Popescu, Dan Nicolae.
Messages, Sages, and Ages: The Bukovinian Journal of Cultural Studies 3.2 (2016): 31-35.
Maintains that Chaucer uses parody to critique discrepancies between Christian ideals and human realities, exploring ways that sexual activities and descriptions in MilT, an earthy fabliau, parody the courtly ideals of KnT, an idealized romance.…
Dryden's alterations of Chaucer's narrative division, versification, motif and thematic emphasis, and character portrayal follow his avowed principles of translation. But his alterations in the "spirit" of Chaucer's tale violate one of his important…
Item not located; cited in WorldCat, which reports that the volume includes WBT and PardT in the Spanish translations by Manuel Pérez y del Río-Cosa (originally published in 1921).
Spanish prose adaptations of selections from CT (GP, WBT, ClT, PhyT, and Ret), designed for juvenile readers. Includes several study questions and background information. Illustrated by Román Varela.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that this anthology includes some material by Chaucer, as well as by Dante, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, and others; in Spanish translation.
Las Vergnas, Raymond, intro. Juan G. de Luaces, trans.
Mexico: Porrúa, 1992.
Spanish prose translation of the complete CT, with an introduction that summarizes his life and describes the work. The Luaces translation was originally published in 1946, 2 volumes.
Boyer, Robert H.
Michael B. Lukens, ed. Conflict and Community: New Studies in Thomistic Thought (New York: Peter Lang, 1992), pp. 103-24.
Argues that Thomas Aquinas was a "direct and major source for Chaucer's philosophy," demonstrates the availability of Thomas's work to Chaucer via Merton College, and explores the similiarities between their views of virtue and of the…
Donaldson, E. Talbot.
Michael Benskin and M. L. Samuels, eds. So Meny People, Longages and Tonges: Philological Essays in Scots and Mediaeval English Presented to Angus McIntosh (Edinburgh: Authors, 1981), pp. 355-66.
On Chaucer's use in GP of the adversative conjunction "but."
Meier, Hans H.
Michael Benskin and M. L. Samuels, eds. So Meny People, Longages and Tonges: Philological Essays in Scots and Mediaeval English Presented to Angus McIntosh (Edinburgh: Authors, 1981), pp. 367-76.
Deals with Charles d'Orleans and Chaucer's use of Dante.
Green, Eugene.
Michael Bilynsky, ed. Studies in Middle English: Words, Forms, Senses and Texts (New York: Peter Lang, 2014), pp. 165-83.
Explores the pragmatic linguistic devices Chaucer uses to establish a common ground of communication and "create convincing exchanges" between the Dreamer and the Eagle in HF, identifying and analyzing various concerns: "back-channel," lexicon,…
Wawrzyniak, Agnieszka.
Michael Bilynsky, ed. Studies in Middle English: Words, Forms, Senses and Texts (New York: Peter Lang, 2014), pp. 311-28.
Analyzes the metaphors, metonymies, and "metaphors based on metonymies" used in descriptions of love and of heart in CT, exploring the cultural dependence and/or universality of the figures, particularly differences between medieval and modern usage
Yoshikawa, Fumiko.
Michael Bilynsky, ed. Studies in Middle English: Words, Forms, Senses and Texts (New York: Peter Lang, 2014), pp. 343-60.
Studies the generic variety, rhetorical features, and persuasive power of four works of medieval English literature, including ParsT, tabulating the relative incidences of rhetorical questions, appeals to authority or logic, poetic devices,…
Eitler, Tamás.
Michael D. Fortescue et al., eds. Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected Papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11-15 August 2003 (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2005), pp. 87-102.
Eitler studies the development of the "incipient standard" syntactic pattern (subject-verb-object), comparing data from Chaucer's prose works with data from other ME prose, characterizing his idiom as the "(relatively) upper class sociolect" of…
Warren, Michael J.
Michael J. Warren. Birds in Medieval English Poetry: Metaphors, Realities, Transformations (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 179-218.
Argues that PF--a poem about which voices do and do not count"--"magines the potential for translatability between species." Engages scholastic discussions about the nature of "vox," and raises questions about phonetic and semantic translation,…
Taylor, Andrew.
Michael Johnston and Michael Van Dussen, eds. The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches (Cambridge- Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 199-214.
Explores the "various degrees of control" exerted by medieval vernacular poets over the production of their manuscripts, maintaining that evidence from the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts indicates Chaucer "was clearly not moving expeditiously…
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
Michael Masi, ed. Boethius and the Liberal Arts: A Collection of Essays. Utah Studies in Literature and Linguistics, no. 18. (Berne: Peter Lang, 1981), pp. 175-86.
Surveys the history and iconography of the "asinus ad liram" topos and examines its use in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," Juan Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor," and TC. Pandarus inverts Philosophy's use of the topos.
Pirie, David B.
Michael O'Neill, ed. Keats: Bicentenary Readings (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the University of Durham, 1997), pp. 48-70.
Comments briefly on Cecilia of SNT as background to an allusion to her in "Eve of St. Mark" and on the "quaintly Chaucerian lines" in Keats's poem.
Scase, Wendy.
Michael O'Neill, ed. The Cambridge History of English Poetry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 43-62.
Scase summarizes the Latin, French, and English traditions of poetry in late medieval England, describing how major poets of the era engaged these traditions and created a new legacy. Chaucer engaged tradition by posing as an "inadequate" poet, by…
Varnam, Laura.
Michael O'Neill, ed. The Cambridge History of English Poetry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 81-95.
Varnam describes Chaucer's "legacy to English poetry as one of linguistic curiosity and a refusal of generic categorization." With TC, Chaucer "heralded a new era of narrative poetry" rich with philosophy and characterization; in CT, he "created a…
Riddy, Felicity.
Michael O'Neill, ed. The Cambridge History of English Poetry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 96-114.
Riddy describes the literary accomplishments of Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas as they together "created Older Scots as a literary language." Includes recurrent references to Chaucer and Chaucerianism in the works of these poets.
Mann, Rachel.
Michael Schmidt, ed. New Poetries VII: An Anthology (Manchester: Carcanet, 2018), p. 98
Contemplative lyric poem (eighteen lines in threes) that refers to four of Chaucer's pilgrims (Knight, Miller, Reeve, and Pardoner) and includes six brief quotations from CT.
St. John, Michael.
Michael St. John, ed. Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European Culture (Aldershot, Hants; and Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999), pp. 17-26.
Political theory from Alain de Lille and Aristotle underlies PF, and events of the Good Parliament (1376) are reflected in it. Chaucer's Priapus and Venus allude to Edward III and Alice Perrers, while Nature's parliament is Chaucer's political ideal…
Roy, Bruno.
Michel Bitot, ed., with Roberta Mullini and Peter Happe. Divers Toyes Mengled: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Culture in Honour of Andre Lascombes (Tours: Universite Francois Rabelais, 1996), pp. 17-25.
A late-fifteenth-century French riddle about the dividing of a fart cites Chaucer as the solution, evidence that SumT was known at the time in France.
Stevenson, Kay Gilliland.
Michel Bitot, ed., with Roberta Mullini and Peter Happe. Divers Toyes Mengled: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Culture in Honour of Andre Lascombes (Tours: Universite Francois Rabelais, 1996), pp. 27-42.
Explores literary and historical contexts that complicate reception of ABC, including works by Jean de Meun, Guillaume de Deguileville, and John Lydgate. Chaucer's stand-alone translation initiates an immediacy with its audience that is not apparent…
