Chaucer Bibliography Online
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Chaucer Bibliography Online
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Re-Telling Old Stories: Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextual Commentary.
Focuses on KnT, ClT, and MkT to demonstrate that Chaucer "models his treatment" of his source-authors--Boccaccio and Petrarch--"on their own strategies of intertextual play," arguing that "intertextual engagement goes beyond mere imitation, and can…
Reading Lydgate's Troy Book: Patronage, Politics, and History in Lancastrian England.
Examines Lydgate's "Troy Book" as "as a vehicle to propagate the idea that the House of Lancaster is the legitimate successor to King Richard II in order to smooth over the usurpation of 1399." Acknowledges that "Chaucer had a definitive impact on…
Theorizing in Unfamiliar Contexts: New Directions in Translation Studies.
Uses "abductive logic" to infer "translators' probable understandings of their own actions, and compares these with the reasoning" provided by various theories of translation, assessing as case studies Chaucer's use of translation in CT (especially…
Variorum Vitae: Theseus and the Arts of Mythography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Focuses on the "complex textual contingency" of the figure of Theseus in the "history of mythographical discourse," exploring "the fragmentary, fluid and polymorphous nature of mythology" in a wide variety of medieval and early modern texts--English,…
Families, Fictions, and Seeing through Things: Re-reading Langland, Chaucer, and the "Pearl"-Poet.
Uses the "two models" of "genealogy and thing theory" to explore "the generation of meaning in medieval texts," addressing issues of differences between the "Chaucerian" tradition and the "Piers Plowman" tradition and the processes of their…
Revisionary Retelling: The Metapoetics of Authorship in Medieval England.
Explores how Marie de France, the 'Orfeo' poet, Thomas Chestre, Chaucer, and John Lydgate "tell stories about the possibilities and problems of vernacular retelling . . . [and] imagine and enact a type of authorship--and a type of authority--based in…
The Afterlife of the Medieval Dream Poem in the English Renaissance.
Argues "that poets after Chaucer employ the dream form not simply in imitation of their master but rather to assert for themselves the same freedom to write imaginative fictions that Chaucer found in the form," exploring Chaucer's dream visions,…
The Invisible Art of Alchemy: Chaucer to the Graphic Novel.
"[I]nvestigates literary and pictorial manuscripts on the subject pf alchemy in conjunction with the theories surrounding sequential art," i.e., "comics theory," considering selected works, from CYPT to modern graphic novels. Opens with a "close…
The Language of the Body: An Analysis of Chaucer, Dunbar and Henryson.
Explores how "multiple modes of discourse" about the body--medical, philosophical, religious, and courtly--underlie works by Chaucer, Dunbar, and Henryson, arguing that CT, through its multiplicity of voices, "demonstrates fundamental medieval…
The Literature of Sovereignty in Late Medieval England.
Treats GP among a number of other works in Middle English, arguing that its uses of estates satire align with notions of individual responsibility found in Henry Bracton's legal discourse, "De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae." Also considers MLT…
Wikked Wyves and Blythe Bachelers: Secular Misogamy from Juvenal to Chaucer.
Assesses secular misogamy as a topos "exploited in early Western literature for two fundamental purposes: propaganda and entertainment," dividing it into four categories: Pagan, Ascetic, Philosophic, and General. Discusses WBP in the latter category…
Evolution Narrative et Polyphonie Littéraire dans l'Oeuvre de Geoffrey Chaucer.
Argues that "Chaucer's decision to write in Middle-English . . . was consistent with an intellectual movement that was trying to give back to European vernaculars the prestige necessary to a genuine cultural production, which eventually led to the…
"Fin' amors," Arabic learning, and the Islamic World in the Work of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Demonstrates that "Chaucer's portrayal of fin' amors is informed by Arabic learning in the related fields of medicine, natural philosophy, astrology and alchemy, disseminated through Latin translations from the Iberian Peninsula in particular."…
The Poetics of Alchemical Engagement: The Allegorical Journey to God in Ripley and Norton after Chaucer.
Argues that "fifteenth-century alchemical poets, George Ripley and Thomas Norton, perceived themselves to be 'Chaucerian' in far deeper ways than has been recognized," joining "author, reader and pilgrim on an essentially hermeneutical journey to…
In the Words of Others: Exotic Documents and Vernacular Anxieties in Medieval England.
Examines anxieties about the status of the vernacular and cultural identity in late medieval England, particularly as evident in "exotic documents" found in Middle English narratives. Includes discussion of such documents in "Alexander and Didimus,"…
Re-Examining the Female Voice in Chaucer's Italian-Sourced Works: A Study in Paleography, Textual Transmission, and Masculinity.
Defines "medieval female voice" as "any instance of thought or speech by a female character" and "evaluates the alterations made (by Chaucer and scribes) to five Italian-sourced female voices" in KnT (Emelye and Ypolita), MerT (May), FranT (Dorigen),…
Guilt and Creativity in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Explores the "sense of guilt and uncertainty about the value of creative literature" in Chaucer's works, particularly as it generates "expansive, questioning poetics" in HF and "problematises the principle of allegory" in the final fragments of CT,…
Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts.
Outlines "the history and theory of BDSM [bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism]" and explores "concepts of fantasy, performance, consent, and eroticized violence" in "Sir Gowther," "The Book of Margery Kempe,"…
Anthologizing Women: Medieval Genre, Gender and Genital Poetics.
"[I]nvestigates three medieval manuscript collections--compiled in the 14th and 15th centuries in Herefordshire, Derbyshire and East Anglia, respectively--that are significant in their similarly implied female readerships, their thematic treatment of…
"Unstabled, according to the place": Setting and Convention in Chaucerian Dream Poetry.
Argues "that conventions of setting, familiar themes or locations which create expectations in the reader about the content of the dream itself, provide a valuable and largely overlooked perspective upon the genre of Chaucerian dream poetry."…
Chaucer en Espagne? (1366).
Republishes (from 1890) a document originally from the "Cartulario" of Carlos II, king of Navarre, correctly transcribing Chaucer's name (Chauserre rather than Chanserre), and suggesting that he was granted safe-conduct in Spain to participate in…
The Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray.
Studies the use of pictorial imagery in neoclassical English poetry, its aesthetic effects, and the "tradition out of which it grew," from the classics forward. Includes discussion of the Chaucer's ekphrastic descriptions in HF, KnT, and Rom,…
Sincerity in Medieval English Language and Literature.
Pragmatic analysis of the historical development in early English of the ideal of sincerity and of "affective-linguistic" apology. Identifies the roots of sincerity in Christian devotion and traces its literary and historical developments among…
Storia della Letteratura Inglese: La Tradizione Letteraria dell'Inghilterra Medioevale.
Includes a brief biography of Chaucer and a lengthy chronological work-by-work introduction to his oeuvre. Also includes a chapter on Chaucerian apocrypha, relations with Gower, and influence on later poets.
Anglo Antologio: 1000-1800.
Anthologizes translations of selections and excerpts from English poetry and prose into Esperanto; by various translators. The selection from Chaucer (Purse and a portion of WBP 3.35-134) is translated by William Auld.