Although he derives it from Boccaccio, Chaucer alters the topos of the lover's gaze at the end of TC, transforming it into a Boethian, Christian vision of God. The article includes a coda on Criseyde's prudential "third eye."
Lee, Monika H.
Essays in Literature (Macomb, Ill.) 21 (1994): 152-65.
Like many other medieval English poets, Chaucer was much concerned with the nature of truth, especially in FranT and TC. The Late Middle Ages still showed a "vestigial orality" in approaching the subject.
Lee, Sun Young.
Feminist Studies in English Literature 25.3 (2017): 35-66.
Considers how PhyT prompts attention to "issues of female victimization and women's agency in litigation process," exploring Chaucer's alterations of his source material in Livy and the "Roman de la Rose," and examining how his tale evokes late…
Lee, Sun Young.
Dissertation Abstracts International A79.09 (2018): n.p.
Includes discussion of "Chaucer's critique of the rhetoric of moderation in the speech of the Pardoner and the Friar John [in SumT] . . . , who attempted to assert their clerical superiority and cover up their gluttony by preaching moderation."
Lee, Sung-Il.
Medieval English Studies 05 (1997): 201-16.
Henryson's emulation of Chaucer is evident in his adoption of the stanza form of TC for his "Testament," yet he expresses his "rivalry" with his prececessor by offering a different conclusion.
Leech attempts to formulate a context for understanding medieval body images, using Rolle, Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and Kempe along with Chaucer. Chapter 5 considers KnT, GP, WBT, and ParsT.
Lees-Jeffries, Hester.
Andrew James Johnston, Russell West-Pavlov, and Elisabeth Kempf, eds. Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare: "Troilus and Criseyde" and "Troilus and Cressida" (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 61-75.
Assesses Hecuba as a "potent absent presence" in Shakespeare's :"Troilus and Cressida," and comments on the possible influence of LGW and TC on Shakespeare's "Rape of Lucrece" as well as his Trojan play. Includes attention to Dido and Penelope.
LeFever, Henry Lewis.
Springfield, PA]: Walden Birch, 2011.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that this volume of poetry includes two poems entitled "From Chaucer's The Franklin tale" and "The Franklin's tale told twice."
Examines how Lydgate's "Legend of Dan Joos" recasts the opening of GP into a representation of eternal redemption in praise of Mary in his own aureate style.
Demonstrates that Chaucer "occupies a more prominent place" in Samuel Johnson's "Dictionary" than has been acknowledged. Corrects some misconceptions of previous scholars and adds new data about attention to Chaucer in the "Dictionary"--quotations of…
Leffingwell, William Clare,Jr.
Dissertation Abstracts International 41 (1981): 3592A.
Chaucerian irony works variously: in PardT to show unadmitted brotherhood in sin; in MLT to reveal the narrator's limitations; in KnT to undercut chivalry; in TC to show the self-subversion of courtly love; in PF to ridicule the narrator's neglect…
In giving the tale of Constance the form and narrative structure of a saint's life while omitting conventional motivations or explanations, Chaucer has made the Man of Law an inept narrator and has invested the tale with irony and humor.
Combines psychoanalysis, ethnography, and "queer theory" to examine pilgrimage, travel, and specific locations as narrative devices that undermine and assert masculinities in CT, especially those of the Pardoner, the Host, and the Knight in the…
Legassie, Shayne Aaron.
John M. Ganim and Shayne Aaron Legassie, eds. Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 181-205.
Compares cosmopolitanism in Trevet, Gower, and Chaucer's Constance legends. Establishes that Chaucer's sultan in MLT represents more of an aesthetic cosmopolitan than do his analogues in Trevet and Gower, who portray cosmopolitanism as a means of…
Legassie, Shayne Aaron.
Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans, eds. Roadworks: Medieval Britain, Medieval Roads (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 199-219.
Examines the "artistic and ideological purposes" of the notion of a pilgrimage road in the "imaginary of the Middle Ages," focusing on late medieval England and commenting on the attention (or lack of attention) to the road in CT and the Ellesmere…
Legg, Jeni.
Dissertation Abstracts International A82.03(E) (2020): n.p.
Assesses aspects of translation theory and presents a translation of Shin Jae Hyo's version of the "p'ansori Shimcheongga," "rendered in the form of an estranging dialogue with Geoffrey Chaucer . . . in order to interrupt the mechanical forms that…
Leggett, Glenn, and Henry-York Steiner, eds.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.
Includes a brief introduction to Chaucer and his works, with a selection from GP and PrT, NPT, and PardT (without their prologues), accompanied by marginal glosses and bottom-of-the-page notes.
Léglu, Catherine E., and Stephen J. Milner, eds.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Ten essays by various authors explore topics related to the "Consolatio" of Boethius and its impact within vernacular traditions. The essays are divided equally under two headings: "Consolation and Desire" and "Consolation and Loss." For two essays…
Lehmann, Elmar, and Bernd Lenz, eds.
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: B. B. Gruner, 1992.
A festschrift with nineteen essays focusing on telling stories, a theme that plays an important role in the work of Ulrich Broich. The subjects range from England to Japan, from Chaucer to Joyce, from genre to gender. For two essays that pertain to…
Lehmberg, Stanford E., Samantha Meigs, and Thomas William Heyck.
Chicago: Lyceum, 2008.
Credits Chaucer "[m]ore than any other single person . . . with establishing the position of Middle English," describing him as a "major figure in politics as well as literature," and declaring that CT "achieved instant popularity" and that it is the…
Lehnert, Martin, trans.
Halle (Salle): Verl. Sprache und Literatur, 1962.
Item not seen. WorldCat link to table of contents indicates that the selections (in English and in German with notes) include GP (selections), MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, FrPT, SumPT, PardPT, and ShT, with an introduction, pp. vii-xvi.
Lehnert, Martin.
Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik 32:1 (1984): 5-18.
Chaucer explores complex psychology of love in TC and CT, juxtaposing carnal with spiritual, crude with refined, translating the ideal into the everyday, synthesizing French and Italian traditions.
