Rogers, Will, and Christopher Michael Roman, eds.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2020.
Discusses medieval English, French, and Latin sources and offers directions for discovering queerness by connecting these texts to recent developments in queer theory, including queer phenomenology and queer failure. For two essays pertaining to…
Comments on CT as a "text born in trauma," observing "numerous wounds" in KnT and MkT and linking them with James Comey's 2017 testimony before the US Senate Intelligence Committee.
Traces the figure of the "sursanure" in FranT, demonstrating that this superficially healed wound is an apt metaphor for Chaucer/s soft or "sunken" sources.
Opens with commentary on oldness in KnT, MilT, and RvT, and proceeds to assess old age as a source "of debility and impairment as well as authority and veneration" in Scog, Adam, the Reeve's description in GP, RvPT, and WBT. Disability studies and…
Rogers, William E.
Victoria: University of Victoria, 1986.
Manuscript evidence is inconclusive in discovering Chaucer's intention or the coherence and unity of CT. Chapter 2 reacts to D. Howard, "The Idea of the 'Canterbury Tales'," in the concern for genre, text, and reader.
Rogers, William E.
Chaucer Review 14 (1980): 260-77.
A theoretical objection to patristic criticism is that it is guilty of question-begging because it assumes that a work is intended to promote "caritas." It is not the assumption of coherence that produces the fallacy but the assumption of a…
Rogers, William Elford
Annuale Mediaevale 15 (1974): 74-108
Close reading of the speech patterns of the Canterbury pilgrims in the links between the tales, focusing on level of diction (Romance vocabulary), syntax, and figurative language, and relating these features to characterization. Comments at length on…
Rogers, William Elford.
Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1972.
Prints the text of ABC along with its source, i.e., lines 10,893-11,168 of Guillaume de Guilleville's "Pélèrinage de la Vie Humaine." Discusses ABC as a "direct paraphrase," considering how deviations from the source, particularly in imagery,…
Rogers, William, and Paul Dower.
Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, eds. New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry (Rochester, N.Y., and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), pp. 119-38.
Rogers and Dower review considerations of money and its circulation in ShT, questioning whether Chaucer praises or blames money or whether the topic was as mixed for him as it is today.
Compares carnivalesque elements of WBPT to performance techniques of modern, unruly, "women on top" comediennes such as Roseanne Barr and female impersonators such as Barry Humphries (Dame Edna Everage).
Rogerson, Margaret.
Sydney Studies in English 32 (2006): 45-63.
Surveys efforts to popularize CT through media (television, audio recordings, stage, and animation), commenting most extensively on the 2003 BBC television series.
Rogerson, Margaret.
Jan Shaw, Philippa Kelly, and L. E. Semler, eds. Storytelling: Critical and Creative Approaches (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 167–80.
Observes how KnT signals transitions, scene changes, gestures, and even costuming, perhaps inspiring Shakespeare and Fletcher to create "The Two Noble Kinsmen" by dividing the Chaucer poem into written "parts" for actors before assembling their…
Rogos, Justyna.
Marcin Krygier and Liliana Sikorska, eds. Þe Comoun Peplis Language (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2010), pp. 79-86.
Questions the precision of transcribing manuscripts in electronic editing as undertaken for The "Canterbury Tales" Project and the Middle English Grammar Project. Uses examples from MLT to demonstrate that even graphetic transcription does not…
Rogos, Justyna.
Jacek Fisiak and Magdelena Bator, eds. Foreign Influences on Medieval English (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 47-54.
Distinguishes graphetic, graphemic, and "meaningful subgraphemic phenomena" in the Latin-based abbreviations of MLT manuscripts, using the data to demonstrate why the "Canterbury Tales" Project has elected not to expand abbreviations uniformly and…
Rogos, Justyna.
Joanna Kopaczyk and Andrea H. Jucker, eds. Communities of Practice in the History of English (Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2013), pp. 105-21.
Explores the "shared practice" of late-medieval English scribes, particularly their adherence to "a negotiated set of norms and procedures" that constitutes their "community of practice." Exemplifies such practice by describing the orthography and…
Chapter 7, "Chaucer: Die 'Canterbury Tales,' " summarizes the individual tales of CT, following the Chaucer Society order, and provides brief explanations of religious backgrounds and details.
Rohr, M. R.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 67 (1968): 20-31.
Argues that George Gascoigne's reading of TC inspired aspects of his "Adventures of Master F. J." [or F. I.]. In particular, identifies parallels to the scene Troilus's fainting (TC 3.1092), the character of Criseyde, the "self-effacing pose" of…
In Japanese; accessible online at CiNii Articles [http://ci.nii.ac.jp/]. Abstract in Italian included in the back matter of the volume (pp. 3-4), under the title "L'Incontro del Chaucer e la Letteratura Italiana."
In Japanese; accessible online at CiNii Articles [http://ci.nii.ac.jp/]. Abstract in Italian included in the back matter of the volume (p. 1), under the title "L'Episodio Dantesco di Conte Ugolion in Chaucer."
Argues that the two instances of Malory's refutation of his sources in "Morte" are "a form of retraction," and that combined with the work's final explicit they "lie in the literary shadow Ret," comparing and contrasting Ret with Malory's…
Classical and medieval theories of allegory profoundly affected the interpretation and creation of medieval allegorical literature. The medieval audience believed that all worthwhile writing represented some truth, not necessarily Augustinian…
Rollo, David.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Explores the relationship between textuality and sexuality in various texts, including Martianus Capella's "De nuptiis philologiae et mercurii," Jean de Meun's "Roman de la rose," and PardT, particularly the Pardoner's invitation to the Host to kiss…
Roman, Christopher Michael.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Considers Ret in light of the medieval humility topos, penitential practice, and Lollard reform, raising questions about Chaucer's intentions in his works and the extent of our ability to perceive them. Designed for pedagogical use, includes several…
Roman, Christopher.
Carolynn Van Dyke, ed. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 143-55.
Animals figure prominently in BD but are more than mere symbols. Ceyx's dead body is also an "unnatural animal." The birds, horse, whelp, and hart invite, but also resist, interpretation. The juxtaposition of death and animalistic vitality evokes…
