Reprinted in Gayle Margherita. The Romance of Origins: Language and Sexual Difference in Middle English Literature (Philadelaphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994), pp. 100-28.
Assesses the debate between psychoanalytic and historicist critics, arguing that psychoanalytic assumptions and interpretations are embedded in historicist analysis, despite historicist claims of rejecting psychoanalysis. Considers works by major…
Myklebust, Nicholas.
Jennifer Nuttall and David Watt, ed. Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches (Cambridge: Brewer, 2022.), pp. 25-46.
Argues that "because Hoccleve's metre cannot persuasively be reconciled with any known metrical system, it must be allowed its own category." Details Chaucer's metrical "template" and shows how Hoccleve varies it to create his own, although…
Snyder, Matthew J.
Christine Devine and Marie Hendry, eds. Turning Points and Transformations: Essays on Language, Literature and Culture (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 3-15.
Contrasts the ending of PrT with Latin analogues to argue that the Tale is less concerned with miracles than with martyrdom--Jewish martyrdom as well as Christian--whereby Chaucer suggests the need for mourning human death.
Amano, Masachiyo, and others, eds.
New York and Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008.
Twenty-eight essays by various authors on linguistic aspects of Old and Middle English. For three that pertain to Chaucer; search for Historical Englishes in Varieties of Texts and Contexts under Alternative Title.
Fisher, John H.
Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship 6 (1994): 165-80.
Since no authorial text of CT or TC is available for a best-text edition, a combination of the habits or "uses" of the earliest scribes, with spelling normalized to accord with Equat, should be used to produce an edition. Fisher exemplifies such an…
Arn, Mary-Jo, and Hanneke Wirtjes, eds.
Groningen: Wolters-Nordhoff, 1985.
Fifteen essays by various hands. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Historical and Editorial Studies in Medieval and Early Modern English under Alternative Title.
An anthology of four tales of cuckoldry, with a brief Introduction. Includes a version of ShT in Spanish, here titled "Vestida de Pecado: Versión Libre Sobre un Cuento de Geoffrey Chaucer" (pp. 37-65).
Rigby, Stephen H., ed., with Siân Echard
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2019.
Consists of fourteen essays and a calendar of life records by various authors, clarifying Gower's life and works in relation to the "intellectual culture of the social, religious, and political controversies of his day." No single essay focuses on…
Rigby, Stephen H., ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Interdisciplinary collection of essays by medieval historians showcasing how application of social, economic, political, religious, and historical frameworks illuminates interpretation of CT. Surveys current debates over social meaning of Chaucer's…
Challenges D.W. Robertson's approach to allegory and to the WBP, arguing that the medieval outlook was more flexible than Robertson asserted, more capable of varied attitudes toward present times, the historical past, the eschatological future, and…
Crepin, Andre,and Helene Taurinya Dauby.
Paris: Nathan, 1993.
An introduction to literature written in England from Gildas's Latin chronicle to Sir Thomas Malory, including, among others, separate chapters on Chaucer (pp. 148-61) and Chaucer's influence and apocrypha (pp. 187-201).
Lambdin, Robert T., and Laura C. Lambdin.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 357-68
Characterizes the Canon's Yeoman as a "personal servant of a religious officer," although details of CYP indicate that he might more accurately be described as an alchemist's fire-tender or "puffer." The essay examines the importance of fire and…
McCarter, Christina.
Ph.D. dissertation (Purdue University, 2021), Dissertation Abstracts International A85.01 (E). Fully accessible at https://hammer.purdue.edu/articles/thesis/HINGED_BOUND_COVERED_THE_SIGNIFYING_POTENTIAL_OF_THE_MATERIAL_CODEX/15057483?file=28992765 (accessed January 31, 2025).
Explores how the material book is a "metaphorically rich signifier" in contemporary culture and in a selection of English narratives, including BD and PF--where the narrators' books, serving as portals to the dream experience, result in "poetic…
First-person fiction featuring Eugenia Panisporchi, who teaches Chaucer, and who remembers all of her past lives, which connect with her present one. Includes trans-temporal recollections of when she met "Mr. Chaucer" and encountered models for…
Olson, Donald W., Edgar S. Laird, and Thomas E. Lytle.
Sky and Telescope 99.4: 44-49, 2000.
Correlates the disappearance of the rocks in FranT to an extremely high tide that occurred on December 19, 1340, perhaps the year of Chaucer's birth. Calculates the date using the Toledan or Alfonsine Tables known to Chaucer. The clerk in FranT knows…
Argues that the unity of PF is anchored in the principle of the hierarchy of love, an aspect of the Great Chain of Being. By exploring a wide and interconnected range of kinds of love, Chaucer achieves humor and thematic richness.
With Chaucer's Criseyde (as with Malory's Guinevere), readers are forced to construct her character from the "implicature" of her acts and words rather than deduce it from explicit and consistent statements.
Item not seen; reported in the MLA International Bibliography as a comparative linguistic treatment of dreams in Chaucer, Gower, and Langland. In Japanese.
Lochrie, Karma.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Lochrie theorizes what sexualities, particularly female sexuality, might "have looked like before heterosexuality and the normal" were constructed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by statistical practices, exploring various medieval texts,…
Schultz, James A.
Journal of the History of Sexuality 15.1 (2006): 14-29.
Schultz critiques uses of "heterosexual" as a term and as an ahistorical concept in queer studies of medieval literature. Chaucerian critics (and others) use the term in ways that "distort the very object" of their studies, "thwart" history, and…
Jordan, Robert M.
Thomas J. Farrell, ed. Bakhtin and Medieval Voices (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995), pp. 81-93.
Examines the "ideological markers" that indicate the various "languages" of MLT, arguing that they cannot be resolved into unity by recourse to a supposed personality of the teller.
