Krier notes the influence of early Chaucer works upon Spenser. Chaucer's early dream visions influenced Spenser and provide an example of linking plot to daily activity.
Krochalis, Jeanne E.
Chaucer Review 26 (1991): 43-47.
Numerous Latin insertions on the manuscript suggest that the scribe was translating from a Latin exemplar into English. His notations indicate that he was identifying problems with translation and guarding against them when creating his final…
Krochalis, Jeanne E.
Chaucer Review 21 (1986): 234-45.
Hoccleve's request for a portrait (supplied in the Harley 4866 MS of "The Regement of Princes") is something new: the author's likenesses had heretofore been stylized. Hoccleve's lines (4992-5012) place Chaucer in a holy or ecclesiastical setting. …
In GP, "Belmarye," one of the Knight's destinations, might well be glossed as a reference to Almerin (a province between Granada and Algezir), spelled "Balmarie" in a mid-fifteenth-century manuscript.
Comments on three "distancing-involving" devices in BD--the narrative pose, structural arrangement, and the "self-reflexive consideration of the poem's poetics." Include a brief Jungian analysis of the dream.
Krstovic, Jelena.
Lawrence Trudeau, ed. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 260 (Farmington, Mich.: Gale, 2017), pp. 114-0.
Reprints eleven examples of Chaucer criticism published between 2001 and 2013 and an excerpt from 1934. The introduction by Krstovic summarizes Chaucer's biography, major works, and critical reception, updating information supplied in Volume 56 of…
Krueger, Roberta L., ed.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Fifteen essays and an introduction introduce the reader to "the voyages, transformations, and interrogations of romance as its fictions travel within and between the linguistic, geo-political, and social boundaries of Europe from 1150 to 1600." For…
Krug, Rebecca.
Jane Tolmie and M. J. Toswell, eds. Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2010), pp. 225-41.
Explores the depictions of grief over lost children in the Wakefield mystery play "Slaughter of the Innocents"; a Middle English life of Saint Bridget; and ClT. The depictions present grief as variously natural, unnatural, and a response to conflict;…
Kruger Steven F.
James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 301-23.
Considers how the bodies of Jews are related to Christian bodily miracles in Chaucer's PrT and the Croxton "Play of the Sacrament." Kruger clarifies the relation between the positive valuation of the body in late-medieval spirituality and the attack…
Kruger, Steven (F.)
Peter Brown, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 51-83.
Traces the influence of medieval medical texts on the understanding of the bodily causes of dreaming, arguing that the dreamer's body plays an important role in dreams. In BD, the dream works to masculinize and "heterosexualize" the ailing narrator,…
Kruger, Steven F.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Analyzes medieval theory of dreams, tracing development from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages. In theory, in literature, and in life, dreams were regarded as both potentially deceptive and potentially illuminating. The work concentrates on…
Kruger, Steven F.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 2651A.
Kruger investigates the ambivalent nature of dreams in light of various classical and medieval dream theories, as well as actual accounts of dreams. The "middle vision," neither divine nor satanic, figures in Langland, Nicole Oresme, and Chaucer (BD…
Kruger, Steven F.
Chaucer Review 23 (1989): 219-35.
LGWP promises something that the poem itself does not deliver--stories of faithful women and faithless men. LGW is about how stories break out of prescribed patterns, how characters defy stereotypes, and how emotions and impulses escape the forms…
Kruger, Steven F.
Chaucer Review 28 (1993): 117-34.
Movement in HF is simultaneously inward and self-reflexive and outward and upward, toward a world of "eternal phenomena" and a realm of "abstract ideas." The poem is thus poised between two worlds, and its incompleteness may indicate Chaucer's…
Through a historically situated investigation of the Pardoner's possible homeosexuality and its relation to language in PardPT, modern readers can resist Chaucer's (possibly) homophobic intentions, reclaiming and even celebrating the Pardoner's…
Kruger, Steven F.
Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 30-45.
Pedagogical approach to CT combining traditional "high-stakes" formal writing and "low-stakes" informal writing, incorporated in a broader portfolio of student responses and projects.
Kruger, Steven F.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 147-65.
Questions "to what extent might late medieval Christian intellectual and historical engagements with Judaism be productive for readings of Chaucerian texts not only when Jews are directly represented but also in the absence of such explicit…
Kruger, Steven F.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 167-90.
Discusses the Prioress's antisemitism in PrT within the context of late medieval religious feeling, in order to "understand it from within so as more effectively to analyze it." Traces "the condensation of a complex set of antisemitic ideas, wrapped…
Kruger, Steven.
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 71-89.
Kruger summarizes medieval dream theory and argues that Chaucer exploits "the complexities, ambiguities, and uncertainties of dreams, their causes, and their interpretation." Dreams pose interpretive problems in NPT and TC. As dream visions, BD, HF,…
Comprises nineteen pedagogical essays in English, history, philosophy, theater, and Judaic studies by various authors who participated in a series of NEH research seminars conducted between 2003 and 2014. The introduction by the editors addresses…
Krummel, Miriamne Ara.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 50 (2008): 121-42.
A significant Jewish presence echoes in the wide-ranging geographies of PrT (Asia),Th (fairyland), and the Monk's stories of Peter of Spain and Antiochus (Judea). Chaucer evokes a sophisticated awareness of Jewishness that mitigates the Prioress's…
Krummel, Miriamne Ara.
Literature Compass 1 (2003-04): 1-14.
Surveys critical commentary on the absence and presence of Jews in late medieval English society and literature,gauging the state of discussions of works such as PrT,the Croxton Play of the Sacrament,and others.
Krummel, Miriamne Ara.
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. "The Canterbury Tales" Revisited--21st Century Interpretations (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 88-109.
The violent anti-Semitism of PrT attracts critical attention, but a variety of brief, positive depictions of Jews occurs elsewhere in CT, reflecting the dynamic nature of medieval attitudes.
