Snell, William.
Philologie im Netz, Supplement 4 (2009): 41-54.
Clarifies Edith Rickert's role in her collaborative work with John Matthews Manly--i.e., "Chaucer Life-Records" and "Text of the 'Canterbury Tales'"--arguing that people need to study the background of Rickert to see her as an important female…
Snipes, Katherine
Discourse: A Review of the Liberal Arts 13 (1970): 240-50.
Compares Jean-Baptiste Clamence, narrator of Camus' "The Fall," with other literary characters, including Chaucer's Pardoner who is a manipulator of language and rhetoric, "acutely conscious of his own evil, yet arrogantly intent upon exploiting his…
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen.
Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1998.
An alphabetical dictionary of the "world fable," i.e., the beast fable and related narratives in various international traditions, both as stand-alone narratives and as exempla in larger works.
Snyder, Cynthia Lockard.
David Chamberlain, ed. New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems (Lanham, Md.; New York; and London: University Press of America, 1993), pp. 145-71.
Thought to be the work of Chaucer until the 1870s and long read largely for its style, "The Floure and the Leafe" is an ironic allegory warning readers not to "succumb to the deceptions that have befallen both the Flower and the Leaf." The details…
Snyder, Martin.
Journal of Liberal Arts (Seijoh University) 2 (2006): 69-82.
Snyder explores how, despite initial impressions to the contrary, women can be said to have a central function in KnT, even though no woman in the Tale serves as an agent of change.
Snyder, Matthew J.
Christine Devine and Marie Hendry, eds. Turning Points and Transformations: Essays on Language, Literature and Culture (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 3-15.
Contrasts the ending of PrT with Latin analogues to argue that the Tale is less concerned with miracles than with martyrdom--Jewish martyrdom as well as Christian--whereby Chaucer suggests the need for mourning human death.
Sobecki, Sebastain.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Claims that "medieval vernacular literature . . . is indexical . . . and created for a specific audience with direct access to the author" as well as the author's social and historical conditions. Focuses on Chaucer's "authorial humility" and…
Victims of lovesickness, lovers who commit suicide in Chaucer and Gower do so by stabbing themselves in the heart, an action not found in their sources. Nor is there medical precedent for regarding the heart as the central organ of the circulatory…
Explores what we know about Chaucer's earliest audiences, and how his work was used and discussed in his lifetime. Considers use of manuscripts by Hoccleve and Chaucer's named addressees, Bukton, Scogan, and de la Vache. Lists contemporary references…
Argues that Chaucer spent much of the 1380s and 1390s in Southwark as a recipient of a sort of patronage from William Wykeham, chancellor of England, alongside others such as Gower and John Cobham. Asserts that GP is based on the format of the 1381…
Introduces four previously unknown documents, including a Chaucer life record connected to his guardianship of Michael Staplegate, which offer new perspectives on Chaucer's life and poetry. Implies that Chaucer's wardship of Staplegate extended as…
Society for Chaucer Studies and Koichi Kano, eds.
Tokyo: Eihosha, 2021.
Includes six essays that discuss Chaucer's texts or related topics. In Japanese; some chapters in English. For essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for To the Days of Studying Medieval English Literature under Alternative Title.
Sokolov, D. A.
Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2017.
Argues that the Petrarchism commonly held to have begun in English with Wyatt and Surrey is, instead, an alteration of a tradition already prevalent among English writers such as Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate. In particular, claims that…
Sokolov, Danila.
Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2018.
Chapter 2, "Chaucerian Melancholy in Renaissance England," explores how in "Astrophel and Stella" Sir Philip Sidney "reactivates: the melancholic and ambivalent "poetics of selfhood" of BD, as mediated in the "Petrarchan and anti-Petrarchan poetry"…
Offers ShT as an example of how the use of fabliaux aids an understanding and exploration of marital dynamics, suggesting that the tale presents the merchant's marriage as a sort of economic contract between equals.
Sola Buil, Ricardo (J.)
Zaragoza: Publicationes de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1981.
Point of view in the structure of CT and the use of direct speech and dialogue are a consequence of Chaucer's interest in showing the contradictions in his environment without the mediating influence of an omniscient narrator. The open structure of…
Sola Buil, Ricardo (J.)
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 7: 161-80., 1997.
Chaucer expresses the dialectical tension between subject and history, between the inner and the outer self, between canon and parody in CT and TC. He represents this conflict through dramatic dialogue and theatrical performance, making the…
Sola Buil, Ricardo J.
Antonio Leon Sendra, Maria C. Casares Trillo, and Maria M. Rivas Carmona, eds. Second International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Cordoba: Universidad de Cordoba, 1993), pp. 180-90.
Examines Chaucer's narratorial intrusions in TC, arguing that they both lead the reader to assimilliate abrupt shifts in sensibility and perspective and move the reader from objective observation to subjective response.
Sola Buil, Ricardo J.
Luis A. Lazaro Lafuente, Jose Simon, and Ricardo J. Sola Buil,eds. Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Madrid: Universidad de Alcala de Henares, 1996),pp. 261-65.
Questions whether Chaucer's deviations from traditional literary standards disguise or disclose personal messages.
Sola Buil, Ricardo J.
Margarita Gimenez Bon and Vickie Olsen, eds. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Vitoria-Gasteiz: Dpto. Filologia Inglesa, 1997), pp. 338-45.
Explores Chaucer's use of parody and manipulation of narrative tradition to develop realistic characters or "subjectivities" in CT.
Sola Buil, Ricardo J.
Ana María Hornero and María Pilar Navarro, eds. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of S.E.L.I.M. (Zaragoza: Institucion Fernando el Catolico (CSIC), 2000), pp. 245-54.
Chaucer uses dramatic conventions rather than literary ones. To save her life, Criseyde plays various roles: ideal lady, virtuous woman, and lusty lover. TC does not answer the life-question of WBT: "what thyng is it that wommen moost desiren?"
