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 6.
Video recording of lecture (ca. 31 min.), with illustrations, accompanied by an edited text of the lecture in the Course Guidebook (pp. 37-42). Describes the plot of TC, emphasizing the ambiguities of Criseyde and contrasting her character with that…
Ohno, Hideshi.
In Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 261-75.
Investigates the difference in use and function between the "be" + "lief" and the "have" + "lief" constructions, and between these constructions and "like" and "list" in Chaucer's works.
Robertson, Kellie.
In Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith, eds. Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates (New York; Routledge, 2014), pp. 367-75.
Explores the "cultural connotation of physical matter" expressed in gendered hylomorphic metaphors (matter/form) in the Medea accounts of LGW and John Lydgate's "Troy Book," arguing that Chaucer's representation raises questions about "the human as a…
Turner, Marion.
In Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith, eds. Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates (New York; Routledge, 2014), pp. 398-406.
Investigates magical objects in late-medieval English literature that express relations between secrecy and identity (both political and individual), exemplifying various authors' attitudes, and maintaining that in HF Chaucer poses questions rather…
Trigg, Stephanie.
In Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith, eds. Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates (New York; Routledge, 2014), pp. 480-90.
Describes several historical and literary representations of the clothing and ornaments of late-medieval processional "women in groups," commenting on Chaucer's depictions in his works, and focusing on depictions in "The Floure and the Leafe" and in…
Cooper, Lisa.
In Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith, eds. Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates (New York; Routledge, 2014), pp.183-91.
Explores late-medieval literary "intermingling of craft, memory, and loss" in representations of known or knowable facts or truth, arguing that in Adam, HF, KnT, and BD Chaucer, unlike some of his contemporaries, is generally "skeptical" about the…
Keller, Wolfram R.
In Jacomien Prins and Maude Vanhaelen, eds. Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 80-98.
Notes that Chaucer "uses musical references and metaphors in his poetry in order to discuss the art of writing poetry itself," and argues that in HF--and even in PF--Chaucer advances a "poetics of noise." Summarizes the "reception of the…
Schneider, Thomas R.
In James L. Smith, ed. The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2017), pp. 115-29.
Addresses "Chaucer's engagement with the concept of movement" in HF, exploring how three scenes of motion (the eagle's descent, the eagle's lecture on movement and sound, and the whirling House of Rumor) engage with William of Ockham's "Brevis summa…
Friedrich, Jennie.
In James L. Smith, ed. The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2017), pp. 35-52.
Explores relations among imagery of hearts, transplanting, "bodily estrangement," and travel in TC, focusing on Criseyde, her brooch, her dream of the eagle, her departure from Troy, and how she "begins to embody foreignness by the end of the…
Wright, Sarah Breckenridge.
In James L. Smith, ed. The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2017), pp. 93-114.
Combines ecocriticism and mobility studies to address the "medieval bridge as an icon of hybridity: a cultural artifact that commingles human/animal movement, architectural stasis, and the natural world (blood, stone, and water)." Then explores how…
Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 11-27.
Outlines the numerous problems surrounding BD's dating, occasion, early transmission history, title, and text. Because of the small number and lateness of manuscript witnesses, BD evinces significant "textual uncertainty"; consequently, literary…
Sturm-Maddox, Sara.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 119-34.
Argues for the "strong intertextual presence" of Machaut's "Remede de Fortune" in BD, reflective of developments in late medieval francophone and anglophone social history. Both poems combine praise for an idealized lady with an account of the…
Knox, Philip.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 135-56.
Shows how the "relationship between voice and identity" is a preoccupation of both BD and one of its chief sources, Machaut's "Dit de la fonteinne amoureuse." Highlights the formative influence of the composite "Roman de la Rose"--particularly its…
Strakhov, Elizaveta.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 157-75.
Argues that the differing treatments of Morpheus in BD and Machaut's "Fonteinne amoureuse" "reflect on the advantages and limitations of 'imitatio' as a tool for authorial self-promotion." Underlying this reflection are contrasting strategies for…
Phillips, Helen.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 177-97.
Studies the rhetorical topos of exemplary lists of famous antique figures in BD, in comparison with contemporary uses of the device. Chaucer's lists are more than simply didactic or conventional, affirming "chivalric and regal identity" and thus…
Butterfield, Ardis.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 199-212.
Considers how technologies of memory inform reflections on composition, literary relationships, and the elegiac project in BD, engendering a "focused commentary" on the "work of recollection." In this, BD participates in a discursive field shared by…
Barootes, B. S. W.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 29-50.
Considers the relations between BD and fourteenth-century devotional texts, particularly "Cursor mundi," that disparage "fable" as a form of idleness. Rejecting the popular association between consuming fiction and playing idle games, BD reclaims…
Davis, Rebecca.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 51-69.
Examines the "metafictional import of sleep," as distinct from dreaming, in BD. Influenced by Machaut's "Livre de la fonteinne amoreuse," BD aligns sleep, as an embodied process, with the "werk" of elegy.
Wells, Marion.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 71-93.
Drawing on affect theory and psychoanalytic methodologies, considers the relationship between the "awake body" and "emotional utterance" in BD, relating this to notions of "translatio." Highlights the centrality of the Ceyx and Alcyone episode to…
Espie, Jeff.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 97-117.
Highlights the thematic centrality of memorialization, tombs, and inscription in the Ceyx and Alcyone story from Ovid to Chaucer to Spenser. The intertextual relations among these versions is predicated not on the principle of genealogical succession…
Smallwood, Richard.
In Jayne Lewis and Lisa Zunshine, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2013), pp. 164-68.
Advocates teaching John Dryden's "Fables, Ancient and Modern" as "his most accomplished poetical production," discussing the status-resistant view of natural gentility in his translation of WBT and of Boccaccio's tale of Sigismunda and Guiscardo.…
Harbin, Andrea R., Tamara F. O'Callaghan, Alan B. Craig, and Ryan W. Rocha.
In Jennifer E. Boyle and Helen J. Burgess, eds. The Routledge Research Companion to Digital Medieval Literature (Florence: Taylor and Francis, 2017; New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 63-81; 8 b&w illus.
Describes augmented-reality texts for the ways they differ from both print and digital texts, and explains a project called The Augmented Palimpsest, where a digital version of GP is augmented by links to auxiliary audio and visual data, including 3D…
Mitchell-Smith, Ilan.
In Jennifer N. Brown and Maria Segol, eds. Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 101-21.
Includes discussion of KnT in a group of late-medieval English romances that differ from Continental romances in that they "outline a male heterosexual model informed by a Boethian contemptus mundi theme in which sobriety and reservedness replaces…
Trimble, Jeremy, composer.
In Joanna White, Kennen White, Tracy Watson, et al., Poet as Muse: Music for Flute, Clarinet, and Voice (Baton Rouge, La.: Centaur, 2017). CRC3568.
A musical performance of Tremble's "Four Fragments from 'The Canterbury Tales'" (GP, 1–42; GP descriptions of Knight and Squire; and WBP, 1–34), performed by Joanna Cowan White, Kennen White, Tracy Watson, Elissa Johnston, Mary Jo Cox, and…
Kleinstück, Johannes.
In Johannes Kleinstück, Mythos und Symbol in Englischer Dichtung (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1964), pp. 25-55.
Argues that Chaucer's depiction of fame in HF is skeptical, emphasizing its dependence upon fortune, and arguing that it is more similar to Montaigne's notion of glory than to those of Dante or Petrarch.
