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Jones, Lowanne E.   Rupert T. Pickens, ed. Studies in Honor of Hans-Erich Keller: Medieval French and Occitan Literature and Romance Linguistics (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993), pp. 419-26.
Jones explores the use of the leek as a phallic symbol in works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Boccaccio, and Rabelais.

Jones, Malcolm.   Timothy S. Jones and David A. Sprunger, eds. Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations (Kalamazoo, Mich: Medieval Institute Publications, 2002), pp. 203-21.
Jones surveys in medieval and early modern art and literature the figures of starving and fatted beasts that eat, respectively, obedient wives and complaisant husbands, presented as background to Chaucer's reference to Chichevache in ClT. Includes…

Jones, Mike Rodman.   LeedsSE 39 (2008): 53-87.
MerT, particularly its marriage encomium, was influenced by exegetical treatments of Eve as "helper," drawn from the Augustinian tradition and from Albertanus of Brescia. Chaucer rewrites these two divergent strands, reverses their interpretations of…

Jones, Mike Rodman.   Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2011.
Includes Chaucerian apocrypha, "The Plowman's Tale" and "Jack Upland," in an examination of the figure of the plowman in English early modern imagination, from "Piers Plowman" to the 1590s. Argues that there was a "highly politicized tradition of…

Jones, Mike Rodman.  
Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 165-84.
Exemplifies the variety of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century versions of Chaucer, which reflects he "fragmentation, diversity, and complexity" of the English Reformation itself. Discusses Chaucer as an authority figure in the writings of polemical…

Jones, Mike Rodman.   Louise D'Arcens, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 89-102.
Maintains that "The Plowman's Tale" and "Jack Upland" may have contributed to how Chaucer was received by "anti-Catholic cultures of the sixteenth century."

Jones, Natalie, and Ben Parsons.   Year's Work in English Studies 95 (2016): 309-32.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2014, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception

Jones, Samantha Alison   DAI 62 (2002): 2770A.
Treats the motif of the loathly lady in "Beowulf," several Arthurian romances, the Wife of Bath and WBT, and ClT.

Jones, Sarah Rees.   Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans, eds. Roadworks: Medieval Britain, Medieval Roads (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 97-126.
Explores the "design and regulation of real streets" in late medieval Britain, and "streets as symbolic of capital" in contemporaneous literature, art, and architecture. Includes comments on windows and doors in TC.

Jones, Terry, Robert Yeager, Terry Dolan, Alan Fletcher, and Juliette Dor.   New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004; London: Methuen, 2003.
A biography and social history of Chaucer's final years, focusing on Henry Bolingbroke's Lancastrian overthrow of Richard II and the political and social turmoil from which the usurpation resulted and to which it contributed. The book presents Thomas…

Jones, Terry.   Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. 2d rev. ed., 1985; with new introduction, 1994 (London: Methuen).
Ranging through the history of the Crusades, Jones attempts to prove that Chaucer's Knight is a venal mercenary and Chaucer's means to criticize his contemporary military politics.

Jones, Terry.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22: 387-97, 2000.
The narratives of MkT, especially the modern instances, critique the despotism that underlies KnT, provoking the Knight's interruption.

Jones, Terry.   R. F. Yeager and Charlotte C. Morse, eds. Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve (Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2001), pp. 205-36; 15 color figs.
The GP description of the Knight suggests that he wore clothing and equipment typical of "military opportunism." More specifically, the Knight's dress and career call to mind Sir John Hawkwood, and changes to the Ellesmere portrait of the Knight may…

Jones, Timothy S.   Sheila Delany, ed. Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 109-32.
Surveys various allusions to and summaries of the story of David in English medieval tradition (including allusions in MLT, MerT, and Mel), arguing that treatments of the story reveal simultaneous desires: to embrace Hebrew Scripture as authentic and…

Jones, Timothy S.   New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Studies the depiction and reception of historical and literary outlaws in England from the eleventh to the sixteenth century, focusing on how borders of various sorts--legal, ethnic, political, social, and religious--define the outlaw identity. Jones…

Jones, Timothy S., and David A. Sprunger, eds.   Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2002.
Fourteen essays by various authors in honor of John Block Friedman, covering topics that include Anglo-Saxon, Mandeville's Travels, Cleanness, Gesta Herwardi, Froissart's "Debate of the Horse and the Greyhound," apocrypha, insanity, nude Cyclops, and…

Jones, Tyler.   Hortulus 14.2 (2018): n.p.
Explores the "temporal perspectives" of futurity in TC, combining an Augustinian conceptualization of time with Michel de Certeau's spatial notion of "strategy," looking closely at three perspectives that are posed in the poem and undermined in Book…

Jordan, Carmel.   Chaucer Review 22 (1987): 128-40.
Excavations in 1919-21 reveal that Sarai, in the Volga region of southeastern Russia, was an exotic metropolis combining Byzantine and Mongolian splendor. Its artisans produced rings and mirrors, and its Mongol warriors covered their horses with…

Jordan, Robert (M.)   Chaucer Yearbook 1 (1992): 135-55.
Contrasts TC and ManT as examples of metafiction, showing that in each the narrative persona is not a character in any traditional sense but a voicing of the author's concerns with language and fiction. ManT overtly declares the instability of…

Jordan, Robert M.   Michio Kawai, ed. Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honour of Michio Masui. The English Association of Hiroshima (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1991), pp. 96-107.
Gothic aesthetic combines opposing propensities for regularity and embellishment. These features are manifest in Dante's Commedia, while CT is more irregular and improvisatory.

Jordan, Robert M.   Rossell Hope Robbins, ed. Chaucer at Albany (New York: Franklin, 1975), pp. 77-104.
The differences between the narratives classified as "Chaucerian romance" indicate that either all of his narratives are romances, or else that none are."

Jordan, Robert M.   Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1987.
Advising Chaucerians to abandon literary interpretation in favor of poetics, Jordan catalogues the genres, modes, and discursive forms of a particular Chaucerian text, first pointing out their incompatibility and then noting the failure of univocal…

Jordan, Robert M.   John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986. (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987): pp. 51-57.
Reviews major modern critical theories and theorists, explains Todorov's distinction between interpretation and analysis, and develops the idea that "the language-oriented emphasis of much contemporary theory correlates closely with medieval ideas…

Jordan, Robert M.   Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 195-200.
Like modern theorists, Chaucer is concerned with language as a reliable vehicle to account for reality, as in HF, ManT, TC,Ret. The pilgrim narrator shifts in viewpoint and style; Chaucer exploits the gap between language and reality, as in TC, LGW,…

Jordan, Robert M.   Chaucer Review 18 (1983): 100-15.
Nabokov, Barth, and Joyce have rediscovered the solipsistic mode of fiction of which Chaucer was an accomplished practitioner.
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