Behrman, Mary.
Studies in the Novel 42 (2010): 453-70.
Identifies and assesses allusions to medieval literature in Ian McEwan's novel "Atonement" (2001), emphasizing Chaucer's works (TC and ClT) and Arthurian literature.
Gives examples of the traditional humor that derives from exaggeration in depictions of giants in Middle English romance, and argues that, in Th, Chaucer goes "one step further" in making Oliphaunt ridiculous, largely because this giant is seen from…
Brewer comments on his professional visits to Japan, on similarities between Japanese and European medieval cultures, and on promises, honor, and irony in Chaucer's poetry, especially KnT.
A topically arranged survey of female same-sex desire in Western literature, with a brief discussion (p. 6) of MLT as "perhaps the earliest example in English" where "mutual passion between two women . . . moves the story along."
Elliott, Ralph W. V., edited by L. K. Lloyd Jones.
North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2010.
An anthology of reprinted publications, addresses, and a memoir by R.W.V. Elliott, with topics including Chaucer, the "Gawain"-poet, runes, Thomas Hardy, and more. Two of the three pieces that pertain to Chaucer were published previously, and one is…
Gorst, Emma.
New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 147-54.
Considers the speaking birds in ManT and PF for the ways they suggest the "destabilization of human identity," also considering the topic in the late-fourteenth-century tale, "The Woman and the Three Parrots."
Tallies a number of "significant" allusions to the Vulgate Bible in CT and offers pedagogical advice on how to remedy the problem of modern students missing these allusions or misreading them.
Hardwick, Paul.
Paul Hardwick, ed. The Playful Middle Ages: Meanings of Play and Plays of Meaning: Essays in Memory of Elaine C. Block (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2010), pp. 81-91.
Explores relations between vernacularity and scatology in MilT and "Til Eulenspiegel," commenting on how use of the "kultour" in MilT plays upon the Knight's earlier reference to a plough and undermines clerical discourse in which the plough is a…
Holsinger, Bruce.
New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 131-36.
Reports the finds of "Dr. Lollius" who reputedly discovered, through DNA analysis of "covertly obtained slivers of parchment and vellum," that several extant Chaucer manuscript are "human skin." The pseudo-report is offered to provoke contemplation…
Hühn, Peter.
Peter Hühn, and others, ed. Eventfulness in British Fiction. Narratologia: Contributions to Narrative Theory, no. 18 (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010), pp. 17-30.
Examines the tripartite plot structure of MilT and its "two oppositional" contexts, i.e., the ethical demands of its religious allusions and the subversiveness of its fabliau genre. The combination produces a "complex event structure full of…
Historical fiction that follows the life of Alice Perrers an includes Chaucer as a minor character and friend of Alice. First published in 2009 in London (Century), without the subtitle.
Enske, Fred van, trans.
Maastricht: Boekenplan, 2010.
Item not seen; reported in WorldCat, with the note: "Engelse gedichten van Chaucer tot de Beatles met vertaling" [English poetry from Chaucer to the Beatles with translation]. In Dutch and English.
Item not accessed; reported by WorldCat, with link to a commercial description: "A BBC Radio 4 full-cast [modernization] of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde by poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw . . . . The cast includes Tom Ferguson as Troilus, Maxine…
Johnston, Andrew James.
Ingrid Kasten, ed. Machtvolle Gefühle. Trends in Medieval Philology, no. 24 (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010), pp. 246-59.
Assesses the "relationship between reading, space and emotions" in TC, focusing on the two scenes of book reading in the poem. Criseyde's reading in the paved parlor links her with "hermeneutical openness," while Pandarus's feigned reading of an old…
Kraft, Damon.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Missouri-Columbia, 2010.
Item not seen; reported by WorldCat, with abstract: argues that in MerT, Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes," and Lydgate's "Fall of Princes" merchants are "used to model kingly virtues. By mapping monarchical characteristics onto merchants, these late…
Krygier, Marcin, and Liliana Sikorska, eds.
Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2010.
Eleven essays on Old and Middle English language and literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Comoun Peplis Language under Alternative Title.
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…
In Chaucer's poetry, guilt is represented as an "ethical ideal," whereas shame is often "portrayed as the psychological reality" that disrupts attempts to "realize the ideal." Throughout his poetry, but especially in CT, Chaucer articulates "the…
Morris, Max, ed.
Chichester, U. K.: Summersdale, 2010.
An anthology of lyrics and excerpts, including lines from KnT (1.1074-1122) in Middle English. Earlier versions of the volume were published in 1994, 2001, 2006, and 2008.
Osberg, Richard H.
Studies in Medievalism 19 (2010): 204-26.
Defining Neomedievalism(s)
Examines the role of two "false memories" of Chaucer's life in the formation of nineteenth-century attitudes toward the poet and his reputation. The spurious incidents--Chaucer's exile and imprisonment and his "retirement" to a park at…
