Simola, Robert, compiler.
https://chaucereditions.wordpress.com/ (n.d.; last accessed 01/29/2019)
Organizes links to illustrations from editions of Chaucer's works published between 1484 (Caxton's 2d ed.) and 1930. The images are "listed chronologically by either editor, illustrator, title, or author depending on the source," all derived from…
Crépin, André.
Danielle Buschinger, ed. Autour d'Eustache Deschamps. Médiévales, no. 2. (Amiens: Université de Picardie, 1999), pp. 37-43
The poets had similar careers, and Deschamps's "Ballad to Chaucer" testifies to the supranational circle of knights-cum-poets. Deschamps's garden metaphor, his comparison of Chaucer to Socrates, and other comparisons indicate that the French poet is…
Dauby, Helene.
Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok, eds. Economie, politique, et culture au Moyen Age: Acte du Colloque, Paris 19 et 20 mai 1990. WODAN ser., no. 5 ([Amiens]: Universite de Picardie, 1991), pp. 55-63.
Compares Chaucer's WBT and Gower's "Tale of Florent" as indices to the authors' social and moral outlooks. Whereas Gower consistently emphasizes maintaining a hierarchical status quo, Chaucer's concern for the individual and his recurrent…
Dauby, Hélène.
Colette Stévanovitch, ed. L'Articulation langue-littérature dans les textes médiévaux anglais, II. Actes du colloque des 25 et 26 juin 1999 á l'Université de Nancy II. Collection GRENDEL, no. 3. (Nancy: Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1999), pp. 133-42.
Alliteration, not infrequent in Chaucer, fulfils several functions. It is mimetic in the description of battles (KnT) and the harmony of the spheres (TC); metrical, when binding two parts of a line or several lines together (BD); and syntactic:…
Crépin, André.
Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1998.
Catalogue of the exhibition at the eleventh international congress of the New Chaucer Society, held at the Sorbonne. Lists books and objects that illustrate the "boundless influence of French-speaking cultures on Chaucer" and the "scholarly…
Dauby, Hélène.
Waël Rabadi and Isabelle Bernard, eds. Médiévales 51 (Amiens: Presses du Centre d'Etudes Médiévales, Université de Picardie--Jules Verne, 2012), pp. 151-62.
Focuses on the narrative systems in The Arabian Nights and CT.
Shows that "what is thought to be the earliest record of a Chaucer folio in North America in fact refers to a text by the Protestant theologian Daniel Chamier." Concludes "with a brief survey of other early American readers of Chaucer."
Harty, Kevin J.
David W. Marshall, ed. Mass Market Medieval: Essays on the Middle Ages in Popular Culture (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2007), pp. 13-27.
Compares the six tales of The BBC Canterbury Tales (MilT, WBP, KnT, ShT, PardT, and MLT) with their Chaucerian originals. Emphasizes plot parallels, modern themes, and the lack of interconnection among the "six stand-alone telefilms."
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…
