Olson, Glending.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 117 (2018): 185–211.
Proposes using a more philosophical reading of RvT to enhance understanding of Chaucer's "academic knowledge and his relationship with Ralph Strode." An academic joke in RvT relies on snubness and whiteness as stock examples of inseparable and…
Fleming, John V.
Leigh A. Arrathoon, ed. Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction (Rochester, Mich.: Solaris Press, 1986), pp. 1-21.
TC 3.638 is a "translation" of the Virgilian rainstorm in bk. 4 of the "Aeneid" and of the emanations of Genius's aphrodisiac candle ("Roman de la Rose" 20638-48), and as such is symptomatic of Chaucer's tendency to follow Jean de Meun in providing a…
Morrison, Susan Signe.
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 11, no. 2 (2020): 118-27.
Draws on debates about slow cinema to suggest how ClT evokes a "slow eco-aesthetics" with an ethical impact. Based on the notion that medieval pilgrimage texts evoke a slow aesthetic, the strategies of slowness and patience in the tale of Patient…
Morrison, Susan Signe.
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 10, no. 1 (2019): 40-59.
Contemplates similarities and analogies between reading and walking and between medieval and modern pilgrimage narratives, commenting on ecopoetics, biopoetics, and topopoetics, and on relations between design and contingency, human and nonhuman…
North, Richard.
In Michael D. J, Bintley, Martin Locker, Victoria Symon, and Mary Wellesley, eds. Stasis in the Medieval West? Questioning Change and Continuity (Cham: Springer, 2017), pp. 205-30.
Compares Arveragus's sending of Dorigen to her tryst with Aurelius with the analogous scene in Bocaccio's "Filocolo" and argues that in FranT the husband is concerned with public honor, a reflection of the Franklin's own outlook that Arveragus is a…
Kiser, Lisa J.
Papers on Language and Literature 19 (1983): 3-12.
Although early, BD shows the development of the Chaucerian persona as narrator--"the shy, self-concious man who seems to know so little about the truths he records so well."
Raby, Michael.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 39 (2017): 191-224.
Explores the permeable boundary between waking and sleep, sensation and dream, in Dante's "Commedia," TC, and Machaut's "Fontaine amoureuse." each sleep-scene drawing on Ovidian tales of transformation. Comments on Chaucer's adaptation in HF of…
Leitch, Megan G.
Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2021.
Surveys medical and literary backgrounds and representations of sleep, naps, dreams, nightmares, and sleep-scapes in various Middle English genres and works. Chapter 4, "The Hermeneutics of Sleep in Chaucer's Dream Poems," focuses on dreams,…
Psychological and cultural interpretation of PhyT and ManT murders of women motivated by misogynistic violence and impulse to control women. Both tales displace attention to trivialities: woman and nature (PhyT) and natural lust (ManT).
Jucker, Andreas H.
Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta, and Matti Rissanen, eds. Placing Middle English in Context (Berlin and New York: Gruyter, 2000), pp. 369-89.
Classifies instances of verbal aggression within and across narrative layers in CT in several groups: direct, embedded, mediated, or indirect. Considers the speaker, the addressee, and the target of aggression, exploring twenty-two examples.
Bellamy, Elizabeth Jane.
Alan Shephard and Stephen D. Powell, eds. Fantasies of Troy: Classical Tales and the Social Imaginary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004), pp. 215-35.
Bellamy considers Paridell's undermining of Britomart's "nostalgia for the fallen Troy" in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 3, and argues that the "slippages" between fame and rumor in HF influenced Spenser's presentation.
Greenwood, Maria.
Colette Stévanovitch and Henry Daniels, eds. L'Affect et le jugement: Mélanges offerts à Michel Morel à l'occasion de son départ à la retraite, 2 vols. (Paris: AMAES, 2005), 1: pp. 33-256.
Surveys recent criticism of ClT, focusing on Griselda as allegory, as "a figure of divinity," and as a flat figure. Concludes that Griselda may simply be read as a real person.
Scattergood, John.
Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 122-38.
"The Garlande of Laurell" is Skelton's considered statement about poetry, the nature of poetic tradition, and his own role in it. But "the most substantial earlier treatment of the subject of "The Garlande of Laurell" in English poetry was Chaucer's…
Carlson, David R.
Review of English Studies 66, no. 274 (2015): 240–57.
Discusses how Skelton persistently mocks Henry's awarding knighthood to Garnesche by likening him to the silliest knights of romance. Claims that this portrayal of knighthood is influenced by Chaucer's mockery of knights in Th.
Carter, Ronnie D, and David G. Bailey.
Chaucer Review 34: 236-41, 1999.
Polish academic writing on Chaucer follows a political pattern. Retreating from politically charged topics, students and professors have concentrated on linguistics topics, such as morphology, syntax, semantics, and loanwords. Most "literary"…
De Selincourt, Aubrey.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1956.
The opening chapter offers subjective, impressionistic appreciation of Chaucer’s life, language, poetry, and links among them, proclaiming Chaucer to be "one of the most English of our poets" in his "tolerance, sweetness, and the lambent flame of…
Whitbread, L.
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 79 (1978): 41-43.
CT I (A), 5 equals Catullus Car. XLVI 1-3, 7-11. "Pynce at" CT I (A), 326 is not a pun but an idiom. Mars is rightly red, as is the Wife; the number of her husbands evokes John 4:17-18. The Miller's gold thumb refers to the method of his theft,…
Dramatized readings of poetry from Beowulf to 1984. Disc one (episode 3; track 7; 24 min.) includes the previously published "Chaucer, 1340-1400" (SAC 22 [2000], no. 12), an introduction to Chaucer and his works with recitation/dramatization of…
An anthology of selections from English poetry, accompanied by pertinent illustrations and social context, with topics ranging from Chaucer to the "Later Twentieth Century, 1934-84." Chapter one (pp. 1-15) pertains to Chaucer, with brief biographical…
Thomas, Eberle, and Barbara Redmond.
New Orleans: Anchorage Press, 1993.
Adaptation for the stage of WBT, ClT, SumT, MancT, FranT, and PardT, presented as a single play in which there is a tale-telling contest framed by the actions of two thieves (a Miller and a Plowman) who join a group of five pilgrims (Chaucer, the…
