Sammel, Rebecca E.
Beate Müller, ed. Parody: Dimensions and Perspectives. Rodopi Perspectives in Modern Literature, no. 19 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 169-90.
In its carnivalized parody of the sacrament of confession, the "calculated self-portrait" of the Archpoet's "Estuans intrinsecus" foreshadows PardPT. Each speaker creates a "mythopoeia of self" by manipulating sacred topoi; the Pardoner draw his…
Jonassen, Frederick B.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994): 99-117.
Documents the medieval traditions of the Land of Cockaigne and the Battle of Carnival and Lent, suggesting that they underlie the reference to the seasonal cycle of meat and fish in the Franklin's GP sketch. Such traditions adumbrate the Renaissance…
Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of carnival and a comparison with fifteenth-century drama suggest that pilgrims' laughter is ambivalent and arises from engagement with paradox. The Pardoner's "quete" invites simultaneous complicity and disdain.
Though the "Envoy" is in Chaucer's late, masterly style, there is no need to equate the two voices (Chaucer's, the Clerk's). The "carnival" tone of the lines (in M. M. Bakhtin's sense) is appropriate to the Clerk in his "playful, ironic student"…
Examines Caroline's Bergvall's five Chaucer poems in her "Meddle English" (2011), including discussion of their relations with Chaucer's originals. Focuses especially on Bergvall's "Fried Tale."
Dor, Juliette.
Philologie im Netz, Supplement 4 (2009): 55-66.
Dor examines Caroline Spurgeon's impact on England's postwar reconstruction of the education system through the reestablishment of English studies and her involvement in founding the International Federation of University Women, which protected and…
Dor, Juliette.
Thea Summerfield and Keith Busby, eds. People and Texts: Relationships in Medieval Literature. Studies Presented to Erik Kooper (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007), pp. 87-98.
Comments on archival records of Chaucer scholar Caroline Spurgeon, seeking information about Spurgeon's reasons for studying the reception of Chaucer in France and England. Dor transcribes and translates into English the French text of Spurgeon's…
Haas, Renate.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 38: 215-28, 2002.
Considers Spurgeon's work on the history of Chaucer criticism in the context of Spurgeon's career as a teacher and her role as a leader in seeking full standing for women in the academy.
Salisbury, Eve.
Andreea D. Boboc, ed. Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2015), pp. 50-70.
Discusses Chaucer's familiarity with the law evidenced in Chaucer's "Life Records" and his poetry. Suggests that Chaucer "exploits the confusion of legal terms defining abduction and rape" because of his "unprecedented legal personhood" with regard…
Compares Chaucer's manipulation of romance conventions with Carter's postmodern use of romance to challenge rationalist discourse. In its portrayal of mercantile challenge to feudal aristocracy, CT is a medieval modernist text.
Tuck, Anthony J.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 149-61.
The court of Richard II was influenced not only by Wycliffe and Lollard preachers but also by the Carthusians, who emphasized private devotion, mysticism, and eremiticism.
Anderson, David.
Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 13:1 (1985): 1-17.
Cassandra's "olde stories" of the Calydonian boar and of the siege of Thebes are not digressions but analogies that draw prophetic parallels between Troilus's situation and the circumstances of both the Trojan and the Theban wars. Past disputes led…
Karath, Tamas.
Andrew C. Rouse, Gertrud Szamosi, and Gabriella Voo, eds. CrosSections, no. 2, Selected Papers in Literature and Culture from the 9th HUSSE Conference Pécs (Pécs: Institute of English Studies, University of Pécs, 2010), pp. 17-24.
Examines the narration and the interpretations of Troilus's dream in Book V of TC, the questions of sources and authority, and the function of the Latin argument to Cassandra's speech in manuscripts.
Whitehead, Christiania.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003.
Whitehead describes the complex significations of architectural structures in medieval thought and memory, examining Christian and classical roots of such thinking. Discusses classical, scriptural, and exegetical commentaries on concrete figures…
References to animals presented as "sentient beings" in SumT convey the friar's "spiritual weakness," perhaps reflecting oral traditions of Franciscan ideals.
Sklute, Larry.
Studia Neophilologica 52 (1980): 35-46.
Chaucer builds his descriptions of the pilgrims according to the traditional catalogue plan of the accumulation of details. But he breaks with tradition in drawing details of a portrait from differing angles, thereby surprising his reader and…
Anderson, David, ed.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee, [1986]
A catalogue of and guide to the 1986 exhibition of manuscripts and printed books of Chaucer's works and sources, held at the Arthur Ross Gallery and the Rosenbach Museum for the Fifth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, in…
Kang, Minsoo.
Carl Kears and James Paz, eds. Medieval Science Fiction (London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 2016.), pp. 245-61.
Explores the different attitudes toward the Middle Ages presented in science fiction and fantasy literature, while also arguing for a new subgenre called "catapunk" that depicts the Middle Ages in fuller ways. Mentions the false alchemy in CYT,…
Shippey, T. A.
Times Literary Supplement (London), Nov. 30, 1979, pp. 73-74.
Medieval scholarship and criticism suffers from reading texts without contexts, allowing modern perspectives to influence the interpretation of medieval writers, and careless translation.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate the score was "reproduced from composer's manuscript," with "texts taken from Chaucer, Joyce, Shakespeare, and Dylan Thomas among others." Variously numbered as opus 44, opus 45, and opus 47.
Jonassen, Frederick B.
Fifteenth-Century Studies 18 (1991): 109-32.
The "Beryn" poet defuses the moral menace of Chaucer's Pardoner. The Pardoner in "Beryn" is more of a fool than a threat to either the Inn or the Cathedral, the symbolic "poles" of the pilgrimage.
Pertelote's quotation from Cato ("Ne do no fors of dremes"--NPT 2941) is from distich 2.31, which specifically denies the significance of a type of dream that is different from Chauntecler's dream. The cock's attack on the "auctorite" of Cato thus…
