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Chaucer Among the Gods: The Poetics of Classical Myth
McCall, John P.
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979.
Discusses the ways in which Chaucer uses classical materials in comedy, tragedy, and allegory; in theme, action, and character, to make available the world of Virgil, Ovid, and Lucan--sometimes through Dante, Graunson, Boccaccio, and Froissart.
Chaucer Among the Victorians
Downer, Mabel Wilhelmina.
Dissertation Abstracts International 43 (1982): 1537A.
Significant Victorian writers, concerned with social problems as encountered in the past as well as in their own day, revolutionized Chacuer's reputation.
Chaucer among the Victorians.
Utz, Richard.
Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 189-201.
Traces the "growing fascination" with Chaucer, his language, and his works in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, linking it with the cultural imagining of Chaucer "as a predecessor to" Victorian "preferred aesthetics, ideologies, and…
Chaucer an Englishman Elusively Italianate
Kean, P. M.
Review of English Studies 34 (1983): 388-94.
Italian poetry influenced Chaucer's style and technique, especially his use of cadence and rhythm.
Chaucer and 'Adam Scriveyn'
Edwards, A. S. G.
Medium Aevum 81.1 (2012): 135-38.
Suggests that the diction of "Adam" indicates that it was not written by Chaucer.
Chaucer and 'Arnald of the Newe Town': A Reprise
Duncan, Edgar Hill.
Interpretations 9 (1977): 7-11.
The source of CYT 1431 is not, as Chaucer says, the "Rosarium" of Arnald of Villa Nova, but his lesser known "De secretis naturae." Chaucer cited the more famous "Rosarium" but quoted from "De secretis" because it contains appropriately mystifying…
Chaucer and 'Courtly Love'
Haruta, Setsuko.
Masachiyo Amano and others, eds. Kotoba to Bungaku to Bunka to: Ando Sadao Hakushi Taikan Kinen Ronbunshu (Language, Literature, and Culture: Essays to Honor Sadao Ando). Tokyo: Eicho-sha Shiusha, 1992), pp. 305-14.
In KnT, neither the narrator nor the characters comprehend the ideal of courtly love. In BD, Chaucer depicts it fully; in TC, he reveal its weakness when confronted with reality. FranT reflects a bourgeois distortion of courtly love.
Chaucer and 'Gentilesse'
Gray, Douglas.
G. H. V. Bunt, E. S. Kooper, et al., eds. One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987), pp. 1-27.
"Gentilesse" for Chaucer implied honor or "good name," as well as good words and deeds. His ideas on the concept are rooted in the classics and in Christianity but also look forward to the humanists. FranT is probably nearer to a last word on this…
Chaucer and 'Les Cronicles' of Nicholas Trevet
Pratt, Robert A.
E. Bagby Atwood and Archibald A. Hill, eds. Studies in Language, Literature, and Culture of the Middle Ages and Later (Austin: University of Texas, 1969), pp. 303-11.
Adduces details from MLT, PardT, Anel, SqT, FranT, Purse, MkT, and PhyT to show that Chaucer was influenced, not only by Trevet's Constance narrative, but by his "Cronicles" more broadly.
Chaucer and 'Pite'
Gray, Douglas.
Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell, eds. J. R. R. Tolkien: Essays in Memoriam (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979), pp. 173-203
"Pite" and its synonym "routhe" occur almost always in their original erotic context in Chaucer's earlier works: Pity, TC, PF, and FranT. It may be equated with "generous self-sacrifice" on the part of the lover. As Chaucer broadens the concept,…
Chaucer and 'Sir Thopas': Irony and Concupiscence
Wood, Chauncey.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language14 (1972): 389-403.
Examines the characterization of Chaucer's pilgrim-narrator in CT, focusing on the scene in ThP where the Host requests a tale from this narrator and exploring the ironies of the Host's expectations, the readers' knowledge of earlier Chaucerian…
Chaucer and 'Stewart's' Pandarus and the Critics
Schibanoff, Susan.
Studies in Scottish Literature 13 (1979): 92-99.
