Item not seen. WorldCat record notes that "This edition is based on the second edition of The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by
the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, 1900 (Oxford)," with a "new introduction."
Troyer, Pamela.
Once and Future Classroom 13.2 (2017): n.p.
Describes the pedagogical value of teaching MLT alongside modern narratives "that emphasize the ways Custance represents and evokes the displaced and powerless," including students' personal experiences; "Refugee Tales," edited by David Herd; a US…
A collection of essays by various authors on the cultural history of Canterbury. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Canterbury: A Medieval City under Alternative Title.
Sancery, Arlette.
Catherine Royer-Hemet, ed. Canterbury: A Medieval City (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 119-26.
Regards the process of reading as the essential pilgrimage of CT, which obviates the need for an arrival at Canterbury. For previously published version, in French, see "Canterbury, la cathédrale où Chaucer n'arrive jamais . . . Mais est-ce bien…
Brown, Peter.
Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1:191-207.
Describes late medieval literary production in the city of Canterbury and explores its literary affiliations, ummarizing its place in early English Christianity and the impact of Becket's martyrdom. Highlights works produced in Canterbury or written…
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this translation of CT into Finnish is based on the 1908 modernization of Arthur Burrell, with an Introduction to the translation by Tauno Mustanoja. The illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones derive from…
In modern reader reception, ClT produces either "Paduan" pity for Griselda or "Veronese" disbelief in woman so virtuous. Schaum examines the "negative capability" needed in reader response because of the character of the GP Clerk, the manner of…
Simpson, James.
Richard Firth Green and R. F. Yeager, eds. "Of latine and of othire lare": Essays in Honour of David R. Carlson (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2022), pp. 67-81.
Discloses the implications--some "shocking"--of recognizing Statius's "Thebaid" as the source of Criseyde's imagining of "radical atheism" in TC, IV.1408-11. Explicates resonances of Thebes/Trojan parallels evident elsewhere in the poem and in…
Cook, Jon.
David Aers, ed. Medieval Literature (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), pp. 169-91.
CT shows extensive evidence of "Carnival" (Bakhtin) influence. GP, Miller, and Host show evidence of the carnivalesque approach to life. The clerk, on the other hand, reasserts "official values." CT offers the first English model of secular and…
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."
Davies, Joshua, and Caroline Bergvall, eds.
York: Arc Humanities, 2023.
Collects twenty-six critical essays about Caroline Bergvall's literary output and outlooks, accompanied by three interviews with her, a foreword by David Wallace, an afterword by Rachel Gilmore, and a comprehensive index. Several essays refer to…
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…
