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The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives
Bildhauer, Bettina, and Chris Jones, eds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Collection of essays that address medieval and medievalism themes and how they continue to impact contemporary perspectives. The introduction includes a history of medievalism from the fourteenth to the twenty-first centuries, and remarks how…
Forging "Medieval" Identities: Fortini's "Calendimaggio" and Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life."
di Carpegna Falconieri, Tommaso, and Lila Yawn.
Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones, eds. The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 186–215.
Briefly invokes Chaucer, noting Pasolini's 1971 film, "The Canterbury Tales," and its adaptation of Chaucer's work to highlight increasing cultural degradation as works are transmitted.
World of Chaucer: Adaptation, Pedagogy, and Interdisciplinarity.
Barwell, Graham, and Christopher Moore.
Jenna Ng, ed. Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds (New York:Bloomsbury, 2013), pp. 207-26.
Explores the goals and accomplishments of an interdisciplinary (English studies and communication) pedagogical experiment in adapting portions of CT to the online game "World of Warcraft," commenting on the processes of animation, mediation, and…
The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague, 19: Literary Responses to the Black Death.
Armstrong, Dorsey.
San Francisco: Kanopy Streaming.
Includes commentary on "Piers Plowman"; Boccaccio's "Decameron"; and the impact of the plague on Chaucer's life, CT (especially PardT), and BD, claiming that Chaucer "could not have been Chaucer" if not for the plague.
Chaucer.
Parsons, Ben, and Natalie Jones.
Year's Work in English Studies 96 (2017): 285-311.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2015, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception.
Chaucer.
Parsons, Ben, and Natalie Jones.
Year's Work in English Studies 94 (2015): 237-62.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2013, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception.
Later Medieval: Chaucer.
Parsons, Ben, with contributions from Louise Sylvester and
Roberta Magnani Year's Work in English Studies 93 (2014): 257-76.
Roberta Magnani Year's Work in English Studies 93 (2014): 257-76.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2012, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception.
Chaucer.
Jones, Natalie, and Ben Parsons.
Year's Work in English Studies 95 (2016): 309-32.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2014, divided into five subcategories: general, CT, TC, other works, and reputation and reception
Later Medieval: Chaucer.
Barr, Jessica, and Katharine W. Jager.
Year's Work in English Studies 92 (2013): 264-306.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2011, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.
An Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, 2015.
Amsel, Stephanie
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 39 (2017): 393-60.
Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 237 items, plus listing of reviews for 33 books. Includes an author…
Elizabethan Taste.
Buxton, John.
London: Macmillan, 1963.
London: Macmillan, 1963.
Describes principles of aesthetic appreciation evident in Elizabethan architecture, painting, sculpture, music, and literature, including a section entitled "The Elizabethan Appreciation of Chaucer" (pp. 223-30) which emphasizes admiration of Chaucer…
Chaucerian.
Sargeson, Frank.
In Collected Stories (Auckland, N.Z.: Blackwood and Janet Paul, 1964; London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1965), pp. 12-13.
Brief short story in which the narrator's desire to hear an authentic story--"to get to the Canterbury Tales outside the covers of a book"--leads to a change in his life.
James Joyce and Chaucer's Prioress.
Lyons, John O.
English Language Notes 2 (1964): 127-32.
Identifies several similarities and complementarities between Joyce's "Araby" and PrT, focusing primarily on the protagonists of the two narratives.
Die Himmelsreise: Chaucers "House of Fame."
Kleinstück, Johannes.
In Johannes Kleinstück, Mythos und Symbol in Englischer Dichtung (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1964), pp. 25-55.
Argues that Chaucer's depiction of fame in HF is skeptical, emphasizing its dependence upon fortune, and arguing that it is more similar to Montaigne's notion of glory than to those of Dante or Petrarch.
The "Felaweshipe" of Chaucer's "Love" and "Lordshipe."
Hoffman, Richard L.
Classica et Mediaevalia 25 (1964): 263-72.
Surveys arguments that seek to identify sources and analogues to the claim in KnT 1.1625-26 that neither love nor lordship "likes competition with another of its kind," citing similarities with TC 2.755-56, FranT 5.764-67, and others, and arguing…
Odin: Old Man of The Pardoner's Tale."
Barakat, Robert A.
Southern Folklore Quarterly 28 (1964): 210-15.
Cites the folk motif of "burying Death" under an oak tree and identifies "numerous parallels" between the Old Man of PardT and Odin from Norse mythology to argue that Odin is the "prototype" of the Old Man.
Chanticleer: A Comic Opera in One Act, on a Tale by Chaucer.
Barab, Seymour, comp. and M. C. Richards.
[New York]: Boosey and Hawkes, 1964.
Musical score that adapts NPT, with lyrics in Modern English. Libretto by M. C. Richards. Composed, with additional lyrics and vocal score by Seymour Barab.
The Fairy Way of Writing: Shakespeare to Tolkien.
Pask, Kevin.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013
Explores developments in the writing of fantasy literature, describing WBT along the way as an indication of an early stage in the diminishing status of romance, migrating from "elite to popular culture."
Speech Acts, Responsibility, and Commitment in Poetry.
De Gaynesford, Maximilian.
Peter Robinson, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 617-37.
Explores poetic speech acts (following the lead of J. L. Austin), treating Chaucer's dedication of his book in TC 5.1856-62 as an exemplary type of performative speech act--"the Chaucer-Type"--characterized by having three explicit constitutive…
Chaucer's Early Poetry.
Chaucer Frühe Dichtung.
Clemen, Wolfgang.
London: Methuen, 1963.
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963.
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963.
Examines how Chaucer's early poems (i.e., those written before 1380) engage the conventional forms, techniques, and themes of French and Italian models, enriching them via "humour and realism" and applying them to "new uses." His innovative…
Criticism and Medieval Poetry.
Spearing, A. C.
London: Arnold, 1964.
Applies the techniques of "close reading" or "practical criticism" to works of medieval literature, adjusting the method to accord with medieval literary and linguistic conventions, especially oral recitation. Examines passages from "Piers Plowman,"…
Aspects of Chaucer's Use of Animals.
Rowland, Beryl.
Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Liteaturen 201 (1964): 110-14.
Surveys Chaucer's various metaphoric uses of animals, from "simple and conventional ideas about animals to throw light on man" to more elaborated or developed characterizations through more detailed comparisons.
Animal Imagery and the Pardoner's "Abnormality."
Rowland, Beryl.
Neophilologus 48 (1964): 56-60.
Adduces "popular lore" to show that Chaucer's references to a hare and a goat in the GP description of the Pardoner (1.684 and 688)--corroborated by other details from the actions and descriptions of the Pardoner--characterize him as a "testicular…
Chaucer's Miller, Pilate, and the Devil.
Reiss, Edmund.
Annuale Mediaevale 5 (1964): 21-25.
Explores associative and metaphoric links between Chaucer's Miller (GP and MilP), the devil, and Pilate, who was "traditionally an agent of the devil."
The Aesthetic of Chaucer's Art of Contrast.
Presson, Robert K.
English Miscellany 15 (1964): 9-21.
Surveys Chaucer's uses of thematic and stylistic contrast, antithesis, and contention, treating them not as examples of a divided mind "but rather of a mind most aesthetically aware how best to state what is experienced most intensely." Draws…