Walter is not just testing his wife but doing the worst he can imagine himself doing as a stage in achieving a better unity among the parts of himself and between his private and public selves.
Waller, Gary.
Walsingham and the English Imagination (New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 65-86.
Explores the role of Erasmus's "Peregrinatio Religionis Ergo" in the demise of Marian culture in the English Reformation; includes brief comments on the comparable lack of the "political" influnce of CT.
A personal travelogue of a walking trip from Canterbury to London following the Pilgrims' Way--interspersed with brief summaries of portions of CT and musings on medieval social history and folk wisdom, the United Kingdom and the United States,…
Trigg, Stephanie.
New Medieval Literatures 7 (2005): 9-33.
Distinguishes among "various ways in which medieval English religious sites are mediated for visitors," from cathedrals (including Canterbury) to the Canterbury Tales Visitor Attraction. Assesses the authenticity of visitors' experiences in light of…
Hayton, Heather Richardson.
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 1393A, 2000.
Analyzes two works each from late-thirteenth-century Florence and late-fourteenth-century England in relation to the "Roman de la rose" as expressions of political factionalism in the vocabulary of desire. Concludes that "a loyal citizen is still a…
Rhodes, William.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Interprets the Reeve's conflict with the Miller and the sexual politics and violence of RvT in light of late-medieval agrarian economy and Marxist ideas of the inequities of economic exchange. Designed for pedagogical use, includes several questions…
Peeters, L[eopold].
Amsterdammer Beitrage zur Alteren Germanistik 3 (1973): 25-65.
Provides context for the allusion to "Wades boot" in MerT (4.1423), observing in a thirteenth-century Latin homily on humility connections between Wade and Hildebrand, both Germanic heroes, and further associations with the Irish St. Brendan.…
Crocker, Holly A.
Chaucer Review 54.3 (2019): 352-70.
Advocates for a continued emphasis in KnT on the subjectivity of Emelye, whose endurance and forbearance are key to a kind of personhood that is open and connected, rather than the individual subjectivity connected to the masculinist order presented…
Holbrook, Peter.
Modern Philology 107 (2009): 96-125.
Contrasts the dispassionate modernist criticism of T. S. Eliot with the more emotional criticism of F. J. Furnivall, arguing that Furnivall is "passionately committed to libertarian tradition in English poetry, a tradition whose founts he locates in…
Johnston, Andrew James.
Andrew James Johnston. Performing the Middle Ages from "Beowulf" to "Othello." Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, no. 15. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2008), pp. 94-123.
Revises the author's earlier study "The Keyhole Politics of Chaucerian Theatricality: Voyeurism in the Knight's Tale" (SAC 27 [2005], no. 183), placing it in the context of a parallel discussion of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
Murphy, Michael.
English Studies 66 (1985): 105-12.
Distinguishes between vow and boast in literary convention, traced down to the burlesques in "The Tournament of Tottenham" and Chaucer's Th. Considers the role of women as "taunters."
Fichte, Joerg O.
Walter Haug and Burghart Wachinger, eds. Fortuna (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 1995), pp. 192-215.
Surveys the theme of Fortune's influence in treatments of the story of Troilus and Criseyde from Boccaccio to Dryden, including TC and the versions of Henryson and Shakespeare.
This volume provides select bibliographical listings for a range of English writers, from Joseph Addison to W. B. Yeats, arranged alphabetically by author, covering materials up to 1977. The Chaucer section (pp. 32-37) lists discussions of canon and…
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris: Société des anglicistes de l'enseignement supérieur, 2011.
Eleven articles on medieval women and/or literature for them, especially works that are written by women authors. For one essay that pertains to Chaucer, see Piero Boitani, "Marie de France and the Breton Lay in England," (pp. 211-26).
Oliver, Douglas.
Journal of Phonetics 12.2 (1984): 115-32.
Technical report of a set of acoustic experiments designed to gauge how "voicing duration" interacts with intonation to "give a poetic line much of its 'personality'." One experiment assesses eight readings of a passage from Alexander Pope's "Essay…
Rodríquez Álvarez, Alicia, and Francisco Alanso Almeida, eds.
[Spain]: Netbiblo, 2004.
Eighteen essays by various authors on language, literature, and scientific manuscripts in Old and Middle English. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Voices on the Past under Alternative Title.
Morsberger, Katharine M.
Pacific Coast Philology 28 (1993): 3-19.
Through readings of Dryden's translation of WBT and Pope's translation of WBP, Morsberger details how "translation" serves as an attempt to understand the Other, to redefine language, and to discover other voices.
Kealy, J. Kieran.
A. E. Christa Canitz and Gernot R. Wieland, eds. From Arabye to Engelond: Medieval Studies in Honour of Mahmoud Manzalaoui on His 75th Birthday (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999), pp. 113-29.
Reads Ret as the "culminating moment in the progressive disillusionment" of the Canterbury fiction for poet and reader alike. SNT, CYT, and ManT together "systematically confront" medieval notions of truth and the ability of humans to know it,…
Sinnreich-Levi, Deborah M., and Gale Sigal, eds.
New York: AMS, 1992.
This collection of fourteen essays honors Helaine Newstead and focuses on the sources--primarily Celtic--of Arthurian literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Voices in Translation under Alternative Title. …
Fulton, Helen.
Louise D'Arcens, and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, eds. Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. 37-55.
Investigates free indirect discourse in GP, focusing on Chaucer's personae, the variety of his narrative positions, and their "focalisations" internal and external to the diegesis of the poem. Comments on focalization in the descriptions of the Wife…
Brandolino examines reciprocity between faith and interiority in a number of late medieval English vernacular texts, including WBPT and SNT. After 1215, when Pope Innocent III "issued a decree requiring all Christians . . . to make an annual private…
Lawton, David.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Approaches late medieval vernacular culture in terms of "voice," and suggests that "voice" is the subject of CT. Argues that Chaucer "frames" his work "between the praise of voice and the censure of it prevalent in pastoral rhetoric and represented…
