Kolve, V. A.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997): 3-59.
Documents the pictorial (24 b&w illus.) and intellectual traditions of the "fool...who says in his heart, There is no God," using the traditions as backdrop for analyzing "Folie de Tristan" and TC. In his love of Criseyde, Troilus is similar to the…
Kolve, V. A.
Donka Minkova and Theresa Tinkle, eds. Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism: Studies in Honor of H. A. Kelly (Frankfurt and New York : Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 31-71.
Kolve investigates the iconic importance of Criseyde's dream of the eagle and Troilus's dream of the boar and their embedded affiliations with the sun. In TC, these images illustrate the gap in the worth of two men and underscore the poor choice…
Kolve, V. A.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Reprints six of Kolve's essays on visual imagery and iconography in Chaucer and medieval literature and adds two new ones--both on MerT: "Of Calendars and Cuckoldry (1): January and May in The Merchant's Tale" (pp. 93-122) and "Of Calendars and…
Kolve, V. A.
Derek Brewer, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background (London: G. Bell, 1974), pp. 290-320.
Describes the importance of mental images to medieval understanding of cognition and memory, and clarifies the importance of such images to understanding Chaucer's works as iconographical poems. Meaning inheres in such images and enables both…
Kolve, V. A., and Glending Olson. eds.
New York : Norton, 2005, 2018
Revised version of the 1989 Norton critical edition, with expanded selection and apparatus. Includes GP, KnT, MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, FrPT, SumPT, ClPT, MerPT, FranPT, PardPT, PrPT, ThP and Th and selections from MelP and Mel, NPPT, ManPT, and…
Konagaya, Yataka.
Studies in English Literature 42 (1965): 13-18.
Distinguishes between Chaucer the poet and Chaucer the pilgrim, and considers the "singularities" of Mel as clues to the "author's intention," reading the Tale as a self-aware "travesty" of Chaucer's relation with his wife, Philippa.
Konas, Gary.
Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 13 (1993): 50-55.
Argues that MilT is a "farce," using the definition of Eric Bentley in "The Life of the Drama" (1967). Academic criticism of MilT has not confronted its farcical elements.
Kooijman, Jacques.
Etudes de langue et de litterature francaises offertes a Andre Lanly (Nancy: Universite Publications, 1980), pp. 173-80.
A literary exchange between Eustache Deschamps and Chaucer probably took place between 1377 and 1380. In ballad 285, Deschamps speaks of the "grant translateur" of "Roman de la Rose."
Koonce, B. G.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1966.
See also Dissertation Abstracts International 20.09 (1960): 3729-30.
Confronts the "deliberate obscurity" of HF, seeking to resolve its apparent disjunctions and disunities by reading it as a "poetic allegory" on the "subject of fame," influenced by scriptural tradition, by the dual aspects of Venus (secular and…
Koonce, Benjamin G., Jr.
Mediaeval Studies 21 (1959): 176-84.
Describes the "traditional Christian" symbolism that underlies the fowler/bird and winter/spring imagery in LGWP 125-39, identifying biblical roots, exegetical commentary, and literary examples that precede Chaucer, suggesting that the "alert…
Traces views of the medieval church and of Chaucer's sources for BD and PF. Treats love based on reason, affection, and friendship in sources: Aelred of Rievaulx, Jean de Meun, Thomas Aquinas, and Aristotle.
Kooper, Erik Simon.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 2651A.
The Aristotelian view that the marital relationship can involve friendship (found not in Augustine but in Aelred of Rievaulx and Thomas Aquinas) influenced Jean de Meun, translator of Aelred. De Meun's treatment of the matter in "Roman de la Rose"…
Twelve studies on historical linguistics, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Middle English literature. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for This Noble Craft under Alternative Title.
Kooper, Erik.
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 209-18.
"Stone" is an allegorical figure of Christ in both the Old and New Testaments, illuminating the three kinds of stones in SNT and CYT: "those of the pagans, of the alchemists and of the Christians." Chaucer presents the "extremities of human faith"…
Kooper, Erik.
Maarten De Pourcq and Sophie Levie, eds. European Literary History (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 128-38.
Introduces Chaucer's life and works, emphasizing CT and its innovations of social tension and variety as reflections of changes in English society during Chaucer's lifetime. Also comments on the fragmentary nature of CT, compares the work with…
Kopaczyk, Joanna.
Jacob Thaisen and Hanna Rutkowska, eds. Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of Their Texts (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 91-106.
Identifies several difficulties in representing manuscript abbreviations digitally, focusing on graphic subscription and superscription, and drawing data from manuscripts of MLT transcribed for the "Canterbury Tales" Project.
Koppelman, Kate.
Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec,eds. Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 97-114.
Criseyde is the "fullest subjectivity" in TC. Her resistance to Troilus's fantasy demonstrates the "constructed nature of masculinity" as shifting and dependent posturing. Koppelman explores Criseyde's confrontations with the "opaque network" of…
Koppy, Kate.
Karen Pratt, Bart Besamusca, Matthias Meyer, and Ad Putter, eds. The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript (Göttingen: V&R Academic, 2017), pp. 147-64.
Examines the arrangement and composition of two of the booklets of the Findern manuscript (Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6) for the ways they may be seen as "the record of interactions within the community of readers and scribes who had…
"Glossa Ordinaria" and NPT demonstrate the medieval tendency to accompany a base text with another, more interpretive one, generating further discourse, discouraging closure, and resulting in compound, sometimes conflicting, interpretations or…
Kordecki, Lesley.
Robert Graybill, John Hallwas, Judy Hample, Robert Kindrick, and Robert Lovell, eds. Teaching the Middle Ages II. (Warrensburg: Central Missouri State University, 1985): pp. 121-30.
Works by Henryson and Chaucer's NPT can be used to teach the nature of fable literature. NPT develops contrasting meanings in both explicit and implicit morals.
