Skala, Elizabeth.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John T. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle, eds. New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 363-83.
Examines Derek Pearsall's Variorum Edition of NPT and suggests that the Nun's Priest's "self-conscious literary performance transforms" the tales of CT, which are enhanced by Chaucer's quotations, allusions, and references to his own works. In…
Spearing, A. C.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John T. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle, eds. New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 7-33.
Discusses how TC is a "renarration" of earlier medieval narratives and reveals how Chaucer uses the "autographic 'I'" in Book II of TC. Focuses on "aspects of narrative freedom" used by Chaucer throughout TC.
Hilmo, Maidie.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson, eds. Opening up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012), pp. 245-89.
Examines illustrations of CT in several manuscripts, including the Hengwrt; Ellesmere; Bodley 686; and Tokyo, MS Takamiya 24 (formerly Devonshire); and portraits of Chaucer, exploring how manuscript illustrations "serve to shape the text and its…
Olson, Linda.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson, eds. Opening up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012), pp. 291-354.
Discusses monastic libraries and scribal communities where texts could be "copied and translated without repercussions behind the monastic walls of England." Also reveals how demand for vernacular writing increased in female convents. Section 2,…
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson, eds. Opening up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012), pp. 39-94.
Section 5, "Some of the Earliest Attempts to Assemble the Canterbury Tales," analyzes structural and scribal differences in CT manuscripts.
Akbari, Suzanne Conklin.
Kathryn Lynch, ed. Chaucer's Cultural Geography (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 102-34.
Comments on such terms and concepts as "nacioun," "degree," "countre," race, and geography in KnT, SqT, MLT, and WBT, indicating that in CT the world is ordered by the principles of geography and nation. Nationalism is emergent in CT, but Orientalism…
Bleeth, Kenneth (A.)
Kathryn Lynch, ed. Chaucer's Cultural Geography (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 21-31.
Bleeth surveys critical responses to SqT for the ways they reflect assumptions about and attitudes toward the East as a cultural Other. Considers criticism from Thomas Warton (1778) through recent efforts to come to terms with and go beyond Edward…
Robinson, Peter,M. W.
Kathryn Sutherland, ed. Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), pp. 145-77.
Compares the advent of electronic editions with the revolution in editing effected by Aldus Manutius in c.1495-1515. Surveys the growing utility of digital photography, the difficulties of machine-readable transcriptions, and the potential for…
Pattwell, Niamh.
Kathy Cawsey and Jason Harris, eds. Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), pp. 115-30.
Patwell explores how the Pardoner "transgresses the boundaries between lay man and cleric and between lollardy and orthodoxy," focusing on how in PardPT Chaucer exposes extreme views about the Eucharist and how he targets what is being condemned…
O'Connell, Brendan.
Kathy Cawsey and Jason Harris, eds. Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), pp. 131-56.
Chaucer addresses the "late medieval attack on analogical thought through his discussion of the failure of alchemy." SNT presents analogical thinking through its clear, but bridgeable, contrasts of spirit and body, whereas CYT offers an uncertain…
Cawsey, Kathy.
Kathy Cawsey and Jason Harris, eds. Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), pp. 189-206.
Cawsey surveys the legacy of the plowman figure in England from the late Middle Ages into the Renaissance, focusing on the composite work "I Playne Piers." The Plowman's Tale was used and reused in multiple ways, presented variously by editors and…
Davis, Kathleen.
Kathy Lavezzo, ed. Imagining a Medieval English Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), pp. 161-90.
Parallels between the sex/gender system and establishing medieval English identity indicate that the perceived doubleness of woman echoes that of the nation. PF does not fantasize about a unified nation, but it does produce "England" as a site of…
Knapp, Peggy A.
Kathy Lavezzo, ed. Imagining a Medieval English Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), pp. 131-60.
Knapp historicizes several terms ("ymaginacioun," "fantasye," "resoun," "imaginatyf," "engyn") representing the role of language in national fantasy, exploring how Chaucer uses them throughout his poetry to construct ways of imagining. In CT, PrT…
Lavezzo, Kathy.
Kathy Lavezzo. Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006), pp. 93-113.
Revised version of an essay of the same title in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 24 (2002): 149-80.
Orlemanski, Julie.
Katie L. Walter, ed. Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 161-81.
Focuses on Cresseid's leprosy in Henryson's "Testament," with attention to how the disease can help to chart the "ethical relationship" between his poem and Chaucer's TC.
Davis, Isabel.
Katie L. Walter, ed. Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 99-118.
Considers "the special use that medieval writers made of skin as a metaphor for time," focusing on the "structural patterns" of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and WBP--"suspension, cessation, and repetition"--and how these patterns "imitate the…
Jeffrey, Chris.
Katja Lenz and Ruth Möhlig, eds. Of dyuersitie & chaunge of langage: Essays Presented to Manfred Grlach on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Heidelberg: Winter, 2002), pp. 319-38.
Applies "register-theory" to PardPT to demonstrate Chaucer's "Gothic" juxtapositioning of various kinds of discourse. Jeffrey examines the mode, domain, topic, and tenor of the discursive units in PardPT and suggests that the characteristic variety…
Zawadzki, Jarek, trans.
Maciej Sieńczyk, illus.
Katowice: Biblioteka Śląska, 2021.
Item not seen. Publisher's website indicates that this is the an "edition of the first complete translation [into Polish] of 'The Canterbury Tales'" [rugie wydanie pierwszego kompletnego przekładu "Opowieści kanterberyjskich"].
Contains twenty-five essays, five of which are written in English; the rest, including the preface and epilogue, are in Japanese. The first group of essays centers on Chaucer and his works. The second series of essays ranges from the Old English…
Tallies John Keats's early references and allusions to TC in his letters to Fanny Brawne and assesses how his lyric "What can I do to drive away" follows Chaucer's poem in representing the "rhythmic experience of pain passing into sweetness and…
Argues that Keats marked the British Library copy of TC, once owned by Charles Cowden Clarke. The markings indicate Keats's concerns with burgeoning love and with Criseyde's character as developed in books 1-3, but they "do not provide definitive…
Shimonomoto, Keiko.
Keiko Shimonomoto. The Use of Ye and Thou in the Canterbury Tales, and Collected Articles (SAC 26 [2004], no. 151), pp. 93-100.
Examines scribal uses of ye versus thou in manuscripts of WBP, excluding the so-called "additional" passages. Variants indicate that second-person pronouns were subject to individual manipulation for "interpersonal goals or creative effects."
Shimonomoto, Keiko.
Keiko Shimonomoto. The Use of Ye and Thou in the Canterbury Tales, and Collected Articles (Tokyo: Waseda University Enterprise, 2001), pp. 64-71.
Originally published in English Literature (Waseda University) 70 (1994). Ambiguities of speech and thought in TC, particularly Criseyde's, are more likely functions of narrative strategy than reflections of individuated consciousness or…
Shimonomoto, Keiko.
Keiko Shimonomoto. The Use of Ye and Thou in the Canterbury Tales, and Collected Articles (Tokyo: Waseda University Enterprise, 2001), pp. 83-92.
Originally published in the Journal of Liberal Arts (Waseda University) 100 (1996), the article surveys criticism of Chaucer's prose style in Bo. Shimonomoto calls for more appropriate discourse analysis, examining two passages in which Chaucer uses…
