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Pigg, Daniel F.   In Albrecht Classen, ed. Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time: The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 489-506.
Comments on the "shadowy slippage" between science and magic in FranT and the deceptive practices evident in CYPT suggesting that "Chaucer explored magic and science" in order to distinguish between "phenomena that can be controlled" and those that…

Weston, Lisa M. C.   In Albrecht Classen, ed. Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time: The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 507-22.
Suggests that magic--specifically "image magic"--and poetics were interconnected for Chaucer and his original audience. Focuses on FranT, rhetoric, ekphrasis, and other "conjunctions of magic and rhetoric" in Chaucer's writings to reflect "the…

Weisl, Angela Jane.   In Alison Langdon, ed. Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 113-32.
Analyzes the speech of Chaucer's birds and claims that Chaucer "endows the avian world with a series of communicative strategies as diverse as--and profoundly linked to--his own poetic strategies." Looks at SqT, GP, and PF.

Fumo, Jamie C.   In Alison Langdon, ed. Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 217-34.
Departs from purely functional or allegorical approaches to the whelp in BD by situating the narrative's portrayal of canine-human relations within the field of critical animal studies. Establishes the role of the whelp in rectifying human…

Gastle, Brian.   In Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 296-310.
Describes four aspects of the critical tradition of exploring relations between Gower's and Chaucer's poetry--"biography, common literary sources and analogues [especially in WBT, MLT, and Philomela in LGW], thematic issues, and…

Berry, Craig A.   In Andrew Escobedo, ed. Edmund Spenser in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 246-53.
Describes the "audacity and intensity" of Spenser's debt to Chaucer, considering the later poet's archaisms, his allusions to and quotations of Chaucer (particularly in "The Faerie Queene"), and the importance of Chaucer to Spenser's English…

[Kiser, Lisa J.]   In Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis, eds. The Classical Tradition (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 2010).
Encyclopedia entry that summarizes Chaucer's debt to classical tradition as source material for his plots, imaginings of the classical past, and "voicings" of classical speakers throughout his corpus. Comments on Chaucer's awareness of mediation and…

Ballesteros-González, Antonio.   In Antonio R. de Toro Santos and Eduardo Barros Grela, eds. Looking Out on the Fields: Reimagining Irish Literature and Culture (Rennes: TIR, 2018), pp. 922.
Presents Chaucer's Wife of Bath and James Joyce's Molly Bloom as counter-cultural figures, from the perspective of their characters, their views of man-woman relationships, and their sexuality. Contrasts the different forms of expression of their…

Gómez, Francesc J.   In Barry Taylor and Alejandro Coroleu, eds. Brief Forms in Medieval and Renaissance Hispanic Literature (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2017), pp. 44-65.
Identifies possible analogues to CYPT and constructs stemmata of narrative motifs to explore the relations between Chaucer's work and the others, showing that the ninth chapter of the "Kitah al-mukhtar fı kashf al-asrar" of thirteenth-century Syrian…

Fitzpatrick, Joan.   In Charlotte Boyce and Joan Fitzpatrick, A History of Food in Literature: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 15–62.
Includes discussion of food, drink, abstinence, feasting, gluttony, hunting, etc. in CT (pp. 35-52), observing Chaucer's consistent attention to moral and social implications, and comparing his depictions with those found in "Piers Plowman," "Sir…

Hurd, Michael, composer.
Backhouse, Jeremy, conductor.   In Choral Music, Vol. 1 (Monmouth: Lyrita, 2017). Online resource.
Recording of MercB set to music, performed by the Vasari Singers, "Recorded 2016 February 12–14 Church of St. Judeon-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden, London."

Keller, Wolfram R.   In Claus Uhlig and Wolfram R. Keller, eds. Europa zwischen Antike und Moderne: Beiträge zur Philosophie, Literaturwissenschaft und Philologie (Heidelberg: Winter, 2014), pp. 99-124.
Examines Chaucer's depictions of music, poetry, sound, noise, cacophony, and harmony in PF; MilT; and, most extensively, HF, exploring how he adapted notions derived from Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and his "De musica," medieval perception…

Sargeson, Frank.   In Collected Stories (Auckland, N.Z.: Blackwood and Janet Paul, 1964; London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1965), pp. 12-13.
Brief short story in which the narrator's desire to hear an authentic story--"to get to the Canterbury Tales outside the covers of a book"--leads to a change in his life.

