Osborn, Marijane, trans.
Buffalo, N. Y.: Broadview, 2010.
Modern verse translations of romances in their original verse forms, with individual introductions and notes, a general introduction, and a commentary on the value of modern verse translation. Includes WBT and Th, along with Gower's "Tale of…
Pakkala-Weckström, Mari.
Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen, eds. Historical Pragmatics. Handbooks of Pragmatics, no. 8 (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010), pp. 219-45.
Defines pragmaphilology as a field of study, explains why Chaucer is an important focus for study in the field, surveys the pragmaphilological work that has been done concerning Chaucer, and makes suggestions for future directions. Much of the work…
Rack, Melissa J.
Medieval Perspectives 25 (2010): 89-102.
Argues that, in KnT, Chaucer does not resolve the disjunction between Aristotelian natural philosophy and Christian theology that is found in medieval university discourse; instead, he amplifies the tension to allow the "freeplay of interpretation." …
Reiner, Emily.
Dissertation Abstracts International A71.04 (2010): n.p.
Investigates various characterizations of Greeks in Old French and Middle English, including that of Diomede in TC, a depiction "informed by classical ideas and Chaucer's depictions of Jews and Saracens in other works." Troilus, in contrast, is…
Richardson, Macolm
Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 5.2 (2010): n.p. [Electronic publication]
Recounts the experiences of teaching a British Literature survey at a Louisiana university in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in Fall 2005, exploring why student response to CT was unusually intense at that time, particularly for its concern with…
Schoenberg Thomas J., and Lawrence J. Trudeau.
Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau, ed. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Volume 173 (Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2010), pp. 225-346. [Electronic book].
Reprints twelve examples of critical studies of TC published between 1962 and 2008, several in excerpts. An introduction (pp. 225-27) summarizes the plot of TC and comments on its characters, major themes, and critical reception. Closes with…
Spearing, A. C.
Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 73 (2010): 41-54.
Despite Chaucer's characteristic humility about his poetry and the absence of any references to poetry in his "Life-Records," critics are wrong to deemphasize the respect that subsequent writers accorded to his writing. Imitation of Chaucer's poetic…
Stanbury, Sarah.
New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 155-67.
Considers the cat in MilT as a device of demarcation between the domesticity of John's house and the privacy of Nicholas's "elite" study, observing links between this use of an animal as a device with Derrida's contemplations on his cat. Also…
Stock, Lorraine, and Betty J. Proctor.
Medieval Perspectives 25 (2010): 103-23.
Demonstrates Daniel Defoe's familiarity with CT, and documents the fundamental influence of Chaucer's Wife of Bath on the form and content of "Moll Flanders."
Swinford, Dean.
Blake Hobby, ed. The Trickster. Bloom's Literary Themes (New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010), pp. 229-39.
Explores how WBT "ironizes the quest motif at the heart" of the romance genre and assesses the extent to which the loathly lady, the knight, and the Wife of Bath may be considered to be tricksters.
Takada, Yasunari.
Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 73 (2010): 55-65.
Argues that Chaucer is "constitutionally sensitive" to intellectual realism, preferring sensory experientialism instead. In BD, as in HF and PF, inconclusiveness and tentativeness defer rather than console and encourage a "broader mundane…
Taylor, Andrew.
Fran De Bruyn, ed. Eighteenth-Century British Literary Scholars and Criticism. Dictionary of Literary Biography, no. 356 (Detroit, Mich.: Gale, 2010), pp. 334-47.
Biography of Tyrwhitt, with emphasis on his scholarly accomplishments, especially his 1775 edition of CT.
Utz, Richard.
Studies in Medievalism 19 (2010): 160-203.
Defining Neomedievalism(s)
Uses a postcolonial approach to examine the publication and reception of Robinson's edition of Chaucer's works (1933) in its historical context, particularly the rise of scholarly productivity in the United States and attitudes toward England and…
Reprints twenty-seven essays by Wenzel and adds one previously unpublished lecture: "Moral Chaucer?" (pp. 189-204) which considers the "moral life" of Chaucer's characters, focusing on the "decision-making" by the two main characters in TC, and…
Williams, Tara.
New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 179-208.
Argues that a "relationship between magic, spectacle, and morality . . . preoccupies a number" of fourteenth-century Middle English texts, focusing on the magical objects in SqT and other instances of magic in CT to exemplify the variety and…
Critical discussion of Chaucer's life and each of his major works, including a section concerned with the resonances of his poetry in later literature, including Russian literature. Considers social and religious conditions of Chaucer's age, his…
Paxton, Jennifer.
Chantilly, Va. The Teaching Company, 2010.
A program of thirty-six illustrated lectures on English history, including lecture 29, "Chaucer and the Rise of English," which includes comments on literary and linguistic developments, summarizes CT and GP (a series of "capsule biographies"), and…
Critical essays examine Chaucer's religious writings. Sixteen essays focus on fourteenth-century religious practices, and religious influences on Chaucer's writings, and offer ways of teaching religious themes and issues in Chaucer. For individual…
Caie, Graham D.
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 24-34.
Addresses how Chaucer uses religious "collections, florilegia, anthologies, and miscellanies" along with Latin Bibles and patristic sources to develop his characters in CT, and to reflect "their level of biblical knowledge and literacy." Refers to…
Phelpstead, Carl.
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 97-110.
Focuses on the "ars moriendi" (art of dying) manuals, that might have influenced Chaucer's writings on death, dying, and Purgatory in the MLT and PardT, among others. Includes background on treatises on the art of dying as well as changing attitudes…
Blamires, Alcuin.
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 3-23.
Discusses how Chaucer deals with "regulations and expectations of fourteenth-century Christianity," especially in relation to Chaucer's views on sex, virginity, gender, and marriage. Focuses on BD, PF, TC, ClT, MerT, WBP, NPT, MilT, and PardT.
McCormack, Frances M.
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 35-40.
Explores Chaucer's "employment of Lollard ideas and motifs" in the CT, particularly in ParsPT and WBP, and in the G version of the LGWP. Argues that Chaucer's rhetoric and portrayal of Lollardy reflects how he wants readers to understand the…
Dalrymple, Roger.
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 175-82.
Explores how "enquiry-based learning (EBL)" as a pedagogical approach can be used to help undergraduate students understand Chaucer's religious context in CT.
