Stubbs, Estelle.
Review of English Studies 58 (2007): 133-53.
Codicological analyses of the structure and details of Corpus Christi 198 support early suggestions by Carleton Brown, Charles Owen, and John Fisher about Chaucer's ongoing revision of CT, especially when considered in light of other early…
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.
Sturges, Robert S.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.
Stressing the role of the reader in finding meaning, Sturges traces the development of a "belief in an indeterminacy of literary meaning." Alongside Neo-Platonism and the "directed vision" typical of the early Middle Ages, a "new mind set emphasized…
Sturges, Robert S.
ANQ: A Quarterly Journal l of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 4 (1991): 63-67.
Two allusions to birds of mythology suggest the "conflicts of signification" in TC; their ambiguity makes the reader "an active participant in the poem."
Sturges, Robert S.
Modern Language Studies 13:2 (1983): 41-51.
Women narrators--Wife of Bath, Prioress, and Second Nun--seek either earthly or spiritual authority over men in CT and establish female poetic tradition, invoking powerful females archetypes.
Sturges, Robert S.
Jeffrey Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler, eds. Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (New York and London: Garland, 1997), pp. 261-77.
Provides Freudian and Lacanian analysis of two references to veils in the GP sketch of the Pardoner and the Host's threat at the end of PardT. The Pardoner's vernicle signifies his collusion with masculinist equations of penis and word, while his…
Sturges, Robert S.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Examines the Pardoner as an example of the "fixities and fluidities of fourteenth-century discourses about gender." Potentially subversive, the Pardoner is also a patriarchal figure and "anxious to assume the signs of a phallic and authoritative…
Sturges, Robert S.
College Literature 33 (2006): 52-76.
Sturges assesses the Pardoner and Kit from the Prologue to Beryn as "comic critiques" of fifteenth-century urban concerns about class and gender. Three metaphors define urban space in the narrative: cathedral, walls, and tavern.
Sturges, Robert S.
Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 28-42.
Sturges applies Giorgio Agamben's theory of sovereignty to TC, exploring shifting figures of sovereignty in the poem (the people, parliament, Hector) and measuring the extent to which Troilus and Criseyde live in a "state of exception" (an Agambenian…
Sturges, Robert S.
Jessica Munns and Penny Richards, eds. Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe (Harlow, U.K.: Pearson/Longman, 2003), pp. 40-54.
Focuses on John Heywood's "The Foure PP" and on the "Tale of Beryn" for their uses of the figure of the "Chaucerian Pardoner" and his "irreducible ambiguity" as a means to explore the "rule of the phallus" and the ways that each of the two texts…
Sturges, Robert S.
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 120-44.
Focuses on TC's connections with Dante's "Convivio" and "Vita nuova." Although there is no "evidence for direct borrowing from the 'Vita nova,'" Sturges claims that Chaucer's and Dante's "sensory aspects of love" are similar in the three works,…
The pathetic tales must been seen in connection with the Ricardian emphasis on emotionalism and the commonality of Christ's human nature and man's. The aim of the pathetic voice is not to make any sweeping statement of human experience but to…
Sturm-Maddox, Sara.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 119-34.
Argues for the "strong intertextual presence" of Machaut's "Remede de Fortune" in BD, reflective of developments in late medieval francophone and anglophone social history. Both poems combine praise for an idealized lady with an account of the…
Sudo, Jan.
Studies in English Literature (Tokyo) 45 (1969): 221-36.
Explores the possible originations of select rhyming pairs in Chaucer's works, especially those involving proper names, observing Latin and Continental precedents and also commenting on recurrent non-onomastic rhymes that involve semantic…
Sudo, Jun.
Michio Kawai, ed. Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honour of Michio Masui. The English Association of Hiroshima (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1991), pp. 361-73.
The proem of each book of TC summarizes the gist of the following story and establishes a suitable mood through invocation to appropriate gods.
Sudo, Jun.
Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Sachiho Tanaka (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 1988), pp. 25-39.
Examines the words "drinke" (TC 2.651), "dwale" (RvT 4161), "pervynke" (Rom 1432), and "herber" (TC 2.1705) and passages in CYT, NPT, KnT, and MerT, maintaining that Chaucer displays ample knowledge of medieval herbal lore.
By comparing Chaucer's TC with Boccaccio's "Filostrato" in sounds, grammar, word choice, similes and metaphors, ambiguities, and construction, the article investigates Chaucer's literary and linguistic imitation and humorous innovation.
Sudo, Jun.
Takashi Suzuki and Tsuyoshi Mukai, eds. Arthurian and Other Studies Presented to Sunichi Noguchi. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 219-30.
Tallies Chaucer's uses of words and phrases derived from Old Norse, suggesting that they indicate Norse permeation of Chaucer's London dialect.
Sudo, Jun.
Nobuyuki Yuasa et al., eds. Essays on English Language and Literature in Honour of Michio Kawai (Tokyo: Eihosha, 1993), pp. 19-27.
Surveys stylistic characteristics of KnT including abbreviation, parallel expression, repetition of synonyms, alliteratation, catalogs, similes, and archaisms.
Sudo, Jun.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 81-93.
In Chaucer's TC and in Boccaccio's "Filostrato," love is irresistible. Sudo considers Pandarus's role in effecting love's irresistibility and assesses the function of nautical imagery in conveying it.
Examines the word "red," its connotations, and the evolution of related color words such as "crimson" and "peach" from Old English through 1900, focusing on Shakespeare and Chaucer.
