Patterson, Paul J.
Milton and Melville Review 1.1 (2006): 10-20.
Describes how, increasingly identified with Chaucer in early editions, "The Plowman's Tale" advanced "Chaucer's status as an early Protestant figure," noting in particular the association of them in Milton's "Of Reformation."
Patterson, Serina, ed.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Collects interdisciplinary essays focusing on the breadth and depth of games in medieval literature and culture. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.
Pattison, Andrew John.
Chaucer Review 54.2 (2019): 141-61.
Contextualizes the barnyard chase scene of NPT alongside late medieval hunting treatises, and questions the juxtaposition between the chase and the medieval noble hunt. The parody of this hunt offers multiple layers of meaning, from criticism of the…
Patton, Celeste A.
Philological Quarterly 71 (1992): 399-417.
The Manciple evinces linguistic fraud through his digression on language, his shaping of the crow fable, and his impersonation of his mother's voice arguing against speech (a mispresentation of Jean de Meun's discourse of Reason and a foil to the…
Patton, Celeste A.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 545A.
In medieval literature, the human (especially the female) body is treated ambivalently--as ideal, as erotic, and as grotesque, as with Chaucer's Pardoner ("feminized male grotesque") and characters in BD, LGW, KnT, MLT, PrT, ClT, and SNT.
Pattwell, Niamh.
Kathy Cawsey and Jason Harris, eds. Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), pp. 115-30.
Patwell explores how the Pardoner "transgresses the boundaries between lay man and cleric and between lollardy and orthodoxy," focusing on how in PardPT Chaucer exposes extreme views about the Eucharist and how he targets what is being condemned…
Pattwell, Niamh.
Clíodhna Carney and Frances McCormack, eds. Chaucer's Poetry: Words, Authority and Ethics (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013), pp. 37-47.
Looks at Chaucer's use of "two sententiae" to explore the interplay between Chaucer's use of silences and pauses in PrT, and the reader's engagement with the story.
Patuleanu, Ioana.
Journal of Narrative Technique 44.02 (2014): 159-82.
Refers to Jane Barker's use in an early novel of Dryden's retelling of CT to provide context for her 1723 anti-novel, "A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies."
Paul, James Allen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1977): 3476A.
In medieval narrative theory, "aporia" is set forth as a way of examining the moment when the ironic process begins. BD relies on a withdrawal from literal statement which brings the author's intention to the reader through the process of irony.
The Summoner's highly-qualified reference to Sittingbourne does not imply that the pilgrimage has progressed past Rochester. The shift of fragment B2 is not justified.
Paull, Michael R.
Chaucer Review 5.3 (1971): 179-94.
Shows how Chaucer's changes to Nicholas Trevet's version of the Constance narrative are influenced by the conventions of hagiography, including a tendency to allegory and heightened rhetoric. Assesses MLT as melodrama.
Pavlinich, Elan J.
Dissertation Abstracts International A81.02 (2019): n.p.
Includes discussion of LGW, arguing that its narrator "frustrates love conventions that are constructed around the author's presumed heteronormativity" and "privileges literary learning over lived experience within a gendered hierarchical structure."
Pavlinich, Elan Justice.
New York: Routledge, 2023.
Explores how various texts of medievalism (graphic novels, retellings, rap music, performance art, etc.) "represent radical, nontraditional sex acts enjoyed by people who are typically excluded from both popular culture and medieval narratives" and…
Paxson, James J.
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 2484A.
Although personification is currently devalued, analysis of its poetic codes of invention reveals its complexity in the works of Prudentius, Langland, Spenser and Chaucer (HF and PF).
Paxson, James J.
Cambridge: Cambridge University PRess, 1994.
Defines and analyzes personification as fundamental to literature and human consciousness. Surveys the history and theory of the device and examines its roles in works by Prudentius, Chaucer, Langland, and Spenser, applying various modern critical…
Paxson, James J.
James J. Paxson and Cynthia A. Gravlee, eds. Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid Through Chaucer (Selinsgrove, Penn.: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1998), pp. 206-26.
Reads TC as "an autocritique of the sophisticated rhetorical devices used by medieval poets to create the literature of desire." Examines several instances of apostrophe, pragmapoeia, ethopoeia, and sermocinatio in the poem, exploring relations…
Medieval allegory "prefigures cinematic consciousness." In Wegener's film "Der Golem," "Judaeo-Christian figural allegory, coupled with the narratology and the phenomenology of film," shifts "the deep past into the present in centrifugal, shocking,…
Paxson, James J.
Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 73-81.
Troilus's secret entry into Criseyde's bedroom in Pandarus's house alludes to King David's surprise of the Jebusites when conquering their city (2 Samuel 5); it attests to Troilus's masculine heroism and derives in part from Chaucer's experiences…
Paxson, James J., Lawrence M. Clopper, and Sylvia Tomasch, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998.
Eleven essays by various authors on medieval theatricality as a cultural process, including discussion of dramatic images and ludic energy in Chaucer and the social and ideological "performativities" of the mystery and morality plays. For six essays…
Paxson, James J.,and Cynthia A. Gravlee, eds.
Selinsgrove, Penn.:
An anthology of essays by various authors on aspects of medieval love literature. The introduction, by Paxson, discusses literary depictions of love in light of postmodern theories of the "psychological, phenomenological, and gendered bases" of…
Paxton, Jennifer.
Chantilly, Va. The Teaching Company, 2010.
A program of thirty-six illustrated lectures on English history, including lecture 29, "Chaucer and the Rise of English," which includes comments on literary and linguistic developments, summarizes CT and GP (a series of "capsule biographies"), and…
Payer, Pierre J.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.
In the development of sexual codes in the Penitentials, treatment of a wide variety of sexual behavior became more and more sophisticated in reaction to actual practice.
In NPT, the thrust of the satire on the relation between foreknowledge and free will is that theories like Bishop Bradwardine's simple necessity, St. Augustine's paradox, and, most notably, Boethius' conditional necessity are too abstract and…
Payne, F. Anne.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981.
A difficult form requiring of the reader a complex consciousness and thus hitherto largely neglected by critics, Menippean satire provides a meaningful context for Chaucer. The works of the third century B.C. satirist, themselves being lost, come to…