Although Pandarus did not appear in literature until Boccaccio's "Il Filostrato," 1336, by 1440 his name had degenerated into a common noun in English. This rapid development argues against the dualism and complexity modern critics find in him. The…
Chaucer and 'The Legend of Good Women'
Frank, Robert Worth Jr.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Evaluates LGW as a series of brief narrative poems, assessing LGWP as an account of Chaucer's experiment with choosing a new subject matter for poetry (one that is "essentially alien to the code of courtly love") and gauging the importance of the…
Chaucer and 'The Parliament of Fowls'
Yamamoto, Toshiki.
Essays on Classical Studies (March 1980): 40-50.
A discussion of the characteristics of Nature in PF.
Chaucer and 'Tragedy'
Axton, Richard.
Toshiyuki Takamiya and Richard Beadle, eds. Chaucer to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Shinsuke Ando (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992), 33-43.
Explores the performative rather than formal aspects of tragedy in Chaucer, surveying contemporary use of the term and Chaucer's projections of his narrative personae as tragedians in TC, LGW (Philomene), MkT, and PhyT. Notes the incompatibility of…
Chaucer and "Beowulf" in Germany and the Survival of International Medieval Studies.
Johnston, Andrew James.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 1,1 (2020): 18-25.
Contemplates "Medieval English Studies in Germany" as a model for cultivating a “truly global,” interdisciplinary ideal of medieval studies, describing critical trends, boundaries, and bridges in several subdisciplines, and commenting briefly on the…
Chaucer and "Il Filostrato."
Walker, Ian C.
English Studies 49 (1968): 318-26.
Comparative analysis shows that several changes and emphases Chaucer introduces into Boccaccio's "Filostrato" produce richer characterization in TC. All three major characters "think as well as feel" in Chaucer's poem: Troilus with his fatalism;…
Chaucer and [Thomas] Aquinas
Boyer, Robert H.
Michael B. Lukens, ed. Conflict and Community: New Studies in Thomistic Thought (New York: Peter Lang, 1992), pp. 103-24.
Argues that Thomas Aquinas was a "direct and major source for Chaucer's philosophy," demonstrates the availability of Thomas's work to Chaucer via Merton College, and explores the similiarities between their views of virtue and of the…
Chaucer and a Choice of Taboo Words
Lasky, Melvin J.
Melvin J. Lasky, Profanity, Obscenity & the Media: The Language of Journalism, Volume 2 (London: Transaction, 2005), pp. 141-44.
Comments on Chaucer's uses of words that have come to be regarded as obscene or distasteful.
Chaucer and a French Story of Thebes
Witlieb, Bernard L.
English Language Notes 11 (1973): 5-9.
Identifies details in TC and KnT that reflect the influence of the version of the Thebes legend found in the "Ovide Moralisé."
Chaucer and a Proper Name: January in 'The Merchant's Tale'
Brown, Emerson,Jr.
Names 31 (1983): 79-87.
Analyzes the function of the proper names as playful, complex allusions, and associates with January--holder of the silver "clyket" to the garden--both Janus, god of passageways, and Saint Peter, who holds the keys to paradise.
Chaucer and Absalom and Architophel
Berry, Reginald.
Notes and Queries 224 (1979): 522-23.
The discovery of Dryden's indebtedness to Chaucer (TC, V, 817: "That Paradis stood formed in hire yen") for a line in "Absalom" ("And 'Paradise' was open'd in his face") is attributed in the California edition of Dryden's works to an article…
Chaucer and Aesthetics
Raybin, David, and Susanna Fein,
Chaucer Review 39 (2005): 225-33
Raybin and Fein introduce the six essays included in a "special issue" of Chaucer Review, all pertaining to Chaucer and aesthetics.
Chaucer and Aristotle.
Fox, Robert C.
Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 523-24.
Suggests that Aristotle is the "most likely" referent for "the philosopher" in ParsT 10.484.
Chaucer and Arithmetic
Brewer, Derek.
Wolf-Dietrich Bald and Horst Weinstock, eds. Medieval Studies Conference Aachen 1983 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1984), pp. 111-19.
Examines Chaucer's use of arithmetic--connected with money, towns, upward social mobility, government, the vernacular, astronomy-astrology, universities, commerce--in BD, HF, PF, TC, Astr, CT, GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, MLT, ShT, SumT, CYT, and Ret.