Rabil, Albert, Jr.
Karen Nelson, ed. Attending to Early Modern Women (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2013), pp. 189-206.
Suggests that Chaucer and Pizan may have created "female voices to speak in opposition to male misogyny" at about the same time because they shared similar educations and the same "cultural and intellectual universe," most evident in their…
Deusen, Nancy van, ed.
Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2013.
Ten essays by various authors and an introduction by the editor that consider the influence of Cicero on western language and literature from late Antiquity to the early modern era. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Cicero Refused to…
Shonk, Timothy A.
Nancy van Deusen, ed. Cicero Refused to Die: Ciceronian Influence through the Centuries (Boston: Brill, 2013), pp. 85-121.
Argues that Cicero's "Somnium Scipionis" "had a much greater impact" on BD, PF, and especially HF than is usually acknowledged, showing that Cicero's themes and imagery permeate Chaucer's works and dominate his literary imagination for "some ten…
Koff, Leonard Michael.
Nancy van Deusen, ed. Cicero Refused to Die: Ciceronian Influence through the Centuries (Boston: Brill, 2013) , pp. 65-83.
Explores how Chaucer's adaptations in PF of Macrobius's Neoplatonic commentary on Cicero's "Dream of Scipio" anticipate "the humanist recovery of Ciceronian ideals," particularly the "ideal of marriage and mating as civic duty" and the "possibility…
Armstrong, Guyda.
Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2013.
Describes the translation and reception history of Boccaccio's work in English "from the fifteenth century to the twentieth," including discussion of the role of Chaucer and of Chaucer studies as impetus for nineteenth-century interest, popular and…
Bellamy, Dodie.
Dodie Bellamy. Cunt Norton (Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2013), pp. 8-9.
An erotic prose poem that combines a pastiche of Chaucerian quotations, faux Middle English, and a narrative of sexual activity that alludes recurrently to NPT.
Bernstein, Charles.
Charles Bernstein. Recalculating (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. 46-48.
Parodies Cole Porter's lyrics in "Brush Up Your Shakespeare," using Chaucerian topics and emphases; purportedly composed for a conference of the New Chaucer Society.
Bukowska, Joanna.
Jacek Fabiszak, Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka, and Bartosz Wolskieds, eds. Crossroads in Literature and Culture, Second Language Learning and Teaching (New York: Springer, 2013), pp. 19–40.
Examines intertextual relations between CT and Ackroyd's "Clerkenwell Tales," acknowledging the dependencies of the latter, but emphasizing its postmodernist techniques and themes.
Holton, Amanda.
Stephen Hamrick, ed. Tottel's Songes and Sonettes in Context (Burlington: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 87-110.
Surveys Chaucer's influence on "Tottel's Miscellany," commenting on various allusions and the inclusion of Chaucer's Truth in the collection (although "deliberately anonymized"), and exploring more thoroughly how he is "strongly resisted," i.e., how…
Nakayasu, Minako.
Liliana Sikorska and Marcin Krygier, eds. Evur Happie & Glorious, Ffor I Hafe at Will Grete Riches (New York: Peter Lang, 2013), pp. 41-60.
Clarifies the nature and functions of the historical present tense in English, and examines Chaucer's "discourse pragmatic" uses of it in KnT, particularly alternations of "present and past tenses in discourse" where the narrator "dynamically…
Karpova, Olga M., and Olga M. Melentyeva.
Faina I. Kartashkova and Olga M. Karpova, eds. Multi-Disciplinary Lexicography: Traditions and Challenges of the XXIst Century (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2013), pp. 73–95.
Surveys the hard-word tradition of lexicography in Chaucer and Shakespeare studies, particularly in editions of their works, and suggests that new works are still needed to serve twenty-first-century users.
Armstrong, Dorsey, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2013.
Contains nineteen essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors, on literary and historical topics, Arthuriana, and women in the Middle Ages. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for "Magistra doctissima" under…
Stallcup, Stephen.
Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds. Magistra doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016), pp. 43-58.
Explores textual and lexical ambiguities in the scene of Arcite's mortal fall in KnT (I.2684–91), discussing "furie" (forty manuscripts read some form of fire), "pighte," and "pomel" (neither of which is lexically certain). Suggests that emending…
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds. Magistra doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2013), pp. 25-33.
Interrogates Chaucer's diminishment or elimination of Scottish, Irish, and especially Welsh aspects of his narrative materials in WBT, FranT, and MLT, arguing that he associated the Celtic fairy world with death, as it is also associated in "Sir…
Stock, Lorraine Kochanske.
Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds. Magistra doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler (Kalmazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2013), pp.33-42.
Objects to the labeling of the loathly "wyf" in WBT as a "hag," arguing that the latter term is inappropriate and tendentious, especially since the Tale lacks a description of ugliness found in its analogues.
Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye.
Staying Alive: A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Punctum, 2013), pp. 223-61.
Contemplates and appreciates the "indisputable fact of our common aliveness," exploring various topics for evidence of cognitive and aesthetic similarities: biosemiotics, real estate advertising, human natal development, communal grooming, and the…
Lavezzo, Kathy.
Eileen A. Joy, ed. Still Thriving: On the Importance of Aranye Fradenburg (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Punctum, 2013), pp. 25-31.
Considers the value of retaining the Chaucer Division of the Modern Language Association, maintaining its importance as long as "attention to [Chaucer's] corpus continues to unhinge, transform, and trouble received ideas about being in the world."…
Sutherland, John.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Surveys the history of literature "from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter," including a chapter called "English Tales: Chaucer" (pp. 26-32) that summarizes Chaucer's life, TC, and CT, characterizing both poems as "supremely great" and…
Khoshbakht, Maryam, Moussa Ahmadian, and Shahrukh Hekmat.
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 2.1 (2013): 90-97.
Compares CT with Farid al- Din Attar's "The Conference of the Birds," observing similarities in the shared motif of spiritual journey and techniques of narration and characterization. Differences between the religious backgrounds of the two poets,…
Dogan, Sadenur.
Tarih kultur ve sanat aras¸tırmaları dergisi/Journal of History, Culture, and Art Research 2.2 (2013): 49-56.
Describes how in GP the descriptions of the Knight, the Parson, and the Plowman reflect the ideals of their respective social estates, and how the descriptions of the Monk, the Reeve, and the Wife of Bath exemplify Chaucer's uses of estates satire…
Kowalik, Barbara.
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture 3 (2013): 27-41.
Discusses "erotic desire and the motif of going on pilgrimage" in the opening of GP and in Shakespeare's Sonnets, reading Chaucer's lines 1–18 closely as a kind of sonnet and observing numerological patterns that reinforce a transition from erotic…
Rogerson, Margaret.
Jan Shaw, Philippa Kelly, and L. E. Semler, eds. Storytelling: Critical and Creative Approaches (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 167–80.
Observes how KnT signals transitions, scene changes, gestures, and even costuming, perhaps inspiring Shakespeare and Fletcher to create "The Two Noble Kinsmen" by dividing the Chaucer poem into written "parts" for actors before assembling their…
Tasioulas, Jacqueline.
Medium Aevum 82.2 (2013): 213-35.
Explores "the role of the imagination" in KnT, with attention also to MilT and RvT, focusing on the "cerebral process" in the "amorous desire" of the characters, especially Arcite, whose lovers' malady results from his "lack of imaginative control."…
Heffernan, Carol F.
Neophilologus 97 (2013): 191-97.
Suggests the "possible influence" of Horace's Ode 1.9 on Alisoun's laugh in the dark in MilT, observing similarities in erotic setting, imagery, and opposition between youth and age.
