Lawton, Lesley.
Miranda: Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone 12 (2016): 1-21. Open access journal at http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/8646 (accessed February 6, 2022).
Explores how medieval romances convey stereotypes that "often appear as a feature of tales of identity in which the male subject position of active self-affirmation is partly developed in relation to female figures" of vulnerability. Includes…
Lay, Ethna Dempsey.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4667A.
Using the electronic Glossarial Database of Middle English, Lay analyzes Chaucer's habits of combining native English vocabulary with Romance vocabulary in doublets and puns, a reflection of his bilingual imagination.
Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto
Teresa Fanego Lema, ed. Papers from the IVth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1993), pp. 175-82.
Outlines the aspects of Chaucer's works that are usually regarded as characteristic of twentieth-century British modernism: innovation and convention-breaking, fusion of genres, colloquial idioms, metrical license, dramatic monologue, poetic…
Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto
Luis A. Lazaro Lafuente, Jose Simon, and Ricardo J. Sola Buil,eds. Medieval Studies: Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Madrid: Universidad de Alcala de Henares, 1996), pp. 207-15.
Surveys the kinds of irony and humor in PardPT for the ways they characterize the Pardoner.
Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto.
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 5 (1996): 18-28.
Surveys scholarship and evidence concerning Chaucer's familiarity with Spanish literature, arguing that critics have exaggerated the possible influence. It is "highly improbable" that Chaucer was directly influenced by medieval Spanish writers;…
Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto.
Margarita Gimenez Bon and Vickie Olsen, eds. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Vitoria-Gasteiz: Dpto. Filologia Inglesa, 1997), pp. 146-53.
Discusses oral satiric performance in PardPT, focusing on medieval flytings, sermons, and "additive" oral structure.
Analysis of Chaucer's tales (and Arthurian stories) as retold for Spanish children during the Francoist period. Focuses on the first translation of Chaucer (and its subsequent editions) by Manuel Vallvé, who translated J. Kelman's 1914 "Stories…
Lazaro, Alberto.
Luminita Frentiu and Loredana Punga, eds. A Journey through Knowledge: Festschrift in Honour of Hortensia Pârlog (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012), pp. 120-29.
Describes the availability in Spain before 1975 of translations for children of CT and Arthurian stories, observing the emphasis on pious, submissive women found in adaptations of FranT, KnT, ClT, and MLT, the only tales allowed by censors.
Lazarus, Alan J.
Larry D. Benson and Siegfried Wenzel, eds. The Wisdom of Poetry (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Western Michigan University, 1982), pp. 145-49.
Plots the course of Venus astronomically to show the planet would have been clearly visible in the northwest in 1374, 1377, 1380, and 1382, and possibly in 1375 and 1379.
Le Saux, Francoise.
Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 20168), 1:465-77.
Describes late-medieval Breton political status and summarizes the region's literary production in Breton and in French, commenting on drama, Arthurian materials, and religious literature. Includes discussion of the setting of FranT in Brittany as…
Leach, Eleanor Winsor.
Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, eds. Acts of Interpretation (Norman, Okla., Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 299-310.
In KnT, May symbolizes the future promise of Emelye's love. In LGW strong emphasis on women and love is tied to men's ability to judge them. May, the season most likely to obscure these judgments, is a metaphor for fulfillment of love's promise.
Leach, MacEdward, ed.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961.
Includes seventeen essays on various aspects of medieval literature: five on Chaucer, eight on other medieval literary studies, two on linguistics, and two on editing medieval texts. Includes a professional biography of Baugh and a partial list of…
Leahy, Conor.
Review of English Studies 70, no. 295 (2019): 527-49.
Assesses references and allusions to Middle English in poetry written by W. H. Auden between 1922 and 1930, including echoes of GP, MilT, and BD in "The Mill (Hempstead)" and "April in a Town," and perhaps TC and NPT in "Troy Town."
Leahy, Conor.
Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 22 (2021): 217-24.
Describes the annotations made by book-collector Stephan Batman (c. 1542–84) in his copy of John "Stow's edition of The "Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer" (1561), explaining how they evince Batman's habits and interests.
Leahy, Michael.
Dissertation Abstracts International C74.10 (2015): n.p.
Considers the addition of medical terminology to the lexicons of medieval laypeople, with particular regard to its use in metaphor. Authors under consideration include Chaucer, Henryson, Rolle, and Kempe.
Leana, Joyce Fitzpatrick.
DAI 35.02 (1974): 1049-50A.
Argues that HF is unified and that in its concern with the power of language it anticipates the theme of language as magic or illusion in CT. Also explores the sources of HF.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this volume, concerned with unfinished literature, includes discussion of CT, along with Virgil's "Aeneid," Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls," Robert Musil's "Man without a Soul," and other works. In Swedish.
Lears, Adin E.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020.
Connects noise and knowing and unknowing in late medieval English literature. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss HF and WBT respectively, suggesting how Chaucer's texts "present lay uses of language as noise."
Uses Paul Ricoeur's "theory of narrative identity" to explore various aspects of Chaucer's poetry, including issues of female agency in FranT, ClT, and TC; racialized narratives and white identity in CT; Chaucer's "talking-animal poetry"; and "poetic…
Leavy, Barbara Fass.
Barbara Fass Leavy, To Blight with Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme (New York and London: New York University Press, 1992), pp. 41-82.
Assesses how and in what ways "disease of both body and soul" is a recurrent concern in CT, especially in fragment 6 which includes PhyT and PardT. Surmises that the fragment may have influenced Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year," and…
Lecky, Kat.
Megan Moore, ed. Gender in the Premodern Mediterranean (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2019), pp. 203-33.
Traces from Chaucer (MLT) to Shakespeare ("Othello") to Milton ("Samson Agonistes") a "literary tradition that seeks to understand England's place on [the] international stage." Identifies the economic/political models that underlie Custance's two…
Lee, Anne Thompson.
Chaucer Review 19 (1984): 169-78.
Most critical opinion has followed Kittredge's 1912 evaluation of FranT as Chaucer's treatment of ideal marriage. FranT is actually about what it is like to be married, and its center is Dorigen, Chaucer's unique portrayal of a genuinely good,…
