Meyer-Lee, Robert J.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
Considers theoretical, ideological, and practical questions concerning the value and valuation of literature and literary studies, with recurrent attention to contemporary issues in editing, canonicity, interpretation, and institutional status,…
Meyer-Lee, Robert John, and Catherine Sanok, eds.
Cambridge: Brewer, 2018.
Includes an introduction by the editors and ten essays by various authors that "aim to rethink the relationship between form and the literary" in a variety of Middle English works. For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for The Medieval…
Meyer-Lee, Robert.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019
Discusses literary value and the value of continued interest in Chaucer's CT, focusing on parts 4 and 5. Argues that these parts function as a unified group, a framing that offers a new way to read and discover the value of the other CT tales.
Meyer, Cathryn Marie.
Dissertation Abstracts International A68.05 (2007): n.p.
Meyer examines confessional discourse in John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Chaucer's LGW, "The Book of Margery Kempe," and Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," assessing how this discourse "produc[es] truth" and conveys "textualized bodies."
Meyer, Robert J.
Chaucer Review 18 (1984): 221-38.
Structural unity is achieved by the back-to-back romances in the tale, the first a mock quest, the second a narrative that asks what men most desire (gentility, youth, beauty). The Midas exemplum and the pillow talk of gentility are integral parts…
Explores use of temporality ("the experience of living in time") in CT and Gower's "Confessio Amantis," suggesting that CT is present-centered and considers the relationship of past to present, while Gower "focuses on the present as it becomes the…
Michael, Nancy Margaret Furey.
Dissertation Abstracts International A81.12(E) (2020): n.p.
Explores "the complex role of maternal power as it relates to male aristocratic identity" in several romances in Middle English, including MLT and ClT.
Michalczyk, Maria.
Dissertation Abstracts International 51 (1990): 846A.
Wyclif believed in the absolute authority of Scripture, with the mission of the Church as simple transmission without modification. In SumT, CYT, NPT, and ParsT, Chaucer questions the possibility of rehearsing truth inasmuch as the speakers distort…
Michelet, Fabienne, and Martin Pickavé.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 406-25.
Introduces various philosophical movements and thought prevalent in the fourteenth century, demonstrating the various philosophies available to Chaucer. Discusses Chaucer's use and view of nominalism and his attitudes toward free will and…
Michelson, Bruce.
American Literary History 22 (2010): 773-80.
Explores the intensity of America's involvement in the Chaucer Society discussed by Matthews in "Chaucer's American Accent," focusing on the rise of British national tourism and the Gothic Revival, as well as on American romantic notions of…
Michoux, Anne-Claire, and Katrin Rupp.
Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Martin Hilpert, eds. The Challenge of Change (Tübingen: Narr, 2018), pp. 101-21.
Suggests that Jane Austen may have known WBPT and argues that there are similarities between Chaucer's Wife and Anne Elliot in Austen's "Persuasion," in that both characters "note that male authoritarian writing delimits women's social standing," and…
Middleton, Anne.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 119-33.
Chaucer's examination of chivalry in KnT, SqT, and FranT is a "mediation on the means of representing it," offering the audience "style reflexiouns" on the making of fiction.
Middleton, Anne.
Edward W. Said, ed. Literature and Society. Selected Papers from the English Institute. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1980), pp. 15-56.
Chaucer's pilgrims agree that "the pleasure and the use of literature are one thing," that the utility of literature lies not only in the kernel of its theme but in the felicities of its style and the pleasure of its audience as well. In this view,…
Middleton, Anne.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 2 (1980): 121-50.
Examines medieval redactions of Boccaccio's Griselda story to suggest that Chaucer retells it in order to raise literary questions analogous to moral ones. The Clerk combines Petrarch's affective purpose and high style with the exemplary force and…
Middleton, Anne.
Studies in Bibliography 51 (1998): 63-116.
Working from the editions by Thynne and Skeat, Middleton seeks to correct the text of Usk's "Testament of Love" (first printed by Thynne as Chaucer's), particularly its misplaced portions in Book 3. Makes several suggestions about the nature of the…
Middleton reads the Pardoner materials as Chaucer's "formal and ideational" tribute to Langland's "Piers Plowman"--an embodiment of his appreciation of Langland's struggles with poetic self-representation, the gendered status of the poet, and the…
Studies aspects of PhyT that derive from hagiography, particularly its emphasis on Virginia as a "virgin martyr," not found in Chaucer's sources. As a result of Chaucer's various changes and genre modifications, the tale raises "grave questions of…
Middleton, Anne.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 35 (2013): 29-46.
Documents William Langland's use, in "Piers Plowman," of sudden, irruptive, colloquial, and polysemous language, distinguishing it from so-called "real" speech and assessing its thematic, narratological, and ethical values. Gower found this device of…
Introduction by Steven Justice. Collection of essays on a range of subjects, including Ricardian public poetry, form and authorship, and the role of the modern annotator. Includes three chapters primarily devoted to CT: "Chaucer's 'New Men' and the…
Shows how Dryden altered KnT from romance to epic in order to make his adaptation, "Palamon and Arcite," exemplify "what a heroic poem should be, and by what means it should affect the reader." Also offers "reasons why the change from romance to epic…
Defines and describes the social and rhetorical emphases that characterize the persona and poetic "common voice" of late-medieval English "public poetry," exemplified here most extensively in analyses of Langland's "Piers Plowman" and Gower's…
Midonick, Henrietta O., ed.
New York: Philosophical Library, 1965.
Anthologizes 54 selections and excerpts from the history of mathematics and related sciences from around the world, ranging widely in date from classics to the nineteenth century. Includes a selection (pp. 220-42) of a modernization of Astr, from R.…
An introduction to the study of proverbs (paremiology), covering definition and classification, several examples over time, scholarly approaches, and analyses of the contexts in which proverbs appear (e.g., song, advertising, cartoons, and…
Identifies an allusion to HF (lines 703-4) in "King Lear" (5.3.17), arguing that, although Chaucer's poem was "marginalized" in sixteenth-century editions because of its stance on literary fame, Shakespeare read it and echoed it "unconsciously,"…
