledge, 1988), pp. 66-78.
The search for Chaucer's puns has increased dramatically in modern scholarship, particularly John Gardner's. By adopting some conservative principles, we can curb the "extravagence of pun-hunting." First, puns should be distinguished from innuendo…
Hill, Betty.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 74 (1973): 665-75.
Explicates several words and images found in MilT--the "piggesnye" of Alison's description most extensively--and identifies echoes of the tale's concern with "poetic justice" in RvT which contributes to the bitterness of the latter.
Hill, Betty.
Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Literary and Historical Section 14 (1971): 207-20.
Reads six stanzas from TC (3.85-126), closely analyzing rhymes and rhythm, alliteration, diction and phrases, repetitions and echoes of other works to exemplify the "pliable pleasure" afforded by Chaucer's style and his engagement with oral and…
Suggests that the "greyn" placed on the clergeon's tongue by the Virgin in PrT 7.662 may represent that his "disembodied spirit [was] restored for a time," offering contextualizing background from biblical, classical, and medieval scientific sources…
Hill, Granville Sydnor.
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1977): 1409A.
The rhetorical and narrative conventions used by Chaucer in his saintly tales reveal him an accomplished hagiographer. An analysis of the narrator's rhetoric in describing the characters in GP produces a better understanding of the relation between…
Hill, John M.
New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1991.
Chaucer's works explore and promote "cognitive credence"--belief as a way of knowing the truths reflected in fiction. In BD, HF, PF, and LGWP, the narrators' confrontations with various fictions show that belief and emotional involvement are…
Hill argues that Troilus's pagan, earthly joy in the second half of Book 3 of TC is Chaucer's representation of "the maximum of good and beauty to be found outside of Christian belief and the dispensations of faith." The intense joy experienced by…
Differentiates the lover's malady in BD from the traditional love-sickness found in its analogues, identifying the malady as a form of head melancholy curable by a good night's sleep, the narrator's only physician. The comic version of the tale of…
Explores examples of "friendship, felicity or joy, love, fellowship, and 'compaignye' (company, companionship, community)" in Chaucer's works through a Neoplatonic lens. Focuses on "Chaucer's Boethianism" by offering perspectives on Chaucer's own…
Hill, John M., Bonnie Wheeler, and R. F. Yeager, eds.
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2014.
Collection of essays celebrating the teaching and varied scholarship of Howell "Chick" Chickering. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.
Hill, John M.,and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, eds.
Madison, N.J., and London : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2000.
Fourteen essays by various authors, along with an introduction and "Robert O. Payne: In Memoriam" by Hill. For eight essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
Hill, John.
Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, eds. New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry (Rochester, N.Y., and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), pp. 165-82.
In light of Cicero's "De amicitia," the noble friendship between Troilus and Pandarus helps to elevate TC to a great tragedy.
Hill, Michelle Queen.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation University of Georgia, 2016.
Available at https://www.libs.uga.edu/.
Accessed February 7, 2021.
Explores how genre conventions and expectations vary between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century and produce different views of history. Includes discussion of BD and KnT for the ways that Chaucer reshapes their conventional genres (dream…
Hill, Ordelle G.
Selinsgrove, Penn.: Susquehanna University Press, 1993.
Traces the changing reception of the literary images of the plowman and the shepherd from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. In the fourteenth century, the plowman begins to shift from representing such values as hard work and thrift to…
Hill, Ordelle G.,and Gardiner Stillwell.
Philological Quarterly 73 (1994): 317-28.
In PF 316-18, Chaucer alludes to Alain de Lille's discussion of love, the main points of which are Nature's law of love and humans' unnatural violation of it (with implicit references to the homosexuality of Richard's great-grandfather Edward II). …
Argues that TC is largely concerned with "certitude and volition as they pertain to human perception and judgment" and as they relate to late medieval philosophical discussions of divine omnipotence and divine self-limitation. Troilus, Pandarus, and…
Hill, Thomas D.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 145-50.
Argues that "fader" in the first line of Gent refers to prelapsarian Adam, evidence of Chaucer's "modest egalitarianism."
Like Perceval and Gawain in Chrétien's work, Troilus, Pandarus, and Criseyde in TC "embody various aspects of perception," vision, and knowledge; "they do so particularly through their portrayal as perceivers or readers" of their respective worlds.
Hilles, Carroll.
New Medieval Literatures 4: 189-212, 2001.
Bokenham "strategically utilizes feminine piety" and his own "dullness" to express political dissent in a style that differs from the high rhetorical style of Gower, Chaucer, and Lydgate. He rejects their "classicizing, aureate" tradition, initiating…
Contrasts the characterizations of Theseus and Emily in "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and KnT, focusing on how the play challenges the principles of romance by manipulating Chaucerian material and perspective. Revised slightly as "(Mis)Appropriating the…
Posits FranT as a major source for Shakespeare play, focusing on similarities between the two magicians. Revised version published as "Deceiving Appearances: Neo-Chaucerian Magic in 'The Tempest'," in Hillman's Intertextuality and Romance in…
