Miller, Timothy S.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 4 (2023): 42--53.
Explores the pedagogical possibilities of using Kate Heartfield's "The Road to Canterbury" (2018)--a "contemporary gamified adaptation" of Chaucer's life, world, and CT. Comments generally on using "interactive fiction" in the classroom, describes…
Millersdaughter, Katherine Elizabeth.
Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2003): 1245A.
English political claims to Wales depended in part on claims of Welsh incest; Millersdaughter discusses various texts (including MLT) in which this "heterogeneous, colonialist discourse" is evident.
Millett, Bella.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 93-103.
Invoking recent attempts by Minnis and by Allen to establish a medieval literary theory by which to measure Chaucer, Millett analyzes Chaucer's use in TC of the "auctor," "Lollius," a "transparent literary artifice." Through his "parody of the…
Millichap, Joseph R
Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 28.4 (1974): 102-08.
Considers the imagery of transubstantiation and transformation in PardPT and in the GP description of the Pardoner. In traditional Christian terms, the Pardoner fails to use properly the things of the world for spiritual purposes; in terms of Jungian…
Millichap, Joseph R.
University of Dayton Review 10.3 (1974): 3-6.
Contrasts ShT with analogous tales (Boccaccio's "Decameron" 8.1; Sercambi's "Novelle" 19) to demonstrate how the "pervasive irony" of the tale reveals moral censure of the characters and their actions.
Milliken, Roberta Lee.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 2672A.
Comparison of Criseyde with Boccaccio's Criseida shows that Chaucer sets forth her characterization in Books 1-3: She is fearful, alone, aware of her position, and easily manipulated. These traits, which foreshadow her future, are less evident in…
Surveys depictions of "good" and "bad" women in medieval art and literature, concentrating on how their hair characterizes them and directs viewers' attention. Includes a brief discussion of the implications of Emelye's yellow/golden hair in KnT…
Mills, John.
A. E. Christa Canitz and Gernot R. Wieland, eds. From Arabye to Engelond: Medieval Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Manzalaoui on His 75th Birthday (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999), pp. 253-64.
Examines the pageant of sins in the first book of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene as a reflection of one stage in the development from the Pauline "theological" notion of sin to a "material-psychological" understanding. Compares Spenser's depiction…
Mills, Malwyn, Jennifer Fellows, and Carol M. Meade, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991.
Papers read at the first meeting (1988) of the Society for the Study of Medieval Romance, ranging in chronological concern from the twelfth to the fiftennth centuries. Included are general discussions of MS Ashmole 61 and the Percy Folio. …
Mills, Robert.
Marion Turner, ed. A Handbook of Middle English Studies (Chichester: Wiley, 2013), pp. 269-83.
Describes sovereignty in CT (particularly ParsT) as "a legitimate means of exercising power, distributed hierarchically but founded on the idea of mutual responsibility and equality in the eyes of God." Explores how, in light of this concept,…
Adaptation for the stage of MerT and ShT, framed by introduction by "Chaucer" of the two narrators, who then stand aside and comment on the characters while the action proceeds as drama. In Modern English pentameter couplets; intended "for use in…
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…
Milosh, Joseph E.,Jr.
Millicent Lenz and Ramona M. Mahood, eds. Young Adult Literature: Background and Criticism (Chicago: American Library Association, 1980), pp. 433-40.
John the cuckolded carpenter in MilT, delights in a simple faith which makes star-gazing unnecessary. The NPT revolves around the problem of translating intuitive knowledge into action. In both modern and medieval images of the universe,searching…
Milosh, Joseph.
Contemporary Literature 19 (1978): 48-57.
Gardner strikingly alters "Beowulf" by granting Grendel spiritual development, by portraying the absurdity of war, and by undercutting the validity of poetic making. The changes transforms epic material into an elusive genre characterized by its…
Milosh, Joseph.
Wisconsin Studies in Literature 5 (1970): 1-11.
Contends that the characterizations of Arveragus, Dorigen, and Aurelius in FranT suffer from inconsistency or incompletion--touches of psychological realism unfulfilled--and suggests that these seemingly faulty characterizations can best be…
Milowicki, Edward J.
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 11:1 (1984): 12-24.
Through the virtue of hope and a sense of penance, Troilus's courtly love and death in TC parallel divine love and salvation, showing the influences of Dante's "Commedia" and Boethius's "De consolatio philosophiae."
