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…
Baldini, Gabriele.
Turino: Edizioni Radio Italiana, 1958.
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.
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.
Collects fifteen essays by Itô, thirteen previously printed (most in Japanese); all here are translated into English in revised form. Gower's relation to Chaucer is a recurrent concern, along with rhetoric, style, sources, themes, verse forms, and…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 25-38.
Compares the aesthetic virtues and limitations of MLT in comparison with Gower's Tale of Constance, observing how Gower's account is more proportionate than Chaucer’s, even though the latter exhibits more complex characterization, humor, and…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 39-59.
Compares and contrasts the style, characterization, sentiment, and structure of nine narratives of shared subject matter among Chaucer's and Gower's works. Concludes that Gower's are superior in formal features, "such as balance and unity," but that…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 101-18.
Compares Gower's art and skill in using rhyme royal stanzas with Chaucer's, arguing that Chaucer's are superior and more flexibly adapted to narrative, largely because the "fetters of the ballade stanza" constrain Gower's dexterity. Originally…
Ito, Masayoshi.
John Gower, The Medieval Poet (Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin, 1976), pp. 80-100.
Explores Gower's development of his Tale of Jason and Medea in light of its sources and multiple analogues, emphasizing its success as a "beautiful love story." Includes points of comparison with Chaucer's version in LGW. Originally published in…
Farrell, Thomas J.
Journal of the Early Book Society 25 (2022): 71-110
Analyzes the textual record of RvT and identifies nineteen witnesses "committed to accurate transmission" of its northernisms whereas others translate northern dialect features or fail to recognize them (e.g., "sal" for "shall"). Discusses the…
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Zhou, Yue.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 67 (2023): 19-35.
Analyzes nature-related adjectives in TC. Key findings include Chaucer's enhancement of Venus's role, symbolic natural imagery reflecting Criseyde's betrayal, and a sympathetic tone toward her in descriptions of animals and plants.
Examines the last stanza of TC, the first three lines of which are translated almost verbatim from Dante''s "Paradiso" (14.28-30), and argues that the ending not only affirms Chaucer's debt to Dante, but is crucial for an understanding of the poem.…
Shupe, Deirdra M.
Ph.D. dissertation (Florida State University, 2021), Dissertation Abstracts International A 82.12(E). Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed February 2, 2025).
Argues that the "use of ill bodies in storytelling acts as a virus" so that, when familiar narratives are retold, "the image of ailing bodies will spread to future versions," often mutating. Links lovesickness in TC to leprosy in Henryson's…
Sanok, Catherine.
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 34 (2022): 252-59.
Explores relations among "crisis, ambivalence, and futurity," focusing on TC and "Amis and Amiloun," "assessing Criseyde''s ambivalence about returning to Troy as "an affective correlative of crisis" and Amis's ambivalence about the sacrificial…
Niebrzydowski, Sue.
Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 52–69.
Focuses on Troilus's love letters in TC, and on Absolon''sin MilT and Damyan's in MerT, reading them in light of courtly conventions and placing them "in dialogue with the impact of love missives as recorded in manuscripts that circulated in the…
Lochrie, Karma.
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 34 (2022): 267-73.
Points to Chaucer's coinage of the English word "future" in his translation of Boethius in Bo, and considers Criseyde's use of it in TC (5.746) and her concern with her future reputation (5.1058–64). Aligns the poem's themes of "human futurity" and…
Introduces a cross-cultural classroom "assignment in which students make their own adaptations of Middle English texts," discussing three samples of undergraduate student projects as examples--on "Sir Orfeo," "Sir Gowther," and TC respectively. The…
Heor, Woo Ree.
Ph.D. dissertation (City University of New York, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A84.11(E). Freely accessible at https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5372 (accessed January 31, 2025).
Identifies a "dichotomy of fascination and revulsion towards Troy" in several Middle English narratives, and argues that in TC and Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," Criseyde "signifies the repeated theme of loss and treachery inherent in the…
Fruoco, Jonathan, ed. and trans., with Barry Windeatt.
Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023.
Middle English text and French translation of TC, with introduction and commentary in French. Includes a chronology of Chaucer's life; a bibliography; and indices of names, places, and works.
Correia, Eduardo.
Ph.D. dissertation (King's College London, 2022), Dissertation Abstracts International C84.01(E). Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed January 30, 2025).
Uses "mostly . . . a phenomenological approach" to explore "how objects in Medieval English Literature disrupt individual linear time." Addresses various texts and, in a chapter on TC, argues that "Criseyde is representative of Freudian melancholia"…
Contzen, Eva von.
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 175 (2023): 62-81.
Argues that Kynaston's Latin translation of Books I and II of TC, published in 1635, exemplifies "heterochrony"--a "temporal counter-site located in the present and indicative of alternative modernities." Addresses the "perceived outdatedness of…
Focuses on the scene of "intimacy" between Pandarus and Criseyde in TC and its excision from Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," arguing that Chaucer's expansion/embellishment of the original in Boccaccio's "Filostrato" compels the audience to…
Centers on LGW, 212-18, where Alceste, the Queen of Love, has an appearance similar to a daisy, and suggests that a source for this could be Remigius of Auxerre's "Commentum in Martianum Capellam."
Garcia, Anca Olguta Giorgiana.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of South Florida, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A85.01 (E). Accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed January 1, 2025).
Applies modern trauma theory to medieval English texts: "Beowulf," "Dream of the Rood," "Pearl," and LGW. Addresses sexual abuse and the witnessing of such abuse in LGW, focusing on "tropes of indirection, silence, and repetition."
Dumitrescu, Irina.
Uwe Baumann, Marc Laureys, and Konrad Vössing, eds. Heroinnen und Heldinnen in Geschichte, Kunst und Literatur (Göttingen: V&R unipress; Bonn University Press, 2022), pp. 357-74.
Argues that the female protagonists of LGW are heroic in their combinations of strength and suffering, and, "adapting a notion of charisma from Joseph Roach," characterizes their heroism as "charismatic.""The "extraordinary virtues and qualities" of…
