Kordecki, Lesley.
Nona C. Flores, ed. Animals in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays (New York: Garland, 1996), pp. 85-101.
The overt hermeneutic directives of many animal books are evident in HF, WBP, and, especially, the silencing of the crow in ManT. The latter combines with the Parson's "antiliterary prologue" to undercut the whole of CT.
To find his own poetic voice, Chaucer's dreamer in HF impersonates the non-canonical subjectivities and voices of women and animals in the form of Dido, the eagle, and the monster-woman Fame. By doing so, he turns away from masculine literary…
Various concepts of "otherness" in SqT--oriental setting, magic, non-human speech, female centrality--reflect Chaucer's "reshaping" of Ovidian "transformation" myth. His efforts to enter "into feminized animal subjectivity . . . intertwine with…
Describes how Chaucer reaches beyond the phallocentrism and "human parochialism" of his time by giving voice to the feminine and the animal in PF, even though the poem ends with a return to masculinist, human-centered subjectivity.
Kordecki, Lesley.
New York: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2011.
Assuming a consistent narrative voice across the Chaucer canon, this study treats Chaucer's use of animal, specifically, avian, discourse as a means of exploring subjectivity. The author emphasizes the role of non-humans and women in "challenging…
Kordecki, Lesley.
Carolynn Van Dyke, ed. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 249-60.
Argues that the cuckoo-merlin dialogue in PF deconstructs the traditional human-animal binary by presenting a "fleeting realization of anthropomorphism gone awry." The cuckoo's "brood parasitism . . . resolves itself into a mode of communal profit"…
Kordecki, Lesley.
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 29 (2022): 570-82.
Argues that the eagle in HF "represents poetry," manifest in its "uncanny perception," its ability to "uplift" the narrator, and its concern with sound and transformative power.
Koretsky, Allen C.
Annuale Mediaevale 17 (1976): 22-47.
Chaucer's chivalric heroes embody the theme of moral "gentilesse," though these knights are often depicted as corrigibly flawed in their characters. The romances emphasize their private lives (especially in love) over purely military or spectacular…
Koretsky, Allen C.
Derek Cohen and Deborah Heller, eds. Jewish Presences in English Literature (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990), pp. 10-24.
Chaucer uses the anti-Semitism of PrT to depict pernicous innocence.
Koretsky, Allen C.
Chaucer Review 4.4 (1970): 242-66.
Describes the presence of apostrophe ("exclamatio") in TC and assesses its various effects: amplification, heightening of style, advancement of plot, and characterization--especially of Troilus, Criseyde, and the narrator, but also of Pandarus,…
Koretsky, Allen Curtis.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.11 (1968): 4634A.
Shows how Chaucer adapted Boccaccio's "Filostrato" in TC by increasing the density and variety of rhetorical figures, thereby "embellishing" the verse, altering characterization, transforming narrative perspective. and increasing irony. Includes an…
Koriyama, Naoshi.
No publication information available, [1973].
Item not seen; the WorldCat record indicates that this is an offprint, pp. 65-109, of an unidentified publication. See also Bill Wolak's interview with Koriyama in the online journal "Prime Number: A Journal of Distinctive Poetry and Prose," issue 7,…
Köseoğlu, Berna.
Research Journal of English Language and Literature 6, no. 1 (2018): 153-59.
Assesses the role of Pandarus in TC as a "go-between" and as "spokesman" for and agent of typical medieval understandings of love, fortune, suffering, and the tenuousness of human happiness.
Kossick, S. G.
Unisa English Studies 9.1 (1971): 11-13.
Describes the two aubades of TC (3.1422-70) as characteristic of the genders of their speakers: The "manliness" of Troilus's aubade "counterpoise[es] the femininity" of Criseyde's. Contrasts the two aubades with W. B. Yeats's "The Parting."
Koster, Josephine A.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 35-45.
Reads WBP as an example of genre-bending: a parody of female saints' lives. Surveys Chaucer's uses of the conventions of female hagiography in CT and argues that Alison of Bath "acts in precisely the opposite way to an orthodox saint." The essay…
Koster, Josephine A.
Essays in Medieval Studies 24 (2007): 79-91.
Examination of social spaces and residential settings that Criseyde inhabits reveals that she is not isolated (as generally argued) until she enters the Greek camp. She conforms to the social expectations, the "habitus," of her social sphere, even as…
Questions the concept of a "standard edition" in the postmodern world of textual editing and uses the controversy about Adam Pinkhurst (Was he Chaucer's scribe cited in Adam?) as evidence that "medievalists really seek editorial closure," despite…
Seeks to identify the "Latin manuscript closest to Chaucer's source for his translation" of Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy'," examining features and variants in manuscripts of Boethius's treatise.
Kouritzin, Sandra G.
Kouritzin, Sandra G., Nathalie A. C. Piquemal, and Renee Norman, eds. Qualitative Research: Challenging the Orthodoxies in Standard Academic Discourse(s) (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 67-82.
Personal account of the author's efforts to write an unorthodox dissertation, including comments about her thwarted intention of using the CT "as a template" for the dissertation.
Kovetz, Gene H.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 236-37.
Observes an inconsistency in Emily's address to Diana in KnT 1.2349-52 that results from Chaucer's change in the sequence of the three protagonists' addresses to deities, altering his source in Boccaccio's "Teseida." Suggests that Chaucer was…
