Morrison, Susan Signe.
London and New York : Routledge, 2000.
Studies "medieval perceptions of pilgrimage, gender, and space," discussing literary and historical female pilgrims, their motives, and the effects pilgrimages had on their families and social dynamics. Discusses the shrines at Walsingham and…
Morrison, Susan Signe.
Juliette Dor and Marie-Élisabeth Henneau, eds. Femmes et pèlerinages / Women and Pilgrimages ([Santiago de Compostela]: Compostela Group of Universities, 2007), pp. 141-52.
A number of the most famous fourteenth-century poets used pilgrimage as a genre to promote the use of vernacular language. Morrison's essay considers pilgrimage, gender, and use of the vernacular, raising questions about intertextual anxiety and the…
Morrison, Susan Signe.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Morrison constructs a cultural poetics of excrement to suggest that Chaucer's treatment of fecal matter, in both its literal and figurative senses, illustrates the ways that the Middle Ages viewed excrement. This cultural poetics enables the modern…
Morrison, Susan Signe.
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 10, no. 1 (2019): 40-59.
Contemplates similarities and analogies between reading and walking and between medieval and modern pilgrimage narratives, commenting on ecopoetics, biopoetics, and topopoetics, and on relations between design and contingency, human and nonhuman…
Morrison, Susan Signe.
Medieval Feminist Forum 56, no. 2 (2020): 73-92.
Uses "lessons from trauma studies concerning silence, as well as new materialist and ecocritical approaches," to explore the resistance of Griselda's patient silence. "[T]hrough a preponderant use of negative words"--a "poetics of negation"--Griselda…
Morrison, Susan Signe.
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 11, no. 2 (2020): 118-27.
Draws on debates about slow cinema to suggest how ClT evokes a "slow eco-aesthetics" with an ethical impact. Based on the notion that medieval pilgrimage texts evoke a slow aesthetic, the strategies of slowness and patience in the tale of Patient…
Morrison, Susan Signe.
Notes and Queries 266.1 (2021): 45-49.
Contemplates the word "lemman" in Malyne's dawn song of RvT: its connotations elsewhere in Chaucer's corpus indicate that it names her experience the night before as sexual assault.
Assesses the "ecocritical insights" of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" via its intertexual relations with the "pilgrimage ecopoetics" of CT, exploring structural similarities in the works and their vernacularity, metatextual references, "linguistic and…
Morrison, Theodore, ed.
New York: Viking Press, 1975.
Originally published in 1949, the volume includes modern translations of selections from CT (all except for ShT, Mel, MkT, ClT, SqT, PhyT, MancT, and ParsT, which are described in summary); TC; selections from HF and LGWP; and samples of the short…
Morrow, Patrick D.
Patrick D. Morrow. Tradition, Undercut, and Discovery: Eight Essays on British Literature (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1980), pp. 16-36.
Adjustments to the traditional narrative in ClT compel us to read Walter, Griselda, and the "peple" as complex characters, rich in ambiguity, in a setting that "moves between an ideal and real world" (27). These complications enrich the simple…
Explores the combination of religion and secularity in ClT, discussing its fusion of ideals and practical realities as Chaucer's means to increase the ambivalences of his sources. The tension between the Clerk's moralization of the Tale and its…
Morsberger, Katharine M.
Pacific Coast Philology 28 (1993): 3-19.
Through readings of Dryden's translation of WBT and Pope's translation of WBP, Morsberger details how "translation" serves as an attempt to understand the Other, to redefine language, and to discover other voices.
Morse-Gagné, Elise E.
Susan Yager and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds. Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord (Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013), pp. xix-xxxii.
Includes a brief biography of Alan Gaylord and summary of his teaching career at Michigan and Dartmouth. Among the hallmarks of Gaylord's work are interdisciplinarity, a sense of playfulness, and the value of performance both within and outside the…
Morse, Charlotte C.
Hugh T. Keenan, ed. Typology and English Medieval Literature (New York: AMS, 1992), pp. 141-48.
In terms of medieval Christian thought, wherein conversion to Christianity was viewed as gradual rather than instant, the life of Griselda typologically represents the Christian soul, though Chaucer may not consciously have connected the two while…
Morse, Charlotte C.
C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1990), no. 130), pp. 71-83.
Between 1910 and 1952, attitudes toward ClT were overtly hostile. Since 1952, however, criticism has been "apologetic in nature," with teacher-critics constructing "Christian allegorical," philosophical, psychological, and political readings "to…
Morse, Charlotte C.
Derek Pearsall, ed. Manuscripts and Texts (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987), pp. 122-29.
Reviews the development of CT editing from 1960 onward. The "Variorum is designed to control and reassess secondary literature and to test Manly-Rickert (very reliable). Rejects Manly-Rickert's theory of early versions of CT and ClT. Reviews…
Morse, Charlotte C.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 7 (1985): 51-86.
Discusses fourteenth-century responses to the Griselda story--notably those of Petrarch, Philippe de Mezieres, and the "Menagier de Paris--focusing on their consistent understanding of the tale as an exemplary (not allegorical) account of heroic…
Morse, Charlotte C.
Notes and Queries 238 (1993): 19-22.
Reviews and comments on Charles Owen's "The Manuscripts of 'The Canterbury Tales'," supporting the view that there were many copies of single tales and small groups of tales in circulation.
Morse, Charlotte C.
A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 316-44.
Traces the history and reception of J. A. Burrow's term "Ricardian" as an alternative to "Age of Chaucer," considering its use and its future in light of the present critical climate.
Morse, Charlotte C.
A. J. Minnis, ed. Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2001), pp.41-56.
Morse comments on how the Canterbury Tales Project may reinvigorate textual questions thought to have been answered by the Manly-Rickert edition and latent in the Variorum project. Explores such issues as tale order, tale revision, and manuscript…
Morse, Charlotte C.
R. F. Yeager and Charlotte C. Morse, eds. Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve (Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2001), pp. 347-92.
Identifies "uncanny" resemblances between Griselda of ClT and Philippa de Coucy, wife of Robert de Vere. Similarities between the women and their treatment at the hands of their husbands (divorces) would have prompted Chaucer's immediate audience to…
Charles Cowden Clarke, Charles Knight, and John Saunders were the most effective popularizers of Chaucer for the common reader in nineteenth-century England. These individuals translated Chaucer into modern English and bowdlerized his language in…
Morse, Charlotte Cook.
Charlotte Cook Morse, Penelope Reed Doob, and Marjorie Curry Woods, eds. The Uses of Manuscripts in Literary Studies: Essays in Memory of Judson Boyce Allen (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992), pp. 263-303.
Manuscript rubrics variously identify the genre of Petrarch's story as "mythologia," "fabula," and "historia" (perhaps the least constricting choice). Some rubrics emphasize Griselda's wifely virtues of obedience and fidelity, while others single…
Morse, J. Mitchell.
Modern Language Quarterly 19 (1958): 3-20.
Describes the "intellectual milieu" of the Clerk in order to characterize him as "man of essentially humanistic temper, aware of so many complexities . . . that he found it difficult to rest in dogmatic assurance of anything." Traces the "movement…
