Rothwell, W[illiam].
Modern Language Review 80 (1985): 39-54.
Despite earlier movements to standardize French, from which English borrowed heavily, the language of Chaucer's Prioress would have been nonstandard both in pronunciation and in morphology. Analysis of Anglo-Norman documents is needed to assess…
Kinney, Clare Regan.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Addresses the features of poetic narrative that are distinct from prose narrative, concentrating on self-consciousness about poetic form, intertextual relations, and authentication. An introduction and separate chapters consider TC, The Faerie…
Pearsall, Derek.
F. R. P. Akehurst and Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden, eds. The Stranger in Medieval Society (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), pp. 46-62.
Explores the nuances of "strange" and "stranger" in Middle English, arguing that noncitizens, immigrants from the provinces, and merchants were considered strangers in London. Comments on the 1381 massacre of Flemings and Chaucer's allusion to it…
Suggests parallels between medieval literature and African-American literature, with particular attention to Layamon and August Wilson (stories of origin), Gloria Naylor's "Linden Hills" and Dante (a suppressive desire for harmony), and Naylor's…
Beard, Drew.
Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies 8 (2010): n.p. [Electronic publication]
Describes medieval dream visions, characterizes Chaucer's examples as simultaneously concerned with destabilizing assumptions and containing dissent, and compares aspects of Chaucer's dream visions with the "postmodern" horror movie series, "A…
Driver, Martha.
Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie, eds. John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book (London: British Library), pp. 135-43.
Driver assesses "Stow's pervasive intellectual influence on two later antiquarian readers of Chaucer." To Browne and Le Neve, Stow's edition was "a highly regarded and trusted exemplar, used to supply omissions, correct errors, and add notes."
Chaucer uses East and West to signify differences in storytelling in MLT: chivalric vs. travel romance; hagiography vs. history; linear narrative vs. apostrophe and prayer. Chaucer leads his readers to see the Tale as "trapped in Western chauvinism,"…
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.
Welsh, Andrew.
Robert Boenig and Kathleen Davis, eds. Manuscript, Narrative, Lexicon: Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton (Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press; and London: Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 76-95.
Examines how narrative and sententiousness interact in The Physician's Tale and The Manciple's Tale as examples of Chaucer's explorations of the nature of this interaction. PhyT is a "story in search of a moral," while ManT is a "collection of…
Fischer, Andreas.
Rudiger Ahrens, ed. Anglistentag 1989 Wurzburg. Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Professors of English, no. 9 (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1990), pp. 310-19.
Observes similarities of form and theme in FranT and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, particularly the focus on trawthe/trouthe in each, arguing that they transcend the romance genre. Contrasts FranT with Menedon's Question in Boccaccio's Filocolo…
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.
Examines the frequent mention of Griselda's face in ClT, as compared to his sources, and simultaneously argues that Chaucer's version highlights Griselda's interiority and how she maintains her patience.
Agbabi, Patience.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Agbabi's personal account of adapting Chaucer's poetry in her "Telling Tales" (2014) and in her contribution to the anthology "Refugee Tales" (2016)--an adaptation of FranT entitled "Makar."
Baldini, Gabriele.
Turino: Edizioni Radio Italiana, 1958.
Includes a brief biography of Chaucer and a lengthy chronological work-by-work introduction to his oeuvre. Also includes a chapter on Chaucerian apocrypha, relations with Gower, and influence on later poets.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
An extended essay in "thinking beyond anthropocentrality" by appreciating "lithic" ontology and "geophilia" ("geology without dispassion"), an example of posthumanist, object-oriented consideration that seeks to dislodge assumptions about…
The section entitled "Authentic Languages" includes a sub-section on Chaucer that raises questions about modern ability to gauge the authenticity of the northern literary dialect in RvT.
Calle Martin, Javier.
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 06 (1996): 64-84.
Traces the classical and colloquial origins of Chaucer's stereotyped comparisons (e.g., "as stille as any ston," "white as chalk"); describes their syntax; and assesses the functions of grammar, alliteration, and prosody in the development of terms…
Discusses the stylistic device of inverting or rearranging word order for poetic effect. Highlights the writing of William Dunbar, who acknowledged Chaucer to be included among the "masters who by making were remade."
Steiner, Wendy.
Rosemary Feal, ed. Profession 2008 (New York: Modern Language Association, 2008), pp. 24-32.
Personal narrative about Steiner's composition of an opera inspired by WBT, intended for production as a full-length animated film. Includes sketches and storyboards by John Kindness.
Brown, Carole Koepke.
Dissertation Abstracts International 47 (1987): 3030A.
That theme relates to numerical structures is apparent not only in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" but also in FranT,where each of the three parts reveals a pattern of A ("a major trouthe"), B (complaint), and C (helpful human intervention). Thus,…
