Stanbury, Sarah.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Argues in detail that the "Gawain"-poet develops a "visually focused descriptive poetic" in his works and, by way of conclusion, asks whether such a poetic is unusual in late-medieval English literature, going on to treat works by Chaucer, "Sir…
For Chaucer, Rome is an ancient imperial capital, a goal of medieval pilgrimage, and a center of trade--trade in devotions, indulgences, and pardons that allies mercantilism and religion. Such a Roman transaction also involves relics or monuments,…
Stanbury, Sarah.
New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 155-67.
Considers the cat in MilT as a device of demarcation between the domesticity of John's house and the privacy of Nicholas's "elite" study, observing links between this use of an animal as a device with Derrida's contemplations on his cat. Also…
Stanbury, Sarah.
Andrew James Johnston, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse, eds. The Art of Vision: Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015), pp. 36-54.
Examines relations between ekphrasis and inventory lists in Form Age. Reflects on "relationship between material things and the categories that classify them in multilingual England."
Stanbury, Sarah.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 37 (2015): 133-61.
Contextualizes the bedchamber of BD, exploring its adaptations of French source material, the otherness of France, the social and psychological implications of beds and textiles, and the imagery of black and white. Emphatically English in its…
Stanbury, Sarah.
Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 196-207.
Examines ageism and Chaucerian echoes in the BBC television adaptation of WBPT, commenting on the lack of concern with age in feminist studies, attitudes towards "cougardom" in the TV episode, and affiliations between middle age and the Middle Ages…
Stanbury, Sarah.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 39-58.
Considers the counting-house in ShT in light of the late medieval concern with "architectural privacy" and "new formations of sociability" in the bourgeois household. Contextualizes gendered space in ShT in relation to mercantile labor, developments…
Stanbury, Sarah.
Glenn D. Burger and Rory C. Critten, eds. Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), pp. 129-53.
Focuses on "household music" and the "intermingled melodies of birdsong and . . . musical instruments" in ManT. Argues that ManT can be analyzed as a "poignant record of the vibrant household world filled with music and song" that is connected to…
Stanbury, Sarah.
Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane, eds. Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn (Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022), pp. 265-88.
Explicates the "cukkow"/cuckoo/cuckold pun in ManT by identifying the role of the cuckoo (versus the nightingale) in bird-debate poems, analyzed here, particularly in Sir John Clanvowe's "Boke of Cupide." Argues that, by engaging themes of…
Standop, Ewald.
Peter Erlebach, Wolfgang G. Muller, and Klaus Reuter, eds. Geschichtlichkeit und Neuanfang im sprachlichen Kuntswerk. Studien zur englischen Philologie zu Ehren von Fritz W. Schulze (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1981), pp. 59-69.
All attempts by critics to ascribe psychological implications to conventional self-revelations of a fictional character such as Chaucer's Pardoner lead to a false evaluation. The text does not contain the slightest suggestion that the Pardoner is a…
Chaucer's depiction of time in the opening of GP is modeled on either Guido delle Colonne's "Historia Destructionis Troiae" or Boccaccio's "Ameto," although Chaucer mistakenly inverted the mention of April and the cliche about March.
A variety of essays, reprinted and original, by Ewald Standop, including reprinted versions of two essays that pertain to Chaucer: "Zur Allegorischen Deutung der 'Nonnes Preeste Tale'" (1961) and "Chaucers Pardoner: Das Charakterproblem und die…
Standop, Ewald.
Helmut Viebrock, ed. Festschrift zum 75. Geburtstag von Theodor Spira (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1961), pp. 88-97.
Describes several layers of allegorical meaning in NPT, explaining them in an ascending scheme of specific to general, content to form; suggests that Chaucer artfully combines the incommensurable to maintain both jest and earnest.
Stanisoara, Codruta Mirela.
Philologia: Naučno-stručni časopis za jezik, književnost i kulturu/Academic Journal for Language, Literature and Culture 18 (2020): 97-107.
Advocates an "anthropological" approach to reading Chaucer's works, especially CT, in which the reader observes the writer's roles as not only poet, narrator, and social historian, but also an anthropologist who crosses borders and invites us to…
Translates TC into modern English, in rhyme royal stanzas, with end-of-text notes and three appendices: a) the "domestic background" of the poem, b) courtly love, and c) a chronology of Chaucer's life. The notes emphasize social and literary…
Stanley-Wrench, Margaret.
Schachner, Erwin, illus.
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1965.
A biography of Chaucer designed for juvenile or young adult readers, including imagined scenes from his childhood, marriage, travels, and professional life, as well as commentary on his literary works. Includes a chronology of "Dates and Events," an…
Stanley, E. G.
Notes and Queries 237 (1992): 278-80.
Discovers a Chaucer allusion in Nathan ben saddi's (i.e., Robert Dodsley's) The Chronicle of the Kings of England (London, 1740), which was written in pastiche style.
Stanley, E. G.
Notes and Queries 234 (1989): 11-23, 151-62.
Reviews scholarship on meter and suggests that the verse of Chaucer's followers is more interestingly variant in context than is sometimes thought; emphasizes the central role of Hoccleve, some of whose work is available in holograph.
Stanley, E. G.
Review of English Studies 48 (1997): 157-67.
Geoffrey Chaucer, traditionally thought to be an early resident of Woodstock, and John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, are united by geography. Together they represent English glory and are thus commemorated in minor verse of the eighteenth…
Surveys parody and parodic devices in Middle English literature, arguing that, though there is much that is coarse in this literature, there is little actual parody outside of liturgical texts. Th is Chaucer's only true parody, although elsewhere…
Stanley comments on the inconclusive endings of several Chaucerian narratives and argues that CkT is complete as it is, developing the theme of herbergage (taking in lodgers) that runs throughout Part 1 of CT.
