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Chaucer and the Visual Arts of His Time
Fleming, John V.
Donald M. Rose, ed. New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism (Norman Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981): pp. 121-36.
Further enquiry can illuminate Chaucer's references and response to the visual arts, the artistic materials actually available to him, the applicability of artistic principles to his literary style, and the extent to and manner in which he…
Chaucer and the Visual Image: Learning, Teaching, Assessing
Coote, Lesley.
Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 139-52.
Describes and promotes the use of image-rich material and virtual learning environments for teaching Chaucer. Includes cautions and recommendations.
Chaucer and the War of the Maidens
Ganim, John M.
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed. Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England. The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 191-208.
The War of the Maidens, a founding myth of Czech history, may have come to England via Anne of Bohemia and may be part of the "political unconscious" of several of Chaucer's works, particularly his depiction of the Amazons in KnT.
Chaucer and the World of Interpretation: The Priest's Letter
Boitani, Piero.
Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 107-32.
Discusses the conflict between the letter and the spirit in NPT, providing a short survey of the history of literal interpretation. Chaucer freely accepts the letter as literature without excluding the morality. The Priest makes us turn away from…
Chaucer and the Written Language
Fisher, John H.
Thomas J. Heffernan, ed. The Popular Literature of Medieval England (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985), pp. 237-51.
Chaucer was evidently educated in the "ars dictaminis" (art of letter writing), which emphasized voice and point of view and may have influenced CT. While individual tales may have been written to be recited, CT as a collection was designed to be…
Chaucer and Translation.
Corrie, Marilyn.
Jeanette Beer, ed. A Companion to Medieval Translation (Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2019), pp. 133-42.
Explores the "difficulties" Chaucer encountered in translating Latin and continental works into English poetry and various verse forms, surveying complete works such as Bo, Rom, ClT, Mel, Ven, etc., and passages from various sources in larger works…
Chaucer and Two Elizabethan Pseudo-Sciences.
Camden, Carroll.
Philological Quarterly 38 (1959): 124-26.
Identifies an early modern allusion to Chaucer and CYT (by Hugh Platt) and one on dreams and, possibly, NPT (by William Vaughan), neither previously noted.
Chaucer and Victorian Medievalism: Culture and Society
Collette, Carolyn P.
Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic Literary Studies 29-30 (1988): 115-25.
Surveys commentary on Chaucer in Victorian critical journals, deriving three aspects of the Victorian view of Chaucer: he was a Child-Poet whose simplicity anticipated that of the nineteenth-century lower classes; he was the poet of the "green…
Chaucer and War
Pratt, John H.
Lanham, Md., New York, and Oxford : University Press of America, 2000.
Studies Chaucer's views of war and chivalry, examining biographical and historical data as background to assessments of TC, KnT, and the GP sketches of the Knight and Squire. Pratt summarizes medieval theories of warfare and "just war" and discusses…
Chaucer and Women
Hamaguchi, Keiko.
Tokyo : Eihosha, 2005.
Eight previously printed essays, seven on Chaucer and one on Shakespeare's Cressida. For the essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer and Women under Alternative Title.
Chaucer and Wyclif: Biblical Hermeneutic and Literary Theory in XIVth Century
Jeffrey, David Lyle.
David Lyle Jeffrey, ed. Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1984), pp. 109-40.
Until 1369, Wyclif, powerful and influential, dominated Oxford; the "Lollard Knights" were prestigious men of court;and John of Gaunt was patron of both Chaucer and Wyclif. Appendix applies Wyclif's ideas to Chaucer's poetry: Gent, Truth, Form Age,…
Chaucer and Wyclif: God's Miracles Against the Clergy's Magic
Kamowski, William.
ChauR 37 : 5-25, 2002.
In CT (especially WBT, PardT, CYT, PhyT, SNT, and MLT), Chaucer shares with Wyclif the belief that the Church had lost its miraculous power and its focus on salvation, and he stresses the importance of the individual's role in personal salvation. For…
Chaucer Answers Gower: Constance and the Trouble with Reading
Allen, Elizabeth.
ELH 64 (1997): 627-55.
