Dinkler, Michal Beth.
Religion and Literature 47, no. 1 (2015): 221-35.
Within the framework of examining Chaucer and Dostoevsky, discusses critical approaches to literary examples in relationship to teaching the Bible as literature.
De Ridder, Antonio Joaquim.
Dissertation Abstracts International A76.07 (2015): n.p.
Examines Marguerite in the context of other historical writers of "framed short fiction," including Chaucer, and suggests commonalities with CT, and ClT, in particular.
Croll, Angus.
San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2015.
A collection of playful JavaScript programs, imitating or responding to well-known literary authors--Hemingway, Shakespeare, Austin, Woolf, Borges, etc.--and including
brief descriptions of each writer's style. The section on Chaucer (pp. 104–11)…
Plenary lecture positions Chaucer as important to sixteenth-century writers for his incorporation of the Latin rhetorical tradition--particularly the concepts of decorum and Augustine's three levels of style--into English, even as he does so with…
Candeloro, Antonio.
1616: Anuario de la Sociedad Espanola de Literatura General y Comparada 5 (2015): 163-87.
Analyzes Chaucer and Shakespeare in Javier Marıas's novel, "Ası empieza lo malo." Chaucer's concepts of "fame" and "rumor," as described in HF, are central to Marias's depiction of contemporary men and their incapacity to face rumor and establish…
Brwn, Sarah Annes.
Review of English Studies 66, no. 275 (2015): 465–79.
Argues that Underdowne's "Theseus and Ariadne" (1566) draws on a number of earlier versions of the myth, including Ovid's "Heroides" and Chaucer's LGW.
Includes a section entitled "Shorter Chaucer Tales" (pp. 21–51) with five pieces inspired by CT: "The Host Tale," "The Summer Tale (Deus Hic, 1)," "The Franker Tale (Deus Hic, 2)," "The Not Tale (Funeral)," and "Fried Tale (London Zoo)." The…
Alexander, Gavin.
Notes and Queries 260 (2015): 52-53.
In this "first printed work of English vernacular literary criticism" (dated 1575), Gascoigne refers to ParsT (10.43) in arguing "For it is not inough to roll in pleasant woordes, nor yet to thunder in Rym, Ram, Ruff, by letter (quoth my master…
Yeager, Stephen M.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Examines alliterative English writing by focusing on Anglo-Saxon legal-homiletic discourse within vernacular English poetry. Brief mention of FranT, ParsT, MLT, and Mel.
Wilson, Anna Patricia.
Dissertation Abstracts International A77.07 (2015): n.p.
Considers how the three titular authors equate excessive emotional response and similar qualities to texts with immaturity. Reads ClPT as Chaucer's reaction to Petrarch on the vernacular.
Rossiter, William T.
Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 21–42.
Explores how Chaucer used Petrarch, Petrarch used Dante, and Dante used Virgil: a sequence of influence that underpins Chaucer's "conception of renown" and encouraged him to lay claim to belonging to the schiera (band) of famous poets. Discusses…
Identifies "new Romance analogues" for details in GP, MilT, WBPT, PardT, ShT, and ParsT in three fifteenth-century Catalan narratives: "Disputa de l'ase" ("The Argument of the Ass") by Anselm Turmeda, the "Llibre de fra Bernat" ("Book of Friar…
Haught, Leah.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114 (2015): 240-60.
The Middle English romance "Amis and Amiloun" explores the complex concept of "trewth" in the fourteenth century. This essay contends that the binding oath made by childhood friends is reminiscent of the agreement of the GP pilgrims, as well as…
Hanna, Ralph III, and Traugott Lawler, eds., using materials collected by Karl Young and Robert A. Pratt.
Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 2014.
Critical edition of seven commentaries (one excerpted) on Walter Map's Latin antifeminist treatise, with analyses of contents and impact, manuscript information, variants and emendations, extensive notes, and facing-page translations. The…
Ginsberg, Warren.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015
With special consideration of Ovid, Dante, and Boccaccio as models (not sources), explores the relationship between Chaucer's predecessors and CT while conducting in-depth investigation into Chaucer's reworking of the original texts both through the…
Discusses John Gower's "Visio Anglie" as a departure from his usual compositional style and from his other treatments of the Revolt. Argues that specific depictions carry out a mimetic reenactment of the Revolt, rejecting the notion that Chaucer's…
Warner, Lawrence.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 37 (2015): 55-100.
Critiques the methods and conclusions of various analyses of late medieval English vernacular scribes, challenging the arguments that British Library, MS Royal 17 D.XVIII is Thomas Hoccleve's holograph; that Adam Pinkhurst was "Scribe B" of…
Presents textual analysis about CT manuscript descent, specifically, that "a copying of *W [the MS used by De Worde for his 1498 edition of CT]" is likely to have "led to the production of Gg [CUL, MS Gg.IV.27] and Ph1 [University of Texas, Harry…
Matsuda, Takami.
Kiyoko Myojo and Noburu Notomi, eds. What Is a Text? An Introduction to Textual Scholarship (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2015), pp. 81–104.
Refers to Paul Zumthor's notion of "mouvance," and argues that CT should be understood not as a single text but as a group of different, co-existent texts. In Japanese.
Myojo, Kiyoko, and Noburu Notomi, eds.
Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2015.
Includes a chapter on the issues of the text of CT. In Japanese. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for What Is a Text? under Alternative Title.
Questions the concept of a "standard edition" in the postmodern world of textual editing and uses the controversy about Adam Pinkhurst (Was he Chaucer's scribe cited in Adam?) as evidence that "medievalists really seek editorial closure," despite…
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, John T. Thompson, and Sarah Baechle, eds.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014.
Collection of interdisciplinary manuscript studies and critical essays presented at the "New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Derek Pearsall" conference on October 21-22, 2011. Includes…
Studies a late medieval manuscript, San Marino, Huntington Library, HM 144 (c. 1500), which is a compilation of works chosen for their devotional and/or ethical content. Uses Mel to show how the scribe--by omitting portions of a text and…
