Orton, Daniel.
DPhil. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2019. v, 282 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International C83.06(E). Freely accessible at https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dfc9eb17-71d5-425f-a7b1-2e835310e322; abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Surveys interrelated attitudes toward the "status and function of poetry" in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe, limning poetry's exalted status in the Parisian schools and in the writings of Roger Bacon and Alberto Mussato, and exemplifying…
Al-Ibia, Salim E.
Studies in Language and Literature (Montreal) 11.1 (2015): 57-61.
Supports the so-called "Bradshaw Shift" that recommends moving fragment VII of CT to a position just after fragment II, arguing that the move better enhances the "thematic relationship among" ShT, and the fabliaux of fragment I, MilT, and RvT.
Nafde, Aditi.
D.Phil Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2012. Dissertation Abstracts International C73.08 and C81.07(E). Fully accessible at https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b2c67783-b797-494a-b792-368c14d1fe49. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Includes analysis the "mise-en-page" of twenty-four Chaucer manuscripts, including assessment of "borders, initials, paraphs, rubrics, running titles, speaker markers, glosses and notes," and arguing that--like Gower and Hoccleve manuscripts--they…
Herrold, Megan.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Southern California, 2018. Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
Explores how Chaucer, Gower, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aemilia Lanyer, and other writers "appropriate conventionally misogynistic figures to rethink radically the ethical and political capacities of personhood, and therefore justice, in society."…
Gillhammer, Cosima Clara.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2020. Dissertation Abstracts International C82.02(E). Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. Fully accessible via https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c3244a71-a6fa-4646-aeb3-9902e055a290.
Edits Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29, a moralized "compilation of reworked extracts from a wide range of sources, forming a history of the world beginning with the creation of man and breaking off incompletely at the time of Hannibal." The…
Strakhov, Yelizaveta. [Strakhov, Elizaveta].
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Pennsylvania, 2014. Dissertation Abstracts International A76.01(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
Studies aesthetic and political relations between France and Francophone England during the Hundred Years' War, with particular attention to uses and politics of the "formes fixes" of lyric poetry among French writers, Chaucer, and Gower. Examines…
Wagner, Erin Kathleen.
Wagner, Erin Kathleen. Linguam Ad Loquendum: Writing a Vernacular Identity in Medieval and Early Modern England. Ph.D. Dissertation. Ohio State University, 2015. Dissertation Abstracts International A81.12(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Abstracts.
Studies uses of and attitudes toward vernacular English in late-medieval and early modern writing, literary and religious, from Wyclif and the Lollards to Tyndale and More. Includes comparison of ManT with Gower's analogous Tale of Phebus and…
Ensley, Mimi.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Notre Dame, 2019. Dissertation Abstracts International A81.09(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (last accessed March 31, 2025).
Includes recurrent comments on early modern reception of Chaucer and his status as a laureate poet, with focused attention on the spurious attribution to Chaucer of the romance "Kynge Rycharde cuer du lyon" found in an annotation to the work in the…
Elmes, Melissa Ridley.
Ph.D. Dissertation. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2016. Dissertation Abstracts International A77.11(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and at https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/listing.aspx?id=19566.
From Elmes's abstract: "Making use of theoretical underpinnings from anthropology and history that characterize the feast as a culturally essential event and medieval violence as a rational and strategically-employed tool of constraint, coercion, and…
Turner, Marion.
Turner, Marion. Urban Chaucer: Fragmented Fellowships and Troubled Teleologies in Some Late Fourteenth-Century Texts. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Oxford, 2002. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.03. Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
"This thesis examines the depiction of social antagonism in certain texts written in the 1380s and 1390s, in the London area. It focuses on Chaucer, looking at 'Troilus and Criseyde' and the 'Canterbury Tales' alongside other, contemporary texts.…
Jackson, Shirley.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958.
A novel of family tensions, centering on death, possessiveness, and the legacy of a household estate. A central image is the sundial of the title, on display in the family library. Inscribed on the sundial is a half-line quotation of KnT 1.2777:…
McDuffie, Isaac
Ph.D. Dissertation. Louisiana State University, 2017.
