Shynne, Gwanghyun.
Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (1994): 3046A.
Examines CT in light of medieval discourses on allegory and of modern theories (exegetical, deconstructive, Bakhtinian), considering framework, prologues, and tales, especially WBT,PardT, and CYT. Also discussed are ParsT, Ret, Th, MkT, FrT, SumT,…
Shynne, Gwanghyun.
Journal of English Language and Literature 42 (1996): 3-21.
The allegory of ParsPT assumes that literature can somehow represent truth, while the theology of ParsPT emphasizes the impossibility of humanity's comprehending such truth. Ret espouses a mediating negative allegory that indicates divine…
Siddiqui, M. Naimudden.
Osmania Journal of English Studies [4], Shakespeare Memorial Number (1964): 105-14.
Argues that in "Troilus and Cressida" Shakespeare "does not seem to have used" TC "as his main or direct source," adducing differences in theme, plot, and characterization.
Building on medieval "gender comedies," including Chaucer's (especially WBP and the fabliaux), Lydgate anticipates the family-state analogy that pervades early modern political theory. By giving the complaints of abused husbands a court hearing, the…
Sidhu, Nicole Nolan.
Literature Compass 6 (2009): 864-85.
Sidhu surveys recent attention to gender in medieval studies and assesses the "continuing marginalization" of gender studies. Recurrent references to Chaucer studies.
Sidhu, Nicole Nolan.
Maryanne Kowaleski and P. J. P. Goldberg, eds. Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 177-208.
Adaptations of its sources shape ClT in ways that encourage male, bourgeois readers to imagine themselves as Griselda's protectors. Infused with a sense of moral and patriarchal responsibility and driven by religious devotion, such readers also…
RvT "confronts the paradoxical status of women's desire" in medieval Christian and feudal systems. The Tale's "significant divergences from the fabliau tradition" and several resemblances to the story of Theseus and Ariadne help undercut KnT; its…
Sidhu, Nicole Nolan.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Argues in Chapter 2, "Chaucer's Poetics of the Obscene: Classical Narrative and Fabliau Politics in Fragment One of the "Canterbury Tales" and the "Legend of Good Women" (pp. 76-110), that RvT taps the subversive potential of the fabliau to critique…
Concentrates on Damian in MerT to show how the tale links critique of hierarchical marriage to critique of medieval estates theory. Contends that the tale counters
problems with vertical governance through horizontal governance.
Siegel, Marsha.
Studies in Philology 82 (1985): 1-24.
The fragment considers how well human beings can understand and order reality. KnT and MilT provide positive solutions: KnT through Boethian metaphysics; MilT by restricting sources of causation. The debate founders in RvT and CkT, where…
Siegel, Paul N.
Boston University Studies in English 4 (1960): 114-20.
Locates comic irony in several religious references and allusions in MilT, especially as they help to characterize Alison, Nicholas, and Absolon; the "final irony" is that the Miller is himself unaware of this irony.
Siewers, Alfred K.
Stephanie LeMenager, Teresa Shewry, and Ken Hiltner, eds. Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century (New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 105-20.
Views "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Malory's "Morte Darthur," and CT through the lens of ecopoetics, contending that they all rely upon the interdependence of author, text, and audience; employ metonyms rather more than metaphors; play with…
Siewers, Alfred K.
Louise Westling, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 31-44.
Assesses the ecopoetics of the Celtic underworld in the "Immram Brain," "Tochmarc Étaíne," and the "Mabinogi" as background to green-world concerns in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Closes with commentary on parallel concerns in the opening of…
Sigal, Gale.
Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi and Gale Sigal, eds. Voices in Translation: The Authority of "Olde Bookes" in Medieval Literature (New York: AMS, 1992), pp. 191-205.
Through their dramatic rendering of the lovers' discrepant responses to the coming of dawn, the aubades in TC highlight the tempermental differences of the characters and prefigure their separate, though intertwined, fates.
Sigal, Gale.
Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1986): 3348A.
In a remarkably innovative use of received tradition, the aubades in TC reveal personalities, adumbrate the end of the story, and inspire a fresh aubade tradition in English poetry.
Sigal, Gale.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 1996.
Examines the active role of women in medieval albas, or dawn-songs, as indications of women in society. Defines the lyric genre and its history, exploring its relations with courtly tradition, the fantasies reflected in the genre, and the sexual…
Sigal, Gale.
John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, eds. The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne (Madison, N.J., and London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2000 ), pp. 221-40.
The twelfth-century alba genre offered a more flexible paradigm for gender roles than critics have realized, a flexibility that Chaucer, in his appropriation of the alba in TC, continues and capitalizes on as he highlights the lovers' differences in…
Silar, Theodore I.
Philological Quarterly 69 (1990): 409-17.
The epithet "joly" or "jolif," used seven times to characterize Absolon in MilT, is inadequately translated as "jolly." Chaucer makes use of many Middle English meanings of the word to portray Absolon as "happy and light-hearted, amorous, a…
Silar, Theodore I.
Notes and Queries 242 (1997): 306-9.
Citing examples from feudal law and practice, Silar argues that MLT 2.168 has a specific legal sense and should be translated "[Custance's] hand, in which the right to grant estates in the feudal tenure of frankalmoign."
Silar, Theodore I.
Chaucer Review 32 (1998): 284-309.
The repetition of "fin" (the settlement of a fictitious suit) at the ending of TC has many legal overtones. It evokes "landholding," "harmonization of contrary positions," and "legal fiction," as in a legal suit for which there is, as in TC, a…
Silar, Theodore Irvin.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4283A.
Legal terminology pertaining to land law is dense in fragments 1 and 2 of CT and in TC. Chaucer used the terms in informed ways and expected his audience to be familiar with their implications.
Introduces the 2002 Kathleen Williams Lecture on the sexual politics of FQ with an anecdote about a Smith College professor's delicacy with language in MilT and RvT; connects RvT with acquaintance rape.
