Chaucer.
Presents a discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2019, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reception.
The Anxiety Dream from Homer to Milton.
Offers background and context for various kinds of "unsettling" dreams in literature, mentioning that Pertelote treats Chanticleer's "anxiety dream" in NPT 7.2882ff. "as a cryptic diagnosis [of humoral disorder] which required immediate prescription and regimen."
Chaucer's 'Fare-Carte'
The word may denote the better of two kinds of carts in normal manorial use: a cart used for hauling outside the manor.
Dorigen's Promise
An abridgement and adaptation of FranT, presented in photographs with running text, designed as self-help for juvenile audience.
Geoffrey Chaucer: Poet and Pilgrim
Item not seen; WorldCat records state that it "Examines the life and ideas of Geoffrey Chaucer and traces the route of his pilgrimage." The records also indicate that the recording was released in 1985 on videocassette with a booklet and in 2005 on DVD, where it is attributed to Eve Cotton.
The Canterbury Tales
Digitalized public domain edition of CT, reproduced on the Internet recurrently and issued by ebrary in 2001 (not seen; cited in WorldCat, with link to title-page preview).
Brodie's Notes on Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale
Study guide that includes text and facing-page prose translation of NPPT, with end-of-text notes and glosses, and commentary on the characters, humor and irony, and on dreams and predestination. Includes comments on Chaucer's biography and verse and on Middle English grammar, pronunciation, and versification. Earlier version published in 1978.
Chaucer, Geoffrey.
Encyclopedia entry that summarizes Chaucer's debt to classical tradition as source material for his plots, imaginings of the classical past, and "voicings" of classical speakers throughout his corpus. Comments on Chaucer's awareness of mediation and the necessary of "betraying" classical material.
The Canterbury Tales and Other Works by Geoffrey Chaucer
Presents the texts of CT, TC, BD, and PF, with brief introductions, a chronology of Chaucer's life and historical events, and links to supporting information and audio files. The texts are accompanied by hypertext glosses, and the works in verse, by flanking verse translations.
Geoffrey Chaucer: Poet and Pilgrim
"Examines the life and ideas of Geoffrey Chaucer and traces the route of his pilgrimage" [quoted from WorldCat; video not seen].
[Gentillesse]
Reported by MLA International Bibliography; essay not seen.
Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota
Twenty-one papers on CT by various authors. For individual essays, search for Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute under Alternative Title.
Schmoop: We Speak Student
Website designed for students, teachers, and school districts, with emphasis on preparation for college study; includes a search engine. Its Learning Guides includes numerous pages that pertain to Chaucer and his works, each with multiple internal and external links. Those pages that pertain to individual works (GP and frame story, KnT, MilT, RvT, WBP, WBT, SNT) present study-guide information, analyses, and materials for essays and review.
Perverted Love in Chaucer's 'Anelida and Arcite'
Thebes's foundational perversion (Jove's rape of Europa) establishes a recursive pattern of love and violence. Creon's dynastic expectation for Anelida and Arcite results in Anelida's self-deception and leads as well to Arcite's servitude to his new paramour.
Troy Unincorporated.
Poetic narrative based on characters and plot of TC, set in contemporary Troy, Wisconsin.
The Canon's Yoman's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer [stet]
Illustrated, slightly modernized version (Globe ed.) of CYPT. Numerous monochromatic woodblock engravings (plates and marginal figures) illustrate the narrative and depict alchemical symbols.
'My body to warente . . . ': Linguistic Corporeality in Chaucer's Pardoner
Considers PardPT in light of Augustinian semiotic theory. Focus on the body in the Pardoner's materials signals the need to attend to the objects of signs, and the quarrel with the Host "renders impotent" the Pardoner's nominalist "attack on signification." PardPT reconfigures the Sophist question of whether a false person can tell a good tale, placing responsibility on readers to attend to all available signs.
The Canterbury Trail
Fiction loosely based on framework of CT, with unlikely group of ski enthusiasts brought together during a pilgrimage through backcountry British Columbia.
The Prostitute Figure in Medieval English and French Literature
Studies the medieval whore figure as rebel, outlaw, and heretic through historical and sociological analysis of the Norman Latin poem "Jezebel." Chaucer and Langland consider the whore evil but also emblematic of this world's carnal pleasures. Christine de Pizan and François Villon treat her as a social outsider with whom they sometimes identify.
'Cosyn' and 'Cosynage': Pun and Structure in the 'Shipman's Tale'
The recognition of the sexual puns on the words "cosyn" and "cosynage" determines the structure of ShT, as the narrative shifts its balance from relationship to deception.
A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery
Alphabetical arrangement of alchemical terms and images from "ablution" to "zephyr." The entries define the terms and illustrate the images, citing works in which they appear, including CYPT.
Boccaccio's Criseida and Chaucer's Criseyde
A comparison of Criseida and Criseyde.
Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less.
Parodies more than eighty works, most from the western literary canon, in strings of 140-word "tweets," with an Introduction, Glossary, and Index. Includes CT (pp. 184-85) in seventeen tweets, with emphasis on GP, WBP, and MilT, and touches of faux Middle English.
'Wade's Boot' (Chaucer's MerT E 1424): A Different Tack
Sumner Ferris (AN&Q 9:71-72) sees a pun on the name "Wade" in MerT 1684: "lat us waden out of his mateere." More probably the image is one of wading with difficulty out of a stream. The MerT allusion to "Wades boot" is a metaphor for "the (male) body"; in the retelling of the Wade story in "Thidrekssaga" the hero has no boat at all and must "wade" (hence the name) across the Groenasund.
The Emergence of an Arithmetical Mentality in Middle English Literature
Looks for evidence that certain medieval writers were aware of the newly emerging "arithmetical mentality." Because of his work at the Customs House, Chaucer was much more aware than most writers. He knew counting boards and algorisms, the ancestor of modern arithmetic. Gower seems to have known little arithmetic, and Langland seems to have considered it "euil."