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Ruud, Jay.   Mediaevalia 10 (1988, for 1984): 199-212.
Although Buk appears to be a condemnation of marriage, Chaucer may have been experimenting with the philosophy of Ockham and Williams in presenting two paths to "knowing": experimentation and trusting authority. Buk reflects Chaucer's concerns…

Mason, Tom.   Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins, eds. The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume 3: 1660-1790 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 427-39.
Mason surveys English translations and modernizations of Chaucer's works (and apocrypha) between 1660 and 1795, commenting on Dryden's and Pope's versions and the imitations they inspired. Includes a list of "Chaucer's Translations 1660-1795."

Fyler, John M.   New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
Unlike Ovid and Dante, who speak for fate and the universal order, Chaucer and Ovid speak for "the comic pathos of human frailty and human pretensions." The central concern of Chaucer's HF, BD, PF, LGW, TC, KnT, and NPT is with the attempt, and…

Cooper, Helen.   Charles Martindale, ed. Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 71-81.
Discusses Chaucer's borrowings from Ovid in HF, BD, WBT, and ManT. Although to the fourteenth century the "Metamorphoses" was a chief among works demystified or allegorized to produce Christian doctrine, Chaucer rejects this tradition and emphasizes…

Sasamoto, Hisayuki.   The Society for Chaucer Studies and Koichi Kano, eds. To the Days of Studying Medieval English Literature: Essays in Memory of Professor Tadahiro Ikegami (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2021), pp. 57-68
Examines passages in The Legend of Thisbe of LGW that differ from the source, Ovid’s "Metamorphoses." In Japanese.

Getty, Laura Joanne.   Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 2503A, 1999.
Study of extant manuscripts from fourteenth-century England reveals that Chaucer was familiar with Ovidian texts and commentaries of his time. He developed his own adaptation of tone and vocabulary, exploring the tension between courtly love and…

Minnis, A. J.   Woodbridge, Suffolk:
Discusses Chaucer's sense of history and his historical approach to the pagans and the imperfection of pagan theology and philosophy, centering on TC and on KnT.

Rossiter, William T.   Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010.
Assesses Chaucer's relationship with Petrarch, focusing on translation theory, humanism, and Chaucer's uses of the Italian writer as source for ClT and the "Canticus Troili" of TC. Also assesses Chaucer's references to Petrarch in ClT and in MkT, as…

Shibata, Takeo.   Kobe Shinwa Studies in English Linguistics and Literature (Kobe Shinwa Women's University) 20: 12-40, 2000.
Compares pilgrimage in Japan with that in Christian culture and then discusses the pilgrimage to Canterbury in CT.

Phillips, Helen.   Beatrice Fannon, ed. Medieval English Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 79-94.
Addresses Chaucer's discourse on medieval political principles, including kingship and hierarchical order. Examines SqT, Mel, KnT, ClT, LGW, PF, and Sted.

Lewis, Robert Enzer.   Dissertation Abstracts International 25.12 (1965): 7246-47A.
Establishes the "intellectual background" to Chaucer's translation of Innocent's "De Miseria Humane Conditionis" as his "Wreched Engendrynge of Mankynde," explores Chaucer's uses of the treatise in MLPT and PardT and their manuscripts glosses, and…

Wu, Hsiang-mei.   Dissertation Abstracts International C74.10 (2015): n.p.
Examines treatment of several CT narrators and characters and sees examples of "othering" and hostile prejudice toward those characters. Proceeds from there to possible continuations of those prejudices in contemporary readings.

Holton, Amanda.   Reading Medieval Studies 33 (2007): 69-86.
Holton argues that Chaucer generally prefers direct naming techniques, but he recurrently uses "pronominatio" (i.e., epithets and related circumlocutions) when relying on Virgil as a source in HF and LGW. Also shows how Chaucer exploits the negative…

Cannon, Christopher.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22: 67-92, 2000.
We remain uncertain about the meaning of Cecily Chaumpaigne's release of Chaucer from a charge of rape, but the topic of rape (and forced marriage) in Chaucer's poetry reflects his sensitivity to the complex "definitional problems" of raptus. Chaucer…

Bloomfield, Morton W.   Unisa English Studies 11 (1973): 1-3.
Claims that Chaucer is a "rationalistic" poet, and suggests prospects for assessing Chaucer's use of dialectic or the "scholastic mode of reasoning" in his art, commenting on aspects of GP, ParsT, Mel, WBPT, Bo, TC, and HF.

Phillips, Helen, ed.   Cambridge: Brewer, 2001.
Critical essays examine Chaucer's religious writings. Sixteen essays focus on fourteenth-century religious practices, and religious influences on Chaucer's writings, and offer ways of teaching religious themes and issues in Chaucer. For individual…

Warren, Nancy Bradley.   Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019.
Traces a history of Chaucer reception in the context of Christian controversies by "situating Chaucer and the Chaucerian tradition in an international environment of religious controversy spanning four centuries." Emphasizes how Chaucer "engaged with…

Copeland, Rita.   Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 122-43.
Copeland outlines the classical-medieval tradition of rhetoric and its relationships with history, philosophy, and literary style. Considers the Pardoner as an embodiment of rhetoric and its potential for abuse; the Wife of Bath as rhetorical excess…

Sanderlin, S.   Chaucer Review 22 (1988): 171-84.
A survey of the financial and legal records of Chaucer's life from 1385 to 1400 leaves an impression of Chaucer as a cautious nonpartisan.

Manzalaoui, Mahmoud.   Derek Brewer, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background (London: G. Bell, 1974), pp. 224-61.
Approximates the parameters of Chaucer's knowledge and acceptance of medieval science, pseudo-science, and occult practice by surveying their presence in his works, including discussions of astronomy, astrology, alchemy, magic, physiognomy, etc. His…

Jeffrey, David Lyle, ed.   Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1984.
Twelve essays by various hands on Chaucer's received Christian tradition, scriptural interpretation, and glossing. For individual essays, of this volume.

Loomis, Dorothy Bethurum.   A. C. Cawley, ed. Chaucer's Mind and Art (New York: Barnes & Noble; Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1969), pp. 166.90.
Discusses similarities and differences between Chaucer and Shakespeare, concentrating on biography, theme, and literary techniques as well as borrowings. Comments on Shakespeare's adaptations of TC and KnT, and explores the writers' audiences, their…

Kelly, Henry Ansgar.   Leeds Studies in English 20 (1989): 191-206.
Chaucer discovered tragedy as a narrative genre not from Boccaccio but from Boethius and from the glossator of his own copy of "De consolatione," who may have been Ralph Strode. Chaucer's concept of tragedy included the fall of the innocent as well…

Brown, Peter.   Chaucer Review 48.2 (2013): 222-37.
Examines scholarship that traces Chaucer's "subtle" influence on Shakespeare, by drawing connections between MerT and "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

Gilbert, A. J.   A. J. Gilbert, Literary Language from Chaucer to Johnson (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: Barnes & Noble), 1979, pp. 29-62.
Close reading of KnT, focusing on elements such as syntax, diction, and imagery, shows Chaucer's dexterous use of high, middle, and low styles. The variety and combination of elements produce the tone of the poem and "naturalize" its philosophical…
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