Fender, Janelle Diane.
Dissertation Abstracts International A67.09 (2007): n.p.
Interdependence of parts and wholes in Chaucer's works anticipates a sustained concern with fragments and remnants in later literature, especially among Reformation bibliophiles who were struggling to "re-member" the past as a form of nascent…
Argues that Anel "proffers lessons about memory and progress" that can help survivors of modern cancer victims to achieve "intergenerational" memory, an ethical and therapeutic notion that derives from Paul Davies's contested theory that cancer cells…
Parkinson, Judy.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2008.
Gift-book of historical information about Britain, arranged chronologically. The entry for Chaucer, entitled "Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, 1387" (p. 63), summarizes his literary career, focuses on CT, and labels him "the greatest English poet…
Barrington, Candace, and Jonathan Hsy.
postmedieval 6.2 (2015): 136-45.
Focuses on the "mirroring structure" of Agbabi's "Unfinished Business," from"Telling Tales" (2015), and Mel. Also reflects on the inherent "problematizing of translation" that accompanies transforming Mel into contemporary poetry.
Donaghey, Brian, Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Philip Edward Phillips, and Paul E. Szarmach, eds., with assistance from Kenneth C. Hawley.
Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2019.
Compiles extensive, authoritative information about each of the English translations of Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" from Alfred the Great to H. R. James (1897)--complete translations (including Bo), partial versions, abridgments,…
Oka, Saburo.
Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature 11 (1996): 1-20.
The love triangle of TC (Troilus, Criseyde, and Diomede) is mirrored in a narrative triangle, in turn reflecting a Trinitarian religious outlook. Chaucer's narrative anxiety parallels his anxiety that his religious message may not be fully…
Both PrP and PrT express "affective devotional piety," while simultaneously they are "swollen with reference to targets of Wycliffite polemic." As a result, their Marian generic affiliations and the "collocational patterns" of their diction can and…
Compares Chaucer's heroine in MLT with her predecessor in Trevet, arguing that Custance's passivity, her prayers, and her divinely-aided escape from the "renegade knight" combine with other religious features of the tale to make it "a romantic homily…
Roman, Christopher Michael.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Considers Ret in light of the medieval humility topos, penitential practice, and Lollard reform, raising questions about Chaucer's intentions in his works and the extent of our ability to perceive them. Designed for pedagogical use, includes several…
Rodríguez Mesa, José Francisco.
Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo and Eugenio Contreras Domingo, eds. Focus on Old and Middle English Studies (Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2011), pp. 159-73.
Studies Sercambi's "Novelle" and CT against the background of historical writing, and classical and medieval traditions of "narratio brevis," including the oriental models, in particular the frame stories "in itinere." Analyzes features of short…
Through its "nostalgic" recollection of an idealized "bygone era," CYPT "casts a shadow" on the reformist thinking of SNT. Like many advocates of ecclesiastical reform, the Nun idealizes the primitive Church, but the Canon's Yeoman's performance…
Boitani, Piero, and Anna Torti, eds.
Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 1990.
Twelve essays by various hands. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Religion in the Poetry and Drama of the Late Middle Ages in England under Alternative Title.
Quinn, Esther C.
George D. Economou, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: A Collection of Original Articles (New York: McGraw Hill, 1976), pp. 55-73.
All aspects of CT--the pilgrims themselves and the characters,themes, and language of each tale--unite to present the pilgrimage to Canterbury as a representation of the conceptual pilgrimage of all Christians.
Shepherd, Geoffrey.
Derek Brewer, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background (London: G. Bell, 1974), pp. 262-89.
Surveys the range of religious and philosophical concerns and attitudes of late fourteenth-century England, and gauges Chaucer's investment in them. More moral than dogmatic, Chaucer "never discloses his commitment in religion" and "offers few…
Malo, Robyn.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Emphasizes "relic discourse" in England from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. Chapter 4, "Relic Discourse in the 'Pardoner's Prologue and Tale' and 'Troilus and Creiseyde,' discusses how the Pardoner's performance "reveals the workings of relic…
Owen, Charles A., Jr.
Modern Language Notes 71.2 (1956): 84-87.
Observes similarities in imagery, diction, and impact of portions of ParsT (Chaucer's interpolation in “lachesse” as a subset of Sloth) and PhyT (digression on governesses), exploring possible sources (especially St. Augustine), possible…
Uses Paul Ricoeur's "theory of narrative identity" to explore various aspects of Chaucer's poetry, including issues of female agency in FranT, ClT, and TC; racialized narratives and white identity in CT; Chaucer's "talking-animal poetry"; and "poetic…
Currie explores the hypocrisy and factionalism that underlie the characters' ostensible concerns with natural law and the common good in TC, arguing that Chaucer exposes the negative consequences (individual and social) of breaches of natural law.…
Despite inaccuracies and major differences from Chaucer's KnT, Helgeland's film "A Knight's Tale" does maintain a "Chaucer effect" that has secured the poet's "iconic status" since the Renaissance. Yet anachronisms abound; rock music replaces chant;…
Fulk, R. D.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 78 (1979): 485-93.
ManT--a warning to the Cook with whom the Manciple quarrels--supports three main themes: the insignificance of social rank (9.105-270), the danger inherent in anger (271-91), and the foolishness of a wanton tongue (292-362).
