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O'Hear, Anthony.   Anthony O'Hear. The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature (Wilmington, Del.: ISI [Intercollegiate Studies Institute] Books, 2009), pp. 177-95.
Description of CT that comments on Chaucer's social range and authenticating detail, arranges the Pilgrims into social classes, and comments on the plot of each of the Tales.

Knight, Stephen.   Rick Rylance and Judy Simons, eds. Literature in Context (Houndmills, Basingstoke; and New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 1-14.
Comments on the historical, religious, social, literary, and linguistic contexts necessary to understand Chaucer's subtleties and subversions throughout CT, but especially in GP. Includes close reading of GP 1.1-18.

Ellis, Steve, ed.   London and New York: Longman, 1998.
An anthology of twelve previously published essays and excerpts from longer works that apply modern critical theory to CT. Ellis's introduction assesses the contributions of the essays to a postmodern understanding of CT.

Ashton, Gail.   New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
An introduction to CT, designed to enable students to approach the poem on their own. Includes sections on style and narrative technique; voice, narration, and form; and themes,tensions, and ambiguities--each with explanatory discussion,summary of…

Tasioulas, Jacqueline.   New York: Routledge, 2019.
Introduces Chaucer's life and historical context, surveying major works, and elements of Chaucer's poetry and language. Essentials of Middle English pronunciation are included, along with a glossary of key terms and a timeline.

Medcalf, Stephen.   Deland, Florida: Everett/Edwards, 1973.
Item not seen.

Wakefield, Emma, dir.   Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1993.
Originally produced by Thames Television, titled "Middle English, Knowlege About Language: Chaucer, 1991."

Miller, Robert P., ed.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
An anthology of selections from Voragine, Augustine, Macrobius, Hugh of St. Victor, Vainsauf, Garland, Bury, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Cicero, Ovid, Deschamps, John of Salisbury, Ramon Lull, Saint-Amour, Boethius, Andreas Cappellanus, Walter Map,…

Sukagawa, Seizō, and Tsutomu Satō.   Tokyo: Seibido, 1982.
Volume not seen; reported by MLA International Bibliography. In Japanese.

Tracy, Kisha G.   Kisha G. Tracy. Memory and Confession in Middle English Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 67-92.
Explores the language and operation of confession--especially the importance of remembered transgressions--in Chaucer's depictions of love in TC, BD, and MLT, with Troilus, the Black Knight, and Alla as transgressors, and Pandarus, the BD narrator,…

Braddy, Haldeen.   Arlington Quarterly 2.1 (1969): 121-38.
Argues that Chaucer is "multivoiced" and a "realist par excellence" whose "verism . . . encompasses minor elements like obscenity and bawdry." Draws examples from TC and CT, WBPT most extensively.

Corsa, Helen Storm.   Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1964.
Describes how Chaucer's "mirth reveals his moral premises" and conveys joy throughout his poetic corpus, explaining how the early dream poems, in varying degrees, communicate the progress of the comic narrators toward greater moral and philosophic…

Lucotti, Claudia.   AnLM 6 : 249-56, 1993-94.
Reads the confusions, contradictions, and ambiguities of ClT and its Envoy in light of feminist critical discourse.

Nevo, Ruth.   Modern Language Review 58 (1963): 1-9.
Argues that in the GP Chaucer offers an "analysis of social rank in terms of economic behavior," consistently evident in the descriptions where a "pilgrim's characteristic behavior is defined in every case in terms of the acquisition and use of…

Wagenknecht, Edward, ed.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.
Reprints twenty-sex selections/excerpts from previous criticism, seventeen pertaining to CT, four on TC, two on LGW, and one each on BD, HF, and PF.

Ashby, Cristina, Geoff Couldrey, Susan Dickson, et al.   Woodbridge, Conn., and Reading, U.K.: Primary Source Media, 1995.
A "comprehensive interactive resource for both students and teachers," providing hypertext-linked, point-and-click access to Chaucer's works ("The Riverside Chaucer") and accompanying glossary, introductions to the works and seventeen previously…

Dor, Juliette De Caluwe, trans.   Paris: Christian Bourgois, 10/18, Bibliotheque Medievale, 1991.
Introduction, bibliography, and French translations of WBP, WBT, ClT, MerT, FranT, PhyT, PardT, ShT, PrT, NPT, SNT, CYT,and ManT.

Howard, Donald R.   New York: E. P. Dutton; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
This very readable biography by the late Donald Howard brings together "Chaucer, the man and the poet, and the age in which he lived." Howard traces developments in Chaucer's life from birth to death, setting Chaucer's works contextually within the…

Di Rocco, Emilia.   Rome : Carocci Editore, 2003.
An introduction to CT, including discussion of Chaucer's life, the structure of CT, plots and themes of the tales, analyses of the pilgrims and major characters in their tales, and Chaucer's language and meter. Includes bibliographies for each…

Youmans, Gilbert, and Xingzhong Li.   Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002), pp. 153-75.
Argues that Chaucer's decasyllabic lines are based on metrically significant, statistically normative feet, with clear and significant caesuras. Chaucer's and Shakespeare's iambic lines deviate from prototypical lines in similar ways. See Thomas…

Hobsbaum, Philip.   Philip Hobsbaum. Tradition and Experiment in English Poetry (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield; London: Macmillan, 1979), pp. 30-67.
Identifies a number of ways in which Chaucer is innovative in various works--metrical variety, interplay of tones, indebtedness to Continental sources and "ingenuity," combination of narrative attachment and detachment--and surveys the range of…

Bardavio, Jose M.   Estudios de Filologia Inglesa 3 (1977): 5-17.
Assesses the relations between the dreamer and the narrator in BD, PF, HF, and LGW.

Fein, Susanna, and David Raybin, eds.   University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
Eleven essays by various authors designed for "those who want to explore how the works of Geoffrey Chaucer are now being approached." Arranged under four headings: Chaucer's Places, Chaucer's Audiences, Chaucer and Language, and Reenvisioning…

Davenport, W. A.   Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1988.
Complaints--courtly, religious, philosophical, moral--were an integral part of Chaucer's poetry, and different combinations of lyric and narrative led to experiments in literary structures. Davenport contends that Chaucer adapts the complaint…

Hubbard-Brown, Janet.   Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2006.
An introduction to Chaucer for elementary and junior high school students, with nine chapters arranged biographically from boyhood to "final years." Each chapter includes a quiz. The apparatus includes a chronology and timeline, a bibliography, and…
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