Duncan, Thomas G.
Rosalynn Voaden, René Tixier, Teresa Sanchez Roura, and Jenny Rebecca Rytting, eds. The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), pp. 215-22.
Considers Henryson's Testament of Cresseid as an extension of Chaucer's TC and a transformation of it-two different senses of "translation." Duncan examines the characterization of Calkas and other means of creating compassion for Cresseid.
Green, Eugene.
Rosanne G. Potter, ed. Literary Computing and Literary Criticism: Theoretical and Practical Essays on Theme and Rhetoric (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), pp. 167-87.
Examines the exemplum as a "speech act" in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and in Chaucer's MLT, PhyT, WBT, and LGW. In WBT, "the motives of the hag in requesting marriage as recompense for her aid are central to matters of prudential action"; in LGW,…
Cozart, William R.
Rosario P. Armato and John M. Spalek, eds. Medieval Epic to the "Epic Theater" of Brecht: Essays in Comparative Literature (Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1968), pp. 25-34.
Suggests that the notion of making a "virtue of necessity" in TC and Theseus's "First Mover" speech reflect late-medieval nominalism and express concern with the precariousness of human life and its relation to "Ultimate Justice." Ending on a…
Steiner, Wendy.
Rosemary Feal, ed. Profession 2008 (New York: Modern Language Association, 2008), pp. 24-32.
Personal narrative about Steiner's composition of an opera inspired by WBT, intended for production as a full-length animated film. Includes sketches and storyboards by John Kindness.
Pearsall, Derek
Rosemary Horrox and Sarah Rees Jones, eds. Pragmatic Utopias: Ideals and Communities, 1200-1630 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 2001, pp. 11-25.
Late-medieval changes in monastic life affected the presentation of monks in secular English literature, including works by Langland, Chaucer, and Lydgate. Chaucer's presentation of monks in GP, MkT, and ShT reflects the "new monk," who uses…
Woolf, Rosemary.
Rosemary Woolf. Art and Doctrine (London: Hambledon Press, 1986), pp. 77-84.
Overfamiliarity with GP blunts readers' perceptions. Chaucer shows characters "so far from the true moral order, that they are not ashamed to talk with self-satisfaction about their own inversion of a just and religiously-ordered way of life." The…
Threadgold, Terry.
Ross Steele and Terry Threadgold, eds. Language Topics: Essays in Honor of Michael Halliday, 2 vol. (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1987), 2:549-97.
Language is enormously affected by social and historical forces, making our understanding of it apart from those forces difficult. Comparison of Chaucer's HF with Pope's eighteenth-century "imitation" reveals two distinct, shaping grammars, which…
Owen, Charles A..Jr.
Rossell Hope Robbins, ed. Chaucer at Albany (New York: Franklin, 1975) pp. 125-46.
CT is a storytelling contest involving a drama of contrasting visions. It was intended to end not with ParsT but with a feast of celebration and judgment.
Haskell, Ann S.
Rossell Hope Robbins, ed. Chaucer at Albany (New York: Franklin, 1975), pp. 105-24.
Chaucer's allusions to saints were used to evoke different associations on different occasions. Two allusions to St. Nicholas offer striking contrasts in different contests.
Payne, Robert O.
Rossell Hope Robbins, ed. Chaucer at Albany (New York: Franklin, 1975), pp. 179-92.
The idea that Chaucerian criticism must be approached from the premise that Chaucer wrote only for a select court circle is bad history and bad criticism.
Fry, Donald K.
Rossell Hope Robbins, ed. Chaucer at Albany (New York: Franklin, 1975), pp. 27-40.
HF demonstrates metaphorically the unreliability of the transmission of knowledge. Chaucer makes the point by abruptly cutting off the authority figure at the end.
Jordan, Robert M.
Rossell Hope Robbins, ed. Chaucer at Albany (New York: Franklin, 1975), pp. 77-104.
The differences between the narratives classified as "Chaucerian romance" indicate that either all of his narratives are romances, or else that none are."
Anthologizes translations of selections and excerpts from English poetry and prose into Esperanto; by various translators. The selection from Chaucer (Purse and a portion of WBP 3.35-134) is translated by William Auld.
Bianciotto, Gabriel.
Rouen: Universite de Rouen, 1994.
Challenges Robert Pratt's view that "Troilus and Criseyde" was based on Beauvau's French "Troyle", comparing the similarities among Boccaccio's "Filostrato," TC, and the "Roman de Troyle." Includes a detailed historical analysis of the Beauvau family…
Randall, Jackie.
Rouse Hill, NSW: Schillings, 2016.
Item not seen; WorldCat information indicates this is a children's novel, set in the Middle Ages, about a gifted girl who flees her home in order to protect a Chaucer manuscript.
Minnis, A. J.
Roy Eriksen, ed. Contexts of the Pre-Novel Narrative: The European Tradition (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994), pp. 153-83.
Chaucer's adjustments of his source materials in LGW produce narratives in which "Marriage, whether secured or desired, motivates and ennobles all the deaths for love." Experimenting with creating archetypically false men, Chaucer idealizes female…
Attempts a revaluation of LGW by viewing it as a stage--both a creative result and an important influence--in the tradition of female tragedy. Highlights the contribution of the new classicizing to a new presentation of women.
Fischer, Andreas.
Rudiger Ahrens, ed. Anglistentag 1989 Wurzburg. Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Professors of English, no. 9 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1990), pp. 310-19.
Observes similarities of form and theme in FranT and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, particularly the focus on trawthe/trouthe in each, arguing that they transcend the romance genre. Contrasts FranT with Menedon's Question in Boccaccio's Filocolo…
Busse, Wilhelm G.
Rudolf Hiestand, ed. Traum und Traumen: Inhalt, Darstellungen, Funktionem einer Lebenserfahrung in Mittelalter und Renaissance. Studia humaniora, no. 24 (Dusseldorf: Droste, 1994), pp. 43-67.
Places Chaucer's presentations of dreams in TC, PF, HF, and NPT in the context of the development of Western attitudes toward the validity of dreams.
