Autobiographical remembrance/contemplation by a gay medievalist in New York. Includes frequent references and allusions to medieval topics, including Chaucer, here described as "really the most important thing in the world."
Anthologizes a wide array of medieval texts that pertain to disability studies, each with an introduction and apparatus by individual contributors. Entries include Historical and Medical Documents, Religious Texts, Poetry, Prose, Drama, and visual…
Bloom, Harold, ed.
Broomall, Pa. : Chelsea House, 1999.
Includes a brief biography, bibliography, and introduction to CT; summaries of GP, KnT, WBPT, and PardPT; and excerpts from critical studies of these sections of CT.
Donaldson, E. Talbot.
Brown, Arthur, and Peter Foote, eds. Early English and Norse Studies: Presented to Hugh Smith in Honour of His Sixtieth Birthday (London: Methuen, 1963), pp. 26-45.
Explores the "literary value" of Chaucer's "pretended inferiority complex on the subject of poetry," commenting on the "modesty convention" (or humility topos) in the GP description of the Prioress, the moralization of NPT, the question of Providence…
Dennis, Erin N.
Bruce E. Brandt and Michael S. Nagy, eds. Proceedings of the 14th Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature, April 7-8, 2006 (Brookings, S.Dak.: English Department, South Dakota State University, 2006), pp. 107-23.
Dennis explores how WBP and WBT affirm and challenge the patriarchal assumptions of medieval literary and social traditions.
Kerr, John.
Bruce E. Brandt and Michael S. Nagy, eds. Proceedings of the 14th Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature, April 7-8, 2006 (Brookings, S.Dak.: English Department, South Dakota State University, 2006), pp. 77-93.
Kerr argues that the sixth canto of Dante's Inferno was the model for Chaucer's use of gluttony and alimentary metaphors in PF, particularly the latter's concern with literary transmission and the birds' debate.
Knutson, Karla.
Bruce E. Brandt and Michael S. Nagy, eds. Proceedings of the 14th Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature, April 7-8, 2006 (Brookings, S.Dak.: English Department, South Dakota State University, 2006), pp. 95-106.
Knutson argues that fifteenth-century imitators of Chaucer identified themselves as descendants of Chaucer, whom they constructed as father, to promote a conservative agenda, simultaneously antifeminist, hierarchical, and heteronormative.
Ruud, Jay.
Bruce E. Brandt, ed. Proceedings of the Third Dakotas Conference on Earlier British Literature (Brookings, S.D.: English Department, South Dakota State University, 1995), pp. 35-44.
Discusses the Old Man in PardT as a parody of the Resurrection, rather than simply interpreting him allegorically.
Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen].
Bruce Henricksen and Thais E. Morgan, eds. Reorientations: Critical Theories and Pedagogies (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990) pp. 77-92.
In medieval studies, which are threatened by pluralism, medievalists can communicate the intent of the originals (now translated) by using literary theory to examine "punning, allusion, quotation, and voice." Examines puns, etc. in TC, Dante's…
Boenig, Robert.
Bruce L. Edwards, ed. The Taste of Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Reader, Critic, and Imaginative Writer (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988), pp. 138-48.
Reads C. S. Lewis's essay on TC, "What Chaucer Really Did to 'Il Filostrato'" (1932), as an index to how Lewis adapted H. G. Wells' novel "The First Men in the Moon" in his own "Out of the Silent Planet." Because of Chaucer's changes to Boccaccio's…
Dor, Juliette.
Bruno Meniel, ed. Ecrivains juristes etjuristes ecrivains, du Moyen Age au siecle des Lumieres. Esprits des lois, Esprit des lettres, no. 8 (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015), pp. 522-26.
Reviews issues of justice in Sted and explores how Chaucer's irony reveals his bias against medieval judicial practices in ABC. Also, questions the relationship among Church/Rome/nation, political vs. religious law(s), and ascending vs. descending…
Duțescu, Dan, trans.
Bucharest: Editura Univers, 1978.
Translation of TC in Romanian rhyme royal stanzas, based on the text of Albert C. Baugh (1963), with preface and end-of-text notes and commentary by Duțescu. Includes b&w illustrations from ancient Mediterranean art, medieval manuscripts, and…
Explores the combination of religion and secularity in ClT, discussing its fusion of ideals and practical realities as Chaucer's means to increase the ambivalences of his sources. The tension between the Clerk's moralization of the Tale and its…
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this volume of conference proceedings includes an essay entitled "De la Fée Morgane à la Femme de Bath de Chaucer"; no author indicated.
Pedagogical guide to selections from Tennyson, Chaucer, and African poetry, with recommendations on how to explicate poetry, focusing on theme and style. The Chaucer section (pp. 60-111) addresses GP and NPT, emphasizing Chaucer's goals of moral and…
Tulián, Antonio, trans.
Buenos Aires: Longsellar, 2001.
Spanish prose translation of selections from CT (MilT, RvT, MkT, NPPT, excerpts from ParsT, and Ret), accompanied by an introduction to Chaucer's life and works.
An anthology in Spanish of seventeen pieces of short fiction from international medieval and modern sources, and a prologue by Montero that discusses the motif of the unfaithful woman. Includes WBPT (pp. 89-119).
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat as an anthology in Spanish of selections from CT, Boccaccio's "Decameron," and Don Juan Manuel's "Conde de Lucanor," with selection and notes by Susana G. Artal.
Dane, Joseph A.
Buffalo and Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Wide-ranging discussion of the opposition between evidence (physical materials) and discourse (abstractions covered by the word "text") in bibliographical and literary study, with sustained attention to editions of Chaucer and their methods and…
Osborn, Marijane, trans.
Buffalo, N. Y.: Broadview, 2010.
Modern verse translations of romances in their original verse forms, with individual introductions and notes, a general introduction, and a commentary on the value of modern verse translation. Includes WBT and Th, along with Gower's "Tale of…
Surveys the figure of Apollo in classical and medieval traditions, focusing on the figure in Chaucer's works as an embodiment of the poet's understandings of poetic authority. Chaucer "mythologized a new idea of authorship in English," escaping…
Guy-Bray, Stephen.
Buffalo, N.Y.; and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Argues that poetic influence can be regarded as an erotic or romantic relationship between male couples, focusing on literature of Dante, Spenser, and Hart Crane and questioning notions of literary influence promulgated by T. S. Eliot and Harold…
