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Chaucer and the 'Woman Question'
Mann, Jill.
Erik Kooper, ed. This Noble Craft: Proceedings of the Xth Research Symposium of the Dutch and Belgian University Teachers of Old and Middle English and Historical Linguistics.... (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991), pp. 173-88.
For Chaucer, the literary traditions of Ovid and Jerome created a dual image of woman as predator or victim. Chaucer refines and deepens the "double-sidedness" of these traditions, bringing the polarized alternatives into complicating relation with…
Chaucer and the "Panthère d'Amours."
Baugh, Albert C.
Wolfgang Iser and Hans Schabram, eds. Britannica: Festschrift für Hermann M. Flasdieck (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1960), pp. 51-61.
Reviews discussions that consider Nicole de Margival's "La Panthère d'Amous" to be a source of HF, challenging most of them for lack of specificity or because shared details are conventional. Only two brief passages evince Margival's influence and…
Chaucer and the "Sir Orfeo" Prologue of the Auchinleck MS.
Heydon, Peter N.
Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 51 (1966): 529-45.
Argues that Chaucer was influenced by the now-lost Prologue to "Sir Orfeo" of the Auchinleck manuscript, evident in similarities in "concept, diction, and syntax" between the FranP and the extant versions of the "Orfeo" prologue and between the…
Chaucer and the "Thebaid" Scholia.
Clogan, Paul M.
Studies in Philology 61 (1964): 599-615.
Describes the commentaries and glosses that are included in medieval manuscripts of Statius's "Thebaid," and shows that Chaucer was influenced by such glosses in details and passages of HF, Anel, TC, and KnT. The influence of Statius and the glosses…
Chaucer and the (He)art of Teaching: A Professor and Student in Dialogue
Beidler, Peter G., and Sierra Gitlin.
John Cartafalsa and Lynne Anderson, eds. The Joy of Teaching: A Chorus of Voices. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2007, pp. 3-17.
An epistolary exchange between teacher and student on the intellectual and emotional challenges of reading Chaucer in a twenty-first century undergraduate classroom.
Chaucer and the Absent City
Wallace, David.
Barbara A. Hanawalt, ed. Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992), pp. 59-90.
Contrasts Chaucer's depiction of London's social tensions in CT with Boccaccio's depiction of Florence's unity in Decameron 6.2, Pampinea's story of Cisti. The duplicities and deceptions of CkT and CYT (at odds with the Host's governance) are like…
Chaucer and the Alliterative Romances
Blake, N. F.
Chaucer Review 3.3 (1969): 163-69.
Considers evidence from ParsP (10.42-44), KnT (1.2605-16), and LGW (635-58) that Chaucer may have been familiar with Middle English alliterative romances, arguing that the proposition is unlikely. While he may have known alliterative religious…
Chaucer and the Art of Digression
Gray, Douglas.
Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature 11 (1996): 21-47.
The English word "digression" is first recorded in TC 1.143, where the narrator comments on the fall of Troy. This digression anticipates ideas and images that occur later in the poem and reflects the narrator's difficulty in coming to a conclusion.
Chaucer and the Art of Hagiography
Braswell, Laurel.
Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 209-21.
In SNT and PrT, hagiography is used in an orthodox form, while in MLT and ClT, the devices of hagiography are used to amplify the moral character of secular tales. Hagiographic devices indicate that these tales are serious, not satire.
Chaucer and the Art of Not Eating a Book.
Boenig, Robert.
Dorsey Armstrong, Alexander L. Kaufman, and Shaun F. D. Hughes, eds. Telling Tales and Crafting Books: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2016), pp. 323-44. 2 b&w illus.
Contrasts the unequivocal hermeneutics of "eating a book"--i.e., internalizing the text of the Bible and its "one true meaning"--as depicted in the illustration of the Cloisters Apocalypse (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection, MS 68.174)…
Chaucer and the Art of Rhetoric
Payne, Robert O.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 42-64.
Scholars of the early twentieth century such as Naunin and Manly denied any significant influence of medieval rhetoric upon Chaucer. In more recent days, however, this attitude has been reversed, so that Payne ("The Key of Remembrance") could claim…
Chaucer and the Art of Storytelling
Koff, Leonard Michael.
Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1988.
