Foster, Michael.
Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Wolfgang Görtschacher, eds. Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in English Poetry (Heidelberg: Winter, 2009), pp. 51-67.
Argues that Chaucer's use of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in BD is closer to that of Guillaume de Machaut than that of Jean de Meun, and compares and contrasts Chaucer's version of the Ceyx and Alcyone story with those of Machaut and Ovid.
Gellert, Anamaria.
Textus: English Studies in Italy 22.3 (2009): 573-98.
Examines the Ellesmere illustration of the Prioress and early woodcut representations (Caxton, de Worde, and Pynson) of her and of the gathering of the pilgrims, arguing that the Prioress is represented as a courtly lady in Caxton's group portrait…
Giaccherini, Enrico.
Fausto Ciompi, ed. One of Us: Studi Inglesi e Conradiani Offerti a Mario Curreli (Pisa, Italy: ETS, 2009), pp. 155-66.
Distinguishes between "anti-Judaism" and "anti-Semitism," and reads the former as a motif that combines with other devices to produce the excessive pathos of PrT, a form of late-medieval emotional intensity.
Applies Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of "work-utterance" to Chaucer's influence on Shakespeare, focusing on how Chaucerian (and other medieval) narratives are involved in Shakespeare's "generic innovations" in "Troilus and Cressida," "Pericles," and "Two…
Holbrook, Peter.
Modern Philology 107 (2009): 96-125.
Contrasts the dispassionate modernist criticism of T. S. Eliot with the more emotional criticism of F. J. Furnivall, arguing that Furnivall is "passionately committed to libertarian tradition in English poetry, a tradition whose founts he locates in…
Horobin, Simon.
Journal of the Early Book Society 12 (2009): 195-203.
Paleographical evidence and similarities of decoration establish that the Edmund-Fremund scribe, known for his work on manuscripts of John Lydgate, also worked on a CT manuscript which survives in two fragments: John Rylands Manuscript English 63…
Reads Th and its narrator's dialogue with the Host as Chaucer's commentary on gender, vernacularity, and the public role of the poet in his contemporary world.
Johnston, Andrew James.
Poetica: Zeitschrift für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft 41 (2009): 381-407.
Argues that in "Pericles" Shakespeare links Catholicism to English literary history "for the purposes of a complex investigation into the politics of literary history." Allusions to incest in the play, and allusions to Gower and to Chaucer's…
Introduces the theory and practice of editing literary works, with contextual materials to help readers understand why and how to edit various kinds of texts and produce various kinds of editions. Includes readings from various theorists and…
Kellman, Steven G., ed.
Pasadena, Ca.: Salem Press, 2009.
Introductions to 380 writers who are "at the heart of literary studies for middle and high school students and at the center of book discussions among library patrons." Originally published in 1993-95, edited by Frank N. Magill. The entry about…
Includes comments on Proserpyna in MerT as equivalent to the Wife of Bath and on the Proserpyna/Pluto exchange as an intertwining of the classics and Christian heritage, particularly "Judeo-Christian antifeminism."
Surveys representations of Helen in literature, assessing the characterization in light of prevailing attitudes towards such topics as beauty, sexual culpability, and rape. Includes a summary of Chaucer's Helen in TC as an example of ambiguity, where…
Morgan, Gerald.
Modern Language Review 104 (2009): 1-25.
Reads ClT as a disquisition on the "moral virtue of obedience" and the "triumph of patience," commenting on Griselda as a personification, Walter as a figure of fortune, and the sergeant as an example of false obedience. Examines each scene and…
Examines "ironic references" to frame tales in Guy de Maupassant's story, "Boule de Suif," tallying similarities and differences between these references and Boccaccio's "Decameron," Chaucer's CT, and Marguerite de Navarre's "Heptaméron." Also…
Uses the Middle English translation of Lanfranc of Milan's "Chirurgia magna" ("The Science of Cirurgie") to help explore the compromise between authority and experience in TC, where Pandarus injects the language of experience into his uses of medical…
Renevey, Denis, and Christiania Whitehead, eds.
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009.
Twenty-five essays by various authors on topics that pertain to translation in the Middle Ages and the translation of medieval literature; the volume includes an index that lists many references to Chaucer. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer,…
Boitani, Piero.
Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead, eds. Lost in Translation? (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009), pp. 93-107.
Argues that Chaucer's adaptations of Italian literature are better regarded as intertextual rewritings than as translations, particularly in instances where he fuses materials from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Comments on portions of TC, HF, Anel,…
Petrina, Alessandra.
Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead, eds. Lost in Translation? (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009), pp. 121-31.
Explores the tension between the Chaucerian legacy of French influence and the Lancastrian concern with English in the works of John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve. Opens with an explication of details of Eustache Deschamps' praise of Chaucer as "grand…
In WBP and LGWP Chaucer "questions the truths literature develops about women"; he shows that medieval "knowledge about women is produced by a literature that serves the interests of the dominant," and, in doing so, undermines patriarchal discourse.…
Rossiter, William.
Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Wolfgang Görtschacher, eds. Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in English Poetry (Heidelberg: Winter, 2009), pp.69-88.
Opens with a consideration of Wyatt's relation to the "Chaucerian tradition" of Ovid in English.
Surveys Chaucer's attention to the theological issue of bodily resurrection in FrT, SumT, and PardT, set against a survey of orthodox and heterodox positions in the Church Fathers and Dante. Then establishes Chaucer's "conservative" attitude toward…
Ruud, Jay, and Stacey M. Jones.
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 11.2 (2009): n.p. [Electronic publication]
Uses public relations theory ("concepts of relationship management") to examine the competitiveness of the Pardoner in PardPT and the combination of competiveness in WBP with the valuing of "communal relationship" in WBT.
Score for voice and orchestra in forty-two bars (fifteen minutes). The text that accompanies the score, compiled from twenty-six lines selected from KnT and Truth by Daphne Burgess, is given in Middle English; a modern "paraphrase" also included.
