Lynch, Kathryn L.
Chaucer Review 56, no. 2 (2021): 95–118.
Examines background of Katherine Lee Bates, author of "America the Beautiful," who was a medievalist before turning to poetry and American literary studies. Brings together her career as an Americanist and poet with her background as a medievalist,…
Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr.
Uwe Boker et al., eds. Of Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and Its Impact Through the Ages. Festschrift for Karl Heinz Goller on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004), pp. 17-45.
English translation of a German essay that was first published in 1969, assessing the narrative techniques, structure, characters, and major themes of TC.
Ebi, Hisato.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 144.12 (1999): 746-48.
Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography, where it is described as concerned with the application of phylogenetic analysis of the stemmatics of WBP.
Shigeo, Hisashi.
Chaucer to Kirisutokyo (Chaucer and Medieval Christianity) Symposium Series of Medieval English Literature 1. (Tokyo: Gaku-shobo, 1984): pp. 133-53.
Chaucer reached a temporal conclusion that free will is allowed when one seeks after goodness in compliance with Providence.
Barbaccia, Holly G.
Dissertation Abstracts International 66 (2005): 2205A
Examines the concepts of "change and eschaunge" in Middle English poetry, with particular attention to Langland's Lady Meed, Gower's Constance, Criseyde from TC, and Lady Bertilak in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Considers instability and…
North, J. D.
Review of English Studies 20 (1969): 129-54, 257-83, 418-44.
Shows that Chaucer's references to "planetary, solar, and lunar configurations, " though usually "veiled," add complex dimensions to his plots and may help us to establish dates for several of his works; discusses Mars, TC, PF, LGW (Hypermnestra),…
Sanborn, John N.
Colby Library Quarterly 0.8 (1974): 486-94.
Assesses the poetic structure of Edwin Arlington Robinson's "The Man Against the Sky," demonstrating that it "juxtaposes two dissimilar ideas forcing a new understanding of relationship" in an inorganic fashion similar to that found in Ovid, Chaucer,…
Haahr, Joan G.
James J. Paxson and Cynthia A. Gravlee, eds. Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid Through Chaucer (Selinsgrove, Penn.: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1998), pp. 39-61.
Focuses on "recusatio" ("'refusal' to obey") as a rhetorical device used in classical tradition to justify the "poetic legitimacy of amatory subjects" and broadened in medieval tradition to enable "new types of courtly literature emphasizing private…
Gillespie, Vincent.
Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone, eds. The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997): pp. 273-311.
One of the ways that Skelton sought to achieve a status as high as Chaucer's was to present himself as a combination of poet, priest, and prophet in "Replycacion."
Andretta, Helen R[uth].
McGrann, Loretta, and Benilde Montgomery, eds. Selected Proceedings of the Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature (Patchogue, N. Y.: St. Jospeh's, 1994), pp. 95-105.
Essay not seen; reported in MLA International Bibliography.
Bobac examines the "social life of medieval justice as discursively constituted," considering WBT as an example of a text that explores the "theory and purpose of the punishments for rape."
