Steiner, Wendy.
Wendy Steiner. The Colors of Rhetoric: Problems in the Relation Between Modern Literature and Painting (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), pp. 221-26.
Congeries of word and image in FranT relate to truth, figuration, and creativity, foregrounding the polysemy of artistic language.
Steiner, Wendy.
Rosemary Feal, ed. Profession 2008 (New York: Modern Language Association, 2008), pp. 24-32.
Personal narrative about Steiner's composition of an opera inspired by WBT, intended for production as a full-length animated film. Includes sketches and storyboards by John Kindness.
Steiner, Wendy.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Considers John Trevisa's translations of "compendious" encyclopedic texts as examples of a prose literary form that is an influential part of a late medieval literary history, an "alternative" to the better-known tradition of Trevisa's poetic…
Steinmetz, David C.
Chaucer Review 12 (1977): 38-54.
Griselda's career, when seen in light of the nominalist doctrine of justification known in fourteenth-century Oxford, parallels the pilgrimage of the faithful toward the Heavenly Jerusalem.
Nine essays by various authors on love-sickness in classical and medieval literature. The essays discuss the topos in medicine, classical writing, medieval Latin, Islamic writing, troubadour poetry, ansd medieval vernacular languages: Spanish,…
Stemmler, Theo.
Richard G. Newhauser and John A. Alford, eds. Literature and Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995), pp. 11-23.
Disagreeing throughout with Joerg Fichte and Edmund Reiss, Stemmler uses literature contemporary with Chaucer to show that Ros is a "seriously meant love-lyric." It is not a parody.
Stemmler, Theo.
Fritz Peter Knapp and Manuela Niesner, eds. Historisches und Fiktionales Erzählen im Mittelalter (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2002), pp. 45-62.
Stemmler assesses representations of the Uprising of 1381 in several contexts: the "Anonimalle Chronicle," Henry Knighton's "Chronicon," Thomas Walsingham's "Historia Anglicana," Jean Froissart's "Chroniques," John Gower's "Vox Clamantis," Chaucer's…
Stemmler, Theo.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 111-18.
Prosodic analysis of the Middle English lyric "Alysoun" that identiies several commonplace parallels with the description of Alisoun in MilT.
Stengel, Paul Joseph.
Mary T. Christel and Scott Sullivan, eds. Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies (Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 2010), pp. 253-62.
This lesson plan focuses on Chaucer's CT. While initially requiring that students become familiar with Chaucer's rhetorical strategies, it also asks students to use these strategies to compose a "multimodal satire" of their own--one that focuses on…
Stenner, Rachel, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019.
Twelve essays on Spenser's knowledge of and uses of Chaucer as source or inspiration. The introduction by the editors summarizes earlier critical studies, describes the essays, and asserts that the essays together "characterise the relationships…
Stenner, Rachel.
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 259-82.
Argues that allusion to Apollo in TC conveys an ambivalent attitude toward literary authority by affiliating it with sexual violence, an ambivalence that Shakespeare echoes in "Troilus and Cressida." Both writers use Apollo to problematize…
Stephens, John, and Ruth Waterhouse.
New York: Routledge, 1990
Seeks to describe and negotiate the variety of "cultural codes" that serve as the contexts for the "language of literature" between Chaucer and Alan Garner. The section on Chaucer and Gower (pp. 24-30) focuses on their "syntagmatic" emphasis within…
Explores how some poststructuralist contributions to the theory of narrative enable a feminist rereading of two of the tales and suggests that Chaucer presents a bleak view of male-female relations.
The style of PF weights the syntagmatic axis of discourse, whereas "Pearl" weights the paradigmatic axis. This difference is revealed in the way each poem treats lexical innovation, the relation between syntax and verse form, and the relation…
Close analyses of grammar and diction, including shifts in verb tense, show a considerable range of both poetic role playing and distancing between author and speaker--self-mockery and travesty (Buk, For, Lady, Pity, Ros, Scog).
Stephens, Rebecca.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 47-54.
Summarizes the conventions of medieval monastic life and comments on the hagiography of SNT. In all except the fact that she speaks, Chaucer's Second Nun embodies the ideal of the medieval nun.
Stephens, Rebecca.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales". (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 192-98.
Briefly surveys the medieval history of tapestry- or rug-making as background to the portrait of the Tapicer in GP.
Bradwardine's concept of God's "potentia absoluta" serves to reconcile the literal and allegorical meanings of Walter in ClT. Griselda must accept Walter's actions, though she cannot comprehend them. This parallels man's relationship to God, but,…
Sternberg, Irma Ottenheimer.
Dissertation Abstracts International 25.12 (1964): A5392.
Argues that MLT is neither saints' legend nor romance, but that its "heroic theme, setting, and characters suggest strongly that . . . it belongs to the literary genre of epic and to the sociological genre of myth."
Stévanovitch, Colette.
Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), pp. 113-24.
The author explores some of the effects arising from polysyllables (i.e., here words with more than one stressed syllable), concentrating on those in rhyming position, especially words referring to worthynesse and gentillesse, the virtues credited to…
Stévanovitch, Colette.
Claire Vial, ed. 'Gode is the lay, swete is the note': Résonances dans les lais bretons moyen-anglais / Echoes in the Middle English Breton Lays (2014): n.p. (web publication).
Concentrates on rhythm in FranT and contends that FranT is successful as a poetic composition, but cannot claim to be a Breton lay.
