Murchison, Krista A.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Investigates the extent to which ParsT as a manual of confession can be seen to encourage the process of "individualization" theorized by Michel Foucault and to subvert the "immense control that the Church had over medieval lives" and aligning with…
Murchison, Krista A.
Modern Language Review 115 (2020): 497-517.
Explores how writers and audiences in medieval England "approached textually constructed audiences," considering evidence from rhetorical theory, readers' comments, and "signs of adaptation undertaken by authors, correctors, and scribes."…
Describes and assesses the wide array of guides to penitential self-examination in late medieval Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English, viewing them in the contexts of the 1215 Lateran Council, the rise in popular religion, and developing notions…
Murnighan, Jack, ed.
New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001.
Anthologizes excerpts from more than eighty works of literature, from the Old Testament to the Starr Report, including a selection from WBP (pp. 128-31), modernized by Murnighan; includes an appreciative introduction which refers to the Wife as "a…
Murnighan, Jack.
Jack Murnighan. "Beowulf" on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2009), pp. 86-97.
Encourages approaching Chaucer as "both funny and a little racy," giving advice on how to read with understanding, opinions on what is "sexy" in CT, and suggestions of what to skip in the work (CkPT, MLT, SqT, FranT, PhyT, PrT, Th, Mel, MkT, NPT,…
Murphy, Ann B.
The Centennial Review 28:3 (1984): 204-22.
The Wife's personality develops through five marriages from a materialistic, mercantile desire for power and wealth to "an earthly form of spiritual transformation through marital love." WBP traces how Allison learns to love and to stop equating…
Given the numerous verbal parallels between Greene's work and "The Cobbler of Canterbury" (an avowed imitation of CT, published anonymously in 1590), it would seem that Greene "fibbed" when, in a separate publication, he "informed the spirits of…
Murphy, Francis X.
Proceedings of the PMR Conference 1 (1976): 53-57.
Comments generally on Chaucer's knowledge of Patristic writings by way of handbooks and florilegia, and characterizes Chaucer's outlook as distinctly Augustinian and Boethian, especially his sense of order and beauty and his pervasive "Christian…
Murphy, James J.
James Jerome Murphy. Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Variorum Collected Studies Series; Collected Studies, no. 827. Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2005.
First published in 1964, the essay is reprinted here with original pagination, along with a number of other essays by Murphy. Murphy argues that Chaucer was not likely to have been directly influenced by rhetoricians such as Geoffrey of Vinsauf.
Murphy, James J.
Review of English Studies 15, no. 57 (1964): 1-20.
Surveys the "status of rhetoric in England" during Chaucer's lifetime, documenting the "ubiquity of grammatical texts and the paucity of rhetorical texts." Tabulates Chaucer's uses of the terminology of rhetoric and style, analyzes his usage of these…
Murphy, Kevin M.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.01(E) (2018): n.p.
Includes discussion of how Chaucer "lays bare . . . [h]ow language and other signs may be adopted to obscure the patently obvious," arguing that the Pardoner's "constant insistence on corporeal language and imagery always returns the reader to the…
Murphy, Michael, ed.
Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1991.
An edition of the Middle English text for nonspecialist students and general readers. Neither a normalization nor a translation, it retains--in all respects except spelling--the language of Hengwrt, with variants from other manuscripts of the…
A "reader-friendly" edition of The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, The Miller and His Tale, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale, and The Nun's Priest's Tale, i.e., in modernized spelling, with glosses and…
This updated version of Murphy's computer-based project includes "audioglossed" versions of GP, MilT, PardT, and NPT in which readers hear the text in modern pronunciation. In addition, unfamiliar words are glossed to the ear rather than visually.…
Challenges existing editions of CT and proposes an alternative that would include the old-spelling version of Hengwrt with new spelling, glossing, and annotations.
Considers a potential crisis in the teaching of Chaucer and suggests attending more to the pragmatic matters of teaching and less to theoretical problematizing.
Murphy, Michael.
Mediaevalia 9 (1986, for 1983): 205-23.
Argues that if we read CT aloud we should generally do so in our own dialects rather than in "Semblance," the reconstructed version of the fourteenth-century English dialect of the Southeast Midlands.
Murphy, Michael.
English Studies 66 (1985): 105-12.
Distinguishes between vow and boast in literary convention, traced down to the burlesques in "The Tournament of Tottenham" and Chaucer's Th. Considers the role of women as "taunters."
Murphy, Russell E.
Yeats Eliot Review 28.1–2 (2011): 3-29.
Reconsiders CT as the source of the opening line of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," exploring intertextual relations with the opening of Dante's "Divine Comedy" as well. Also clarifies the importance of Chaucer's role in the English tradition of…
Murray, Jacqueline,and Konrad Eisenbichler,eds.
Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y. ; and London: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Fifteen essays by various authors and an introduction on topics literary, historical, and social, all pertaining to sexuality in Europe before 1700. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West under…
