Fitzmaurice, Susan M., and Donka Minkova, eds.
New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.
Nineteen studies, including position papers, responses, and counter responses. A set of exchanges pertains to Chaucer: In "Metrical Evidence: Did Chaucer Translate The Romaunt of the Rose'?" (pp. 155-79), Xingzhong Li affirms on metrical grounds that…
Tuma, George W., and Dinah Hazell, eds.
Medieval Forum, Special Issue (2008): n.p.
Second half of a two-part special edition of this electronic journal: an online collection of translations of Middle English texts. The first part translates ten Middle English romances, with introductions, notes, and commentary; this second part is…
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Abigail Firey, ed. A New History of Penance. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, no. 14 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008), pp. 239-317.
Describes two late medieval penitential treatises--John Burough's "Pupilla oculi" (late fourteenth century) and William Lyndwood's "Provinciale "(early fifteenth century)--discussing their influence on Chaucer's understanding of the sacrament in…
Explores how the concern with vision as a way of knowing is a concern in a variety of medieval dream visions, including "Pearl," "Piers Plowman," and HF.
Bowler, Bill.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Pedagogical workbook for language learners of modern English, centered on modern prose adaptations of selections from CT (GP, KnT, MerT, ClT, FranT, WBT), with accompanying vocabulary exercises and comprehension activities. Illustrated by Natalia…
Bridges, Margaret.
Dagmar Wieser, Patrick Labarthe, Jean-Paul Avice, eds. Mémoire et Oubli dans le Lyrisme Européen (Paris: Champion, 2008), pp. 311-41.
Describes the tradition of the rhetorical topos of the abandoned lover's apostrophe to the bed, considering the "gendered" fetishism of Ariadne's address in LGW, the description of Alceste in LGWP, Troilus's address to the empty house in TC, and Dido…
Considers "Testament of Cresseid" as a "Nebenmensch" (next man, or neighbor) to TC, doubting or negating it rather than emulating it, and, by "the logic of imperial translation," suspending England's rise as Scotland's "hostile neighbor."
Ellis, Roger, ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Anthologizes nineteen essays by various authors, with topics ranging from theory of translation to individual translators. Includes two essays that pertain to Chaucer: Barry Windeatt, "Geoffrey Chaucer" (pp. 137-48) and Stephen Medcalf, "Classical…
Griffith, John Lance.
Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics 41 (2008): 13-45.
Reads KnT as a "tale of anger rather than (as is often the case) a tale of pity" which reveals Chaucer's ambivalence about anger as both "necessary and destructive" in human affairs. Explores Thomistic and Stoic notions of anger and assesses the…
Windeatt, Barry
Roger Ellis, ed. The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume I: To 1550 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 137-48.
Surveys Chaucer's career as a translator and the varieties of his "translational practice," focusing on his literal translations and how his "guise of the slavishly faithful translator" sometimes enables his "transformative adaptation." Considers…
Medcalf, Stephen.
Roger Ellis, ed. The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume I: To 1550 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 364-90.
Surveys the tradition of medieval translation from Latin into English, commenting on Continental mediators and awareness of Greek literature. Focuses on translations of Boethius (including Chaucer's) and those of Apollonius of Tyre, treating them as…
Greene, Logan Dale.
Literatura em Debate 2.3 (2008): n. p. [Electronic publication]
Examines the "archetype, or mytheme," of the loathly lady in WBT and related stories, considering the implications that the story derives from "ancient Celtic myth with its archetypal patterns of masculine development." In Portuguese and English.
Györi, Zsolt.
Agnes Pethö, ed. Words and Images on the Screen Language Literature, Moving Pictures (Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 284-99.
Assesses the politics and cultural work of British wartime cinema, including assessment of Michael Powell's and Emeric Pressburger's "A Canterbury Tale" of 1944 as "one of the first 'heritage films'," one that capitalizes on the status of CT as the…
Keller, Wolfram R.
Klaus Stierstorfer, ed. Anglistentag 2007 Münster: Proceedings (Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008), pp. 385-99.
Examines John Lydgate's sources for his "Troy Book," including HF and TC, arguing that Lydgate re-invents "Britain's Trojan origins," calling into question Lancastrian imperialism and offering a "Chaucerian counter-nationhood," anchored in individual…
Studies the "lordship economics" of late fourteenth-century England, especially as represented in the literature of John Gower, but providing historical and political backgrounds, and commenting on similar concerns in Chaucer and other writers.…
Laam, Kevin.
Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1 (2008): n. p. [Electronic publication]
Influenced by courtly Chaucerian conventions earlier in his career, George Gascoigne emulated Chaucerian penitential seriousness in "The Grief of Joye." Laam comments on Gascoigne's and George Puttenham's uses of Chaucer, and briefly explores the…
Parkinson, Judy.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2008.
Gift-book of historical information about Britain, arranged chronologically. The entry for Chaucer, entitled "Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, 1387" (p. 63), summarizes his literary career, focuses on CT, and labels him "the greatest English poet…
Russell, J. Stephen.
Medieval Perspectives 23 (2008 [2011]): 85-96.
Gauges what "old age" may have meant to Chaucer and his contemporaries, especially as it relates to memory and the humours. Then comments on several old men in Chaucer's works: January in MerT, the Old Man of PardT, old men in Mel, and Egeus of TC.
Ruszkiewicz, Dominika.
Romanian Journal of English Studies 23 (2008): 85-96.
Interprets Troilus's failure to take action to keep Criseyde in Troy as a lack of "mesure," a courtly quality praised by troubadour poets. His lack, however, evinces the depth of his love and he, at times, "takes on the role a troubadour" by seeking…
Shore, Rachel.
Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric 5 (2008): 98-106 [Electronic Publication].
Chaucer uses his naïve narrator to achieve an effective balance among the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos in CT. Also, this narrator's view of the Prioress overwhelms her appeal to ethos in PrPT and her heavy emphasis on pathos also…
Traces Chaucer's interest in three concerns that are related to the development of English as a vernacular language: "the nature of translation, the construction of textual memory, and the relationship between reading and ethics." Assesses literal…
Vásquez, Nila.
Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship 7 (2008): 119-37.
Vásquez describes her assumptions and practices in producing a scholarly edition of "The Tale of Gamelyn," an outlaw narrative assigned to Chaucer's Cook in a number of manuscripts.
A novel in poetry that opens with direct reference to CT, and proceeds as a series of tales by various kinds of people: historical tales, migrants' tales, artists' tales, etc. The volume includes a Preface by John Kinsella in which he reports that…
Item not seen; reported in WorldCat. A comparison of PF with "The Conference of Birds" by the medieval Persian Sufi poet Attar of Nishapur (aka Farid ud-Din Attar). In Persian.
