An, Sonjae (Brother Anthony).
Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. and Richard Scott Nokes, eds. Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language, and Culture (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 2007), pp. 117-32.
Allusions to and echoes of Boethius and Dante reinforce Chaucer's concern with the inevitability of sorrow and its relationship to joy in TC. The structure of the poem collaborates with these devices to convey the transitory nature of worldly joy…
Kaylor, Noel Harold Jr.
Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. and Richard Scott Nokes, eds. Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language, and Culture (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 2007), pp. 133-53.
Kaylor contrasts themes and techniques of Dante's "Commedia" and Chaucer's TC (and CT), suggesting that a shift in "frame-of-reference" occurred between the times of the two poets. Dante is concerned with universal, absolute, and transcendent…
Holton argues that Chaucer generally prefers direct naming techniques, but he recurrently uses "pronominatio" (i.e., epithets and related circumlocutions) when relying on Virgil as a source in HF and LGW. Also shows how Chaucer exploits the negative…
Cavill, Paul, and Heather Ward.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2007.
Summaries of literary works, plus study questions designed for self-teaching, ranging from works of Bede and Caedmon to those of Philip Larkin and Edna O'Brien, with a summary of biblical plots, Christian history, hymns, and a glossary of terms. Two…
Gray, Douglas.
Alan Deyermond, ed. A Century of British Medieval Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2007), pp. 383-426.
Gray surveys the study of Middle English literature from the founding of the British Academy until the early twenty-first century, commenting on accomplishments of individual scholars up to World War II. He describes critical trends and how they…
Sauer, Michelle M.
Journal of Lesbian Studies 11 (2007): 331-45.
Sauer describes the "inadequacy of lesbian criticism in today's Medieval Literary Studies" and suggests some opportunities for developing such studies, including opportunities in Chaucer studies.
Allen, Valerie.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Considers the imagery and implications of flatulence, wind, excrement, and refuse in medieval culture, considering anecdotes, visual imagery, religious commentary, and other literature. Occasional mention of Chaucer's works, with focused attention…
Surveys medieval notions and representations of privacy in relation to various religious and devotional practices, study, gardening, social spaces, and the demise of community. Comments recurrently on Chaucer's depictions of solitude, focusing on his…
Kelen, Sarah A.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Kelen studies the reception of William Langland and "Piers Plowman" from the early modern period to the early twentieth century. She focuses on editions of the work and the works it inspired, efforts to identify Langland and construct his biography,…
Trim, Richard.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Describes the historical evolution of figurative language, especially metaphors, identifying patterns of development. Metaphors depend on images in the past; new metaphors are created through linkage to core concepts or "underlying conceptual…
Yager, Susan.
Literature and Belief 27 (2007): 55-68.
The BBC's 2003 adaptation of MLT updates Chaucer's Tale, incorporating plot, character names, and thematic elements such as faith, exile and return, trauma and healing, and time and repetition. Constance, a Nigerian refugee, finds love and fellowship…
Jimura, Akiyuki.
Shizuya Tara, Mayumi Sawada, and Larry Walker, eds. Language and Beyond: Festschrift for Hiroshi Yonekura on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Tokyo: Eichosha, 2007), pp. 265-83.
Discusses Chaucer's proverbial wisdom in Mel. In Japanese
Camargo, Martin.
New Medieval Literatures 9 (2007): 41-62.
Describes the role of performance, or delivery, in medieval rhetorical and grammatical treatises, and exemplifies the evidence of Chaucer's concern with rhetoric and performance in CT--in the Host's remarks to the Clerk, the role-playing of the…
Dyas, Dee, ed.
York: University of York; Nottingham: St. John's College, [2007].
Interactive, illustrated exploration of the "multiple meanings of pilgrimage within the Christian tradition," especially as expressed in the Middle Ages, although set in the broader context of worldwide practice. Includes a wide variety of…
Jansohn, Christa.
Wilhelm Rees, Sabine Demel, and Ludger Müller, eds. Im Dienst von Kirche und Wissenschaft: Festschrift für Alfred E. Hierold zur Vollendung des 65. Lebensjahres (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2007), pp. 75-96.
Compares and contrasts descriptions of feasts by the "Gawain"-poet and Chaucer (WBT, KnT, SqT, the GP description of the Prioress, and ParsT), with comments on the "Second Shepherds' Play," and Robert Henryson.
Macaulay, Richard.
Cardiff: Drama Association of Wales, 2007
Includes "A Canterbury Tale" (pp. 91-113), a play that presents a fictional account of events that inspired Chaucer to write the CT, framed as a meeting between Chaucer and Simon Burley on the occasion of Burley's arrest. Also published as a…
Argues that Chaucer seeks to persuade the audience of ShT to "use money wisely" by exposing the fallacy of equating wisdom and wealth and by following St. Augustine's arguments about wealth (that are also echoed in Mel and ParsT). This helps to…
Mason, Tom.
Translation & Literature 16.1 (2007): 1-28.
Documents Dryden's wide-ranging allusiveness in his adaptation of NPT and comments on the reception of this version, arguing that "The Cock and the Fox" presents a delicate balance between praise and blame of humanity.
Sugito, Hisashi.
Sophia English Studies 32 (2007): 17-31.
Chaucer uses Wycliffite discourse sympathetically in order to "satirize church corruption which the Pardoner represents," particularly the literal understanding of Scripture and allegories. The Pardoner's treatment of Scripture aligns with the views…
Turner, Marion.
New Medieval Literatures 9 (2007): 139-77.
Describes the cultural production of members of late-medieval English livery companies, focusing on political and literary activities of scribes (Thomas Usk in particular) who were members of the companies and comments on the impact of these…
Kouritzin, Sandra G.
Kouritzin, Sandra G., Nathalie A. C. Piquemal, and Renee Norman, eds. Qualitative Research: Challenging the Orthodoxies in Standard Academic Discourse(s) (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 67-82.
Personal account of the author's efforts to write an unorthodox dissertation, including comments about her thwarted intention of using the CT "as a template" for the dissertation.
DeMaria, Robert, Jr., and Robert D. Brown, eds.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2007.
Collects excerpts from various "British, Irish, and Caribbean Writers" (Chaucer to Seamus Heaney) and from various classical writers (Homer to Juvenal) to demonstrate classical influence. Opens (pp. 3-10) with a selection from WBP (ll. 627-822) in…
