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Chaucer and the Early Church
Kaiser, Melanie L., and James M. Dean.
Medieval Forum 5 (2006): n.p.
Depicting an idealized portrait of the early church, SNT is a means to critique the church of Chaucer's own time.
Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio
Wallace, David.
Woodbridge, Suffolk : D. S. Brewer, 1985.
Examines aims and literary traditions of early writings of Boccaccio to provide a context for Chaucer's use of Boccaccio. Both writers loved and used Latin and French writers and Dante; both drew from a wide range of literary forms and styles: …
Chaucer and the Economic and Social Consequences of the Plague
Robertson, D. W.,Jr.
Francis X. Newman, ed. Social Unrest in the Middle Ages, (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1986), pp. 49-74.
Robertson discusses hardships such as war, crime, extortion, maintenance and procurement, legal abuses, and the ordinances of Edward III and Richard II that serve to illuminate BD, FrT, PardT, and the GP Wife of Bath, Prioress, Monk, Merchant,…
Chaucer and the Eighteenth Century: the Wife of Bath and Moll Flanders
Olsen, Alexandra Hennessey.
Chaucer Newsletter 1:2 (1979): 13-15.
Notes broad similarities between the Wife of Bath and Moll Flanders and concludes that Moll is an 18th-century analogue of Alison.
Chaucer and the Elizabethan Invention of 'Self'
Fowler, Elizabeth.
Patrick Cheney and Anne Lake Prescott, eds. Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry. (New York: Modern Language Association, 2000), pp. 249-55.
Several Chaucerian poems--especially the multiple voices and amatory perspectives of CT and the request for patronage in Purse--helped "later writers invent the social person of 'selfe.'" Fowler suggests comparisons for pedagogical purposes.
Chaucer and the Elusion of Clarity.
Donaldson, E. Talbot
T. S. Dorsch, ed. Essays and Studies 1972: In Honour of Beatrice White. Being Volume Twenty-Five of the New Series Essays and Studies Collected for the English Association (London: John Murray; New York: Humanities, 1972), pp. 23-44.
Explores "two related but distinct aspects of Chaucer's celebrated stylistic clarity": 1) while "self-evident," it is "often more apparent than real," and 2) a "means by which" Chaucer "escapes dexterously from the danger of really being clear and…
Chaucer and the Energy of Creation : The Design and Organization of the Canterbury Tales
Condren, Edward I.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 1999.
Reads CT (in Ellesmere order) as organized by the universal principles of entropy (movement to chaos), cybernetics (movement to stability), and synergy (transition to a changed or transcendent state). These three principles also inform the structure…
Chaucer and the English Language
Davis, Norman.
Geoffrey Chaucer: Conferenze Organizzate dall'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Collaborazione con la British Academy (Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1977), pp. 3-22.
Surveys opinions about Chaucer's diction from John Lydgate to G. K. Chesterton and explores the French elements in the vocabulary of his love poetry, along the way commenting on relations between Chaucerian and Chancery diction, the "texture of…
Chaucer and the English Reformation
Swart, Felix.
Neophilologus 62 (1978): 616-19.
"The Plowman's Tale," first appearing in Chaucer's "Works" in 1542, and the "Pilgrim's Tale," printed not earlier than 1536, both clearly based on earlier material, could be clever forgeries or retouched, but substantially genuine, medieval poems. …
Chaucer and the English Romance Tradition
Haymes, Edward R.
South Atlantic Review 37.04 (1972): 35-43.
Affirms Chaucer's familiarity with native English romances by identifying a number of formulaic phrases (some of them oral remnants) that recur in native romances and in a variety of Chaucer's works. Includes comments on Thop as evidence of Chaucer's…
Chaucer and the English Tradition
Robinson, Ian.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.
Treats Chaucer as a "great" poet and the "father" of English literature, commenting on the "wonderful" range of tones in his poetry, its relations with French and Italian works, its similarities with other late-medieval English works, and the…
Chaucer and the European 'Rose'
Wallace, David.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 61-67.
