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Taavitsainen, Irma.   Jacek Fisiak, ed. Studies in Middle English Linguistics (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997), pp. 573-607.
Statistical analysis of Middle English exclamations in several literary modes and genres. Exclamations are a marker of fiction, and interjections are "particularly frequent" in Chaucer's works.

Blake, N. F.   Jacek Fisiak, ed. Studies in Middle English Linguistics (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997), pp. 59-78.
Fifteenth-century scribal additions and changes to manuscripts of CT indicate the "linguistic and stylistic prejudices and attitudes" of scribes and their audiences. Treats Hengwrt as a base text and explores how changes in Ellesmere, British…

Toole, William B., III.   Jack M. Durant and M. Thomas Hester, eds. A Fair Day in the Affections: Literary Essays in Honor of Robert B. White, Jr. (Raleigh, NC: Winston, 1980), pp. 25-35.
In developing the theme that Troilus values too highly love and beauty in this world, Chaucer throughout TC intertwines imagery of Fortune and of religion to describe Troilus' experiences and to characterize Criseyde. Although the depiction of…

Murnighan, Jack.   Jack Murnighan. "Beowulf" on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2009), pp. 86-97.
Encourages approaching Chaucer as "both funny and a little racy," giving advice on how to read with understanding, opinions on what is "sexy" in CT, and suggestions of what to skip in the work (CkPT, MLT, SqT, FranT, PhyT, PrT, Th, Mel, MkT, NPT,…

Laird, Edgar.   Jack P. Cunningham, ed. Robert Grosseteste: His Thought and Its Impact (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012), pp. 217-26.
Describes Grosseteste's notion of universals and Wyclif's treatment of it; then argues that KnT and MilT are, respectively, philosophically realist and antirealist, focusing on the First Mover speech in KnT as an example of Grosseteste's…

McKenna, Steven R.   Jackson State University Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal 12 (1988): 67-78.
Each of the three modes of authority--textual, experiential, visionary--complicated by the fictive dream-vision form, "fails to be authoritative because each demonstrates the lack of finality and absoluteness presumed to be characteristic of…

Moorman, Charles.   Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1975.
A pedagogical introduction to the practices involved in preparing a critical edition of a Middle English text, with commentary on paleography, the language of Middle English, and the processes of textual criticism. Includes reproductions of the…

Tokunaga, Satoko.   Jacob Thaisen and Hanna Rutkowska, eds. Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of Their Texts (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 157-76.
Tabulates, compares, and analyzes the "collation results" of understudied sections of Wynkyn de Worde's edition of CT and Caxton's second edition, comparing them with variants in manuscripts, and arguing that while De Worde's editorial practice was…

Thaisen, Jacob.   Jacob Thaisen and Hanna Rutkowska, eds. Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of Their Texts (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 73-90.
Presents and discusses tabular data from the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT, copied by Adam Pinkhurst, to show how "codicological and palaeographical context" can affect orthography and abbreviation in late medieval English manuscripts.

Kopaczyk, Joanna.   Jacob Thaisen and Hanna Rutkowska, eds. Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of Their Texts (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 91-106.
Identifies several difficulties in representing manuscript abbreviations digitally, focusing on graphic subscription and superscription, and drawing data from manuscripts of MLT transcribed for the "Canterbury Tales" Project.

Rand Schmidt, Kari Anne.   Jacqueline Hamesse and Antonio Zampolli, eds. Computers in Literary and Linguistic Computing: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference/L'Ordinateur et les recherches litteraires et linguistiques: Actes de la XIe Conference internationale, Universite Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), 2-6 avril 1984 (Paris: Champion-Slatkine, 1985), pp. 333-43.
Deals with the question of authorship and the style of Equat. Discusses Geir Kjetsaa.

Carruthers, Leo.   Jacqueline Hamesse et al., eds. Medieval Sermons and Society: Cloister, City, University: Proceedings of International Symposia at Kalamazoo and New York. Textes et etudes du Moyen Age, no. 9 (Louvain-la-Neuve: Fłdłration Internationale des Instituts d'₁tudes Młdiłvales, 1998), pp. 219-40.
Shows how the Middle English sermon series :Jacob's Well" reflects many aspects of contemporary society. Carruthers likens its audience to that of CT.

