Knapp, Peggy A.
Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 17-29.
Uses theoretical perspectives from Raymond Williams, Emmanuel Kant, and Hans-Georg Gadamer to explain and justify a pedagogical approach to CT based on student pursuit of individual "keywords" in the text and students' selection of a single pilgrim…
Edwards surveys pre-twentieth-century editions of Chaucer to see how their editorial goals anticipate and differ from those of the "modern critical edition." Print technology enforced a "single monolithic conception of text" that differs from the…
Condren, Edward I.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008.
Condren explores similarities of theme and technique in BD, PF, HF and TC, focusing on numerical composition and Chaucer's "self-dialogue" on poetry and love. Biographical reading of BD reveals that the man in black is not Gaunt but the dreamer's…
Rosenblum, Joseph, with William K. Finley.
Chaucer Review 38: 140-57, 2003.
The artists of the Ellesmere manuscript carefully deviated from Chaucer's descriptions of the pilgrims to deflect the satire from the upper and upper-middle classes to the lower orders. When Chaucer's own descriptions were ambiguous, the artists…
Koriyama, Naoshi.
No publication information available, [1973].
Item not seen; the WorldCat record indicates that this is an offprint, pp. 65-109, of an unidentified publication. See also Bill Wolak's interview with Koriyama in the online journal "Prime Number: A Journal of Distinctive Poetry and Prose," issue 7,…
Finley, William K., and Joseph Rosenblum, eds.
New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003.
Includes an introduction by the editors and ten essays and three appendices by various authors, who describe and discuss visual depictions of the Canterbury pilgrims and their tales in books and paintings, from the Ellesmere manuscript into the…
Knapp, Peggy A.
Kathy Lavezzo, ed. Imagining a Medieval English Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), pp. 131-60.
Knapp historicizes several terms ("ymaginacioun," "fantasye," "resoun," "imaginatyf," "engyn") representing the role of language in national fantasy, exploring how Chaucer uses them throughout his poetry to construct ways of imagining. In CT, PrT…
Winton, Calhoun.
Calhoun Winton, John Gay and the London Theatre (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1993), pp. 26-40.
Assesses how John Gay's play, "The Wife of Bath," sheds light on "what Gay and his contemportaries, most especially [Alexander] Pope, knew and thought about Chaucer," exploring Pope's influence on Gay's interest in Chaucer and the nature of Gay's…
Traces the readership of Chaucer in China, offering analyses of texts and translations available and frequency of Chaucer's verse in university curricula. Ties this readership to various factors, including interest, social context, and history.
Pugh, Tison.
Journal of Popular Culture 42.2 (2013): 411-32.
Considers the status and functions of mystery novels as a form of popular culture, employing distinctions posed by Pierre Bourdieu and exploring the use of allusion in the genre. Then investigates three mystery novels by Philippa Morgan that feature…
Collection of essays addressing various Chaucerian topics, including "textual authority, poetic design, political affiliations and sympathies, and religious convictions." For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Chaucer in Context: A…
Rigby, S. H.
Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996.
Surveys the polarities in critical assessments of CT, focusing on four oppositions: realism vs. stereotypicality, monologic vs. dialogic approaches, allegorical vs. humanist (ironic) approaches, and misogyny vs. feminism. Assesses the opposed…
Evans, Ruth.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23: 43-69, 2001.
HF provokes reflection on the "historical processes of memorialization." Such concepts as the brass tablet, apostrophe to Thought, inscribed ice block, and House of Rumor are analogous to conceptualizations of personal and cultural memory (history)…
Klitgård, Ebbe.
Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2013.
Provides comprehensive study of reception and translation of Chaucer's works in Denmark from the late eighteenth century to 2012. Study reveals cultural changes and links between Denmark and England, and provides analysis of current Chaucerian…
Miner, Earl.
Howard Anderson, ed. Studies in Criticism and Aesthetics: Essays in Honor of Samuel Holt Monk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1967), pp. 58-72.
Assesses "Dryden's conception of Chaucer," his poems, and the "purpose guiding" the changes he made while modernizing WBT, KnT, NPT, and the apocryphal "Flower and the Leaf." Also discusses Dryden's "Character of the Good Parson" and "Hind and the…
A study of Middle English, specifically Chaucer's English; lexicography; and obsolete words. Includes bibliography and indexes, as well as an appendix, "Chaucer, 'The Plowman's Tale', and Henry VIII."
Blake, N. F.
William C. Johnson and Loren C. Gruber, eds. "New" Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism (Denver: Society for New Language Study, 1973), pp. 1-7.
Argues that in late medieval English poetry (including Chaucer's) tone is "more likely to be found in the disposition" of rhetorical units larger than individual words and phrases. Draws illustrative examples from CT, TC, and "Sir Gawain and the…
Evokes the social and cultural conditions of England during Chaucer's lifetime by describing historical events, political circumstances, court life, domestic conditions for all classes, child-rearing, education and literacy, the influence of…
Rhodes, William..
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester; Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 98-112.
Argues that an "ambivalent enterprise of simultaneous innovation and retrospection . . . structures Spenser's approach to the reform of Ireland" as well as his "engagement with Chaucer in his poetry." Analyzes Spenser's use and explanation of two…
The study of Chaucer in Japanese universities has increased dramatically during the past quarter century. The paper lists relevant professional organizations and research trends.
Golden, Samuel L.
Chaucer Review 4.1 (1969): 49-54.
Demonstrates that Chaucer's works are a significant source of John Minsheu's multilingual dictionary, "Guide into the Tongues" ["Ductor in Linquas"] (1617).
Discusses the reception of Chaucer's poetry by nineteenth-century French critics who focused on CT, read Chaucer as a "European" rather than an English writer, discussed the accessibility of his language, and examined Chaucer's national literary and…
