Considers the appropriateness of ParsT to its narrator, examining the Tale as an example of the sermon genre ("ars praedicandi"), particularly its structural features that reflect a rational aesthetic.
Explores similarities between the love-lorn knight of Machaut's "Jugement" and Troilus, including their mutual concern with Fortune and their misunderstanding of Providence, their failure to comprehend human freedom, and the ways their speeches…
Mertz describes documents and commentary that relate to the illustrations of the Canterbury pilgrims by William Blake and Thomas Stothard, the latter published by Robert Hartley Cromek. The materials belonged to antiquarian Francis Douce (1757-1834)…
Pearsall, Derek, and Elizabeth Salter.
Mt. Vernon, N.Y.: Gould; Townsend: Sussex Tapes, 1971.
Item not seen; WorldCat records indicate that there are two lectures included (Salter: Side 1, "Problems of reading and understanding Chaucer". Pearsall: Side 2, "Realism and convention in the Canterbury tales."); the booklet summarizes the…
Revisits the "authorship question" of "The Two Noble Kinsmen," exploring not what was composed by Shakespeare or by Fletcher, but rather the social tensions between characters found in KnT, the play's source, and those nameless ones of the "Jailer's…
Fifield, Merle.
Muncie Ind.: Ball State University, 1973.
Seeks objective analysis of the "oral-aural" aspects of word stress and metrical stress in Chaucer's "stress system," commenting on linguistic borrowings, affixing, grammatical function, phonetic juncture, and the difficulties of inferring Middle…
Loimeier, Manfred.
Munich: Edition Text + Kritik, 2023.
Surveys the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah as a cross-cultural, internationalist writer. Lists Chaucer among global writers referred to in Gurnah's novels "Memory of Departure" (1987) and "Gravel Heart" (2017), briefly describes CT, observes that…
Facing-page German prose translation of the Riverside text of CT. Original German apparatus includes notes, introductions to Chaucer's life and to the tales, a guide to pronunciation, a history of criticism, and a bibliography.
Comparative analysis of the "correspondences" and the "disparities of ideas" in these works while revealing their "individual intentions." Originally presented as Baeten's Ph.D. dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2019.
An introductory textbook grammar of Middle English, particularly Chaucer's dialect, with a brief history of the English language and descriptions of the parts of speech, morphology, pronunciation, etc. Includes an edition of the GP, edited from the…
Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo, and M. Vila Vázquez González, eds.
Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, 2004.
Includes five essays that pertain to Chaucer; for the individual essays search for Medieval English Literary and Cultural Studies under Alternative Title.
Vial, Claire.
Muriel Cunin and Martine Yvernault, eds. Monde(s) en movement. Mutations et innovations en Europe à la fin du Moyen Age et au début de la Renaissance (Limoges: Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2012), pp. 51-63.
Contains references to the expression of time and mutability in Chaucer.
Filax, Elaine.
Muriel Whitaker, ed. Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature (New York and London: Garland, 1995), pp. 133-56.
SNT reflects a Marian-driven ideal of virginal power, mayde and martyr," while SNP stresses Mary as mediatrix, "Mayde and Mooder." The absent female-gendered body of the Second Nun, undescribed in GP, bears witness to the bodies of female spiritual…
Farvolden, Pamela.
Muriel Whitaker, ed. Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature (New York and London: Garland, 1995), pp. 21-45.
In KnT, courtly love seems antithetical to brotherhood in arms, but the eventual disposal of Emelye reinstates male friendship. Lydgate offers a related, more explicit model of supposedly benign homosocial exchange.
Everest, Carol (A.)
Muriel Whitaker, ed. Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature (New York and London: Garland, 1995), pp. 63-84.
The traditional Galenic idea that conception requires female orgasm indicates that May is not pregnant by January. However, implicit and symbolic references to seed and fruit suggest that Damian has impregnated her.
Barrington, Candace.
Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 1-11.
Studies the poem "Chaucer" by Benjamin Brawly, an early twentieth-century African-American poet.
Neel, Travis, and Andrew Richmond.
Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 103-16.
Reviews Chaucer's three uses of a crow (in ManT, PF, and as a "metaphor for the very blackness of blood" at the end of KnT) as a "marker for silence, sterility, and death."
Priest, Hannah.
Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 117-23.
Meditates fictively on Custance and her loss of identity.
Schamess, Lisa.
Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 125-37.
Experimental juxtapositioning of Virginia's rape in PhyT, Chaucer's interaction with Cecily Chaumpaigne, and "The Story of O" (1954), presented as a text caught in the act of being edited, complete with palimpsests of strikeouts, text additions, and…
