Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye.
Exemplaria 22 (2010): 65-83.
Fradenburg begins with a brief psychoanalytic view of the aesthetic of enjoyment as the communication of affect. The article explores the image of Alceste/daisy in terms of psychological and philosophical intersubjectivity. The individual stories,…
Rice, Nancy Hall.
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1975): 875A.
The mistaken belief that sin was connected with death and sexuality led to the need to find a scapegoat. The result was virulence against women, Jews, or other denigrated casts. The virulence of the dominant group against the Jews in PrT can be…
McLeod, Glenda Kaye.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 501A
The tradition of listing good women, dissociating them from their backgrounds, reveals varying attitudes toward woman's nature and rhetorical shifts from florilegia to debates; LGW is treated.
Heng, Geraldine.
Geraldine Heng. Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 181-237.
Heng assesses MLT as an account of a "feminized crusade" that involves "sexual martyrdom" on the part of Custance and reveals the power of her "reproductive sexuality." The fusion of hagiography and romance in MLT is also evident in ClT, but while…
Archibald, Diana C.
Studies in Medievalism 7 (1996): 169-80.
William Morris's attempt to produce the ideal book "fails to match form with content." The harmonious presentation of his Kelmscott "Chaucer" disguises the diversity of tales and conceals unresolved problems of text and structure.
Comments on CT as a “text born in trauma,” observing “numerous wounds” in KnT and MkT and linking them with James Comey's 2017 testimony before the US Senate Intelligence Committee.
Hurley, Mary Kate.
Translation Effects: Language, Time, and Community in Medieval England. Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2021), pp. 125-50.
Assesses the "temporally heterogeneous portrayals of an emerging sense" of "Engelond" in the scenes of Saxon conversion in the Constance narratives of Trevet's "Cronicles," Gower's "Confessio Amantis," and MLT. These scenes are "sites where the power…
Mitchell, J. Allan
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Studies the ontogeny (rather than ontology) of medieval western humanness, focusing on gestation, birth, childhood, and the social and cultural coming-into-being of the child. Links various aspects of "posthumanist, ecological, and materialist…
Cohen, Jeffrey, and Bonnie Wheeler, eds.
New York and London: Garland, 1997.
Eighteen essays by various authors and an introduction on topics ranging from Old English penitentials to Sir David Lindsey. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Becoming Male in the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
Burger, Glenn D.
Glenn D. Burger and Holly A.Crocker, eds. Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 90-117.
Compares the Wife's presentation of her conduct in WBPT to the conduct book" Le ménagier de Paris," and shows how the Wife's record of her activities and the presentation of negative emotions function as essentially a reversal of the "Ménagier."…
Gilbert, Jane.
Nicola F. McDonald and W. M. Ormrod, eds. Rites of Passage: Cultures of Transition in the Fourteenth Century (York: York Medieval Press, 2005), pp. 109-31
Gilbert's anthropological reading of BD and LGW emphasizes how in BD Blanche is represented as having successfully left the land of the living for the land of the dead. In LGW, the female protagonists resist this rite of passage and, in doing so,…
Geck, John A., Rosemary O’Neill, and Noelle Phillips, eds
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Thirteen essays, an introduction by the editors, and an afterword by Ren Navarro "describe alcohol consumption in the Middle Ages across much of Northern Europe, engage with the various myths employed in modern craft beer advertising and beer…
Anderson, David.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.
Explores Boccaccio's use of Statius's "Thebaid"--his "systematic transformation" of the epic in the historical context of Boccaccio's day--and Chaucer's reshaping of the epic in KnT. Chapter 4, "Imitation of the 'Thebaid' in the "Knight's Tale,"…
Pearsall, Derek.
Ursula Schaefer, ed. The Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 27-41.
Pearsall surveys traditional accounts of the rise of an English standard and comments on recent emphases and remaining issues. Considers the Auchinleck Manuscript as evidence of the London literary culture that precedes Chaucer.
Zeikowitz, Richard E.
College English 65 : 67-80, 2002.
Characterizations of Grendel, the Green Knight, and Chaucer's Pardoner can be used for a "queer pedagogy" based on the theories of Henry Giroux and Stanley Aronowitz. Zeikowitz suggests discussions and written assignments that encourage analysis of…
Dane, Joseph A.,
Fest, Bradley J.
May, Jonathan,
Erwin, Max
Durkin, Andrew
Los Angeles: Marymount Institute, 2019.
Item not seen. WorldCat record includes an abstract: "This book examines cases of [question-begging] reasoning in Chaucer studies, book history, and in other humanistic fields." In it, Joseph Dane critiques “himself and his own formulation of…
Davidoff, Judith M.
Rutherford, N.J.; Madison, Wis.; and Teaneck, N.J.:
Basing her work on a study of 189 poems, Davidoff analyzes common features of "framing fictions." With attention to Chaucer's sources and literary tradition, she offers readings of BD, demonstrating relationship of meaning to structure; of HF,…
Mann, Jill.
Elizabeth Archibald, Megan G. Leitch, and Corinne Saunders, eds. Romance Rewritten: The Evolution of Middle English Romance; A Tribute to Helen Cooper (Martlesham, D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 85-102.
Argues that various narrative and stylistic devices in KnT evoke the question "Does human life have a final meaning?" The poem begins with an ending and ends with a beginning, these complemented throughout by stoppings and startings and various…
Calabrese, Michael.
Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec,eds. Men and Masculinities in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 161-82.
Focusing on failures of the male body depicted in the consummation scene of TC and in the autobiographical episode of the C-text, Calabrese compares Troilus of TC and Will of "Piers Plowman" as masculine questors in search of truth. Pandarus…
Reports on the author's completing a Ph.D. in medieval English and pursuing a career during the COVID-19 pandemic; includes comments on the “clear parallel” between teaching Chaucer's works and teaching online courses generally.
Although the concept of solitude is considered a Renaissance phenomenon, it occurs often in Chaucer's works as "alone" or "privity" and in the concept of private space, such as Nicholas's room in MilT. The "struggle for personal space" was an…
Nielsen, Melinda.
Studies in Philology 115 (2018): 25–49.
Clarifies that Boethius was a model for "medieval authors with political ambitions--and missteps--of their own." Imprisoned and accused of treason, Usk aligned himself in his "Testament" with Boethius, although his depiction of his own "seditious…
