Downes, Stephanie, and Rebecca F. McNamara.
Literature Compass 13.6 (2016): 444-56.
Surveys "current critical trends" in the history of emotions and in Middle English literature, considering modern and postmodern criticism of TC ("a poem of emotional extremes") and "Sir Orfeo," and suggesting future directions for the study of…
Warren, Michelle R.
Literature Compass 15, no. 6 (2018): n.p.
Explores interrelations among world literature studies, comparative literature studies, textbook marketing, translations of Chaucer's works into various languages, Ngugı wa Thiong'o's concept of "globalectics," and the essays accompanying Warren's…
Mahdipour, Alireza.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018)
Explores cultural, prosodic, and personal aspects of translating selections from CT into Farsi verse, with sustained attention to GP, the translatability of Chaucer, and parallels between his work and Persian literature and culture.
Botelho, José Francisco.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Explores cultural, stylistic, and personal aspects of translating CT into Portuguese verse, focused on making the work "readable . . . to the Brazilian readership" in detail and idiom, but also a "bit old-fashioned" and "familiar in a strange way."
Kano, Koichi.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Offers a "brief history" of Japanese translations of CT and focuses on the versions--complete and selected--by Kenji Kaneko, first published in 1917, revised and rereleased in 1923 and 1946. Explores the historical cultural conditions of Kaneko's…
Klitgard, Ebbe.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Describes and reproduces sample illustrations from four Danish translations of selections from CT: those by Flemming Bergsøe (1943), illustrated by Poul Christensen; by Lis Thorbjørnsen (1946), illustrated by Ib Spang Olsen; by Jørgen Sonne…
Agbabi, Patience.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Agbabi's personal account of adapting Chaucer's poetry in her "Telling Tales" (2014) and in her contribution to the anthology "Refugee Tales" (2016)--an adaptation of FranT entitled "Makar."
Identifies "similarities of character, action, and tone" between Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar's Turkish novel "Kuyruklu yildiz altında bir izdivaç" (1912) and both MilT and WBT.
Doyle, Laura.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Places the cluster of Chaucer essays in this special issue of "Literature Compass"--entitled "Chaucer's Global Compaignye"--in the context of the journal's "Global Circulation Project," and comments on each of the included essays. For individual…
Ariza-Barile, Raúl.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Contemplates the concept of "of a 'medieval Mexico' as a historically significant paradigm" in light of the nation's colonial past. Considers various translations of CT into Spanish and comments on Chaucer studies in Mexico, including the lack of…
Robinson, Carol L.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Questions the assumptions underlying critical commentary on the Wife of Bath's deafness, exploring potential parallels between authority and experience, literacy and orality, and hearing and deafness. Indicts the "audism" of much of the commentary,…
Barrington, Candace, and Jonathan Hsy.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Emphasizes the global diversity of CT--settings, sources, influence, etc.--and asks "what underappreciated meanings in Chaucer's Middle English work open up through translation and adaptation." Summarizes the essays included in this special issue…
Rajendran, Shyama.
Literature Compass 16, nos. 9-10 (2019): n.p.
Challenges the uses and meanings of "vernacular" and "vernacularity" in literary and linguistic studies on the grounds that the terms are historically and intrinsically racist, colonialist, and/or supremacist. Using the "paradigm of metrolingualism,"…
Bradbury, Jill Marie, Geoffrey Clegg, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum,
Pamela Kincheloe, and Tonya Stremlau.
Literature Compass 16.1 (2019): n.p.
A group of "deaf/Deaf/hard of hearing scholars with wide-ranging expertise in literary studies, rhetoric, disability studies, and Deaf Studies" express "deep reservations" about Robinson's essay.
Raskolnikov, Masha.
Literature Compass 2 (2005): 1-20.
Surveys recent discussions of the role of confession in constructing a vernacular sense of self in late medieval English writing, with recurrent references to Chaucer's works.
Zuraikat, Malek J.
Literature Compass 20 (2023): 15 pp.
Surveys issues of gender in CT and Chaucer studies, arguing that Chaucer's realistic portrayal of human variety makes it difficult to claim him to be either feminist or misogynistic.
Sebastian, John T.
Literature Compass 3.4 (2006): 767-77.
Surveys recent historicist and psychoanalytic approaches to Chaucer's writing, positing an impending turn toward "an emerging norm of multi- and post-theoretical criticism."
Williams, Tara.
Literature Compass 4.4 (2007): 1003-16
Argues that a "turn to the Middle Ages" can reinvigorate feminist criticism, encouraging exploration of the "origins of gendered language," e.g., womanhood, femininity, and wifehood. Williams surveys the tradition of feminist approaches to medieval…
Clifton, Nicole.
Literature Compass 5.1 (2008): 158-64.
Pedagogical portfolio (containing material such as bibliography, sample syllabi, and discussion questions) for study of Middle English romances, including several works by Chaucer.
Rayner, Samantha.
Literature Compass 5.2 (2008): 195-206.
Surveys pedagogical tools for teaching Chaucer to secondary and undergraduate students, maintaining that "the future looks promising for medieval studies." Includes a summary of studies that address the topic and contrasts practice in the United…
Robertson, Elizabeth Ann.
Literature Compass 5.3 (2008): 505-28.
Summarizes Aristotelian affiliations of women with matter (rather than form) and, following Bourdieu, explores how this affiliation and its "practices" are enacted in Middle English literature. Chaucer engages "contemporary historical practices about…
Bale, Anthony.
Literature Compass 5.5 (2008): 918-34.
Surveys medieval notions of authorship from the twelfth century to the late fifteenth century, commenting on topics such as anonymity, laureateship, Mandeville's "Travels," "The Cloud of Unknowing," "The Book of Margery Kempe," and the development…
Robertson, Kellie.
Literature Compass 5.6 (2008): 1060-80.
Surveys materialist "thing theory" as background on how objectivities and subjectivities interacted in medieval and early modern cultures. Summarizes work to date on the topic and considers how the accoutrements of the Merchant (especially his hat)…
Kamath, Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs.
Literature Compass 6 (2009): 1109-26.
Kamath surveys scholarly discussion of the influence of the "Roman de la Rose" on Middle English literature, with special attention to Chaucer's works, including Rom, as well as to those of his contemporaries and descendants.
Davis, Isabel.
Literature Compass 6 (2009): 842-63.
Davis assesses late medieval, first-person narration in English literature as a rhetorical and allegorical device and as an autobiographical stance. She comments on the influence of Augustine and Boethius and explores a range of Middle English…
