Straus, Barrie Ruth.
Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price, eds. Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002), pp. 122-38.
Straus explores how ClT, MLT, and PrT adapt and accommodate the traditions and conventions of the family romance to "articulate a profound cultural anxiety about paternity."
Proposes that Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and other contemporaries may have viewed Ovid's work not merely as a source of exempla, but as a rhetorical model for subversive stories.
Patterson studies the marginalia printed with the 1606 edition of "The Plowman's Tale," arguing that it challenges both Papal authority and the Church of England, encouraging Puritanism. He also discusses the place of this edition in the tradition of…
Schoff, Rebecca L.
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007.
Circumstances of transmission affect not only how authors are received but also how they write. This effect was particularly strong in late medieval culture, when authors such as Chaucer, William Langland, and Margery Kempe were aware that readers…
Simpson, James.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
The volume surveys the literature of late medieval and early modern English writers in relation to political institutions contemporary with the literature, tracing an arc of "diminishing liberties." Simpson characterizes the shift in literature from…
Ito, Eiko.
Studies in English Literature (Tokyo), English number (1978): 65-89.
An analysis of reflexive verbs in Chaucer within the case grammar framework. It shows the possibility of the semantic motivation of the reflexive pronoun and of a finer distinction of reflexivity in terms of the semantic relationship among the verb,…
Aers, David.
David Aers, ed. Medieval Literature (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), pp. 58-73.
Reacting to critical theorists--Bakhtin, Derrida, De Man, Eagleton, Lentricchia, and others--Aers writes an essay as a meditation on "glosynge" in SumT 1788-96.
Gaylord, Alan T.
Chaucer Review 40 (2006): 311-33.
A search of contemporary Chaucerian criticism for signs of whether D. W. Robertson's "exegetical criticism" continues to generate important work yields the conclusion "no, yes, and perhaps": "no," in the wake of the ascendance of historicist…
Recounts personal experiences of studying PrT and its reception as a prelude to examining the role and status of medieval studies in twenty-first-century British educational culture, particularly its inequalities, colonialisms, and appropriations,…
Brennan, John P.
Studies in Philology 70 (1973): 243-51.
Surveys critical discussions of Chaucer's authorship of the "substantive" glosses that appear in his manuscripts, shows that the glosses to PrT 7.579-85 derive from Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum" rather than from the liturgy of the Holy Innocents,…
Despairing in his sin, the Monk ignores the providential aspect of the story of Job, and so his tragedies emphasize only death. He particularly ignores the conventionally exegetical readings of Adam and Sampson as examples of Providence.
Fritz, Donald W.
Chaucer Review 21 (1987): 338-59.
The Jungian "puer aeternus" concept clarifies the relationship between the Pardoner and the Host, who fills the role of "senex." The Knight's (negative) intervention reveals him as a positive "senex" figure.
Blamires, Alcuin.
Thelma S. Fenster and Clare A. Lees. eds. Gender in Debate: From the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance (New York and Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 57-78.
Connects Alison's sexual liberality in WBP with the loathly lady's liberality of counsel in WBT, arguing that Chaucer "redoctrinates" his audience by converting notions of feminine excess into the positive virtue of generosity. Also considers…
Lee, Sun Young.
Dissertation Abstracts International A79.09 (2018): n.p.
Includes discussion of "Chaucer's critique of the rhetoric of moderation in the speech of the Pardoner and the Friar John [in SumT] . . . , who attempted to assert their clerical superiority and cover up their gluttony by preaching moderation."
PrT expresses the notion of spiritual or "white" martyrdom popular in the Middle Ages. Unlike physical martyrdom, white martyrdom was a mental act, often involving the preservation of virginity. Through the character of the little boy, the Prioress…
Krier, Theresa M.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998.
Ten essays by various authors on the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reception of Chaucer, as reflected in editing practice, growth of the canon, and poetic imitation and emulation. In "Introduction: Receiving Chaucer in Renaissance England,"…
Catalogues thirty-one previously unlisted references to Troilus, Criseyde, and Pandaras published 1475-1640. Part of a work in progress: an updating of the "Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed ... 1475-1640" and of Caroline Spurgeon's "Five…
Listings of references to Chaucer and his work published 1475-1640, updating Caroline Spurgeon's "Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, 1357-1900."
Assembles references to Chaucer's character and literary reputation recorded in English books 1475-1640, the dates of the Short Title Catalog. Entries include author, title, publisher, and STC and University Microfilm (UMD) numbers and establish the…
Considers theories of the nature of the Old Man in PardT, suggesting that he might be thought to combine feature of the Good Angel and the Bad Angel of medieval mystery and morality plays insofar as he seems to be "extra-human," advising and…
Ramírez-Arlandi, Juan.
In Salvador Peña and Juan Jesús Zaro, eds. Traducir a los clásicos: Entornos y transformaciones (Granada: Comares, 2018), pp. 187-204.
Analyzes the Spanish translation of PardT by Patricio Gannon published in 1944 in Argentina, a version that used as a source text John S. P. Tatlock's and Percy MacKaye's modernized version (1912). Studies the degree of rewriting in Gannon's version…
Taylor, Paul Beekman.
Paul Beekman Taylor. Chaucer Translator (Lanham, Md., New York, and Oxford: University Press of America, 1998), pp. 105-18.
Assesses Chaucer's alterations of his sources (Jean de Meun and Boethius) in the Nero account of MkT. Through selection and emphasis, especially emphasis on clothing, Chaucer "forges a link between the emperor's name and his deeds," associating Nero…
