Turner, Marion.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Scholarly Research Reviews. Free access available at http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.001.0001/oxfordhb-97 80199935338-e-58?skey=ycbEz7&result=1. 2015 (accessed February 23, 2019).
Surveys "current critical trends" in Chaucer studies, focusing on "twenty-first-century interest in interconnectedness, intersubjectivity, and cultural networks." Then discusses "Chaucer's own understanding of the construction of the self in relation…
Cervone, Cristina Maria.
English Language Notes 53.2 (2015): 103-17.
Explores "inversions of the material and the immaterial" in the description of the temple of Mars in KnT, describing how the narrator of the description is both "subjectless and immaterial," and investigating "how we think about what we imagine we…
Cross, Cameron.
Iranian Studies: Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies 48 (2015): 395-422.
Uses KnT as a "comparand" in understanding the tension between "outrage and reason" in the tale of Rostam and Sohrab in Fardowsi's medieval Persian frame-tale narrative "Shahnameh" (Book of Kings). Like Fardowsi's, Chaucer's Tale struggles and…
Johnston, Andrew James.
Gabriele Rippl, ed. Handbook of Intermediality: Literature--Image--Sound--Music (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015), pp. 50–64.
Describes "medieval approaches to vision, to the relations between text and image and to ekphrasis" before assessing KnT as Chaucer's critique of "attempts to essentialise and keep separate different media and genres, especially the verbal and the…
Christopher, Joe R.
Salwa Khoddam, Mark R. Hall, and Jason Fisher, eds. C. S. Lewis and the Inklings: Reflections on Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015), pp. 121-32.
Explores why C. S. Lewis chose not to discuss FranT in his "Allegory of Love," arguing that Lewis made the decision because he wanted to attribute the "final defeat of courtly love by the romantic conception of marriage" to Edmund Spenser in his…
Sweeney, Michelle.
Essays in Medieval Studies 30 (2015): 165-78.
Examines how "knights are reformed" and some are "even saved by the women who tempt them" in several medieval romances, including Chretien's "Knight of the Cart"; Marie de France's "Lanval"; "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; and FranT, where Dorigen…
Spearing, A. C.
Digital Philology 4.1 (2015): 59-105.
Questions the "narrator theory of narration," critiquing the "concept of the internal, potentially unreliable narrator"; examining "the history of the term narrator"; studying "the theories of narration implied by scribal annotations in some medieval…
Linkinen, Tom.
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015.
Includes a chapter, "Sharing Laughter" (pp. 205-32), that identifies examples from late medieval art and literature where laughter constitutes "moral censorship" of same-sex desire or actions, then focuses on the Pardoner; his relation with the…
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this facsimile of Dove's musical score includes a libretto by Alasdair Middleton based on ShT, and Italian singing translation by Adam Pollock. Also published as the third part of Dove's trilogy:…
Peksen, Azime.
Mehmet Ali Celikel and Baysar Taniyan, eds. English Studies: New Perspectives (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015), pp. 36-45.
Analyzes how May in MerT and the wife in ShT "evade the oppressions" of marriage and "subvert their subjugation through negotiating and challenging the mercantile narration." Each female protagonist "generates her own meanings and pleasure."
Stuhr, Tracy Jill.
Dissertation Abstracts International 77.03 (E) (2015): n.p.
Examines "how the non-human (the natural, not the other-worldly) world and its creatures were voiced in several late medieval English texts," including NPT and ManT.
Howard, H. Wendall.
Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 18.3 (2015): 15-32.
Considers the historicity of St. Cecilia, her association with music, and various accounts of her life and legend, including the "Passio Caeciliae," SNT, an opera by Licinio Refice and Emidio Mucci, John Dryden's "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day,"…
Rand, Kari Anne.
Studia Neophilologica 87 (2015): 15-35
Presents new evidence that "shows that the author [of Equat] was not Chaucer," connecting the unique manuscript of the treatise (Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 75.I) with the work and life of John Westwyk, a monk of Tynemouth. Includes paleographical…
Argues that in the Dido account of LGW Chaucer "channels" deep-seated cultural "anxiety about Phoenicians as he asserts his place in a Roman-centered Western tradition." By "removing the story of Dido's diasporic leadership, and misidentifying her…
Trivellini, Samanta.
Interferences litteraires / Literaire interferenties 17 (2015): 85-99. Available at http://www.interferenceslitteraires.be.
Considers four frame-tale versions of the Philomela story--Margaret Atwood's "Nightingale" in "The Tent" (2006), George Pettie's in "A Petite Pallace of Pettie His Pleasure" (1576), Chaucer's in LGW, and Gower's in "Confessio Amantis"--focusing on…
Meecham-Jones, Simon.
Stephanie Downes, Andrew Lynch, and Katrina O'Loughlin, eds. Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 77–97.
Considers the concept of "manhod" (3.428) in TC in relation to critical discussions of Troilus's masculinity, reading Troilus's emotions in light of late medieval literary and social conventions and arguing that Chaucer's experiment in emotion is…
Describes the "role Troy played in medieval literary imagination" as a foundation myth, and explores how the "destinies of some of the major figures" in TC are "inextricably" interwoven with that of Troy. Includes an abstract in English and in…
Bennett, Kristen Abbott.
Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, August 10, 2015: n.p.
Includes discussion of the influence of Chaucer's Purse and Thomas Hoccleve's "La male regle" on Thomas Nashe's "Pierce Penilesse," examining the elements of comedy and "moral uncertainty" in Chaucer's poem and its "accretion of polygeneric…
Hughes, Jacob Alden.
Dissertation Abstracts International A75.11 (2015): n.p.
Identifies characters throughout Shakespeare's canon who "process and engage Chaucer's ideas on theater, authorship and performance," and demonstrate "how Chaucer's poetry is relevant to drama and theatricality."
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
An extended essay in "thinking beyond anthropocentrality" by appreciating "lithic" ontology and "geophilia" ("geology without dispassion"), an example of posthumanist, object-oriented consideration that seeks to dislodge assumptions about…
Kern-Stähler, Annette.
In Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann, and Ansgar Nünning, eds. A History of British Poetry: Genre--Developments--Interpretations (Trier: WVT, 2015), pp. 29–40.
Introduces Chaucer as a poet and explores reasons for his canonical status, describing his use of English, his lexicon, and his verse forms. Focuses on CT as "arguably one of the most innovative narrative poems in English," commenting on the opening…
Fesko, J. V.
In Ronald S. Baines, ed. By Common Confession: Essays in Honor of James M. Renihan (Palmdale, Calif.: Reformed Baptist Academic Press, 2015), pp. 17-37.
Argues that ClT allegorically "reveals key elements of a medieval doctrine of justification," reading Walter as God and Griselda as a "reformed sinner." The tale also "provides a window into how a number of key scriptural texts figured into this…
