Knight, Stephen.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
In an effort to "historicize" Arthurian legend, Knight discusses the societies that "produced and consumed" various Arthurian works. Does not discuss works by Chaucer.
Suzuki, Takashi, and Tsuyoshi Mukai, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993.
Twenty-six essays on linguistics, early publishing, and English literature, especially Malory, other Arthurian materials, and Chaucer. Also includes a few Renaissance and modern topics.For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Arthurian…
Phelan, Joseph.
SEL: Studies in English Literature 59 (2019): 855-72.
Explains how written correspondence between Arthur Hugh Clough and Francis James Child--recurrently concerned with metrical and linguistic issues--reveals influence of Clough on Child's "Observations on the Language of Chaucer"(1862); Clough's…
Thompson, Mary Kay.
[Jay Ruud, ed.] Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota ([Aberdeen, S.D.: Northern State University, 1989), pp. 104-11.
Identifies parallels between Chaucer's Pardoner and Arthur Dimmesdale of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," without claiming influence.
Salas Chacón, Alvaro.
Káñina (Costa Rica) 17.2 (1993): 105-9.
Surveys Chaucer's Marian allusions and critical commentary on them. Suggests that Chaucer wrote his Marian poetry (ABC, PrT, SNT, and allusions elsewhere) for political and aesthetic reasons, not out of religious devotion.
The alchemists' discourse echoes Chaucer's, and one might serve as a "metaphor for the other." Alchemists, like poets, were concerned with interpretations of the written word and with concealment.
Alexander, Jonathan J. G.
Studies in Iconography 18 (1997): 51-66.
Shifts within the related fields of art history, literary history, and the study of illuminated manuscripts have led to greater emphasis on interdisciplinary scholarship; Chaucer studies (particularly those concerning the Ellesmere manuscript) are a…
Johnson, William C.,Jr.
South Atlantic Bulletin 40.2 (1975): 53-62.
The dreamer discovers the inner urgency of a love that sought to transcend death; the knight, the external actuality of death. Chaucer's consolation lies in the recognition of the emotional (and not doctrinal) ineffability that art is. Grief is not…
Mertens-Fonck, Paule.
Actes du Congres d'Amiens 1982. Societe des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur (Paris: Didier, 1987), pp. 41-51.
In GP, the pilgrims seem to be arranged symmetrically in two groups of ten on both sides of the central group formed by the five guildsmen and their cook. Each group of ten falls into subgroups of two, three, or four, held together by a similarity…
Beidler, Peter G.
Chaucer Review 12 (1977): 90-102.
Chaucer's unprecedented use of the woman baring her buttocks to the lover's kiss significantly emphasizes both the active potential of the woman, the rejection of courtly traditions,and the association of food with sex. The addition of her fart…
Explores how poets "guide their readers through sequences of feelings, thoughts, and attitudes" by means of verbal depictions of built spaces that orient readers' attention to the use of spaces and spatial objects. Includes discussion of the gate in…
Wilsbacher, Gregory James.
Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 3448A.
Examines ethical questions raised by medieval literature for modern readers in the light of modern philosophical studies (Jean-FranƯois Lyotard, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy), as shown in LGW (literature and history), Piers Plowman…
Finlayson reads FrT as anticlerical comic satire rather than a moral exemplum, exploring similarities between the Tale and Boccaccio's story of Ciapellatto in Decameron 1.1. The probable source of FrT is a sermon by Robert Rypon, but Boccaccio may…
Collects essays by Woolf published over a period of thirty years. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Art and Doctrine under Alternative Title.
Edwards, Robert R., ed.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994.
Twelve essays by different hands address the "poetic art that emerges in late medieval English narrative out of multiple historical contexts." Treating Langland, Chaucer, and other late-medieval poets, the collection includes an introduction by the…
Kaplan, M. Lindsay.
David Lee, ed. Signs of the Early Modern 1: 15th and 16th Centuries. EMF, Studies in Early Modern France, no. 2 (Charlottesville, Va.: Rookwood, 1996), pp. 101-28.
Kaplan explores medieval and early modern legal discourse about slander and defamation. Though HF is concerned with the relation between poetry and slander, in Chaucer's time "defamation was not understood as having temporal consequences for the…
The tautologies of the "Roman de la Rose," formally co-ordinate and semantically emphatic, Chaucer usually renders by conservation, grammatical transcategorization, amplification, or emphasized reduction.
Keller, Wolfram R.
Andrew James Johnston, Russell West-Pavlov, and Elisabeth Kempf, eds. Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare: "Troilus and Criseyde" and "Troilus and Cressida" (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 141-56.
Argues that in TC Criseyde is the "embodiment of literary invention," enacting a "poetological" claim to fame, both humble and arrogant. Through his Cressida, Shakespeare presents a similar "counter-authorship," one that reflects the playwright's…
Griselda's several robings and disrobings are used to suggest the difficulty of knowing the constant reality behind shifting appearances. The behavior of Griselda and Walter becomes more coherent through the different meanings they see in clothing: …
Wallace, Kristine Gilmartin.
Rice University Studies 62.2 (1976): 99-110.
For Walter and Griselda clothing has both "political/social" and "spiritual/personal" meanings which symbolize stages in their relationship. When Walter sees that Griselda remains virtuous beneath the array of fine clothing and social status which…
Describes Chaucer's arrangements of multiple adjectives (preposed, postposed, and combined), contrasting his practice with other Middle English writers, and exploring the poetic value of his usage, suggesting that he seems to have been "the writer…
Kirby, Thomas A.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73 (1972): 127-33.
Gauges Matthew Arnold's familiarity with Chaucer's works, judging it to be "thin" and "not extensive until the last eight years of his life," and suggesting that Arnold might not have misjudged Chaucer's "high seriousness" if had he read more of him.
