Passmore, S. Elizabeth, and Susan Carter, eds.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007. xix, 272 pp.
Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors. Each of the essays touches on WBT and its relationship with Irish and/or English analogues, and seven of them consider WBT at length. The volume includes an index. For the articles…
Forni, Kathleen, ed.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 2005.
Edits sixteen medieval narrative poems and lyrics "prized and preserved because of their associations with Chaucer." Includes glosses, notes, and textual information, with a cumulative bibliography and brief glossary. The selection includes "The…
Kaylor, Noel Harold Jr., and Richard Scott Nokes, eds.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 2007.
A festschrift for Paul Szarmach, celebrating the internationalization of medieval studies. Twelve essays by various authors, on topics ranging from Old and Middle English language and literature to the Narnia Chronicles of C. S. Lewis and the Mayan…
Wimsatt, James I.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications,
Revised, reformatted version of 1982 edition (see SAC 8 [1984], no. 14) of the poems signed "Ch" in University of Pennsylvania Manuscript 15. Includes an updated, expanded introduction; revised commentary on the poems and Chaucer's relations with his…
Farvolden, Pamela, ed.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016.
Edits Lydgate's two poems for classroom study, and includes as an appendix the Latin source of his "Guy of Warwyk." The introduction to the "Fabula" addresses Lydgate's debts to Chaucer in this poem: particularly how its view of friendship was…
Campbell, Ethan.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2018.
Makes clear the anti-clericalism, overt and implicit, in the works of the "Gawain"-poet ("Cleanness," "Patience," "Pearl," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"), examining the theme in light of contemporaneous polemics. Includes several references…
Rogers, Will, and Christopher Michael Roman, eds.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2020.
Discusses medieval English, French, and Latin sources and offers directions for discovering queerness by connecting these texts to recent developments in queer theory, including queer phenomenology and queer failure. For two essays pertaining to…
Taylor, Robert A.;James F. Burke; Patricia J. Eberle; Ian Lancashire; and Brian S. Merrilees,eds.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993.
For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Centre and Its Compass under Alternative Title.
Armstrong, Dorsey, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2013.
Contains nineteen essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors, on literary and historical topics, Arthuriana, and women in the Middle Ages. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for "Magistra doctissima" under…
Fruoco, Jonathan.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020
Argues that Chaucer's work "contributed to the birth of English polyphonic verse," a claim supported through discussions of Mikhail Bakhtin and the growth of scholasticism, debate, and music. Connects Chaucer's verse, including BD, HF, TC, and CT, to…
McLaughlin, Becky Renee.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
Uses psychoanalysis as a "pedagogical tool" to understand Chaucer's pilgrims in CT. Begins with the "spectacle of hysteria" to explore "ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language" in CT. Discusses "perversions of…
Ebin, Lois (A.). ed.
Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute Publications, 1984.
A diversity of critical perspectives presented by R. W. Hanning, D. Kelly, F. Goldin, J. M. Ferrante, E. Vance, W. Wetherbee, G. D. Economou, J. B. Allen, G. Olson, R. O. Payne, and L. Ebin to focus on creation of poetic works of Lydgate, Dunbar,…
Amos, Thomas L.; Eugene A. Green; and Beverly Mayne Kienzle.
Kalamazoo. Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1989.
Thirteen essays survey topics in the history of medieval preaching from the Carolingian period to the fifteenth century, two focusing on fourteenth-century lives and Christ and Wycliffism respectively.
Salas Chacón, Alvaro.
Káñina (Costa Rica) 17.2 (1993): 105-9.
Surveys Chaucer's Marian allusions and critical commentary on them. Suggests that Chaucer wrote his Marian poetry (ABC, PrT, SNT, and allusions elsewhere) for political and aesthetic reasons, not out of religious devotion.
Yoshimura, Koji.
Kansai University of Foreign Studies Journal 49 (1989): 19-42.
Shows that color expressions in TC are elaborately calculated to represent the characteristics of Troilus and Criseyde and that the color terms vary in almost every book.
Barrington, Candace.
Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Katherine A. Hermes, eds. Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009), pp. 26-51.
Modern adapters of Chaucer interfere with the transmission of Chaucer by infusing their own values. In each era, the versions written for children bear witness to what aspects of feminism have reached popular culture.
Winstead, Karen A., ed. and trans.
Karen A. Winstead. Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), pp. 49-60.
A translation into Modern English of SNT, based on The Riverside Chaucer (3rd ed.). Includes a short introduction and select bibliography.
Hodder, Karen.
Karen Hodder and Brendan O'Connell, eds. Transmission and Generation in Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Essays in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012), pp. 141-52.
Discusses Wordsworth's modernization of ManT, which was commissioned for Thomas Powell's "The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer Moderniz'd" (1841) but eventually suppressed by Wordsworth's wife.
Rabil, Albert, Jr.
Karen Nelson, ed. Attending to Early Modern Women (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2013), pp. 189-206.
Suggests that Chaucer and Pizan may have created "female voices to speak in opposition to male misogyny" at about the same time because they shared similar educations and the same "cultural and intellectual universe," most evident in their…
