Examines Caroline's Bergvall's five Chaucer poems in her "Meddle English" (2011), including discussion of their relations with Chaucer's originals. Focuses especially on Bergvall's "Fried Tale."
Rogers, Cynthia A.
Dissertation Abstracts International A76.11 (2015): n.p.
Explores a Middle English scrapbook from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries that includes some Chaucerian love literature, and considers the book's role in a performance of gentility, particularly on the part of its women readers.
Tambling, Jeremy.
English 64, no. 244 (2015): 42-64.
Analyzes the influence of Chaucer on several Romantic thinkers and their subsequent influence on Dickens, as well as Dickens's own reference and allusions to CT. Focuses on how "Our Mutual Friend" reflects medievalism in such aspects as the…
Warren, Michelle R.
postmedieval 6.1 (2015): 79–93.
Reviews references to how Chaucer is represented and appropriated in Anglophone Caribbean literature and critical essays. Includes example of "fictional allusion" to CT in Jean Rhys's "Again the Antilles."
Focuses on how Chaucer influenced the writings of Cotton Mather, Anne Bradstreet, and Nathaniel Ward in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century New England.
Discusses the stylistic device of inverting or rearranging word order for poetic effect. Highlights the writing of William Dunbar, who acknowledged Chaucer to be included among the "masters who by making were remade."
Bowers, John M.
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. 55–76.
Explores Chaucer's uses of ekphrasis as "expressions of an increasingly anxious desire to allow literary images to speak for themselves" in KnT, BD, and HF.
Knapp, Ethan.
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. 209-23.
Explores the "function of faciality" in medieval poetry of Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve. Examines Chaucer's portraits of faces in GP, MLT, and TC.
Johnston, Andrew James, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse, eds.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015.
Collection of essays on ekphrastic discourse from the eleventh to the seventeenth century in texts written in Middle English, but also Medieval Latin, Old French, Middle Scots, Middle High German, and Early Modern English. For four essays that…
Schuerer, Hans Jurgen.
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. 224-42.
Argues that ekphrasis in MerT is an "engagement with the union of language and the inner senses." In particular, examines "ekphrastic moments . . . between physical expression and the psyche" in Chaucer's treatment of marriage in MerT.
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."
Uses examples from CT, TC, and the anonymous Middle English Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf, read in a context created by Bakhtin's theory of "speech genres," to demonstrate the power of proverbs to transform the situations in which they are…
Novacich, Sarah Elliott.
Philological Quarterly 94, no. 3 (2015): 201–23.
Discusses the idea of "poetic feet" of versification in poetry, and examines how travel narratives are linked to poetic language. Compares CT (particularly ParsT, MkT, KnT, Tho, Mel, and TC, to Dante's "Inferno" and Mandeville's travel narrative.
Barrington, Candace.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 22 (2015): 21–32.
Describes writing assignments, for an upper-division Chaucer course, that help students read CT in Middle English. Demonstrates how breaking the assignments into smaller steps promotes a greater understanding of fluency and discovery of unfamiliar…
Bourgne, Florence
Cahiers de recherches medievales et humanistes 29 (2015): 199–214.
Examines Chaucer's literary exchanges with contemporary French writers, including his interest in "Flaundres, in Artoys, and Pycardie." Offers
how Chaucer's translation of Rom confirms his fascination with the duchy's growing empire, where Picard…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Chaucer Review 50.1-2 (2015): 178–97.
Argues that in CT, "wight" could indeed mean a supernatural being and refer to Jesus Christ as Creator, which questions a long-standing editorial emendation by E. Talbot Donaldson in WBP, 117.
Hadbawnik, David.
Dissertation Abstracts International A76.11 (2015): n.p.
Considers the diction of Chaucer, his successors, and CT editor Thomas Tyrwhitt as part of a larger argument for the interrelationship of late medieval and early modern poetic language.
Murchison, Krista A.
Chaucer Review 49.3 (2015): 371–75.
Argues that the word pair "gent and smal," used in the description of Alisoun in MilT, meant "well-built," with connotations of noble looks and behavior.
Nakao, Yoshiyuki, Akiyuki Jimura, and Noriyuki Kawano.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 59 (2015): 1–34.
Compares frequencies of different negative forms as well as syntactic, lexical, and semantic negative patterns in the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts and two critical editions by Blake and Benson, respectively. Tabulates the result as statistical…
Ohno, Hideshi.
Bulletin of Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts 20 (2015): 131–46.
Provides an overview of Chaucer's use of the absolute infinitive, and introduces its various types. Focuses especially on the uses of "seien," "speken," and "tellen" in parenthetical construction and discusses their function based on statistical…
Schendl, Herbert.
Language and Literature 24.3 (2015): 233–48.
Discusses the main functions of code-switching in the poetry and drama of medieval England. Emphasizes how the friar in SumT uses the French phrase "je vous dy" to increase his authority and learnedness.
Simonin, Olivier.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 87 (2015): 123–44.
Explores the notion of commitment in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and briefly mentions MilT in relation to the several meanings of the term "hend(e)."