Koff argues that "Chaucerian irony does not lead to Chaucer's own meaning. Instead, Chaucer's deflecting self-characterizations and the characterization of the storyteller who 'cannot tell stories' enable Chaucer to relinquish omniscience, thereby…
Chaucer and the Auchinleck Manuscript Revisited
Cannon, Christopher.
Chaucer Review 46.1-2 (2011): 131-46.
Reconsiders Laura Hibbard Loomis's method for gauging Chaucer's familiarity with the Auchinleck manuscript--a method based on collocations shared by Auchinleck and Th--arguing that the method does not prove his familiarity with Auchinleck, but does…
Chaucer and the Authority of Language: The Politics and Poetics of the Vernacular in Late Medieval England
Potter, Russell A.
Assays 6 (1991): 73-91.
Chaucer used English as a revolutionary gesture: "the vernacular destroyed the intellectual and political control of the aristocrats of church and state." Potter addresses several 14th-century English concerns: aristocratic control exercised…
Chaucer and the Bailiff in the Hills Above Pomeroy
Ballard, Linda-May.
P. M. Tilling, ed. Studies in English Language and Early Literature in Honour of Paul Christopherson. Occasional Papers in Linguistics and Language Learning, no. 8. (Coleraine: New University of Ulster, 1981): pp. 1-12.
Compares a folktale analogue found in County Tyrone with FrT, examining issues and implications.
Chaucer and the Bible
Brewer, Derek.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologica Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 270-84.
Explores Chaucer's interest in the Bible and assumes that he possessed his own copy and read it seriously. Suggests that Chacuer's piety may be connected with the late-fourteenth-century courtly interest in Carthusian ideals.
Chaucer and the Bible
Caie, Graham D.
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 24-34.
Addresses how Chaucer uses religious "collections, florilegia, anthologies, and miscellanies" along with Latin Bibles and patristic sources to develop his characters in CT, and to reflect "their level of biblical knowledge and literacy." Refers to…
Chaucer and the Bible: A Critical Review
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 16 (1988): 1-26.
Surveys scholarship and criticism on Chaucer and the Bible from Lounsbury to the present.
Chaucer and the Bible: A Critical Review of Research, Indices, and Bibliography
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
New York and London: Garland, 1988.
The main text consists of "Index I: Chaucer's Biblical Allusions--An Annotated List," arranged by Chaucer's works, and "Index II: Scriptural References," a reverse index. The apparatus includes an introduction; an essay, "Research on Chaucer and…
Chaucer and the Bible: Parody and Authority in the 'Pardoner's Tale'
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
David H. Hirsch and Nehama Aschkenasy, eds. Biblical Patterns in Modern Literature (Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1984), pp. 43-50.
Examines Chaucer's skeptical pose concerning theological and biblical controversies of the fourteenth century: "glosynge," parody, biblical allusion in PardP, PardT, GP, CT, and TC.
Chaucer and the Bible: The Case of the 'Merchant's Tale'
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts 6 (1978):10-31.
The nearly thirty evocations of the Bible in MerT are comic and ironic. They flirt with blasphemy and so expose huamn folly.
Chaucer and the Breton Lays
Johnston, Grahame.
K. I. D. Maslen and H. Winston Rhodes, eds. Proceedings and Papers of the Fourteenth Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association Held 19-26 January 1972 at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (Dunedin: AULLA, 1972), pp. 230[-]40.
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Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales: A Short Introduction
Hirsh, John C.
Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
Introduces students to Chaucer's life (opening chapter), comments on critical approaches to Chaucer, and presents several groups of recurring topics in CT: gender, religion, race, and class; love, sex, and marriage; God and spirituality; adaptations…
Chaucer and the Canticle of Canticles
Wimsatt, James I.
Jerome Mitchell and William Provost, eds. Chaucer the Love Poet (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973), pp. 66-90.
Surveys the uses of the biblical Song of Songs in medieval secular love poetry as background to exploring Chaucer's uses of it in BD and TC, and his comic adaptations of it in MerT and MilT.
Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism: Studies in Honor of H. A. Kelly
Minkova, Donka, and Theresa Tinkle, eds.
Frankfurt and New York : Peter Lang, 2003.
Twenty-three essays by various authors examine intellectual currents in medievalism, arranged in six categories: Text, Image, and Script; Text and Meter; Reception; Chaucer; Hagiography; and Lay Piety and Christian Diversity. For the nine essays that…