Jordan, William Chester.
Sheila Delany, ed. Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 25-42.
Examines the framing narratives and the relics in PardT to demonstrate that Chaucer achieves dramatic closure at the end of the Tale with the pilgrims' rejection of the relics.
Dove, Mary.
Sheila Delany, ed. Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 89-107.
Wycliffite translation of Jewish Scripture and the glosses and prologues that supplemented it often reflect curiosity about Jewish scholarship. Chaucer may have read the translation and may have admired the reading practices of the Jews.
Delany, Sheila.
Sheila Delany, Medieval Literary Politics: Shapes of Ideology (University of Manchester Press, 1990), pp. 1-18.
Surveys utopian attitudes, including alchemy. CYT reflects Chaucer's awareness of the "genuinely subversive thrust" of alchemy as an alternative to Pauline-Augustinian orthodoxy.
Delany, Sheila.
Sheila Delany, Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature Medieval to Modern (New York: Schoken Books, 1983), pp. 36-46.
Chaucer individualized Trevet's "bluestocking heroine" to make Constance a mere "agglomeration of virtues"; emblem for men and women alike, Constance as Everywoman suffers with Christian passivity because suffering is the human condition; she is a…
Psychological and cultural interpretation of PhyT and ManT murders of women motivated by misogynistic violence and impulse to control women. Both tales displace attention to trivialities: woman and nature (PhyT) and natural lust (ManT).
Hansen, Elaine Tuttle.
Sheila Fisher and Janet E. Halley, eds. Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writings, (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989), pp. 51-70.
LGW is a "poem for and about men and their anxieties about sex and gender." Courtly love is incompatible with the patriarchal drive to dominate. The subject of LGW is "male homosocial desire."
Defines ClT as an example of "Ideal Fiction," generally unpalatable to modern taste, identifying the presence of a manipulator in the plot (Walter), the narrative "distance" achieved through its combination of "ordinariness" and fantasy, the…
Carter, Thomas H.
Shenandoah: The Washington & Lee University Review 11.3 (1960): 48-60.
Offers impressionistic appreciation of ways that Chaucer "naturalized and made his own the continental traditions," with particular attention to the conventions of courtly love. Comments on a range of short poems: ABC, Mars, Ros, FormAge, Scog, Buk,…
Shikii, Kumiko.
Shirayuri English Language and Literature Association (1984): 85-97.
A critical bibliography of studies on TC in Japan in five categories: courtly love, tragic nature of the story, idea of fate, character portrayal, meaning of the Epilogue.
Chaucer's optimism, humor, and satire as well can be properly appreciated only in the light of his Catholic view of life. Some typical mistakes in translation are also made from lack of enough knowledge of Catholicism: the doctrines, liturgies,…
Explores political implications of PF, commenting on the theme of common profit and on Chaucer's political situation. Examines the role of Nature as an advocate of hierarchy and a suppresser of rebellion.
Explores the narrator's "royalist" politics in MLT, arguing that they are "more incomplete" than the narrator thinks. Alla is presented as a good king, and the Sultan follows the trajectory of a typical "martyr king," although the teller…
Jimura, Akiyuki.
Shizuya Tara, Mayumi Sawada, and Larry Walker, eds. Language and Beyond: Festschrift for Hiroshi Yonekura on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Tokyo: Eichosha, 2007), pp. 265-83.
Discusses Chaucer's proverbial wisdom in Mel. In Japanese
Ikegami, Tadahiro.
Shounosuke Ishii and Peter Milward, eds. Renaissance Bungaku no nakano Yosei (Fairies in Renaissance Literature). (Tokyo: Aratake Shuppan, 1984),: pp. 33-58.
Using "elf, dwarf" and "fairy, fay" as key words, analyzes the meaning of fairies in literature from Old English through the fifteenth century in England.
Fujiki, Takayoshi.
Shukugawa Studies in Linguistics and Literature 4 (1980): 1-13.
The puzzling character of the earthly love and life of human beings is what PF tries to explore and discover. Chaucer revealed an irrational aspect of humanity in this work.
Studies the role of Theseus in KnT as a "minister Dei," who governs the people in accordance with the leading medieval principle, "utilitas publica prefertur utilitate privatae."