Freely accessible at https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/4182/; accessed February 5, 2025.
Argues that Chaucer's works "reflect an increasing awareness of the fragility of the author's implied voice and the dangers of misprision in a listening reception," largely an effect of the rise of English as a written language and tensions between…
Heartfield, Kate.
[California]: Choice of Games, 2018.
Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this “continually updated,” interactive historical novel involves Chaucer and Philippa de Roet on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, with the reader joining the pilgrimage and helping to shape the plot.
Wilson, Herman Pledger.
Dissertation Abstracts 16.11 (1956): 2154.
Identifies the "characteristics" of Chaucer's prose style in Bo, Mel, ParT, and Astr, comparing and contrasting them, and arguing that his reputation as a prose stylist has suffered because of linguistic changes and changes in taste.
Tornwall, William Allen.
Dissertation Abstracts 16.09 (1956): 1676.
Ranges throughout Chaucer's corpus, exploring imagery in a wide variety of works, arranged in five chapters: "Chaucer's Imagery and the Colors of Rhetoric," "The Appropriateness of the Subject Matter in Chaucer's Imagery," "Chaucer's Treatment of…
Schless, Howard H.
Dissertation Abstracts 16.09 (1956): 1675.
Comments on Chaucer's possible access to Dante's works before traveling to Italy in 1372, and explores the "literary relationship of the two writers," arguing that "Chaucer drew on Dante not heavily but over many years," principally for the Ugolino…
Kleinstück, Johannes Walter.
Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter & Co., 1956.
Surveys courtly virtues in Chaucer ("courtoisie," "franchise," "gentillesse," "honour," "joie," "pitie," etc.) and the vices which are grounded in pride and the pursuits of fortune. Focuses on KnT when examining the virtues and on the fabliaux for…
Hazelton, Richard Marquard.
Dissertation Abstracts 16 (1956)
Edits "two glossed texts" of the "Disticha Catonis," constructed for use by students of Chaucer, Langland, and Gower. The Introduction juxtaposes passages from their poetry with "Catonian materials" to indicate the "poets' indebtedness" to the text…
Thompson, Louis Felsinger.
Dissertation Abstracts 20.05 (1959): 1771.
Compares TC with Boccaccio's "Filostrato," arguing that Chaucer "adapted more portions" of it "than has previously been noticed," subordinating formulas, conventions, thematic concerns, and moral concerns to artful construction and "psychological…
Olson, Paul A.
Dissertation Abstracts 19.10 (1959): 2603.
Places the medieval "Jaloux tale" in "its philosophic and historical framework," rooted in the marriage controversies of Sts. Augustine and Jerome with the Pelagians, Manichee, and Jovinians Traces the tradition in French humanists of the twelfth and…
Aligns Chaucer's style, themes, and characterization in TC with Renaissance humanism more than with medieval conventions, genres, and rhetoric, arguing that the poem anticipates the "poetry of Shakespeare's century" in its fusing realism, epic, and…
Hertz, John Atlee.
Dissertation Abstracts 19.10 (1959): 2600-01.
Addresses "source relationships of geographical matters" in Chaucer. Chaucer's cosmography and its sources, and other "geographical matters," arguing that Chaucer "makes more frequent use of geography than do most of his contemporaries." Focuses on…
Ussery, Huling Eakin, Jr.
Dissertation Abstracts International 24.06 (1963): 2491.
Studies "historical background" to Chaucer's Monk, Clerk, and Physician, comparing their characterizations with historical personages. Argues that the Monk is "probably either Benedictine or Cistercian," and "primarily realistic" rather than satiric.…
Richardson, Lilla Janette.
Dissertation Abstracts International 24.03 (1963): 1176.
Shows that Chaucer uses "rhetorical figures . . . [to] produce imagery," analyzing the "use of imagery" in FrT, RvT, ShT, MerT, and MilT—in comparison with sources, where available—and focusing on how he uses imagery to create ironic effects…