Niebrzydowski, Sue.
Amanda Hopkins and Cory James Rushton, eds. The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.; and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007), pp. 18-26.
Surveys medieval commentary on women's enjoyment of sex, noting that sexual pleasure distinguishes Alisoun's marriage to Jankyn in WBP--a result of Jankyn's ability to read his wife's body like a text. Niebrzydowski contrasts Alisoun's sexual…
Niebrzydowski documents "significant attention," positive and negative, paid to wives and wifehood in the literature and architecture of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. The volume is structured to "follow the life cycle of a wife," from…
Niebrzydowski, Sue.
English: The Journal of the English Association 64, no. 244 (2015): 1–4.
A general introduction to the "Chaucer Reconsidered" special issue of the journal that focuses on the many genres in which Chaucer worked, as well as his primary topics.
Niebrzydowski, Sue.
In Sarah Carpenter, Pamela M. King, Meg Twycross, and Greg Walker, eds. "The best pairt of our play": Essays Presented to John J. McGavin, Part II (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017), pp. 38-56.
Describes the "the provenance, codicology, sources, and performance possibilities" of the early modern Welsh play "Troelus a Chresyd," exploring its relations with TC, Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," and Renaissance dramatic versions of…
Niebrzydowski, Sue.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 325-36.
Explores evidence of medieval women's humor, drawing examples from Margaret Mautby Paston and Margery Kempe, preceded by contemplation of why such humor is understudied. Includes comments on Chaucer's Wife of Bath, Alisoun of MilT, and May of MerT as…
Niebrzydowski, Sue.
Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 52–69.
Focuses on Troilus's love letters in TC, and on Absolon''sin MilT and Damyan's in MerT, reading them in light of courtly conventions and placing them "in dialogue with the impact of love missives as recorded in manuscripts that circulated in the…
"Sefer Yetsira" of the ancient Jewish mystics, Chaucer's PF and Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" center on the necessary acknowledgement of the unfixed quality of language that Bakhtin describes. All three are concerned with distinct moments in the…
Nielsen, Melinda E.
Chaucer Review 51.2 (2016): 209-26.
Considers how the interrelated texts and glosses in CUL, MS Ii.III.21 depict in nuanced ways the gender of Lady Philosophy, focusing on Chaucer's emphasis in Bo of her "norisschyng" of Boethius as teacher, physician, and wet-nurse. While translating…
Considers the medieval interest in Boethius as a personal model as well as a literary influence, with particular regard to Usk's deployment of Boethius in an effort at self-justification and Hoccleve's connections between Boethius and Chaucer.
Discusses the silence of Chaucer on the life of Boethius in Bo, then moves to examine a fifteenth-century translation of Boethius, based on Bo, that expands and adds to Chaucer's text, including material focused on Boethius himself. Traces and…
Nielsen, Melinda.
Studies in Philology 115 (2018): 25–49.
Clarifies that Boethius was a model for "medieval authors with political ambitions--and missteps--of their own." Imprisoned and accused of treason, Usk aligned himself in his "Testament" with Boethius, although his depiction of his own "seditious…
Nilsen, Don L. F.
Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood, 1997
Chronological description of humor in British literature, with individual discursive bibliographies on literary humor in the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries and on individual writers in these periods. Surveys the criticism of humor in…
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that this is a poem composed of lines drawn from a select group of literary works, including CT and works by Kerouac, Camus, Hemingway, Pound, and more.
Nims, Margaret.
University of Toronto Quarterly 43 (1974): 215-30.
Traces commentaries on metaphor ("translatio") among medieval classicizing poets and rhetoricians, especially Alan de Lille and Geoffrey of Vinsauf, and examines samples of metaphor in Chaucer's works that reflect these commentaries. Focuses on…
Nishide, Kimiyuki,and Takashi Kawabata.
Studies in Medieval Language and Literature (Tokyo) 2 (1987): 59-75.
An attempt to measure objectively the stylistic similarities and/or dissimilarities among the frequencies of "shall," "will," "should," and "would" per thousand words in CT. A cluster analysis of these frequencies generally supports Muscatine's…
Nishihara, Takayuki, and Yoshiyuki Nakao.
Studies in Education (Bulletin of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University) 3 (2022): 120-28.
Draws parallels between Chaucer's tense shift and Japanese I-mode, where tense shift occurs from the past to the present. Identifies tense shifts across various units, from a single metrical line to an extended piece of discourse consisting of…
Nishimura, Satoshi.
Journal of the Faculty of General Education, Chubu University 2 (2016): 1-7.
Points out Troilus's desire as an important element of TC, and argues that TC engages with the issue of Fortune in relation to human nature. In Japanese, with English abstract.
Nissé, Ruth.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21: 275-99, 1999.
In his "Regement of Princes" and "Address to Oldcastle," Hoccleve seeks to assert a revival of chivalry as a means of recovering from the degeneracy of the reign of Henry IV. In doing so, he champions "father" Chaucer's orthodoxy and presents…
Nisse, Ruth.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.
Assesses the biblical and theatrical allusions in MilT for the ways that they engage the theme of interpretation, challenge gender categories, and dovetail with contemporary concerns about the dangers of drama and reading. Compares these with similar…
Nisse, Ruth.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 166-83.
Surveys the extant Anglo-Hebrew authors, lost to Chaucer and his readers, which are, "nevertheless, a productive memory for his current readers." Catalogues a range of authors and genres, showing the flowering of the Jewish literary environment in…
Nist, John.
Tennessee Studies in Literature 15 (1970): 85-98.
Discusses apostrophe as speech (or writing) that is "'overheard' rather than merely heard," assessing it as a "powerful esthetic instrument for plumbing the emotional and emotive depths" of literary characters through "overheardedness." Comments on…
Nist, John.
Tennessee Studies in Literature 11 (1966): 1-10.
Coins the term "pathedy" to describe Chaucer's "serene middle ground" between tragedy and comedy, applying the term to the "quality of love" that characterizes Troilus in TC and to the tragicomic contradictions and essential humanity of several of…
