Sponsler, Claire.
American Literary History 22 (2010): 831-37.
Sponsler comments on the "appropriation theory" underlying Candace Barrington's analysis of a Chaucer-themed Mardi Gras pageant of 1914, raising broader questions about the ideology, methodology, and disciplinary implications of "American…
Spraycar, Rudy S.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 81 (1980): 142-49.
The spring opening of GP may reflect Alain de Lille's concepts in "De Planctu Naturae," indicating the connection between nature's amorous regeneration and man's need for spiritual renewal.
Spreuwenberg-Stewart, Allison Dean.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 3542A.
Considers issues of gender, identity, and sexuality in depictions of clothing in poetry by Chaucer (Rom), Marlowe, Donne, Samuel Butler, and Milton. Through dress, Rom depicts the richness of desire and the roles of art and culture in both seduction…
The relationship between Troy's story and Criseyde's demonstrates Chaucer's vision of how common Destiny frames but ultimately releases individual free will. The "de casibus" frame comments on the human condition; like Troy and Criseyde, we are…
Sprunger, David A.
Nona C. Flores, ed. Animals in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays (New York: Garland, 1996), pp. 67-81.
Discusses manuscript drolleries that represent physicians, commenting on the conventional clothing of Chaucer's Physician and the flask or jordan the Physician holds in the Ellesmere illumination.
Sprunger, David.
Enarratio 15 (2011 for 2008): 100-123.
Comments on Chaucer's reputation as a Wycliffite reformer or Lollard that resulted from his depictions of clergymen (especially the Parson) and from apocryphal tales attributed to him. Edits and assesses a 1641 pamphlet that includes two poetic…
Spurr, Barry.
Sydney Studies in English 37 (2011): 1-18.
Spurr cites A. E. Housman's lecture "The Name and Nature of Poetry" and calls upon the makers of the Australian National Curriculum not to excise CT and other canonical texts from the program.
Revisits the "authorship question" of "The Two Noble Kinsmen," exploring not what was composed by Shakespeare or by Fletcher, but rather the social tensions between characters found in KnT, the play's source, and those nameless ones of the "Jailer's…
St. John, Michael.
Michael St. John, ed. Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European Culture (Aldershot, Hants; and Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999), pp. 17-26.
Political theory from Alain de Lille and Aristotle underlies PF, and events of the Good Parliament (1376) are reflected in it. Chaucer's Priapus and Venus allude to Edward III and Alice Perrers, while Nature's parliament is Chaucer's political ideal…
Examines the philosophical content of Chaucer's dream visions--the interplay between the soul and its courtly context--arguing that in Chaucer's world, the ideal of courtesy rather than any explicitly spiritual principle holds together a fictive…
St. John, Michael.
Carla Dente, George Ferzoco, Miriam Gill, and Marina Spunta, eds. Proteus: The Language of Metamorphosis. Studies in European Cultural Transition, no. 26. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005, pp. 83-92.
Argues that an "individual's knowledge of history" is presented in HF in a way that is metaphorically linked to alchemical transformation--with "tydynges" either substantially transformed or flying into uncontrollable energy. CYT shows Chaucer's…
Staczek, John J.
Jacek Fisiak, ed. Middle English Miscellany: From Vocabulary to Linguistic Variation (Poznan: Motivex, 1996.), pp. 245-52.
Argues that certain English pronominal forms are "durable over time" when used in instructions. Assesses cookbooks and Astr as Middle English samples and compares their usage with modern American cookbooks.
Stadnik, Katarzyna.
Adam Głaz, Hubert Kowalewski, and Anna Weremczuk, eds. What's in a Text? Inquiries into the Textual Cornucopia (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012), pp. 126-39.
Explores how speakers' "understanding of their world and their lives" in KnT is "encoded in language," focusing on uses of the auxiliary "moten" and connecting it with the theme of necessity in the tale. Concludes that, in the terms of cognitive…
Stadnik, Katarzyna.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 51 (2016): 45-76.
Traces the role of the verbs "mot-," "shul," "oughte," and "willen" in defining the relations and motivations of Walter and Griselda, to demonstrate how "the contextualization of the linguistic construction of identity relative to the individual's…
Stadnik, Katarzyna.
In Przemysław Łozowski and Katarzyna Stadnik, eds. Visions and Revisions: Studies in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2016), pp. 179-86.
Uses the Boethian imagery of Fortune and her wheel in For and Truth to clarify "situated cognition," exemplifying how visual images can enable cultural transmission across time.
Stadnik, Katarzyna.
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 41 [54] (2015): 127-41.
Summarizes aspects of cognition theory and posits that the "knowledge accumulated by past generations is encapsulated in language" and that, like a "palimpsest," imagery retains "vestiges" of the worldviews of the past. Discusses examples of…
Stadnik, Katarzyna.
Merja Stenroos, Martti Mäkinen, Kjetil Vikhamar Thengs, and Oliver Traxel, eds. Current Explorations in Middle English: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME), University of Stavanger, Norway, 2017 (New York: Peter Lang, 2019), pp. 249-64.
Adopts a "grounded approach to cognition" that combines awareness of embodiment, physical environment, and sociocultural situatedness. Discusses "selected cognitive-cultural aspects of diagrammatic iconicity" that structure ParsT and constitute a…
Stadnik, Katarzyna.
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature 23 (2018): 87-114.
Analyzes the "Legend of Dido" in LGW to reveal how narrative serves as a "cognitive tool for shaping worldviews" held within cultural communities. Discusses the "cognitive-cultural underpinnings" and strategies Chaucer uses to tell a fragmentary…
Stadolnik, Joe.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 121 (2022): 359-82.
Claims that although the prologue to Astr is addressed to Chaucer's son "little Lewis," it is structurally and rhetorically complex, appealing to sophisticated Latinists as well as to young English speakers. Argues that the prologue imitates Latin…
Stadolnik, Joseph.
English Studies 97.1 (2016): 15–21.
Argues that the Wife's "fyr" and "tow" not only warn against sexual temptation but are also a contemporary "reference to the fatal accident at the "bal des ardents" at the French royal court in 1393, which very nearly took the life of Charles VI."
Stadolnik, Joseph.
Medium Aevum 85.2 (2016): 314-18.
Maintains that the quoted maxim on friendship in Astr is misattributed to classical sources and actually comes from a twelfth-century medical treatise, "Practica brevis," attributed to Johannes Platearius. While Chaucer may have seen the line in…
Stadolnik, Joseph.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Yale University, 2017. Dissertation Abstracts International A78.11(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Shows how "Middle English writers tested the capabilities of their vernacular, experimenting with new genres and styles of literary composition, as well as with discursive conventions and practices borrowed from nonliterary fields," particularly the…
Stafford, Kim R.
John Witte, ed. 2084: Looking Beyond Orwell (Portland: Oregon Committee for the Humanities, 1984), pp. 17-21.
Contemplates the notion that "space travel helps us to see what we have on earth," musing upon the Apollo 11 moon landing and a number of literary representations of travel through space, ancient and modern, including Troilus's rise through the…
