Long, Lynne.
Ashley Chantler and Carla Dente, eds. Translation Practices: Through Language to Culture (New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009), pp. 17-29.
Long assesses medieval translation practice through modern translation theory, exploring techniques of translation and the impact of translation on vernacular literatures. Includes sustained, comparative attention to Jean de Mean and Chaucer, with…
Investigates whether modern translation theory can be usefully applied to the Middle Ages, when the "skopos" or "wider development of the literary culture" differed so widely from today's cultures. Long uses "skopos" theory and "polysystems" theory…
Long, Mary Beth.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 39 (2017): 159-89.
Considers the shift in "social and rhetorical roles" of Cecilia in SNT--from sweet wife to ardent polemical martyr--and argues that both are consistent with views of female speech in pastoral literature, particularly confessional manuals and…
Long, Mary Beth.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
Explores how "latent Marian maternal elements" inform a range of late medieval texts, focusing on how the devotional ideal of "imitatio Mariae"--rooted in Mary's "inimitable biology" as virgin and mother--informs Marian imagery and echoes in Margery…
Long, Rebekah.
Dissertation Abstracts International 66 (2005): 2206A
Considers BD and Pearl as case studies in the search for "an appropriate, adequate language of commemoration," as opposed to prior models of elegiac language.
Longo, John Duane.
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1982): 4444A.
The medieval understanding of "translatio" comprises not only recasting in another language but also literary interpretation. In drawing on the "Roman" (already richly allusive), Chaucer adapts Jean de Meun's "mirouer" technique for works of various…
Longo, Joseph A.
Cahiers Elisabethains 11 (1977): 1-15.
In Chaucer's TC and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," the actions focused on the lovers are remarkably alike in general contours and specific internal resonances, a resemblance which points to Chaucer as Shakespeare's source. Chaucer shows a…
Longo, Joseph A.
Modern Language Quarterly 22 (1961): 37-40.
Examines references to times and dates in Book II of TC, arguing that Chaucer creates a double sense of time in order to convey a "rapid sequence of events" among the three main characters while also conveying through a "longer time scheme" the…
Longsworth, Robert (M.)
Chaucer Review 34: 372-87, 2000.
Through her use of the Samaritan woman, the Wife argues for the "exegetical reliability" of her own experience. Longsworth explores several biblical references in WBP and their exegetical backgrounds to show how the Wife, even while more…
Longsworth, Robert (M.)
Criticism 13 (1971): 223-33.
Characterizes the Physician of GP as "inscrutable," although "smelling mildly of hypocrisy," and argues that the "narrative uneasiness" of PhyT is well suited to this "man of the world [who] seeks to mask his worldliness in affected piety." The…
Longsworth, Robert M.
Chaucer Review 27 (1992): 87-96.
Considers transformation "both as a theme and as a methodological problem." In SNT, faith is more "real" than experience, while in CYT, the "real" is not accessible to the Canon. Chaucer experiments with the relationship between the material and…
Longsworth, Robert.
Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 61-66.
Reads details of ClT as evidence of the Ckerk's pedagogical skills in his efforts to instruct the Wife of Bath and others.
Loomis, Dorothy Bethurum,
James L. Rosier, ed. Philological Essays: Studies in Old and Middle English Language and Literature in Honour of Herbert Dean Meritt (The Hague: Mouton, 1970), pp. 182-95.
Argues that Chaucer "was deeply influenced by the Platonism of the School of Chartres," focusing on how he and Alanus "treated the figure of Venus." Alanus presents Venus as "the efficient cause of creation," and while this view is mediated for…
Loomis, Dorothy Bethurum.
Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: Univeristy of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 207-20.
The story of Constance is not especially appropriate to the Man of Law. Chaucer was attracted to it because it is a good piece of fiction and because it gave him the perfect opportunity to set forth and justify his belief in astrology. The story…
Loomis, Dorothy Bethurum.
A. C. Cawley, ed. Chaucer's Mind and Art (New York: Barnes & Noble; Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1969), pp. 166.90.
Discusses similarities and differences between Chaucer and Shakespeare, concentrating on biography, theme, and literary techniques as well as borrowings. Comments on Shakespeare's adaptations of TC and KnT, and explores the writers' audiences, their…
Loomis, Dorothy Bethurum.
Arno Esch, ed. Chaucer und Seine Zeit: Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1968), pp. 149-61.
Describes the neo-Platonic, Chartrian tradition in which astral influence (or determinism) includes Saturn as a figure of wisdom as well as cold, temporal destiny, suggesting that the depiction of the god/planet in "De Universitate Mundi" by Bernard…
Loomis, Laura Hibbard
Jerome Taylor and Alan H. Nelson, eds. Medieval English Drama: Essays Critical and Contextual (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972), pp. 98-115.
Describes the verbal and visual records of Parisian court entertainments which have parallels with Chaucer's description of visual spectacle putatively produced by magicians ("tregetours") in FranT 5.1139-51,
Loomis, Laura Hibbard.
Speculum 33.2 (1958): 242-55.
Identifies the "tregetoures" of FranT 4.1141, not as jugglers or magicians, but as the "actors, craftsmen, 'artisans mécaniques'" who produced spectacular entertainments such as the ones recorded by chroniclers to have taken place at the Royal…
Loomis, Roger Sherman.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1965.
Reproduces b&w photographs of medieval manuscript pages and details, maps, sites, and objects, using them to illustrate Chaucer's life, works, and social contexts, and intended to enable readers to imagine what Chaucer's audience "saw with the mind's…
Loomis, Roger Sherman.
In MacEdward Leach, ed. Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Albert Croll Baugh (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961), pp. 21-44.
Gauges the extent and depth of Chaucer's philosophical and theological skepticism in comparison with the views of some of his contemporaries--Wycliff, Langland, Gower, Julian of Norwich, and more. Identifies skeptical attitudes on free will,…
Loomis, Roger Sherman.
London: Hutchinson University Library, 1963.
New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1964.
Comments on several thematic concerns as they occur in Chaucer's works as well as in Arthurian tradition (pity, renunciation of the world, etc.) and summarizes scholarship pertaining to the Auchinleck MS as a source for Th; also discusses WBT as a…
López Santos, Antonio.
Viorica Patea, ed. Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First Century Perspective. DQR Studies in English, no. 49 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012), pp. 25-48.
Argues that Chaucer's innovations in CT "announce the ulterior evolution of the modern short story," focusing on NPT and WBPT as "unequivocal precursors" to the modern genre in their techniques of representing time, space, characters, and narrators,…
Lopez-Pelaez Casellas, Jesus.
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. 183-92.
Examines the interconnections of theme and genre in NPT, maintaining that rhetoric links the "fictive manner" and the "fictive matter" of the tale.
López-Pelaez Casellas, Jesús.
Ana María Hornero and María Pilar Navarro, eds. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of S.E.L.I.M. (Zaragoza: Institucion Fernando el Catolico (CSIC), 2000), pp. 93-100.
Reads KnT as a satiric exposure of the historical contingency of various views of honor and the "chivalric ideal," examining the gap between what the Knight intends to tell and what he does tell.
