Holley, Linda Tarte.
David Raybin and Linda Tarte Holley, eds. Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson's Tale (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2000), pp. 198-208.
As a reckoning or quantification of sin, ParsT rationalizes the "complexities of the human will." By making human options clear, it can serve as either a beginning or an end.
Holley, Linda Tarte.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Building on recent studies related to space and epistemology, this study argues that Chaucer, as well as the "Pearl"-poet and author of "The Cloud of Unknowing," take a pedagogical stance in their writing and "proffer a space from which or by means…
Holliday, Peter.
William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds. Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures (SAC 27 [2005], no. 105), pp. 326-67.
Holliday considers Eric Gill's wood-engraving illustrations to The Canterbury Tales (4 vols., Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-31) in light of Gill's collaboration with Robert Gibbings (owner of the press), the legacy of Edward Johnston (Gill's teacher of…
Argues that Shakespeare's adaptations relied not only on understanding and knowing Chaucerian texts, but on his "memory of Chaucer " and Chaucerian ideas and practices, particularly his mingling of "sources and authorities" in TC.
The dreamer's experience in BD is an amplification of the Ceyx and Alceone story. The Black Knight and the dreamer may be seen as the same person, the dream providing a means of facing the fact of death.
Holloway, Julia Bolton; Constance S. Wright; and Joan Bechtold, eds.
New York: Peter Lang, 1990.
To attain equality, woman have historically had to resist hierarchy, to quest liminality, and to exercise holy disobedience. Women in earlier Christianity, especially in the Romanesque period, exercised that disobedience; but in the paradigm shift…
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S. Wright, and Joan Bechtold, eds. Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages (New York: Peter Lang, 1990), pp. 198-215.
Discusses Chaucer's women and their relations with pilgrimage and learning. The Wife of Bath rebels against her husband's book of wicked wives. The Prioress tells of a boy's eschewing his primer in order to sing a hymn he does not understand from…
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
J. Stephen Russell, ed. Allegoresis: The Craft of Allegory in Medieval Literature (New York and London: Garland, 1988, for 1987), pp. 109-32.
Using CT, "Piers Plowman," and Dante's "Commedia," Holloway looks at traditions of pilgrims and pilgrimages in their figural connections, the role of play and playfulness as correctives for error, and the pilgrim as "pharmakoi," "scapegoat figures of…
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
New York, Berne, and Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1987.
Drawing on medieval music, iconography, typology, and anthropology, Holloway uses "medieval theory and practice of pilgrimage" to illuminate the "Commedia," "Piers Plowman," and CT. Explains why each author made himself a pilgrim in his own book.
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
American Benedictine Review 32 (1981): 114-21.
Recent Princeton performances of the "Officium Peregrinorum" (from Luke 24) reveal probable echoes in CT of the liturgical drama of Christ's pilgrimage to Emmaus in the pilgrimage frame itself, in the poet who like Christ uses "lying" fables to…
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
Michael Masi, ed. Boethius and the Liberal Arts: A Collection of Essays. Utah Studies in Literature and Linguistics, no. 18. (Berne: Peter Lang, 1981), pp. 175-86.
Surveys the history and iconography of the "asinus ad liram" topos and examines its use in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," Juan Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor," and TC. Pandarus inverts Philosophy's use of the topos.
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
New York: AMS Press, 1998.
Ten essays and a personal testimony by the author on the interrelated topics of pilgrimage and exile in works from Homer and Plato to James Joyce. Focuses on the Middle Ages, with essays on female saints and mystics, "Song of Roland," Dante,…
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
Julia Bolton Holloway. Jerusalem: Essays on Pilgrimage and Literature (New York: AMS Press, 1998), pp. 173-94.
Assesses the Wife of Bath (in contrast to the Clerk) and the Pardoner (in contrast to the Parson) as "Chaucer's Diptych of Eve and Adam," commenting on their depictions in the Ellesmere manuscript and reading them as inversions of the ideals of…
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
DAI 35.04 (1974): 2225-26A.
Compares and contrasts CT, Dante's "Divine Comedy," and Langland's "Piers Plowman" as pilgrimage narratives, particularly their emphasis on the poet as pilgrim and movement toward salvation as structure.
Holsinger, Bruce W.
New Medieval Literatures 1 (1997): 157-92
Both ManT and PrT reflect the violence inherent in medieval teaching of music, especially evident in the role of tactile solmization--through the use of the Guidonian hand--in ecclesiastical tradition. In both, Chaucer suggests that music fuels the…
Holsinger, Bruce W.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21: 99-141, 1999.
Argues that the alliterative "Choristers' Lament" is "a sophisticated but hitherto unrecognized response" to Langland's Piers Plowman. Details of the sketch of the Sergeant at Law in GP and the use of "rote" in PrT may indicate that Chaucer conceived…
Holsinger, Bruce W.
Stanfords : Stanford University Press, 2001.
In a wide-ranging study of the corporeality of medieval musical culture, Holsinger assesses the "polyphonic perversity" of Chaucer's Pardoner, i.e., the performances that highlight the Pardoner's rhetorical adeptness and distinguish his musical body…
Holsinger, Bruce Wood.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3928A.
Patristic tradition regarded music as both carnal and spirtual, capable of evoking a gamut of emotions. Diatribes against musical innovation parallel those against unconventional sexual practices. Holsinger considers musical imagery in KnT, MilT,…
Holsinger, Bruce.
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 179-212.
Holsinger explores each of Chaucer's lyrics and short poems, explicating tensions of form and theme and explaining Chaucer's "cagey manipulation" of metrical and lyric conventions - English, French, and Italian. Rarely an inventor, Chaucer was a…
Holsinger, Bruce.
New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 131-36.
Reports the finds of "Dr. Lollius" who reputedly discovered, through DNA analysis of "covertly obtained slivers of parchment and vellum," that several extant Chaucer manuscript are "human skin." The pseudo-report is offered to provoke contemplation…
Historical novel set in London,1383, featuring John Gower as a first-person narrator, recounting events involved in the murder of a prostitute and a book prophesying an attempt on the life of Richard II. Gower's "slippery friend," Geoffrey Chaucer,…
Historical novel set in London, Kent, Calais, and during a pilgrimage to Durham, 1386; the second in a series that features John Gower as first-person narrator investigating criminal and political events, in this case a mass murder that involves…
