Considers how the "professional identity" of the teller informs concerns with justice in MLT. Engagement with mercantile law, common law, natural law, divine intervention, and the "limitations of human justice" pervade MLPT and indicate an uncertain…
Lynch, Kathryn L.
John M. Hill, Bonnie Wheeler, and R. F. Yeager, eds. Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature in Honor of Howell Chickering (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2014), pp. 115-28.
Explores metaphors of eating, drinking, hunting, and food preparation, within the framework of the "storytelling performances" of the Wife of Bath in WBT and the unnamed Wife in ShT.
Lynch, Kathryn L.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 130-48.
Interprets Pier Paolo Pasolini's "I racconti di Canterbury" as a "profound" engagement with CT, analyzing four instances of adaptation that reflect subtle appreciation and understanding of Chaucer's themes and techniques: a latrine scene at the…
Lynch, Kathryn L.
Chaucer Review 56, no. 2 (2021): 95–118.
Examines background of Katherine Lee Bates, author of "America the Beautiful," who was a medievalist before turning to poetry and American literary studies. Brings together her career as an Americanist and poet with her background as a medievalist,…
Includes BD, HF, PF, LGW, Anel, ABC, Adam, MercB, Ros, Truth, Gent, Sted, Scog, Buk, and Purse, with a general preface, an introduction for each of the longer works, selected background works and critical assessments (focusing on the dream visions),…
Lynch, Kathryn, ed.
New York and London: Routledge, 2002.
Twelve essays by various authors who assess Chaucer's uses of and attitudes toward the familiar and the foreign, especially the Mid-East, in SqT (four essays), FranT, CT, CYT, PrT, KnT, LGW, and MLT. Includes ten essays published between 1983 and…
Morris Halle and Samuel J. Keyser, through careful computer analysis, seem to have put down the myth of the hundred-year-hibernation of Chaucer's decasyllabic line. By studying the stresses and their positions in the line, Halle and Keyser have…
Uses Morris Halle and Seymour Jay Keyser's metrical theory to describe "English decasyllabic verse of the later Middle Ages" and explore why Chaucer's iambic pentameter was not followed more closely by poets such as Hoccleve, Lydgate, Dunbar, and…
Lyons describes twenty-four journeys derived from early travelogues, now known to be fictional or fanciful. Includes description of the likely spurious "Inventio Fortunata," attributed to Nicholas of Lynn by Richard Hakluyt. Also speculates that…
Explores the skeptical uncertainly about dreams that is expressed in the opening of HF as it relates to classical and medieval notions of "mythopoesis" and the validity and interpretation of poetry. Reads HF as a parody of mythopoesis.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this translation of CT into Finnish is based on the 1908 modernization of Arthur Burrell, with an Introduction to the translation by Tauno Mustanoja. The illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones derive from…
Ma, Ruen-Chuan.
Dissertation Abstracts International A79.01 (2017): n.p.
Examines the treatment of books as physical objects in the works of Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve, suggesting that this treatment may create a way of perceiving the text on the part of the reader.
Macaskill, Brian Kenneth.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Washington, 1989. Dissertation Abstracts International A50.08. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global; accessed August 24, 2025.
Item not seen. From the abstract: "this study presents the frame as a strategic locus of value in the literary text, arguing that the frame both constitutes and is constituted by an interplay between stylistic 'insides' and ideological 'outsides'. .…
Macaulay, Richard.
Cardiff: Drama Association of Wales, 2007
Includes "A Canterbury Tale" (pp. 91-113), a play that presents a fictional account of events that inspired Chaucer to write the CT, framed as a meeting between Chaucer and Simon Burley on the occasion of Burley's arrest. Also published as a…
MacCrossan, Colm.
Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 393-97.
Assesses the inclusion of information from the GP description of the Knight in Richard Hakluyt's "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation," where Hakluyt presents Chaucer's fiction "as a genuine historical…
MacCurdy, Marian Mesrobian.
Dissertation Abstracts International 41 (1980): 2596A.
The image of woman is the focal point for the controversy regarding the good or evil nature of the physical world. Early Christian and Gnostic writings, selected troubadour lyrics, "Gawain and the Green Knight," Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur," and…
MacDermott, Diane Conard, and David MacDermott, illus.
Coghill, Nevill, trans.
n.p.: Pomegranate Press, 1965.
Item not seen. The WorldCat record offers the following notes: "Issued in a case./ Illustrators' notes (2p.) laid in./ Limited ed. of 20. Made entirely by hand, printed on 'Tovil' hand-made paper, and signed by the illustrators."
MacDonald, A[lasdair] A.
Studies in Scottish Literature 26 (1991): 172-84.
The method for studying literary relations between Scotland and England has been too simplistic. Even the best work, such as Gregory Kratzman's Anglo-Scottish Literary Relations 1430-1550, suffers from a narrow referentialism that must be rethought.…
MacDonald, Alasdair A.
Chaucer Review 22 (1988): 246-49.
John C. Hirsh's proposed emendation of "wo man" to "woman" in MLT 847 is probably unwarranted. Consideration of manuscript evidence, as well as syntax and cultural context, render Hirsh's reading implausible.
Identifies three aspects of Robert Henryson's uses of proverbial wisdom in his "Fables," locating precedent for each of them in a work by Chaucer: use of proverbs by fable characters (NPT), comic misapplication of proverbial wisdom (MilT), and…
