Hamaguchi, Keiko.
Doshisha Literature 46: 1-17, 2003.
Postcolonial analysis of the Dido account in LGW reveals that when Dido accuses Aeneas of ruining her reputation, Chaucer simultaneously accuses Virgil of "epistemic imperialism," a function of the "unreliability of representation." Hamaguchi…
Piraprez, Delphine.
Le beau et le laid au Moyen Âge. Sénéfiance, no. 43 (Aix-en-Provence: Université de Provence, Centre Universitaire d'Etudes et de Recherches Médiévales d'Aix, 2000), pp. 423-35.
Considers the relationships between moral virtue/vice and physical beauty/ugliness in PardPT, focusing on the Old Man and the Pardoner.
Despite abundant evidence of their being held in high regard by contemporary society, male oaths of friendship are consistently "satirized, broken, and/or ridiculed" in Chaucer's works, suggesting "an overarching distrust of such relationships" on…
Barrington, Candace.
American Literary History 22 (2010): 806-30.
Assessing the conservative ideological underpinnings of the pageantry and commenting on its "inability to control the polysemy of Chaucer's texts," Barrington summarizes the history of Mistick Krewe and describes its 1914 parade and party dedicated…
Berry, Craig Allen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 1920A.
As poets representing themselves in their works and as civil servants, Chaucer and Spenser shared much. Instead of misreading his predecessor, Spenser reveals more grasp than previously noted of Th, SqT, and PF.
Boffey, Julia.
Helen Cooney, ed. Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry (Dublin and Portland, Ore.: Four Courts Press, 2001), pp. 116-28.
Contrasts the parliaments or courts of love in PF and LGWP with those in Lydgate's Temple of Glas and the anonymous Assembly of Ladies. The later poems present "idealizing fantasies of social assimilation or integration."
Edwards, A. S. G.
Chaucer Review 28 (1993): 146-47.
The word "prayere' in FrT D 1489 might have been intended to read "pray," as it appears in nineteen of the manuscripts. Such a reading would reinforce the "prey" imagery in the "Tale" and would suggest that God allows fiends to harm only the…
Nakley, Susan Marie.
Dissertation Abstracts International A70.03 (2009): n.p.
Nakley uses postcolonial theory to consider a Chaucerian dialogue with ideas of "nationhood," examining GP, KnT, WBP, WBT, and MLT en route to arguing that CT presents England as nation, "community," and "homeland."
Vander Weele, Michael,with Deb Powell.
CEA Critic 57:3 (1995): 39-50.
The "fruyt" and "chaf" passage of NPT places the reading of the "Tale" in an ethical context, complemented by Plato's "Gorgias," with "fruyt" and "chaf" representing true and false counsel.
Matsui, Noriko.
Koichi Kano, ed. Through the Eyes of Chaucer: Essays in Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Society for Chaucer Studies (Kawasaki: Asao Press, 2014), pp. 26-42.
Examines the meaning of the expression concerning the seating order in GP (1.52) by considering a similar expression in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Reviews contemporary illustrations and historical records related to the feast. In Japanese.
Fradenburg, Louise O.
Peter G. Beidler, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Wife of Bath." (Boston and New York: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1996), pp. 205-20.
Psychoanalytic analysis of WBP reveals the development of the narrator's identity through the history of her losses and pleasure, suggesting the failure of society to structure her desires. Through fantasy, WBT idealizes a version of the past and…
Smith, Sarah Stanbury.
Studies in Iconography 9 (1983): 1-12.
Semantic associations, proverbial wisdom, and a coherent visual tradition establish the hood as a symbol of hypocrisy and sexual betrayal; this enriches the comic effect of Miller and Pardoner, of Pandarus and Criseyde.
Although often glossed erroneously as "hypocritical," the word "spiced," as applied to the Parson's conscience, indicates an individual whose soul is touched suddenly and profoundly by religion, "as spices might do the palate."
Levy, Bernard S.
Chaucer Review 11 (1977): 306-18.
The Clerk responds to WBT by showing that "gentilesse" is found in humble virtue and obedience, as well as in noble birth. MerT, however, seeks to deny the underlying premise of these earlier tales by showing that "gentilesse" and happiness can…
Brown, Muriel.
Michelle Sauer, ed. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature (Minot, N.D.: Minot State University, 2003), pp. 82-89.
Brown approaches the loathly lady's sermon on "gentillesse" as political allegory, emphasizing "the transforming power of relinquishing control over those who work, the third estate."
Hanks, D. Thomas.
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 183-88.
Discusses how US students' "grasp of Chaucer's work is hampered by their lack of biblical and doctrinal background" and offers suggestions for teaching CT, including journal exercises that foster interaction among students.
Lawton, Lesley.
Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), pp. 157-74.
The Wife's discourse is on the cusp between the clerkly and the carnivalesque. She is the unstable product of the interplay of various intertexts, creating the illusion of a complex personality. Though sometimes championed by feminists, she at once…
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
David Lyle Jeffrey, ed. Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1984), pp. 65-73.
Chaucer used the "Glossa ordinaria" in WBT and MerT; his use of the term "glosing" shows his awareness of fraudulent exegetes. ParsT is more literal than exegetical. Chaucer's attitude toward exegesis was shaped by the antifraternalism of the…
Caie, Graham [D.]
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 46 : 1-12, 2001.
Caie comments on the presence of glosses in English literary manuscripts, arguing that glosses to WBP, MerT, and MLT can be read as attempts by Chaucer (or his scribes) to contain the subversive potential of texts that the glosses accompany.
Lim, Hye-Soon.
Medieval English Studies 06 (1998):199-223
Deriving from the Greek word for "tongue" and from Scandinavian "superficial luster," "glosing" is the central notion of SumT. Chaucer uses it to disclose fraternal hypocrisy and distortion of Scripture. In Korean, with English abstract.
Fleming, Martha H.
Peter Cocozzella, ed. The Late Middle Ages (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1984 (for 1981)), pp. 89-101.
