Gamaury, Martine.
Andre Lascombes, ed. Identites et differences (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, no. 17, 1992), pp. 45-58. Also in Pierre Sahel, intro. Difference et identite. CARA (Centre Aixois de Recherches Anglaises), no. 12 (Aix-en Provence: Universite de Provence, 1992), pp. 11-23.
The pathology of Troilus shows conflict between his roles as warrior and lover, reflected in the artistic rendering of his dreams and emotional pain. His agony melds personal sorrow and traditional courtly suffering. Pandarus acts as a…
Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel de la.
María Dolores Fernández de la Torre Madueño, Antonia Mara Medina Guerra, and Lidia Taillefer de Haya, eds. El Sexismo en el lenguaje. 2 vols. (Málaga: Disputacíon Provincial de Málaga, 1999), vol. 1, pp. 261-70.
Describes female sexual stereotyping in Chaucer's depictions of the Wife of Bath, Griselda (ClT), Custance (MLT), Dorigen (FranT), and the Prioress (GP).
Hagstrum, Jean H.
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
A historical assessment of representations of heterosexual love and marriage in the art, myth, and religion of the Western world, concentrating on differing ways in which esteem and desire have been aligned, rationalized, and sanctified.
Smith, Jeremy J.
London and New York: Routledge, 1999.
Introduces Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English, describing developments in syntax, morphology, pronunciation, lexicon, and dialects. The selection of samples for discussion and assessment includes excerpts from GP, PardT, and ParsT,…
Four essays by various authors focus on editing Hoccleve's works, his variety of styles, and the relation of his works to those of Chaucer and Christine de Pizan. Includes a bibliography, an index, and an introduction that surveys critical…
Gaylord, Alan T., ed.
New York and London : Routledge, 2001.
Prints fourteen pieces, ranging historically from Thomas Tyrwhitt and George Saintsbury to recent commentary, including new essays by Richard Osberg, Emerson Brown, and Winthrop Wetherbee. Includes an introduction that summarizes the contributions…
Minnis, A. J.,Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre,eds.
Sixteen essays by various authors on Anglo-French, Latin, and (especially) English literature produced during the reign of Richard II. Includes bibliography of Burrow's publications. For eleven essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Essays on…
Gruber, Loren C., ed., with the assistance of Meredith Crellin Gruber and Gregory K. Jember.
Lewiston, N.Y. : Mellen Press, 2000.
Twenty essays by various authors, and a bibliography of Tripp's publications. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. under Alternative Title.
Collects seven essays by Everett on topics in Middle English studies, some previously published and some unpublished, plus a "Memoir" about Everett by Mary Lascelles, and a Bibliography of Everett's publications. For two previously unpublished essays…
Fifteen essays and notes on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English and Scottish writings, four never before printed. For two previously unprinted essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Essays on Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.
Birney, Earle.
Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1985.
Eight previously published essays (1937-61) by Birney, arranged as chapters in a study of Chaucer's experiments and development as an ironist. Treats Chaucer's use of "structural irony" in MilT, FrT, SumT, and ManT. Updates bibliographies for each…
Includes ten essays by the author (1) The Host's "precious corpus Madrian" (rpt.), (2) The Pardoner's St. Ronyan, (3) The St. Giles Oath in CYT (rpt.), (4) The St. Loy Oath Reconsidered, (5) Hende Old St Nicholas in MilT (rpt.), (6) St. Nicholas and…
Hill, John M., Bonnie Wheeler, and R. F. Yeager, eds.
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2014.
Collection of essays celebrating the teaching and varied scholarship of Howell "Chick" Chickering. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Essays on Aesthetics and Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.
Editorial Committee, Department of English, Vanderbilt University.
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1954.
Collects nineteen essays by various authors on topics in medieval and early modern English literature, accompanied by Harden Craig's appreciative essay, "Walter Clyde Curry and Contemporary Scholarship," and a bibliography of Curry's publications…
Kiser, Lisa (J.)
Modern Language Quarterly 49 (1990, for 1988): 99-119.
Analyzes HF as an antivision, a highly comic parody of "solemn medieval attempts to describe the otherworld." Rather than writing about human lives earthly or otherworldly, Chaucer restricts his theme to "the nature and destiny of human narratives,"…
Zieman, Katherine.
Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway, eds. Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013), pp. 75-94.
Addresses "excesses of Chaucerian literary language" to reveal Chaucer's narrative voice within a literary and historical construct. Discusses the "complex range of intention and desire" in MLT. Also refers to HF.
Mehl, Dieter.
Arno Esch, ed. Chaucer und Seine Zeit: Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1968), pp. 189-206.
Illustrates the riches of Chaucer's narratorial techniques by considering the presence of the narrator in GP (focusing on the descriptions of the Prioress, Monk, and Friar), the assignment to him of Tho, the ironies of PardP and WBP, and the ways…
Proposes punctuation for CkT 1.4394-96 that renders Perkyn's "sober-living master" as "not altogether above reproach," offering the reading as "yet another token of Chaucer's sophisticated art."
Boon, James A.
James A. Boon. Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts . . . Showbiz (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 191-97.
Tallies several similarities of topic and method between cultural anthropology, on the one hand, and Chaucer's works and Chaucer studies, on the other.
Item not seen; the WorldCat record indicates that the volume includes "La confesión de una viuda. El estudiante, la patrona y el sacrestán. Por G. Chaucer."
