Strakhov, Yelizaveta. [Strakhov, Elizaveta].
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Pennsylvania, 2014. Dissertation Abstracts International A76.01(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
Studies aesthetic and political relations between France and Francophone England during the Hundred Years' War, with particular attention to uses and politics of the "formes fixes" of lyric poetry among French writers, Chaucer, and Gower. Examines…
Translation of selections from CT in modern prose, designed for "pre-intermediate" readers. Includes adaptations of GP, KnT, ClT, WBT, PardT, FranT, FrT, and NPT), with a brief Introduction and activities for classroom use. Illustrated by Victor…
Strange, William C.
Chaucer Review 1.3 (1967): 167-80.
Explores MkT as a revelation of its narrator, positing a structural arrangement among the individual tragedies and their various depictions of Fortune and interpreting this arrangement as a reflection of the Monk's character and psychology: he…
Stratford, Jenny.
Jessica A. Lutkin and J. S. Hamilton, eds. Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of Nigel Saul (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2022), pp. 75-92, plus appendix.
Summarizes the life and legacy of Isabella of Castile, examining in detail her last will and testament (included in Latin and French). Refutes John Shirley's suggestion in his manuscript afterwords to Mars and to Venus that the poems link the…
Straus, Barrie Ruth.
Straus, Barrie Ruth, ed. Skirting the Texts: Feminisms' Re-Readings of Medieval and Renaissance Texts. Special Issue of Exemplaria 4 (1992): 135-68.
Examines the interrelations of "truth," "freedom," and "woman" as these terms are constructed in FranT. The Franklin's masculinist discourse posits distinctions between truth and fiction, appearance and reality, plain speaking and rhetoric, although…
WBP and WBT appear within frameworks of CT in which masculine values of truth and authority are already evaporating. In phallocentric discourse, women's talk is assumed to be untrue, and male desire is the central secret. Alison reveals throughout…
Straus, Barrie Ruth.
Jean-Jacques Blanchot and Claude Graf, eds. Actes du 2e Colloque de langue et de litterature ecossaises (moyen age et renaissance) (Universite de Strasbourg, 1978), pp. 198-206.
Reading is more important to the meaning of the 'Kingis Quair' than it is to the meaning of Chaucer's dream poems. This point is demonstrated by an analysis of PF.
Straus, Barrie Ruth.
Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler, eds. Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West (Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y.; and London: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 245-64.
The formel eagle in PF, Emily in KnT, and Margery Kempe seek to delay or renounce sexual activity. The eagle's blush embodies her later request to delay a choice of mate; Emily's desire to remain unmarried is marked by her desire to reject the…
Straus, Barrie Ruth.
Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price, eds. Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002), pp. 122-38.
Straus explores how ClT, MLT, and PrT adapt and accommodate the traditions and conventions of the family romance to "articulate a profound cultural anxiety about paternity."
Outlines the expression of narratorial self-consciousness through various phrases such as "I kan nat seye" and through rhetorical usages such as "occupatio" and then analyzes its purposes in Chaucer's poems.
Advocates a pedagogical approach that encourages students to regard "what happens to Troilus" as the central concern of TC, leading them to discover that the poem expresses a generally approving view of passionate love modified by the frustration of…
Stretter, Robert Eugene.
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2316A, 2000.
Focusing especially on love and fortune, Chaucer introduces to English literature the theme of male friendship in conflict with heterosexual love. By Shakespeare's time, this theme was treated even more darkly, moving from "guardedly optimistic…
Chaucer uses conventions of the friendship tradition to explore the power of erotic desire; Lydgate rewrites the fatal rivalry to emphasize male friendship over male-female attraction.
Discusses the "amatory fatalism" of KnT as Chaucer's means to explore "problems of chance, destiny, and Providence." Somewhat different from TC in this regard, KnT poses love as analogous to fate. Chaucer uses the analogy to focus on human perception…
Stretter, Robert.
Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge, eds. Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010), pp. 501-24.
Stretter comments on various romances and includes discussion of how, in KnT, Palamon and Arcite's mutual love for Emily disrupts their sworn brotherhood, a powerful bond of obligation and friendship. Chaucer alters a long cultural and literary…
Stretter, Robert.
English Literary Renaissance 47 (2017): 270-300.
Argues that Shakespeare and John Fletcher's adaptation of KnT in "The Two Noble Kinsmen" emphasizes the failure of same-sex friendship, darkens tone, and approaches tragic pessimism--in contrast with Chaucer's "cautiously optimistic philosophical…
Stretter, Robert.
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 331-54.
Identifies complex intertextual relations among KnT, the story of Amis and Amiloun, Shakespeare and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen." and archival references to two lost Tudor plays, "Palamon and Arcite" and "Alexander and Lodowick, "exploring…
ManT expresses ambivalence about verbal signification and asserts the power of poetry. The role of Phoebus (a figure of poetry), imagery of caging, the figure of the crow, and violations of poetic decorum affirm humanist poetics, despite the…
Strickland, Deborah Eileen.
DAI A73.10 (2013): n.p.
Examines figures of women writers in the work of male authors from Chaucer to Marlowe, with the goal of recovering the woman writer's significance, even in the absence of female-authored direct texts. Includes discussion of TC and Philomela and Dido…
Strmelj, Lidija.
ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 14.1 (2014): 37–47.
Assesses examples from GP, KnT, MilPT, WBPT, and SNPT, deducing that medieval metaphors of emotion are similar to modern ones, although they depend more closely upon social categories, with negative metaphors typical of middle-class speakers, and…
Štrmelj, Lidija.
In Gert Hofmann and Snježana Zorić, eds. Presence of the Body: Awareness in and beyond Experience (Boston, Mass.: Brill Rodopi, 2017), pp. 77-91.
Characterizes the Wife of Bath as "full of life and energy," with a "material" rather than a "romantic" view of marriage, based in her "sexual instincts." Summarizes the GP description of the Wife as well as that in WBP, offers a Freudian analysis…
Štrmelj, Lidija.
Časopis za Književnost, Kulturu i Književno Prevođenje / A Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation 12 (2021). 27 pp.
Compares conceptual metaphors in MilT and in its Croatian translation by Luko Paljetak (1986) in order to determine which metaphors are "conventional in both languages and cultures." In Croatian, with an English abstract.
Strohm, Paul
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 72 (1971): 69-76.
Records the generally positive view of Chaucer as a "compilator" of CT found in Bibliothèque Nationale Paris MS, fonds anglais 39, once owned by John of Angoulême. The rubrics of the manuscript, executed by the scribe Duxworth, record particular…
Strohm, Paul, and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds.
Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985.
Papers presented at the Fourth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of York, August 6-11, 1984, selected and revised. For nineteen essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1…
