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.
Lehr, John.
Medieval English Studies 05 (1997): 243-82.
Compares the multilingual conditions of late-medieval England with modern conditions in Korea, Kenya, and Quebec. Then argues that Hoccleve's poetic career resulted from Lancastrian encouragement of a national English language imitating Chaucer's…
Park, Youngwon.
Medieval English Studies 06 (1998): 163-95.
KnT reveals a providential pattern that is both Boethian and Pauline--"all things work together for the good." The gods of the Tale are pagan, but the outcome of the story shows Christian Providence.
Lim, Hye-Soon.
Medieval English Studies 06 (1998):199-223
Deriving from the Greek word for "tongue" and from Scandinavian "superficial luster," "glosing" is the central notion of SumT. Chaucer uses it to disclose fraternal hypocrisy and distortion of Scripture. In Korean, with English abstract.
Kim, Jung-Ai.
Medieval English Studies 07: 93-123, 1999.
Although the Monk seems to suggest that the tragedies he relates can be explained by the action of Fortune, there is no consistent concept of Fortune. As a result, MkT is a failure.
An, Sonjae.
Medieval English Studies 10.2 : 153-68, 2002.
The influences of Boethius, Dante, and Petrarch ("Canzoniere") on TC are not fully evident to readers unfamiliar with these sources because Chaucer nowhere indicates what he is doing. Such secrecy renders interpretations of his text complex.
Moon, Hi Kyung.
Medieval English Studies 11.1 : 117-30, 2003.
Human experience explodes the reductive and stereotypical distinctions between good and bad and between women and men posed in LGW, undercutting the title of the poem, rendering the narrator's task pointless, and encouraging the reader to reject the…
Kim, Chong-Ai.
Medieval English Studies 5 (1997): 59-82.
Compares the treatment of women in "Confessio Amantis" and LGW. In each case, the frame of the poem and the male-authored perspective disallow true praise of women.
Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr.
Medieval English Studies 5 (1997): 83-105.
The influence of Boethius and Dante "gives shape and universal meaning" to TC. The operation of Fortune and her wheel, the four "Classical cardinal emotions," Dante's three spiritual realms, and the code of knighthood are evident in the deep…
Park, Yoon-Hee.
Medieval English Studies 7: 125-47), 1999.
WBT is sometimes felt by critics to betray Chaucer's latent feminism by ending harmoniously. With its representation of the triumphant heroine and the defeated rapist, the Tale should instead be read as a subversion of traditional male discourse.
Choi, Yejung.
Medieval English Studies 7: 149-75, 1999.
In LGW, if the God of Love and Alceste criticize Chaucer, they do so as representatives of a text community based on Augustinian hermeneutics. Chaucer undermines the legitimacy of their view of poetry, inscribing his own presence and intent in the…
An, Sonjae (Brother Anthony).
Medieval English Studies 7: 63-92, 1999.
Chaucer's use of worthy and the many ways CT plays with questions of value lead to a reading of CT in which SNT exemplifies the highest value in human living-holiness-and joins ParsT to challenge all other values and narratives.
Kaylor, Noel Harold, (Jr.)
Medieval English Studies 8: 95-114, 2000.
Relates the structure of TC (with Troilus's happiness reaching its apex at the numerical center of the poem) to structures found in Dante's "Commedia" (Divine Comedy) and to themes of fortune's changes in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy."
Leland, Virginia E.
Medieval English Studies Past and Present. (Tokyo: Center for Medieval English Studies, 1990), pp. 56-60.
Discusses the careers of Manly and Rickert, their initiation of the Chaucer Project at the University of Chicago in 1924,and their techniques for collating Chaucer manuscripts. Emphasizing the professionalism and influence of the two scholars,…
Scala, Elizabeth.
Medieval Feminist Forum 30: 27-37, 2000.
Assesses "gossip" about an emotional or sexual relationship between Rickert and John Matthews Manly, co-editors of "The Text of the Canterbury Tales" (1940).
Rogers, Laura Mestayer.
Medieval Feminist Forum 31: 36-43, 2001.
Assessment of Schlauch's career and criticism, focusing on her Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (1927; rpt. 1969). Includes a bibliography of Schlauch's publications.
Passmore, S. Elizabeth
Medieval Feminist Forum 36: 36-40, 2003.
Passmore discusses three examples of "written women," whose stories are "filtered through the impressions and words of a male writer." The Wife of Bath's question about who painted the lion (WBP 3.692) indicates that women's writings, if unmediated…