Examines the influence of "Roman de la Rose" on European literature; Brunetto Latini, "ser Durante," Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Chaucer. "Five generations of Italian poets...defined their individual enterprise" against the "Rose." Chaucer…
Chaucer and the European Literary Tradition
Brown, Emerson,Jr.
George D. Economou, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles (New York: McGraw Hill, 1976), pp. 37-54.
Chaucer's poetry is highly dependent on Latin, French, and Italian works and genres, and on medieval thought in general. In his day his various works represented stages in the development of different medieval literary traditions; he borrowed from…
Chaucer and the European Tradition
Wetherbee, Winthrop, III
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005): 3-21
The Presidential Address, The New Chaucer Society, Fourteenth International Congress, 15-19 July 2004, University of Glasgow. Explores Chaucer's idea of "serious poetry," derived from French and Italian models. Comments on Chaucer's treatments of…
Chaucer and the Exegetes
Delasanta, Rodney.
Studies in the Literary Imagination 4.2 (1971): 1-10.
Assesses the pros and cons of applying patristic criticism to the study of Chaucer, arguing for typological rather than allegorical (or tropological) analyses and discouraging limited readings.
Chaucer and the Fair Field of Anglo-Norman
Harty, Kevin J.
Les Bonnes Feuilles (Pennsylvania State University) 5.1 (1975): 3-17.
Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender
Hansen, Elaine Tuttle.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Explores the relationship between gender and subjectivity in the works of Chaucer, assessing from a feminist critical perspective the traditional "adulation" of the poet. Hansen examines the "feminization" of Chaucer's characters and narrators and…
Chaucer and the French
Crepin, Andre.
Piero Boitano and Anna Torti, eds. Medieval and Pseudo-Medieval Literature (Tubingen: Narr, 1984), pp. 55-77.
Deals with Chaucer's French sources and his reception in France.
Chaucer and the French Influence
Fisher, John H.
Donald M. Rose, ed. New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism (Norman Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981), pp. 177-91.
In his early poetry Chaucer tried to use a purely native English vocabulary; his later works show a more comfortable use of the cultural vocabulary with which he and his bilingual audience were familiar.
Chaucer and the French Love Poets: The Literary Backgrounds of the "Book of the Duchess."
Wimsatt, James I.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
Demonstrates Chaucer's extensive dependence upon French love poetry, tracing the development of "dits amoreux" from Guillaume de Lorris's portion of the "Roman de la Rose" to Chaucer's contemporaries and identifying where in BD Chaucer was influenced…
Chaucer and the French Tradition Revisited : Philippe de Mézières and the Good Wife
Collette, Carolyn P.
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne et al., eds. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain: Essays for Felicity Riddy (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000), pp. 151-68.
Defines the French literary topos of the good wife, wherein "female virtue grounded in prudence and self-control benefits the immediate domestic and also the wider public spheres." Reflected in Philippe's "Le livre de la vertu du sacrement de…
Chaucer and the French Tradition: A Study in Style and Meaning.
Muscatine, Charles.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957.
Describes aspects of medieval French poetry that influenced Chaucer's style, high and low, tracing the idealizing, nonrepresentational conventions of courtly romances from the early twelfth century to their epitome in Guillaume's de Lorris's portion…
Chaucer and the French War: 'Sir Thopas' and 'Melibee'
Scattergood, V. J.
Glyn S. Burgess and others, eds. Court and Poet (Liverpool: Cairns, 1981), pp. 287-96.
Th, a burlesque romance, and Mel, a moral allegory, express substantially the same ideas in their satiric evaluation of military heroes and affairs.
Chaucer and the Function of the Word
Holley, Linda Tarte.
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 8075A.
Medieval thinkers reverenced the word for its power to give order to experience, but Chaucer throughout his writings calls attention to the unreliability of the word.
Chaucer and the Future of Language Study
Hanna, Ralph.
SAC 24: 309-15, 2002.
Hanna encourages more refined analysis of Chaucer's lexical practice, especially examination of patterns of choices between English and French synonyms.