Galloway, Andrew.
In Richard W. Kaeuper, Paul Dingman, and Peter Sposato, eds. Law, Governance, and Justice: New Views on Medieval Constitutionalism (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 243-86.
Explores analogues to literary voice in late-medieval English political, legal, and Wycliffite discourses, and analyzes the "common voice" found in John's Gower's "Vox Clamantis" ("aged wisdom") and in PF ("self-making" individual sovereignty). Also,…
McShane, Kara L.
Once and Future Classroom 9.1 (2013): n.p.
Lists and describes the pedagogical value of selected resources in the study of Chaucer, focusing on CT but not exclusively, and arranged in several categories: Language, Editions, Adaptations and Translations, Backgrounds, Social History, Reference…
Sherwin, Michael S.
New Blackfriars 94 (2013): 456-74.
Compares the depictions and analyses of love in TC, Annie Dillard's "The Maytrees" (2007), Thomas Aquinas, and modern psychologies of love, arguing that their underlying concerns with conflicts between passions and choices indicate that sustained…
Frame-tale science fiction novel with echoes of CT, e.g., quotation of GP 1.12 on the opening page, recurrent references to travelers as "pilgrims," a galactic ship named "Geoffrey," interpolated tales (although purportedly autobiographical), etc.…
Traces the epic from classical roots to postmodern versions in various media; includes brief comments on KnT as epic with elements of romance, the latter challenged by MilT.
Lewis, Bernard.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 20.1 (2013): 127-41.
Personal account of learning and teaching Chaucer in Middle English by a college student/instructor. Emphasizes oral performance, and includes summaries of student evaluations and descriptions of resources available for use by students and teachers.
Rogos, Justyna.
Joanna Kopaczyk and Andrea H. Jucker, eds. Communities of Practice in the History of English (Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2013), pp. 105-21.
Explores the "shared practice" of late-medieval English scribes, particularly their adherence to "a negotiated set of norms and procedures" that constitutes their "community of practice." Exemplifies such practice by describing the orthography and…
Schieberle, Misty.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 20.2 (2013): 19-40.
Describes a pedagogy for teaching NPT that guides student discussions "beyond basic descriptive understandings . . . into critical arguments," using genre and background material, performative readings, gender concerns, the politics of revolt, and…
Nickell, Joe.
The Science of Miracles: Investigating the Incredible (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2013), pp. 91-99.
Comments briefly on PardT as "a satirical attack on relic mongering," and notes the Host's seemingly earnest reference to St. Helen's finding of the cross (6.951) and the possible implication that Chaucer "accepts the relic . . . as authentic."
Ağıl, Nazmi.
Yeni Türk Edebiyatı Araştırmaları 10 (2013): 149–58.
Argues that MilT and WBPT influenced the plot, characters, and themes of Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar's twentieth-century novel "A Marriage under the Comet." In Turkish with an abstract in English.
Behrman, Mary.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 20.1 (2013): 37-45.
Describes teaching Chaucer at Morehouse College, an HBCU institution (historically black college or university), considering topics such as canon expansion, dress codes, linguistic standards, and student identity. Includes student reactions to the…
Clifton, Nicole.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 20. 1 (2013): 99-109.
Offers an approach to teaching MLT that encourages "students to question their own identities and own attitudes toward race and, in doing so, come to a more complex understanding" of Chaucer's story.
Crawford, Donna
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 20. 1 (2013): 47-60.
Considers issues of color symbolism, the history of the concept of "race," and ongoing "white normativity" in describing an approach to teaching FranT to African-American students at an historically black college or university (HBCU).
Goodman, Barbara A.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 20.1 (2103): 85-98.
Considers how to attract students to medieval courses in minority-serving institutions, particularly general education courses. Includes description of a course that juxtaposes CT with Ibn Battuta's "The Rihla."
Klitgård, Ebbe.
In Hanne Jansen and Anna Wagener, eds. Voices in Translation 2: Editorial and Publishing Practices (Montreal: Éditions Québécoises de l'Œuvre, 2013), pp. 41-63.
Describes the emphasis on short stories in the Danish literary magazine "Cavalcade" and analyzes several of its Danish translations from CT published in the late 1940s, suggesting that the translators--Lis Thorbjørnsen and Jørgen Sonne--were…
Kurtz, Heidi.
DPhil Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2013.
Item not seen. Abstract available at https://ethos.bl.uk. Examines stress in Middle English verse, exploring "how tension is created through the matching or mis-matching of lexical stress with the expected metrical template" in the Hengwrt version of…
Mitchell-Smith, Ilan.
In Jennifer N. Brown and Maria Segol, eds. Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 101-21.
Includes discussion of KnT in a group of late-medieval English romances that differ from Continental romances in that they "outline a male heterosexual model informed by a Boethian contemptus mundi theme in which sobriety and reservedness replaces…
Smallwood, Richard.
In Jayne Lewis and Lisa Zunshine, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2013), pp. 164-68.
Advocates teaching John Dryden's "Fables, Ancient and Modern" as "his most accomplished poetical production," discussing the status-resistant view of natural gentility in his translation of WBT and of Boccaccio's tale of Sigismunda and Guiscardo.…
Edwards, Robert R.
In John M. Ganim and Shayne Aaron Legassie, eds. Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 163-80.
Assesses the presence of cosmopolitan thinking in medieval literature, drawing examples from Fulcher of Chartres' "Historia Hierosolymitana," TC, and the medieval Troy story at large. In Chaucer's poem, Criseyde discovers through Diomedes' amorous…
Ludwig, Jenn.
Lawrence Trudeau, ed. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Volume 213 (Farmington, Mich.: Gale, 2013), pp. 1-114.
Reprints twelve essays on BD published between 1934 and 2007. The introduction by Ludwig (pp. 1-4) summarizes the plot and characters of BD, and comments on its plot and sources, major themes, and critical reception. Includes a selected bibliography…
Johnston, Andrew James.
Martin Baisch and Jutta Eming, ed. Hybriditat und Spiel: Der Europaische Liebes- und Abenteuerroman von der Antike zur Friihen Neuzeit (Berlin: Akademie, 2013), pp. 163-73.
Focuses on "generic links" between MLPT and "the ancient novel/Greek romance," especially multiple adventures as a plot device and the motif of incestuous desire that is both "rife" in the plot of MLT and a "conspicuous absence." Shows how incest…
Rossiter, William T.
Alison Yarrington and Stefano Villani, eds. Travels and Translations: Anglo-Italian Cultural Transactions (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013), pp. 231-50.
Expands upon Harold Bloom's concept of the "anxiety of influence" to explore agonistic revisionism through translation in medieval literature, focusing on transmission from Italy to England and illustrating in detail how "verbal, phrasal,…
Parodies GP, featuring twenty-nine character sketches of people who intend to travel together to Pokerbury, a site for gambling, planning to tell tales along the way. Modern professions include the Broker, the Dentist, the Scientist, etc.
