Fulton, Helen.
Louise D'Arcens, and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, eds. Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. 37-55.
Investigates free indirect discourse in GP, focusing on Chaucer's personae, the variety of his narrative positions, and their "focalisations" internal and external to the diegesis of the poem. Comments on focalization in the descriptions of the Wife…
Bose, Mishtooni.
Louise D'Arcens, and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, eds. Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. 75-94.
Examines the ""fissure between spoken utterances and the body's voice" in Arveragus's burst into tears (FranT 5.1479–80), engaging the theme of truth in the Tale and the "dynamic between . . . irruptions of the somatic voice and the dissociative…
Barrington, Candace.
Louise D'Arcens, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 180-95.
Addresses how spatial, temporal, and linguistic global medievalisms shaped the reception of CT translations. Discusses global translations, including "Wahala Dey O!," an Icelandic translation of MilT, and translations of CT in Turkish, Brazilian, and…
Jones, Mike Rodman.
Louise D'Arcens, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 89-102.
Maintains that "The Plowman's Tale" and "Jack Upland" may have contributed to how Chaucer was received by "anti-Catholic cultures of the sixteenth century."
Vasvari, Louise.
Louise Mirrer, ed. Upon My Husband's Death: Widows in Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1992), pp. 259-87.
Acknowledges the Wife of Bath and Criseyde as different kinds of widows in the tradition of literary widowhood that underlies the Dona Endrina episode in Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor.
Siewers, Alfred K.
Louise Westling, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 31-44.
Assesses the ecopoetics of the Celtic underworld in the "Immram Brain," "Tochmarc Étaíne," and the "Mabinogi" as background to green-world concerns in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Closes with commentary on parallel concerns in the opening of…
Dor, Juliette De Caluwe, trans.
Louvain-Paris: Editions Peeters, 1986.
With facing translation from the Fisher edition plus explanatory notes and new interpretations, this second installment of a projected four-volume, line-for-line translation of CT into French prose presents RvT, CkT, MLT, WBT, FrT, and SumT.
Reprints twenty-seven essays by Wenzel and adds one previously unpublished lecture: "Moral Chaucer?" (pp. 189-204) which considers the "moral life" of Chaucer's characters, focusing on the "decision-making" by the two main characters in TC, and…
Eberle, Gerald J.
Loyola University Studies in the Humanities 1 (1962): 75-90.
Surveys prior criticism of ManT and observes recurrent irony in the tale, particularly in Chaucer's assigning unnecessary expansions and repetitions to the verbose narrator.
Holtz, Nancy Ann.
Luanne Franke, ed. Literature and the Occult: Essays in Comparative Literature (Arlington: University of Texas at Arlington, 1977), pp. 159-73.
Despite his comic depictions of star-obsessed humanity, Chaucer respected astrology; but he did not find astrological determinism absolute. In KnT Palamon gains Emily by enduring the tests of Saturn, who is more neutral.
Describes and assesses the CT, with chapters on social and intellectual backgrounds, Chaucer's life, his use of pilgrimage and frame tale conventions, GP, and each of the individual tales, following the Ellesmere order. Discussions of individual…
Joyce was re-reading CT while revising Ulysses. Chaucerian influence extends beyond allusion to parallels of linguistic conception, encyclopedic reference, and form. The works share elements of tone, a sense of place among the great works of…
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.
Leon Sendra, Antonio R.
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. 217-46.
Examines an exchange between Troilus and Pandarus to explore the theme of public versus private life in TC. Explores the relation between friendship and the public-private dialectic.
Castillo, Francisco Javier.
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. 93-107.
A previously unknown Spanish translation of MerT derives not from Chaucer's original but from the English translation by Alexander Pope. Castillo provides biography of Canary Islander Graciliano Alfonso Naranjo, who may have been the author of the…
Gonzalez Fernandez-Corugedo, Santiago.
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. 151-75.
Comparative analysis of PrT and its Spanish analogue reveals how the author of each uses different rhetoric to achieve different aims, although the two share a tendency to direct personal appeal.
Perez Lorido, Rodrigo.
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. 247-59.
Though not a practicing musician, Chaucer had a better-than-average knowledge of late-fourteenth-century French monodic and English polyphonic music. This knowledge is evident in his specific and accurate use of musical terminology.
Aguirre Daban, Manuel.
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. 9-14.
Reexamines the meaning of "sovereignty," proposes that "The Wedding of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell" is a link between WBT and its ultimate Irish source, and reformulates the question of sources.
Vila de la Cruz, Maria Purificacion.
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: Universidadde Alcala de Henares, 1996), pp. 369-84.
The structure of CT reflects aspects of Chaucer's world, in particular the structure of gothic cathedrals.
Sola Buil, Ricardo J.
Luis A. Lazaro Lafuente, Jose Simon, and Ricardo J. Sola Buil,eds. Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Madrid: Universidad de Alcala de Henares, 1996),pp. 261-65.
Questions whether Chaucer's deviations from traditional literary standards disguise or disclose personal messages.
Bauer, Matthias, and Angelika Zirker.
Lukas Rösli and Stefanie Gropper, eds. In Search of the Culprit: Aspects of Medieval Authorship (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021), pp. 217–38.
Explores how in each of two Shakespearean plays "there is a co-authorship with a past author": Gower in "Pericles" and Chaucer in "The Two Noble Kinsmen." Argues that the presentation of Chaucer as a source in the prologue in "Kinsmen" engages…
A series of interlinked webpages that pertain to the study of Chaucer, including works, biography, selected quotations, audio clips, images, and a variety of essays and studies, including web-published student essays, external links, and more. Much…
