Reorients the critical habit of assessing the structure and details of HF in light of Gothic architecture, arguing that the poem affiliates "Gothic" and "Other," and "dramatizes" the narrator's encounter with the "familiar world of the self and the…
Zhang, Deming.
Journal of Zhejiang University: Humanities and Social Sciences 40.4 (2009): 159-66.
Mandeville's "Travels," Chaucer's CT, and Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" together established the "narrative strategies and structural patterns" of English travel literature, impelling the formation of the "space imagination, subject consciousness,…
Burrell, Arthur, ed.
Adelaide: University of Adelaide, [2009].
Traslates CT in modified Middle English (originally published in 1908), without notes or commentary, providing links to each of the tales in separate e-files. Occasional diacritical marks indicate stress. The Introduction briefly surveys "Chaucer's…
Finney, Ross Lee, comp.
[New York, N.Y.]: Edition Peters, 2009.
Reproduction of holographic musical score, with lyrics and performance instructions, copyrighted in 1965 by Henmar Press. Headnote: "Commissioned for the Hopkins Center 'Congregation of the Arts' at Dartmouth College by Mario di Bonaventura, Musical…
An abridged and adapted version of Bragg's book-length study "The Adventure of English, 500AD to 2000: The Biography of a Language" (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003; New York: Arcade, 2004), augmented for audio-visual recording with music, maps,…
An anthology compiled to promote reading among young readers in Eritrea. Includes international tales, ancient to modern, in modern English adaptation, including ClT (here titled "The Scholar's Tale: The Test of a Good Wife."
Hacht, Anne Marie, and Dwayne D. Hayes, eds.
Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2009.
This encyclopedia of world authors describes how the works of individual authors "fits with the context of the author's life, historical events, and the literary world"; it includes a comprehensive index, printed in each of the four volumes. The…
Item not located; cited in WorldCat, which reports that the volume includes WBT and PardT in the Spanish translations by Manuel Pérez y del Río-Cosa (originally published in 1921).
Spanish prose adaptations of selections from CT (GP, WBT, ClT, PhyT, and Ret), designed for juvenile readers. Includes several study questions and background information. Illustrated by Román Varela.
Pintor, Ivan, and others.
Hamilton, N. J.: Films Media Group, 2009.
An illustrated interview with Harold Bloom, with commentary and contributions by others. The section entitled "Chaucer and the Creation of Character" includes Bloom's suggestion that the Pardoner is a precursor to Shakespeare's Iago and Edmund, and…
Bestul, Thomas H.
Medieval Feminist Forum 45.1 (2009): 68-92.
Biographical sketch of Bressie, focusing on her work with John M. Manly, Edith Rickert, and Lilian Redstone on the Chaucer life-records and her unsuccessful competition with Martin Crow to publish works related to Chaucer. Bestul admires Bressie's…
Episode from a science fiction series about memory erasure and personality manipulation via futuristic technology. Several scenes set in a classroom and teacher's office with references to Chaucer and the Wife of Bath, including a brief reading from…
Includes a chapter entitled "Chaucer's English" (pp. 56-71) that focuses on the growth of the dominance of the East Midland dialect over other dialects of Middle English, with commentary on Chaucer's English and CT, the "Gawain"-poet, Wyclif, the…
Aciman, Alexander, and Emmett Rensin.
New York: Penguin, 2009.
Parodies more than eighty works, most from the western literary canon, in strings of 140-word "tweets," with an Introduction, Glossary, and Index. Includes CT (pp. 184-85) in seventeen tweets, with emphasis on GP, WBP, and MilT, and touches of faux…
Davis, Isabel.
Literature Compass 6.4 (2009): 842-63.
Surveys uses of first-person narrative in late medieval English literary texts, agreeing with and extending earlier critics' arguments that find in this literature notions of selfhood often attributed to the early modern period. Observes how and…
Sayers, William.
Nordic Journal of English Studies 8, no. 3 (2009): 191-201.
Traces the etymology, usage, and implications of the word "trout" and its derivations in medieval literature and later tradition. Includes comments on "Trotula" (WBP 3.677), "trotte" (WBP 3.838), and "virytrate" (FrT 3.1582).
