Allen, Mark,and Bege K. Bowers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 18 (1996): 317-96.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on MLA Bibliography listings, contributions from an international team, and independent research. A total of 352 items, including reviews.
Allen, Mark,and Bege K. Bowers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997): 353-447.
Continuation of "Studies in the Age of Chaucer" annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on 1995 "MLA Bibliography" listings, contributions from an international bibliographic team, and independent research.
Allen, Mark,and Bege K. Bowers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 20 (1998): 335-438.
Continuation of "Studies in the Age of Chaucer" annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on 1995 "MLA Bibliography" listings, contributions from an international bibliographic team, and independent research.
Allen, Mark,and Bege K. Bowers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21: 409-93, 1999.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 309 items, plus listing of reviews for 62 books.
Allen, Mark,and Bege K. Bowers.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23: 615-99, 2001.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 268 items, plus listing of reviews for 70 books. Includes an author…
Allen, Mark.
South Central Review 8 (1991): 36-49.
The imagery of falling reinforces CT's penitential motif at the end of PardT, in NPP, in ManP, and in Ret, affectively leading the reader "through art to morality."
Allen, Mark.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 9 (1987): 77-96.
Wrongly used speech and counsels to silence in ManT should be read in terms of fourteenth-century Lenten sermons indicating the necessity of speech for the sacrament of penance. Like SNT and CYT, ManT with its emphasis on transformation prepares…
Allen, Mark.
Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D.S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 9-21.
In the transformation from Deduit in the "Roman de la Rose" to the Host of CT, and in the actions of the Host during the pilgrimage, we can see intersections of gender and class as Chaucer constructs the Host's distinctively "bourgeois masculinity."
Reader theory helps us better appreciate LGW: the schema trust/doubt/questioning/self-reliance reveals subtle complexities in the relationships among reader, poet, and moral and literary traditions.
Allen, Peter Lewis.
Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (1985): 2516-7A.
Although classical and medieval rhetorics stress conventional "topoi," love poetry also supposedly emphasizes originality and sincerity. Certain classical and medieval poets including Chaucer ironically play off convention against their own ideas.
Allen, Robert J.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 55 (1956): 393-405.
Argues that themes of the "nature of literary art" and "the material with which the literary artist deals" unify the HF: the opening of the poem focuses on how "literary artist's imagination finds expression"; the eagle articulates an intellectual…
Explores the history and utilities of various forms of notebook, emphasizing their commercial roots and widespread uses, claiming in a brief section that Chaucer, on his 1372/73 trip to Florence, "must have seen" there "how plentiful, and cheap,…
Allen, Rosamund S.
Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen, eds. Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry. King's College London Medieval Studies, no. 5 (London: King's College Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1991), pp. 122-42.
Reads Seige as an attempt to provide CT with "a sense of closure and completeness" by supplying the tale of Thebes to balance the plot, style, and themes of KnT. The poem capitalizes on the popularity of CT and acknowledges Chaucer's greatness.
Allen, Valerie, and Ares Axiotis, eds.
New York: St. Martin's, 1996.
Reprints fourteen essays originally published in the 1980s and 1990s, all pertaining to CT and characterized by their contemporary theoretical approaches. In the introduction, the editors survey critical approaches to Chaucer and provide suggestions…
Allen, Valerie, and David Kirkham, eds.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
School-text edition of the GP description of the Franklin and FranPT, accompanied, on facing pages, by extensive glossing and pedagogical commentary and discussion questions. Includes brief essays on pertinent topics, including gentilesse, astronomy…
Allen, Valerie, and David Kirkham,eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1998.
Middle English text of WBPT and the GP description of the Wife of Bath, with notes, glossary, and discussion questions on facing pages. Includes commentary on Chaucer's life, contemporary social issues (including pilgrimage), and the rest of CT.…