Gower's "Confessio Amantis" presents Genius's tales as morally simple, although the incest stories stimulate readers to ask moral questions. In MLT, Chaucer represents his narrator as misreading Gower, affecting a simplistically moral stance and…
Chaucer Appropriated: The Troilus Frontispiece as Lancastrian Propaganda
Helmbold, Anita.
SAC 30 (2008): 205-34.
Surveys commentary on the frontispiece to TC in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, MS 61, and argues that it was commissioned by Henry V as part of his program to promote Lancastrian legitimacy and English vernacular writing.
Chaucer as 'Vates'?: Reading Ovid Through Dante in the House of Fame, Book 3
Fumo, Jamie C.
Janet Levarie Smarr, ed. Writers Reading Writers: Intertextual Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Literature in Honor of Robert Hollander. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007, pp. 89-108.
Fumo compares and contrasts Chaucer's invocation of Apollo in HF to its source in Dante's "Paradiso," arguing that Chaucer shares with Dante a "fundamental interest in defining the poet's role" as a "vessel of prophetic truth." Both poets are…
Chaucer as a European Writer
Simpson, James.
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 55-86.
Simpson explores Chaucer's absorption of and reactions to Continental influences (Latin, French, and Italian), emphasizing the recurrent influence of Ovid as a source and a model. BD is a poem of deference to Gaunt and to French tradition; HF and PF…
Chaucer as a London Poet: A Review Essay
Raybin, David.
Essays in Medieval Studies 24 (2007): 21-29
Reviews scholarship on Chaucer and London and briefly examines the impact of the Black Death, noting that "the threat of death is everywhere in Chaucer's work." An appendix lists "Recent Studies Treating Chaucer and London."
Chaucer as a Pawn in the Book of the Duchess.
Rowland, Beryl.
American Notes and Queries 6.1 (1967): 3-5.
Suggests that — in light of details of Chaucer's career and of medieval chess-playing — the significance of "fers" in BD 741 may be "threefold," referring to Blanche, to the chess piece, and to "Chaucer himself, the commoner promoted from pawn to…
Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tolkien Studies 5 (2008): 109-71.
Reprints Tolkien's assessment of the dialect features of RvT, originally presented to the Philological Society in Oxford (May 1931) and published in the Society's Transactions in 1934. This version is reprinted with attention to Tolkien's marginal…
Chaucer as a Poet of Love
Singh, Brijraj.
Rajasthan University Studies in English 6 (1972): 1-11.
Item not seen; listed in MLA International Bibliography.
Chaucer as a Satirist in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Woolf, Rosemary.
Critical Quarterly 1 (1959): 150-57.
Cautions that familiarity can blunt readers' awareness of the subtleties of satire in GP, recommending renewed attention to the characterization of the pilgrim narrator and differences between this character and "Chaucer the poet" as aspects of…
Chaucer as a Sociolinguist: Understanding the Role of Language in Chaucer's Internationalism
Fruoco, Jonathan.
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 216-30.
Traces the history of English from earlier times to Chaucer's age to reveal Chaucer's facility with language, focusing on his powerful and special words. Refers to J. R. R. Tolkien's 1934 lecture to the Philological Society, and claims that Chaucer…
Chaucer as a Storyteller
Lee, Dongchoon.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 858A.
Contrasts Chaucer's storytelling techniques in KnT, MilT, PardT, WBT, MLT, and MerT with those of their sources, contemporary writings, and folk traditions. Uses the approaches of Propp, Bal, Bakhtin, and Frye.
Chaucer as a Teacher
Eisner, Sigmund.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly 23 (1998): 35-39.
Suggests that Chaucer "creates a persona from his son (Lewis Chaucer) to be the initial audience" of Astr and argues that Chaucer's prose style is pedagogic, written to be easily understood by children.
Chaucer as a Technical Writer
Eisner, Sigmund.
Chaucer Review 19 (1984): 179-201.
Both Astr and Equat (if indeed Chaucer's), compared with run-of-the-mill technical writing, show Chaucer to have been a skilled translator and writer, unambiguous and interesting. If Equat is another's, the writer was heavily influenced by Chaucer.