Peck, Russell A.   In Craig M. Nakashian and Daniel P. Franke, eds. Prowess, Piety, and Public Order in Medieval Society: Studies in Honor of Richard W. Kaeuper (Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2017), pp. 344-67.
Analyzes imagery of worthiness in TC and CT, compared with John Gower's "Mirour de l'omme," "Piers Plowman," and Geffroi de Charny's "Book of Chivalry." Focuses on patience, penance, pilgrimage, and the "timing for one's acts," exploring uses of…

Kaske, R. E.   In Dorothy Bethurum, ed. Critical Approaches to Medieval Literature: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1958-59 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960), pp. 27-60.
Exemplifies the wide-ranging importance of "exegetical tradition" in explicating images and allusions in medieval literature, drawing examples from "Piers Plowman," from the Summoner's taste for garlic, onions, and leeks (GP 1.634), and from various…

Öğütcü, Murat.   In Evrim Doğan Adanur, ed. IDEA: Studies in English (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 289-99.
Assesses the "multilayered constitution" of TC "as a polysemous text" that celebrates "the flesh and the divine simultaneously," reading the poem as the recreation of the "suppressed sexual experience" of Chaucer's youth in his old age, an…

White, Beatrice.   In F. R. H. Du Boulay and Caroline M. Barron, eds. The Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of May McKisack (London: Athlone, 1971), pp. 58-74.
Surveys a wide range of representations of peasants and links with poverty in medieval poetry, with particular emphasis on works by Langland, Chaucer, and Gower, as well as a number of their near-contemporaries. Contrasts Langland's Piers with…

Dunn, Charles W.   In Frank N. Magill, ed. Cyclopedia of World Literature (New York: Harper, 1958), pp. 204-06.
Lists Chaucer's works in chronological order, summarizes his career as a civil servant and poet, and offers a brief list of bibliographical references.

Mroczkowski, Przemysław.   In G. A. Bonnard, ed. English Studies Today. Second Series: Lectures and Papers Read at the Fourth Conference of the International Association of University Professors of English Held at Lausanne and Berne, August 1959 (Bern: Franke, 1961), pp. 107-20.
Reads FrT as an exemplum against greed that is informed by commonplaces drawn from sermon tradition, specifically the "pulpit practice of late medieval mendicants." Aligns details of the plot and rhetoric in FrT with parallels found in works by John…

Štrmelj, Lidija.   In Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić, eds. Presence of the Body: Awareness in and beyond Experience (Boston, Mass.: Brill Rodopi, 2017), pp. 77-91.
Characterizes the Wife of Bath as "full of life and energy," with a "material" rather than a "romantic" view of marriage, based in her "sexual instincts." Summarizes the GP description of the Wife as well as that in WBP, offers a Freudian analysis…

Baghdikian, Sonia.   In Graham Nixon and John Honey, eds. An Historic Tongue: Studies in English Linguistics in Memory of Barbara Strang (New York: Routledge, 1988), pp. 41-48.
Draws examples from Bo and Elizabeth I's translation of Boethius ("noght," "nowt," "nothing," etc.) to show that the ambiguity of morphological negation disappears between Middle and Early Modern English while that of syntactical negation survives.

Armstrong, Dorsey.   In Great Minds of the Medieval World (Chantilly, Va.: The Teaching Company, 2014), disc 10 of 12; lecture 19.
Audio recording of a lecture that aligns the achievements of Dante and Chaucer, focusing on their attention to individuals and uses of their vernacular languages. The discussion of CT emphasizes Chaucer's social variety as it contrasts traditional…

Rudd, Gillian.   In Greg Garrard, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 27-39.
Comments on forerunners of ecocritical thinking in medieval literature, and explores the connotations of "green" (often in contrast with "blue") in Wom Unc, SqT, FrT, WBT, and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," arguing that medieval usage reflects a…

Klitgård, Ebbe.   In Hanne Jansen and Anna Wagener, eds. Voices in Translation 2: Editorial and Publishing Practices (Montreal: Éditions Québécoises de l'Œuvre, 2013), pp. 41-63.
Describes the emphasis on short stories in the Danish literary magazine "Cavalcade" and analyzes several of its Danish translations from CT published in the late 1940s, suggesting that the translators--Lis Thorbjørnsen and Jørgen Sonne--were…

Shippey, Thomas A.   In Heroes and Legends: The Most Influential Characters of Literature. Chantilly, VA: The Great Courses, 2014. Video recording. Disc 1 of 4, Lecture 5.
Video recording of lecture (ca. 30 min.), with illustrations, accompanied by an edited text of the lecture in the Course Guidebook (pp. 31-36). Comments on details of the Wife's character in GP, WBP as an autobiography, the Wife's challenges to…
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