Zeitoun, Franck.
Wendy Harding and A. Mathieu, eds. Le futur dans le Moyen Âge anglais (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1999), 2: pp. 361-74.
Assesses the excursus on predestination and free will in NPT, arguing that these theological concepts underlie the Tale from beginning to end, especially Chauntecleer's questioning of the nature of his dream.
Carruthers, Leo, ed.
Paris: Publications de l'Association de Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 1998.
Eight essays by various authors examining medieval dreams and prophecies in literature and society. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer search for Reves et propheties au Moyen Age under Alternative Title.
Dor, Juliette.
H. Maes-Jelinek et al., eds. Multiple Worlds, Multiple Words: Essays in Honour of Irene Simon (Liege: University of Liege, English Department, 1987), pp. 69-77.
Both the female world of the opening lines and the portrait of perfect lovers possessing all the qualities required by the courtly code were unnatural. Ultimately, Chauctecler rejects the "courtly code and mask" that governed his previous behavior…
Prendergast, Thomas A.
Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 185-99.
Looks at the "transition of the invented textual presence of Chaucer in the late Middle Ages to the invented personal presence of the poet in the early modern period." Comments on several spurious links between tales in the Lansdowne 851 manuscript…
Ruether-Wu, Marybeth.
Dissertation Abstracts International A79.02 (2017): n.p.
Discusses Chaucer and Langland in this study of outlawry, suggesting that the sovereign ban may be interpreted as a Galenic purgation of imbalance in the body politic.
Crawford discusses the unfinished CkT in relation to the Tale of Gamelyn; their thematic associations; connections to the Peasants' Revolt of 1381; who added the Tale of Gamelyn to CT; and why it was inserted right after CkT.
Gust, Geoffrey W.
Chaucer Review 41 (2007): 311-23.
Despite his tendency to view Chaucer's narrative persona in CT autobiographically, E. Talbot Donaldson's exploration of this persona paved the way "for the proliferation of studies that have taken account of Chaucer's narrators," studies in which…
Beidler, Peter G.
Chaucer Review 56.3 (2021): 296-308.
References a previous article from thirty-five years ago that discussed various translations of important passages from Chaucer and appraised them. As a companion piece, considers ten verse translations of the opening lines of CT. Concludes with an…
Hamada, Satomi.
Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature 34 (2019): 1-19.
Appreciates WBP as a representation of autobiographical storytelling. Argues that the Wife of Bath's focus on oral self-expression presents her as a powerful female character standing against the male-dominant literate culture.
McGerr, Rosemarie Potz.
Comparative Literature 37 (1985): 97-113.
Like Augustine in his "Retractiones," Chaucer uses Ret to survey his literary career, embodying ideas on the function of memory, experience, literature, and truth.
Hoces Lomba, María de.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Universitat d’Alacant/Universidad de Alicante, 2019). Available at https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/95549/1/
tesis_maria_de_hoces_lomba.pdf (accessed June 4, 2023).
Explores general connections between literature and law, with specific reference to Purse. Claims that Chaucer's understanding of "classics, rhetoric, and law” sets up Purse as a "literary defense or vindication" and uses "love poetry" to create a…
Brownlee, Kevin, and Sylvia Huot, eds.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
A collection of essays treating literary approaches to the Roman de la Rose, its iconographic tradition, and its reception in and out of France. Includes a revised reprint of Lee Patterson, "For the Wyves Love of Bathe," SAC 7 (1985), no. 156.
Van Dyke, Carolyn, ed.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Sixteen essays by various authors examine animals in Chaucer, with an Introduction and Afterword that describe the grounds for challenging the "anthropocentric perspective" and align this challenge with feminism and the rejection of hierarchical…
Collette, Carolyn P.
Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2014.
Examines LGW within the sociocultural and intellectual contexts of the late fourteenth century, paying especial attention to early humanist and late courtly traditions. LGWP may be juxtaposed with Richard de Bury's "Philobiblon"; and the legends…
Considers PrT and its depiction of premodern antisemitism and relation to premodern race. Ties PrT’s construction of Jews as a cursed monolith to the workings of structural racism. Discusses Agbabi's "Sharps an Flats," which demonstrates "how…
Lazaro, Alberto.
Luminita Frentiu and Loredana Punga, eds. A Journey through Knowledge: Festschrift in Honour of Hortensia Pârlog (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012), pp. 120-29.
Describes the availability in Spain before 1975 of translations for children of CT and Arthurian stories, observing the emphasis on pious, submissive women found in adaptations of FranT, KnT, ClT, and MLT, the only tales allowed by censors.
Analysis of Chaucer's tales (and Arthurian stories) as retold for Spanish children during the Francoist period. Focuses on the first translation of Chaucer (and its subsequent editions) by Manuel Vallvé, who translated J. Kelman's 1914 "Stories…
Barrington, Candace.
Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Katherine A. Hermes, eds. Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009), pp. 26-51.
Modern adapters of Chaucer interfere with the transmission of Chaucer by infusing their own values. In each era, the versions written for children bear witness to what aspects of feminism have reached popular culture.
Gibson, Gail McMurray.
John P. Hermann and John J. Burke, eds. Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry (University: University of Alabama Press, 1981), pp. 102-12.
In the Noah's Flood motif of MilT, the audience delightedly and ruefully recognizes the consequences of the perversion of God's order. In addition to visual or other sensory images (the runaway mare in RvT) Chaucer employs also dramatic icons, as in…
The allusion to Thesiphone (TC 1.6) may resonate with passages in Statius and Boccaccio that connect the Fury with "discordant, perverse, sterile, potentially demonic sexuality" (p. 561). The allusion in TC links Criseyde's possible childlessness…
