Chaucer Bibliography Online
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Chaucer Bibliography Online
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The Self-fashioning of Chaucer's Franklin: The Performance of Chaucer's Franklin.
Provides background to franklins in medieval England and uses Stephen Greenblatt's notion of "self-fashioning" to assess the characterization of the Franklin in GP, in his words to the Squire (Sq-FranL), and in FranT as an "embodiment of the 'new…
Humour in the Petitionary Poems by Chaucer and Hoccleve.
Describes the comic humor of Chaucer's Purse and Thomas Hoccleve's "Complaint to Lady Money" and "La Response,"
The Cooks of the Canterbury Tales: The Backstage of Bourgeois Social Drama.
Uses Victor Turner's idea of "social drama" and medieval notions of the status of food, cooks, and kitchen work to argue that, in GP, the Franklin's cook and the Cook of the Guildsmen effectively reflect and/or reinforce the social aspirations of…
The Change in Chaucerian Aesthetics: From The "Tale of Sir Thopas" to "The Tale of Melibee."
Argues that the shift from exaggerated romance to philosophical discourse between Th and Mel, the voicing of these tales by Chaucer as narrator, and the responses of the pilgrims to the two tales, indicate a general shift of "literary aesthetics"…
Chaucerian Laughter in a "Litel" Tragedy: Humour in "Troilus and Criseyde."
Argues that through "exaggeration of romance and courtly love elements" in TC and the "heavenly laughter" of Troilus at the poem's end, Chaucer "turns the tragic story of Troilus and Criseyde first into a comedy then into a divine comedy."
"With face pale": Melancholy Violence in John Lydgate's Troy and Thebes.
Assesses John Lydgate as "the premier learned war poet of the later English Middle Ages," exploring his "Troy Book" and "Seige of Thebes" for the ways they depict the violence of war. Includes recurrent attention to Lydgate's sources, Chaucer's TC,…
Histoire et Poésie: La Femme de Bath de Geoffrey Chaucer et la Comédie de l’Allégorie Eschatologique.
Challenges D.W. Robertson's approach to allegory and to the WBP, arguing that the medieval outlook was more flexible than Robertson asserted, more capable of varied attitudes toward present times, the historical past, the eschatological future, and…
From Manuscripts to Printed Books: Behind the Scenes of the Appearance of The Complete Works of Chaucer.
Surveys the presentation of CT in manuscripts and printed books up to the publication of William Thynne's first complete works of Chaucer (1532). Focuses on editorial principles and concepts such as compilatio, authorship, and collation. In Japanese.
Reading 4: Voyages. 3rd ed.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate this classroom anthology, designed for use in elementary school, includes an adaptation of NPT by Berry.
The Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer in a Modern English Version.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this is a translation of KnT into Modern English prose.
The House of Fame.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this is a translation of HF into Modern English verse.
The Parliament of Fowls.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this is a translation of PF into Modern English verse.
Figurações do Humor em Geoffrey Chaucer—Uma Leitura de "The Canterbury Tales."
Revised version of "Humor e Ironia em Geoffrey Chaucer: O Conto do Molerio X O Conto do Feitor" (2013)
Humor e Ironia em Geoffrey Chaucer: O Conto do Molerio X O Conto do Feitor.
Assesses humor and irony in MilT and RvT, with attention to satire and Bakhtinian concerns of social class. In Portuguese, with an abstract in English. Revised by Márcia Maria de Medeiros as "Figurações do Humor em Geoffrey Chaucer—Uma Leitura…
A Study of the Textual Affiliations of Chaucer's "Melibeus" Considered in Its Relation to the French Source.
Compares "the accepted and variant readings of 'Melibeus' with the corresponding passages in the French source, 'Le Livre de Melibee et Prudence'," assessing variants from fifty-seven manuscriptsof Mel and arguing that there was "an earlier version…
Sources of Chaucer's Corones Two.
Item not seen. Apparently pertains to TC 2.1735 and/or SNT 8.221.
This England.
Illustrated anthology of English literature and literary criticism from Old English into the twentieth century, with a section entitled "The Time of Chaucer" that includes NPT and PardT, along with "Interesting Sidelights," "The Royal Tree," and "The…
Laughter in a Damp Climate: An Anthology of British Humour.
Comments on the legacy of Chaucer's humor in English literature, and includes a brief introduction to CT and selections from GP (descriptions of Wife Bath, Miller, Summoner, and Pardoner) in modern English translation (by Nevill Coghill), accompanied…
Chaucer.
Edits portions of CT (KnT, MilT, WBP, MerT, FranT, PardT, NPT, and PrT), selections from TC, and from lyrics (Truth, MercB) in Middle English, with introduction, notes, and glossary.
La Historia de Troilo y Cresida en Chaucer y en Shakespeare: Evolución y Psicología del Personaje Pandaro.
Item not seen. Identified in WorldCat record.
Chaucer: The Franklin's Tale.
Item not seen. WorldCat record notes that FranT is "Rendered into modern English prose by John Hobday."
Sense of Humour.
Introduces and anthologizes examples of humor in English literature, and critical analyses of it, arranged topically by humorous technique; includes Nevill Coghill's modern translation of the GP descriptions of the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner under…
Chaucer.
Edits portions of CT (KnT, MilT, WBP, MerT, FranT, PardT, NPT, and PrT), selections from TC, and from lyrics (Truth, MercB) in Middle English, with introduction, notes, and glossary.
Gender Transgression and Political Subversiveness in Geoffrey Chaucer’s "Troilus and Criseyde."
Observes tensions between masculine, political responsibilities Troilus has to his state and feminized submissiveness to his "sovereyn" Criseyde, grounding these tensions in medieval critiques of courtly love and aligning Troilus's submission with…
Generic Mix in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales."
Indicates Chaucer's mixture of genres in CT, and assesses the "inversion of normative genres and usage of multigeneric construction" in NPT to convey significant themes and in ManT to pose a disturbing "pseudo-moral." Includes an abstract in Serbian.