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Chasing the Consent of Alice Chaucer.
Seal, Samantha Katz.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 273–83.
Explores the misogyny that underlies several historical records of, and modern commentaries on, an attempt to seduce Alice Chaucer, Chaucer’s daughter, by Philip, duke of Burgundy. See a response by Rachel E. Moss, "#NotAllMen: In Conversation…
Chaste Marriage: Fashion and Texts at the Court of Richard II
Bowers, John M.
Pacific Coast Philology 30 (1995): 15-26.
Chaucer exposes the Ricardian practice of chaste marriage "for what perhaps it really was: sexual hypocrisy posing as virtuous Christian abstinence." The false romantic passion and comic fusion of the clerkly and courtly in male characters such as…
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Stone, Brian.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989.
General critical study treating Chaucer's world, life, language, and pronunciation. Includes critical introductions to GP, KnT, MilT, RvT, CkT, MLT, ShT, PrT, Th,Mel, MkT, NPT, PhyT, PardPT, WBPT, FrT, SumT, ClT, MerT, SqT, FranT, SNT, CYT, ManT,…
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Aers, David.
Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press International, 1986.
From the perspective of new historicism, this brief introduction to Chaucer's writing reconstructs his ideological milieu and explores his representations of society in GP, PF, ShT, KnT, ClT, and Mel; of religion in SumT, FrT, PardP, PardT, SNT, PrT,…
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Bolton, W. F.,S. S. Hussey, D. S. Brewer, and D. A. Pearsall.
W. F. Bolton, ed. The New History of Literature, Vol. I: The Middle Ages (New York: Peter Bedrick, 1986), pp. 169-266.
Introductory essays on Chaucer's life, the minor poems and the prose, TC, and CT.
Chaucer
Kane, George.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
With no notes and a brief index, the book glances at Chaucer's life, times, and work in chronological order. Exploring Chaucer's identity as poet ironically, HF concerns truth in report and poetry. As mirror for princes, PF fuses poetry and…
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Lawler, Traugott.
A. S. G. Edwards, ed. Middle English Prose: A Critical Guide to Major Authors and Genres (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1984), pp. 291-313.
Summarizes the last twenty years' scholarship on Bo, Mel, ParsT, and Astr, with bibliography and desiderata.
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Ando, Shinsuke.
Eigo Seinen (Tokyo) 128 (1983): 722-23.
Surveys recent Chaucer studies in Japan, introducing literary or philological studies of N. Ueno, M. Masui, K. Miyake, S. Ono, T. Oiji, K. Ogoshi, I. Saito, H. Nojima, and F. Kuriyagawa.
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Kleinstuck, Johannes.
Manfred Lurker, ed. Worterbuch der Symbolik.. (Stuttgart: Kroner, 1979)
Emphasis on Chaucer's use of symbols.
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Saunders, Corinne J.
Corinne J. Saunders. The Forest of Medieval Romance: Arvernus, Broceliande, Arden. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 155-62.
Explores Chaucer's use of romance conventions of the forest and the hunt. BD offers a particularly "artificial forest," reflecting the artifice of the work. In FrT, the forest is a kind of hell; in TC, the place of greatest freedom. WBT overturns…
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Economou, George D.
Carl Woodring and James Shapiro, eds. The Columbia History of British Poets (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), pp. 55-80.
Surveys Chaucer's works and their reception, emphasizing his innovation and experimentation. Introduced by a brief section on Chaucer's reading, discussions of each of his major works summarize the sources Chaucer used and his adaptations of them.
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Allen, Valerie, and Ares Axiotis, eds.
New York: St. Martin's, 1996.
Reprints fourteen essays originally published in the 1980s and 1990s, all pertaining to CT and characterized by their contemporary theoretical approaches. In the introduction, the editors survey critical approaches to Chaucer and provide suggestions…
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Lindahl, Carl.
John Miles Foley, ed. Teaching Oral Traditions. (New York: Modern Language Association, 1998), pp. 359-64.
Despite his bookishness, Chaucer is an oral poet, trained in medieval rhetorical tradition, which is rooted in oratory, and successful in his efforts to render oral narratives in literature.
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Saunders, Corinne [J.], ed.
Oxford : Blackwell, 2000.
An anthology of reprinted critical discussions divided into four sections: Chaucer's reading and readership (3 essays or excerpts), dream poetry (7 essays or excerpts), TC (5 essays or excerpts), and CT (10 essays or excerpts). Saunders prefaces each…
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Ackroyd, Peter.
London : Chatto & Windus, 2004.
A biography of Chaucer that records his career as a courtier and diplomat and explores how it may have affected his personality and shaped his poetry. Designed for a general audience, with translations of quoted material, suggestions for further…
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Gil Ortega, Maria Auxiliadora, trans.
Madrid : Ediciones Luis Revenga, 2007.
Spanish translation of G. K. Chesterton's biography of Chaucer and his times.
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North, J. D.
Noriss S. Hetherington, ed. Cosmology: Historical, Literary, Philosophical, Religious, and Scientific Perspectives (New York: Garland, 1993), pp. 217-24.
Comments generally on Chaucer's scientific knowledge, explains his use and understanding of "Aristotelian cosmology," and describes the astronomical and astrological systems that underlie the details and structures of many of his works. Assumes that…
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Pakkala-Weckström, Mari.
Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen, eds. Historical Pragmatics. Handbooks of Pragmatics, no. 8 (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010), pp. 219-45.
Defines pragmaphilology as a field of study, explains why Chaucer is an important focus for study in the field, surveys the pragmaphilological work that has been done concerning Chaucer, and makes suggestions for future directions. Much of the work…
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Delahoyde, Michael.
[Pullman]: Washington State University, n.d.
Pedagogical website that focuses on CT but includes internal links to descriptions of Chaucer's other works and to background information. Individual webpages provide descriptions of the Tales that comment on themes and critical issues, accompanied…
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Burrow, J. A.
Dyson, A. E., ed. English Poetry: Select Bibliographical Guides (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), pp. 1-14.
Discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies, including subsections on texts, critical studies and commentary, biographies, bibliographies, and background reading.
Chaucer - A Modern Writer?
Knight, Stephen.
Balcony: The Sidney Review 2.2 (1965): 37-43.
Argues that Chaucer's sensory detail in his GP descriptions "rings a bell in our mind": we recognize these descriptions as modern for their emphasis on individuation rather than typicality. Attributes this technique to the rise of late-medieval…
Chaucer : A Beginner's Guide
Richardson, Catherine.
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2001.
Introduces Chaucer and his works, with focus on CT, and provides commentary on context, themes, and critical approaches. The guide is aimed at high school students or students early in college.
Chaucer : An Oxford Guide
Ellis, Steve, ed.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Thirty-six essays on individual topics, plus an introduction (by Ellis) and a postscript (Julian Wasserman). Part 1 (historical contexts): Chaucer's life (Ruth Evans), society and politics (S. H. Rigby), nationhood (Ardis Butterfield), London (C.…
Chaucer : Beginnings
Owen, Charles A. (Jr.)
John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, eds. The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne (Madison, N.J., and London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 45-66.
Compares and contrasts BD with French sources and analogues and emphasizes the degree to which BD "foreshadows" elements in Chaucer's later works, especially in its reliance on implicit meanings and narrative distance.
Chaucer : Les contes de Canterbury
Crépin, André, trans.
Paris : Gallimard, 2000.
French poetic translation of the complete The Canterbury Tales that maintains approximate pentameter but eschews rhyme. In the introduction (pp. 5-19), Crépin argues that Chaucer uses a Socratic method in his deliberate contradictions and that he…