Grady, Frank.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 18 (1996): 3-23.
HF recalls "Piers Plowman" in its vocabulary, its apocalyptic pursuit of truth and authority, its dream-vision genre, its signature passages, and its unfinished state. Both poems manipulate conventions and challenge readers' presuppositions in ways…
Taylor, Karla.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989.
Chaucer was indebted to Dante for turns of phrases, images, stories, and poetic and philosophical aims. Chaucer's most pervasive use of Dante was as "a spur and a background against which he defined his own, very different poetic and moral vision."
Gallagher, Joe, dir.
Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1993.
The MilT read in Middle English by Joe Gallagher (with modern subtitles) before an audience in medieval costume. Audience reactions emphasize meaning and humor.
Taylor, Karla Terese.
Dissertation Abstracts International 44 (1983): 1449A.
In TC, Chaucer subverts "The Divine Comedy": Paolo and Francesca's seduction by literature is metamorphosed to bookishness; Dante's self-authentication contrasts with the narrator's character in TC; and Dante's imagery and allegorical cosmos are…
Surveys Chaucer's reception in Danish scholarship, curricula, and translations, emphasizing the need for a Danish translation of CT that does not lose Chaucer's "subtlety and poetic forcefulness."
