McCarty, Willard.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 49-65.
Briefly surveys the practice of concordance making and assesses the limitations of Tatlock and Kennedy's concordance to Chaucer (1927) and Oizumi's computer-assisted but conventionally printed one (1991). Some of the limitations of traditional…
McCaughrean, Geraldine.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Free adaptation of CT for children: GP, KnT, MilT, NPT, RvT, ClT, WBT, PardT, Th, FranT, ManT, CYT, FrT, and MerT. Provides links for the Tales in the above order and concludes with an arrival at Canterbury. First published in 1984; a Penguin Film…
McCleary, Joseph Robert, Jr.
DAI 66 (2005): 1009A.
Considers Chesterton's literary criticism of Chaucer as a means to understanding Chesterton's conception of locality as part of his philosophy of history.
McClellan, William T.
Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1986): 3361A.
Instead of the single and individual voices that Kittredge found in CT, several voices may appear in a single tale. When analyzed by Bakhtin's discourse theory, ClT reveals not one but three distinct contending voices.
Reading ClT in its social and historical context is reason for employing Bakhtin's theoretical framework, since Bakhtin recognizes the complexity and riches of poetic discourse as connected to the diversity and complexity of socio-ideological…
McClellan discusses the strengths of Engle's Bakhtinian analysis of ClT, particularly Engle's "very valuable insight about Griselda's dialogic re-envoicing of Walter's discourse." McClellan argues, however, that Engle gives no psychological analysis…
The "presentational features" of MS HM 140 (prose format, absence of ClP, reduction of multivoiced discourse) transform its "mode of signification from performance to textuality," suggesting history and truth. This presentation radically alters the…
McClellan, William.
Studies in Bibliography 47 (1994): 89-103.
Three important omissions (including omission of ClP) strip the HM140 text of ClT of its "Canterbury" context. Whether these were deliberate excisions or a consequence of problems in production cannot be demonstrated conclusively.
McClellan, William.
James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper, and Sylvia Tomasch, eds. The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 183-96.
Both ClT and Kingston's "No Name Woman" reveal how patriarchal culture operates to disguise male complicity in women's repression, and both connect issues of knowledge and power with the construction of subjectivity, showing how these are intimately…
McClellan, William.
John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, eds. The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne (Madison, N.J., and London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 149-63.
The Clerk's polemical stance in relation to Petrarch in ClP differentiates the Clerk's voice, rhetorical style, and ideology from Petrarch's, thus allowing for the introduction of dialogic discourse in the Tale itself.
McClellan relates Giorgio Agamben's theory of the ambiguity of political sovereignty and his ideas on "gesture" and "shame" to Walter's sovereignty and Griselda's submission in ClT. Argues that these are key to understanding the Tale: "The paradoxes…
McClellan, William.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Applies a "New Paradigm for Reading" to MLT based on the "new ethics" of Giorgio Agamben's analysis of Levi Primo's testimony of Auschwitz, combined with Walter Benjamin's concept of "constellations" of images that fuse past and present. Focuses on…
McClintock, Michael W.
Chaucer Review 5.2 (1970): 112-36.
Contrasts ShT with its fabliau analogues, arguing that Chaucer creatively adapts the genre by adding complicated characterization to the stark comic plot and by developing a serious thematic concern with the commercialization of sex and marriage,…
McCobb, Lillian M.
Chaucer Review 11 (1977): 369-72.
Analysis of the conclusion of the English "Partonope" and its French source's conclusion suggests the English as a later work done under the influence of Chaucer's tale. The author may have followed a copy of Chaucer's work.
McCollum, John I. Jr.
Natalie Grimes Lawrence and Jack A. Reynolds, eds. A Chaucerian Puzzle and Other Medieval Essays (Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1961), pp. 71-85.
Summarizes and comments on HF, with particular attention to previous scholarly opinions, unity and structural balance, whether or not the dreamer learns anything, the nature of the man of great authority, and the possibility that the poem is "a…
McColly, William (B.)
Chaucer Review 18 (1984): 239-49.
Computerized statistical and stylistic analysis indicates that this work is a pale imitation of Chaucer. The imitator, perhaps Clanvowe, used Chaucer's tricks with context-independent function words.
McColly, William B.
Chaucer Review 20 (1985): 14-27.
The presence and function of the Knight's Yeoman have been neglected: to a contemporary audience he would represent a retainer of great authority and responsibility; hence the Knight's status is high indeed.
McConnell, Matthew Clinton.
Ph.D. dissertation. Cornell University, 2017. Available at https://core.ac.uk/reader/83602191. Accessed February 6, 2021.
Shows that the "sustained concern about women's agency" in National Library of Scotland, MS Advocates 19.2.1 (Auchinleck) "mirrors" Chaucer's similar concern, and that "the complexity with which Chaucer treats that agency can be found in the…
McCormack, Frances M.
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 35-40.
Explores Chaucer's "employment of Lollard ideas and motifs" in the CT, particularly in ParsPT and WBP, and in the G version of the LGWP. Argues that Chaucer's rhetoric and portrayal of Lollardy reflects how he wants readers to understand the…
McCormack, Frances.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007.
Investigates Lollard vocabulary, translation strategies, and rhetorical tropes, arguing that the Parson and ParsT cannot categorically be identified as Lollard. Nonetheless, unmistakable elements of Lollardy undercut the hermeneutic stability of what…
McCormack, Frances.
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and John Flood, eds. Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early English Literature, 1350-1680. Dublin Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, no. 3. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010), pp. 39-48.
Ambiguous depictions of the Parson and Pardoner reflect contemporary debate regarding false prophets. The Pardoner's negligence, hypocrisy, and language suggest heresy, but he is not accused. The Parson is orthodox, but in his rejection of oaths,…
McCormack, Frances.
Clíodhna Carney and Frances McCormack, eds. Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013), pp. 107-20.
Discusses the relationship between the Prioress's "empty" rhetoric, audience reception, and emphatically feminine representation. The Prioress, in this reading, is a kind of false prophet, more dangerous than the Pardoner who plays a similar role.
