Harrison, Benjamin S.
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.06 (1966): 1786A
Assesses prior critical treatments of Chaucer's uses of rhetoric and traces a pattern of development from his use of the "conventional methods of expansion and embellishment" of the medieval rhetoricians, through "increasing independence" to…
Kelly, Kathleen Coyne.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 218-29
Coins the term "updaptation" to describe adaptations that shift temporalities from past to present, using the term to explore relations between ShT and the BBC television version, the "Sea Captain's Tale." Focuses on the episode's use of film noir…
Utz, Richard.
Studies in Medievalism 19 (2010): 160-203.
Defining Neomedievalism(s)
Uses a postcolonial approach to examine the publication and reception of Robinson's edition of Chaucer's works (1933) in its historical context, particularly the rise of scholarly productivity in the United States and attitudes toward England and…
Keiser, George R.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 73 (1979): 333-34.
The explanation for the condition of quire 10 in CT is that the leaves became disarranged after the scribe had completed the first half. The order that resulted from his error was ii-iii-i-iv-v-vi. After this faulty order was corrected, the order…
Klassen, Norman.
Christianity & Literature 64.01 (2014): 3-20.
Analyzes the rhetorical structure, themes, and wordplay of the first thirty-four lines of GP, arguing that in CT Chaucer maintains "his commitment to the coherence of creation within the narrative framework of Christianity."
Finkelstein, Dorothee.
Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 207 (1970): 260-76.
Identifies the allegorical traditions that underlie the mysteriousness of alchemy in Arabic and Latin writings, focusing on the sources, nomenclature, and descriptions mentioned at the end of CYT (8.1428-65) especially the comments on mercury,…
Crépin, André.
Wendy Harding, ed. Drama, Narrative and Poetry in The Canterbury Tales (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2003), pp. 227-36.
In NPT, the Nuns' Priest (Nonnes is plural) confesses his own temptations of lust and pride, under the guise of Chauntecleer. The priest is another persona of Chaucer the poet, interested in the same topics (dreams, astronomy, free will, the biter…
Mooney, Linne R.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 15 (1993): 91-109.
Chaucer's works and the works of almanac writers John Somer and Nicholas of Lynn reflect the contemporary tendency to rely on "clock time" rather than earlier forms of computing time. Mooney surveys a variety of ways of telling time, discussing…
Given the numerous verbal parallels between Greene's work and "The Cobbler of Canterbury" (an avowed imitation of CT, published anonymously in 1590), it would seem that Greene "fibbed" when, in a separate publication, he "informed the spirits of…
Medieval encyclopedism, although typically treated as a manifestation of "closed-systems" thinking, has many dimensions that suggest a wider, unresolved view of the universe. Chaucer's works, with other encyclopedic texts, offer examples of open…
Librach, Ronald S.
Interpretations 14.2 (1983): pp. 1-14
Explores nuances of Boethian Providence, fortune, destiny, and human perceptions of them in KnT, along with relations between death and love in their worldly and spiritual manifestations. Argues that in KnT Chaucer burlesques the "romantic…
Beidler, Peter G.
Chaucer Review 6.1 (1971): 38-43.
Argues that we do not know whether or not Damian completed the act of copulation in the pear tree of MerT, impregnating May, despite Emerson Brown's claims that he did neither. More important are the facts that January has been cuckolded and that he…
Schmidt considers Langland's "attitude to the moral and artistic demands of his poem," his versecraft, his use of medieval Latin quotations and works on the art of poetry, and his diction, puns, and rhetorical art. Contains brief references to…
A murder mystery, set in Oxford, in which Geoffrey Chaucer investigates homicide amidst town–gown tensions, rivalries in the colleges, debates, Lollards, and astrolabes. Features historical and fictional characters, including Ralph Strode and a…
Sasamoto, Hisayuki.
Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 319-33.
Focuses on how ClT differs from its two sources, Petrarch's "Historia Griseldis" and its anonymous French translation "Le livre Griseldis," and argues that Chaucer adds his original expression of the characters' emotion so as to encourage the…
In her "Foreward" to this collection of Reece's poems (ix-xiii), Louise Glück comments on the theme of virtue in ClT as a "problem" for modern readers, "possibly because virtue unconvincingly disarms brutality." She also observes that Reece's book…
McKinley, Kathryn L.
Chaucer Review 33 (1998): 90-111.
The concept of piety was complex and problematic during the Middle Ages, and Chaucer's refusal to align himself with one side or the other in ClT is distressing. Griselda is neither a paradigm for lay sanctity nor an ironic or satiric character.
Outrage at Walter's treatment of Griselda, seeing Griselda's story as a religious allegory of patience, even seeing it as a folk tale rewritten--such responses indicate that ClT is a poem "divided against itself." One way to resolve these conflicts…
One should not apply a naturalistic test to ClT, which displays the traditional characteristics of the parable--an illustrative story directed to a single point. The point here is that Griselda is true to God, which is a sufficient principle of life…
Loganbill, Dean
William C. Johnson and Loren C. Gruber, eds. "New" Views on Chaucer: Essays in Generative Criticism (Denver: Society for New Language Study, 1973), pp. 29-34.
Locates examples of modernism and the "absurdist point of view" in ClT and MLT, suggesting points of comparison with Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot."
