Pakkala-Weckstrom, Mari.
Karind Aijmer and Britta Olinder, eds. Proceedings from the 8th Nordic Conference on English Studies (Goteborg: Goteborg University Department of English, 2003), pp. 121-36.
Pakkala-Weckstrom applies linguistic "politeness theory" to the use of pronouns as "forms of address in male/female dialogue" in MilT, MerT, ShT, ClT, Mel, WBT, and FranT. Usage is similar in the romances and religious tales but differs in the…
Zonneveld, Wim.
Paula Fikkert and Haike Jacobs, eds. Development in Prosodic Systems. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003, pp. 197-247.
Zonneveld examines factors associated with iambic stress in the octosyllabic Dutch poem "Het Leven van St. Lutgart" [Life of St. Lutgart], comparing them with conditions in early English. Considers the "uncertain status of schwa syllables" in…
North, John
Giancarlo Marchetti et al., eds. Ratio et Superstitio: Essays in Honor of Graziella Federici Vescovini (Louvain-la-Neuve: Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études Médiévales, 2003), pp. 263-83.
North summarizes medieval arithmetic theory and practice, describes Chaucer's professional familiarity with arithmetic, and explores arithmetic allusions and structuring in BD, particularly its shape as an abacus.
Cornelius, Michael G.
Jerilyn Fisher and Ellen S. Silber, eds. Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2003, pp. 69-71.
The stereotypes depicted in Cecilia, the Wife of Bath, and Griselda reflect the continuing conflict between women who want to escape submissive roles and those who accommodate abusive relationships. Cornelius encourages classroom discussion of SNT,…
Chicote, Gloria B.
Lillian von der Walde Moheno, ed. Propuestas teórico-metodológicas para el estudio de la literatura hispnica medieva. (Mexico: Universidaad Nacional AutÑnoma de Mxico, 2003), pp. 165-89.
Three features characterize the collections of tales of Don Juan Manuel, Boccaccio, and Chaucer, especially as they relate to cultural context: marks of realism or authentication, thematic concern with unity and diversity, and the presence of the…
Filios compares the folktale of Griselda with four medieval versions, exploring their adaptations. Boccaccio's tale is eroticized, with the teller Dioneo disagreeing with the conventional happy ending that reinforces dangerous power relations;…
Ingham, Patricia Clare.
Patricia Clare Ingham and Michelle R. Warren, eds. Postcolonial Moves: Medieval Through Modern. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 47-ı70.
Ingham urges a "contrapuntal" postcolonial approach to premodern texts - i.e., an approach that observes differences and distinctions that are oppositional without overdetermining them. She explores how Chaucer's MLT and Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"…
Compares the contents of Cambridge University Library MS Additional 4122 with similar contemporary compilations, encouraging further study of such devotional collections. The presence of Chaucer's SNT in such anthologies may indicate his shaping…
Mel interprets and transforms its source. Chaucer's alterations, although slight, tend to undercut the allegorical reading, qualifying Prudence's authority and conclusions. Mel makes explicit concepts that are implicit in the original: the…
O'Brien examines the theme of brotherhood in TC as portrayed through the relationships of Troilus and Pandarus, Troilus and Criseyde, Diomedes and Criseyde, and the narrator and readers. The poem's ending portrays brotherly relationships as no remedy…
Perry, Judy.
Foundations: Newsletter of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy 1.2-3 (2003-2004): 122-31 and 164-74.
Perry documents the complex relationships among the Roets, Swynfords, Lancastrians, and Chaucer's family, rejecting speculation that Thomas Chaucer was the illegitimate son of John of Gaunt and commenting on the dowering of Elizabeth Chaucer at…
Williamson, Anne.
Henry Williamson Society Journal 39 (2003): 30-60.
Explores the possibility that Henry Williamson's novel "The Dream of Fair Women" was influenced by Tennyson's poem "A Dream of Fair Women" and, in turn, by Chaucer's LGW.
Hernández Pérez, M. Beatriz
Santa Cruz de Tenerife: La Página Ediciones, 2003.
Compares varied uses of narrative voices in CT and Juan Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor "in light of the tradition of prologue writing. Chaucer and Ruiz employ satire and ambiguity to elicit a variety of questions from their audience - enough to arouse…
Kang, Ji-Soo.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 11 (2006): 243-58.
Considers relationships among apocalypse, history, and literary closure in Dante's Paradiso, Chaucer's BD, and Pearl. Dante brings apocalypse into history, while the other two poets use it to contrast human temporality.
Currie explores the hypocrisy and factionalism that underlie the characters' ostensible concerns with natural law and the common good in TC, arguing that Chaucer exposes the negative consequences (individual and social) of breaches of natural law.…
Bloom, Harold, ed.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 2003.
Five essays by various authors, a brief introduction by the editor, a chronology, and selective bibliographies on Chaucer's work, primary and secondary. Three essays are reprints (George L. Kittredge's on the marriage group; Larry D. Benson's on…
Reis, Huriye.
Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (Hacettepe University) 20.1 (2003): 140-49.
Reads LGWP as an indication of Chaucer's theory that writing is based largely on the reading of others. Chaucer's narrator is confronted with the implications of this theory.
Argues that Maximian's Third Elegy inspired the figure of Pandarus in TC. In Maximian, Boethius is a character who is "astonishingly iconoclastic" and "richly ironic," anticipating Pandarus in several ways.
Parallels between Criseyde and the women of WBPT "interrogate the following issues: equality between the sexes, possessions (ownership), possession (jealousy), and appearance." Rosenfeld reads the loathly lady as a "synthesis" of the Wife of Bath…
Newman, Claire.
English Review (Deddington, Oxfordshire) 13.1 (2003): 2-5.
Summarizes performance features of WBP (echoes of preaching, animal imagery, range of emotion, entertainment value) appropriate to fourteenth-century encounters with the text as an aural experience.