Karras, Ruth Mazo.   Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler, eds. Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 201-16.
Karras surveys depictions of female commercialized sex in the English late Middle Ages. It is difficult, she suggests, to separate kinds and degrees of prostitution, because prostitution was regarded as an "extreme case" of the general sinfulness of…

Brundage, James A.   Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler, eds. Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West (Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y.; and London: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 23-41.
Cites FrT as evidence that the archdeacon's court and its officers were "bitterly disliked," in turn evidence of the gap between legal norms of sexual behavior and actual practice in medieval Europe.

Straus, Barrie Ruth.   Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler, eds. Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West (Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y.; and London: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 245-64.
The formel eagle in PF, Emily in KnT, and Margery Kempe seek to delay or renounce sexual activity. The eagle's blush embodies her later request to delay a choice of mate; Emily's desire to remain unmarried is marked by her desire to reject the…

Taylor, Andrew.   Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler, eds. Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West (Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y.; and London: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 280-95.
Cites E. Talbot Donaldson's appreciation of May in MerT as an example of "iconologia," sexualized analysis or penetration of art or literature. Sexual titillation in reading is evident in medieval manuscripts and in modern responses to medieval…

Bullough, Vern L.,with Gwen Whitehead Brewer.   Jacqueline Murray, ed. Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West. Garland Medieval Casebooks, no. 25; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, no. 2078 (New York and London: Garland, 1999), pp. 93-110.
By making the Pardoner offensive, Chaucer "established a negative stereotype of the effeminate male in Western literature." Modern critical tradition perpetuates the negative stereotype, often ignoring the fact that the Canterbury society tolerates…

Robinson, Peter.   Jahrbuch fur Computerphilologie 4 (2002): 123-42
Robinson surveys developments in electronic editing and comments on the strengths and limitations of electronic scholarly editions, calling for greater collaboration among scholars and for increased fluidity and interactivity in the editions. Draws…

Lalla, Barbara.   Jamaica: University of West Indies Press, 2008.
Examines Old and Middle English language and literature in light of postcolonial conditions and theories, particularly those of Caribbean studies, considering issues of cultural contact, vernacularity, competing discourses, power, transgression, and…

Payne, Robert O.   Jame J. Murphy, ed. Medieval Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Medieval Rhetoric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979), pp. 270-87.
When Chaucer looked at old books, he not only saw the decorous verbal projections of medieval rhetorical archetypes, he heard the voice of a man like and unlike himself. The idea/language model which "rhetorica"-turned-"poetria" had generated became…

Boon, James A.   James A. Boon. Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts . . . Showbiz (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 191-97.
Tallies several similarities of topic and method between cultural anthropology, on the one hand, and Chaucer's works and Chaucer studies, on the other.

Knight, Stephen.   James Bothwell, P. J. P. Goldberg, and W. M. Ormrod, eds. The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-Century England (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2000), pp. 101-22.
Knight considers Chaucer's Plowman (among other figures) in an effort to construct a "structure of feeling" pertinent to late-medieval English labor. As in the mystery plays and in Piers Plowman, the depiction of labor in CT is first idealized, then…

Person, James E.   James E. Person, ed. Literature and Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Volume 17 (Farmington, Mich.: Gale, 1991), pp. 42-247.
Reprints forty-eight examples of critical commentary on Chaucer and his poetry, from Deschamps, Gower, and Caxton to 1989, some excerpted and some complete essays, with an annotated list of suggestions for further reading. The Introduction (pp.…

McKinley, Kathryn L.
  James G. Clark, Frank Thomas Coulson, and Kathryn L. McKinley, eds. Ovid in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 197-230.
Briefly surveys uses of Ovid in late-medieval England, and compares Chaucer's and John Gower's engagements with Ovid's works and moralized version of them. Focuses on creative uses of Ovid in Gower's "Vox Clamantis" (Book 1), in the Pyramus and…

Hanning, Robert W.   James H. McGregor, ed. Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's Decameron (New York: Modern Language Association, 2000), pp. 103-18.
Assesses the "relevance and importance" of the Decameron to the study of CT, considering evidence of Chaucer's knowledge of Boccaccio's work and the ways the two works reflect similar and different "cultural agendas." Comparison of shared motifs and…
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