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. …
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…
Report of a pedagogical experiment in which online interactive computer software enabled students to assume roles of the Canterbury pilgrims. The experiment sought to emphasize Chaucer's rhetorical qualities, but the results reinforced the dramatic…
Lawton, David.
Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway, eds. Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013), pp. 284-306.
Studies the importance of "voice" within medieval studies; develops an "interrelation between voice and public"; and positions Chaucer as "a public poet" who is concerned with voice throughout his works. Considers voice in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and…
Hernández Pérez, M. Beatriz
Santa Cruz de Tenerife: La Página Ediciones, 2003.
Compares varied uses of narrative voices in CT and Juan Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor "in light of the tradition of prologue writing. Chaucer and Ruiz employ satire and ambiguity to elicit a variety of questions from their audience - enough to arouse…
Burrow, J. A.
Essays in Criticism 59 (2009): 22-36.
"Laus" (praise) and "vituperatio" (rendered by Chaucer as "sklaunder") find their way into medieval "ars poetriae." Using the "idiom of odium" (e.g., traditionally disreputable animals and bodily functions), Chaucer focuses on reporting angry…
Johnstone, Boyda.
New Medieval Literatures 17 (2017): 175-200.
Analyzes the "effect and experience" of the stained glass in HF and in Lydgate's "underappreciated remobilization" of it in his "Temple of Glass," comparing the aesthetics of the dream visions with those of late medieval glass in England, its…
Provost, Jeanne.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 38 (2016): 39-74.
Uses several medieval court cases and posthumanist perspective to examine medieval notions of "corporeal property," arguing that, by comparing property relations to a "spousal and familial one," the Wife of Bath persistently destabilizes the…
Stevenson, Barbara.
Miriamne Ara Krummel and Tison Pugh, eds. Jews in Medieval England:Teaching Representations of the Other (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 209-27.
Describes a classroom practice of encouraging students to explore emotional responses to PrT by asking them to illustrate any scene from the tale and then compare these illustrations with historical illustrations, from the Vernon manuscript to modern…
Sadlek, Gregory M.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 8.2: 77-97, 2000.
Describes the value of sociograms ("visual diagram[s] of a given social network") in teaching GP, summarizing underlying theory and presenting a practical application. College-level assignment and results included.
Astell, Ann W.
Carmina Philosophiae 3: 23-36, 1994.
Argues that Boethius's "Consolation" inspired many "amatory imitations" (especially the "Roman de la Rose" and TC) because its opening scene parallels--and perhaps helped inspire--the visual commonplace of the (love)sick man tended by a female who…
Gertz, SunHee Kim.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Gertz reads HF in light of modern semiotic theory (Maria Corti, Umberto Eco, and Roman Jakobson) and medieval traditions of "fürstenspiegel" (mirror of princes), with particular attention to visual signs and codes. Contrasts Chaucer's techniques of…
Bowden, Betsy.
Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntingon Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995), pp. 171-204.
Surveys pilgrim protraits, ranging from Caxton's woodcuts to Blake's 1809 (1810?) engraving of "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims," exploring "earlier readers' understandings of Chaucer's text (in order) to begin to distinguish those perceptions that…
Yager, Susan.
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1992): 3922A.
Bo states that seeing should be deliberate action. Chaucer, who uses many words relating to seeing (and apparently introduced some into English), treats failure to perceive (Argus, January, Walter, Troilus) and illusion (HF, MLT, FranT, CYP, and…
Clogan, Paul M.
Gerald Gillespie, Margaret R. Higonnet, and Sumie Jones, eds. Visions of History, Visions of the Other. Vol. 2 of Earl Miner, gen. ed. ICLA '91 Tokyo: The Force of Vision. 6 vols. Proceedings of the XIIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1995), pp. 144-51.
Depictions of Thebes indicate various medieval views of history. "Roman de Thebes" blurs contrasts between pagan and Christian, classical and historical. Boccaccio's "Teseida" resists the modernization and secularization of romance tradition. TC…
Watson, Nicholas.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27 (1997): 145-87.
The belief that all humanity will attain salvation occurs with surprising frequency in Middle English writings. Though influenced by Latin theology, the sentiment was generated primarily by English and Anglo-Norman vernacular culture. PF shows the…
Reorients the critical habit of assessing the structure and details of HF in light of Gothic architecture, arguing that the poem affiliates "Gothic" and "Other," and "dramatizes" the narrator's encounter with the "familiar world of the self and the…
Jordan, Robert M.
Paul Strohm and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 1, 1984 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1985), pp. 195-200.
Like modern theorists, Chaucer is concerned with language as a reliable vehicle to account for reality, as in HF, ManT, TC,Ret. The pilgrim narrator shifts in viewpoint and style; Chaucer exploits the gap between language and reality, as in TC, LGW,…
In MerT and two French fabliaux ("Les perdris" and "Le prestre qui abevete"), the "victims' justifiably skeptical search for visual proof" paradoxically results in deceptive "visual confirmation." Examining how this process takes place may elucidate…
Brantley, Jessica.
Paul Strohm, ed. Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 315-34.
Brantley describes "texts that record acts of looking" as a "distinct medieval literary genre and a distinctly medieval way of knowing," addressing dream visions (including BD, PF, HF, and LGWP), mystical visions, and the parody of a visionary…
Deals with both real ecstatic visions and fictional literary visions and gives criteria to discern them. Thus it provides the background for Chaucer's dream poetry as well, quoting Langland, BD, HF, LGW, PF, etc.
Njoku, Benedict C.
Thomas Halton, ed., and Joseph P. Williman, ed. and pref. Diakonia: Studies in Honor of Robert T. Meyer (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1986), pp. 302-307.
Derivations of words in Chaucer referring to saintliness and morality.
Sturges, Robert S.
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 120-44.
Focuses on TC's connections with Dante's "Convivio" and "Vita nuova." Although there is no “evidence for direct borrowing from the 'Vita nova,'” Sturges claims that Chaucer's and Dante's "sensory aspects of love" are similar in the three works,…
