Karolides, Nicholas J., Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova.
New York: Facts on File, 2011.
Originally published in 2005. Treats CT (pp. 474-77) in a section called "Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds," describing the pilgrimage and the social variety of the pilgrims, claiming that "Risqué language and sexual innuendo pervade most of…
Karpinski, Agnes.
Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel, eds. Historizing the Dream/Le rêve du point de vue historique (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2019), pp. 93-118.
Assesses relations between dreams and determinism (fate, providence, and prophecy) in three medieval narratives: Kriemhild's dream in the "Nibelungenlied," the dreams in" Der Nonne von Engeltal Büchlein von der Gnaden Überlast," and Chanticleer's…
Karpova, Olga M., and Olga M. Melentyeva.
Faina I. Kartashkova and Olga M. Karpova, eds. Multi-Disciplinary Lexicography: Traditions and Challenges of the XXIst Century (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2013), pp. 73–95.
Surveys the hard-word tradition of lexicography in Chaucer and Shakespeare studies, particularly in editions of their works, and suggests that new works are still needed to serve twenty-first-century users.
Karpova, Olga.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
Identifies and describes reference works that pertain to individual English authors, published (in print or online) from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century--concordances, glossaries, name-dictionaries, indices to quotations and…
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…
Karras, Ruth Mazo.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 319-33.
Compares the characterization of the Wife of Bath in GP with that found the WBP, claiming that Chaucer "is satirizing both the extremes of antifeminism and feminine self-authority." Focuses on sociohistorical challenges for medieval women, and…
Translation of CT into Russian verse and prose (by Kashkin and Rumer, orginally published in 1946; again in 1973), with an introduction to Chaucer by Kashkin (1946), end-of-text notes by Kashkin and Popovoi, and color illustrations.
"Checklaton" (jacket fabric) is recorded only in Chaucer's Thopas, Spenser's "Faerie Queene," and "A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland"--an indication that Spenser wrote the latter.
Kaske, R. E.
David G. Allen and Robert A. White, eds. Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990) pp. 11-34.
KnT and MLT are complementary philosophical narratives. In KnT, Chaucer turns "Boccaccio's narrative of event . . . into a narrative poem about wisdom." The treatment of Fortune is pagan, with Palamon and Arcite representing contrasting patterns of…
The crux may be explained by reference to Canticles 3:11 and the medieval commentators (e.g., William Durandus in his "Rationale divinorum officiorum"). The first crown is Criseyde's virtue; the second is the pity that Pandarus asks her to show…
Kaske, R. E.
Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 114-18.
"Clericus Adam," a short anti-feminist poem from the twelfth century, makes one wonder whether Chaucer may not be playfully saying, "Look here, 'Clericus Adam', you little bungler, don't you disfigure my handiwork the way your namesake disfigured…
Kaske, R. E.
Jerome Mitchell and William Provost, eds. Chaucer the Love Poet (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973), pp. 45-65.
Restricts the "marriage group" to the four components originally proposed by George Lyman Kittredge (WBPT, ClT, MerT, FranT), disclosing the intricacies of their interconnections and considering in turn their various attitudes toward sex and mastery…
Kaske, R. E.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73 (1972): 122-26.
Exemplifies the "allusive richness" of SumT by explaining the references to horn and ivory (3.1741-42) which emphasize the falsity of the tablets of the Summoner's Friar.
Reviews D. W. Robertson's "A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspectives" (1962), providing a brief survey of the "prevailing criticism" that challenges the exegetical, patristic, or historicist criticism that Robertson champions, and…
Kaske, R. E.
Studies in Philology 59 (1962): 225-40.
Explores in MilT the comic and thematic potential of allusions to the biblical Song of Songs and its exegetical commentaries. Details of Absolon's address to Alisoun at the window, the descriptions of the two characters, and other details of the Tale…
Kaske, R. E.
Richard J. Schoeck and Jerome Taylor, eds. Chaucer Criticism, Volume II: Troilus and Criseyde & The Minor Poems (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1961), pp. 167-80.
Describes the Continental lyric genre of the "aube," linking it with the German "tagelied," assessing Chaucer's use of the form in Book 3 of TC, and addressing his use of source material derived from Boccaccio's "Filostrato." Concludes that Chaucer…
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…
Kaske, R. E.
Modern Language Notes 75.1 (1960): 1-4.
Observes in MerT several commonplaces of the "aube" in the description of January and May's wedding-night, suggesting that they help "to point up the bitterly comic incongruities in January's marriage," and echo details of RvT and TC.
Examines the "apparent momentary tenderness between Aleyn and Malyne" in RvT 1. 4234-48, reading the passage as a parody of the "dawn-song," variously known as the "aube," "aude," "aubade," or "tageliet," an "established form in the medieval poetry…
Kaske, R. E.
Modern Language Notes 74 (1959): 481-84.
Identifies biblical and patristic resonances in GP 1.634, suggesting that they help to "deepen an already ugly picture of spiritual as well as physical deformity."
Explores the implications of the Knight's "cutting short" of the MkT, contrasting the characterizations of the two pilgrims, describing the Monk as "comic imitation of knighthood," and observing contrasts and parallels in the wording, details, and…
Kaske, R. E.,with Arthur Groos and Michael W. Twomey.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.
Bibliography including the following divisions: biblical exegesis, liturgy, hymns, sermons, visual arts, mythography,commentaries on major authors, and miscellaneous.
Käsmann, Hans.
Arno Esch, ed. Chaucer und Seine Zeit: Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1968), pp. 97-122.
Assesses Chaucer's characterization of Criseyde in light of Boccaccio's Criseide in "Filostrato," arguing that Chaucer makes her more of a courtly ideal and therefore more reprehensible in her infidelity and a figure of all false, worldly love.
Kassell, Lauren.
Journal of the History of Ideas 67.1 (2006): 107-22.
Following a methodology outlined in Gabriel Naud's seventeenth-century history of magic, the essay examines early modern historical accounts of magic to understand how magic came to be defined and debated. The title derives from WBT.
