Moore, Colette.
Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2005): 3815A
Moore shows that medieval poems (including Chaucer's) "exploit the less-determined systems of medieval speech marking for aesthetic and rhetorical purposes."
Hansen, Elaine Tuttle.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005): 277-87.
Expresses concerns about contemporary higher education--from "prevailing careerism to the overall decline in literary reading"--and encourages "Chaucerian values" among university administrators.
Tomasch, Sylvia.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005)
Characterizes the "scholarly interests" of the more than 150 applicants for a 2003 tenure-track job in medieval studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Burton, T. L., and John F. Plummer, eds.
Provo, Utah : Chaucer Studio Press, 2005.
Eighteen essays by various authors; a professional biography of Emerson Brown, Jr.; and a list of his academic publications. For individuial essays, search for Seyd in Forme and Reverence under Alternative Title.
Brewer, Derek.
Corinne Saunders, ed. Cultural Encounters in the Romance of Medieval England. Studies in Medieval Romance, no. 2 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005), pp. 117-33.
Chaucer indicates that same-sex friendship is threatened when complicated by issues of "sexual love" (127). Considering TC, PF, WBPT, and FranT, Brewer calls for reinstatement of friendship "as a recognizable, uncontentious area of love" and praises…
D'Arcy, Anne Marie, and Alan J Fletcher, eds.
Dublin : Four Courts, 2005.
Twenty-four essays by various authors and a bibliography of Scattergood's publications. For eight essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts under Alternative Title.
Nachtwey argues that chivalry was "a pragmatic institution" that created a framework for understanding/controlling knightly violence. Further argues that this concept of chivalry is apparent in the works of Froissart and Chaucer (especially in TC and…
Brewer, Derek.
Marie-Francoise Alamichel, ed. La complémentarité: Mélanges offerts à Josseline Bidard et Arlette Sancery à l'occasion de leur départ en retraite (Paris: AMEAS, 2005), pp. 155-64.
Examines the portrayal of friendship in works by Chaucer, Lydgate, and Petrus Alfonsi.
Spearing, A. C.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Spearing counters the assumption that all medieval narration implies a narrator. Medieval literature is permeated with subjectivity, but it is often "subjectless subjectivity," better compared to painting than to oral storytelling. Similar to…
Trigg, Stephanie.
New Medieval Literatures 7 (2005): 9-33.
Distinguishes among "various ways in which medieval English religious sites are mediated for visitors," from cathedrals (including Canterbury) to the Canterbury Tales Visitor Attraction. Assesses the authenticity of visitors' experiences in light of…
Allen, Mark, and Bege K. Bowers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005): 381-470
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 304 items, plus listing of reviews for 68 books. Includes an author…
Johnson, James [D.]
Chaucer Review 39 (2005): 436-55
Tabulates and annotates fifty-seven studies that identify or discuss allusions to Chaucer, presented as a continuation of Caroline Spurgeon's Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion (1925). Includes a name and title index for the…
Bourgne, Florence.
Colette Stvanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais (Nancy: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2005), pp. 247-68.
Studies Chaucer's Bo to determine which texts, versions, and commentaries Chaucer might have used and which modifications he might have introduced and to what purposes.
Machan, Tim William, ed., with the assistance of A. J. Minnis.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2005.
The book presents hypothetical source texts for Bo, seeking to reconstruct as closely as possible what was accessible to Chaucer when he translated Boethius into Middle English. Provides an edition of Boethius's Latin original and, on facing pages,…
Lewis, Lucy.
John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong, eds. Printing Places: Locations of Book Production & Distribution Since 1500 (Newcastle, Del.: Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2005), pp. 1-14.
Lewis assesses challenges confronted by printer Thomas Richard when, in 1525, he produced John Walton's translation of Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," especially those challenges that resulted from interspersing intermittent commentary in a…
Pearsall, Derek.
Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 259-69.
Reads the two title poems in the context of contemporary court activities and conventions as "attempts to present a moralized version of love within an allegorical framework."
Dauby, Hélène.
Marie-Francoise Alamichel, ed. La complementarité: Mélanges offerts à Josseline Bidard et Arlette Sancery à L'occasion de leur départ en retraite (Paris: AMAES, 2005), pp. 197-201
Though posed as a continuation of CT, the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn emphasizes a return from Canterbury to London, from the sacred to the profane. Sentence and solaas are reduced to the merely "glad and merry."
Vásquez Gonzalez, Nila.
International Journal of English Studies 5.2 (2005): 161-73.
Justifies the need for a new edition of the "Tale of Gamelyn" on the grounds that previous editions rely on limited manuscript authority and reflect various editorial biases.
Dauby, Hélène.
Leo Carruthers and Adrian Papahagi, eds. Jeunesse et vieillesse: Images médéivales de l'age en littérature anglaise (Paris: Harmatten, 2005), pp. 103-15.
The Tale of Beryn shows that bargaining is essential in the mercantile world. It uses the "biter bit" pattern and--unusual in CT--reflects the moral growth of an individual. First shown misbehaving like the rioters in PardT, Beryn undergoes a true…
Studies the marginalia printed with the 1606 edition of "The Plowman's Tale," arguing that it challenges both Papal authority and the Church of England, encouraging Puritanism. Also discusses the place of this edition in the tradition of Chaucer…
Walker, Greg.
Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 375-401.
Argues that The Plowman's Tale was composed in a complex process of interpolations and revisions (evident in various metrical schemes) that reflect various political and doctrinal agendas. Walker suggests a five-stage process of composition that…
Ganim, John M.
Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior, eds. Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), pp. 344-65.
Explores the reception of Chaucer by William Morris (the Kelmscott Chaucer) and Virginia Woolf ("The Pastons and Chaucer"), arguing that the responses of both individuals are deeply autobiographical and indications of how "modernity privatizes the…
D'Agata D'Ottavi, Stefania.
Marco Fazzini, ed. Alba Literaria: A History of Scottish Literature (Venice: Amos Edizioni, 2005), pp. 45-63.
Chaucer's four dream poems, especially PF and LGWP (both the F and G versions) are sources of Dunbar's "Golden Targe," although Dunbar's imagery owes much to CT, Anel, and Rom. Dunbar seeks innovation within tradition, and the praise he bestows on…
