Reed, Teresa P.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3930A.
Representations of Mary in medieval literature are paradoxical, often underscored by her opposition to Eve. MLT and the hagiography Seinte Marherete seek to present a unified view of Mary but ultimately fail; WBPT and Pearl are more sensitive to the…
Despite their empirical basis, the conclusions Linne R. Mooney draws regarding Adam Pinkhurst's relationship to Chaucer ultimately depend on literary evidence, which should remind scholars that while particular communities of readers make a work…
Presents a brief biography of Chaucer and an overview of Chaucerian criticism before discussing challenges in compiling a Chaucer edition for modern readers. Includes direct commentary on TC and CT.
Argues that MkT models "rumination," a reading method used by monks. Includes close reading of the form and content of specific lines. Also claims ABC as a model for monastic reading techniques because it is fragmented, repetitive, monologic, and…
Twomey, Michael W.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 181-90.
Guide to pronouncing the Latin words and phrases in CT, presented in International Phonetic Alphabet; includes a brief introduction on historical phonology.
Reader theory helps us better appreciate LGW: the schema trust/doubt/questioning/self-reliance reveals subtle complexities in the relationships among reader, poet, and moral and literary traditions.
Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
English Language Notes 29:2 (1991): 16-20.
Carl Lindahl's hypothesis (Earnest Games, SAC 11 [1989], no. 135) of folkloric approaches to Chaucer oversimplifies and stereotypes the poet's art. Such readings, which detract from close reading, "have a potentially distorting effect."
Espie, Jeff, and Sarah Star.
Chaucer Review 51.3 (2016): 382-401.
Examines Chaucer's original characterization of Calkas through the ways it diverges from the representation of this character in earlier versions. Chaucer presents him as a human individual whose words are not necessarily to be trusted, introducing…
Japanese translation of BD, with introduction and notes by Haruo Harada. Includes six essays by various scholars.
For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess under Alternative Title.
Oka, Saburo.
Yuichiro Azuma, Kotaro Kawasaki, and Koichi Kano, eds. Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki (Tokyo: Kinseido, 2015), pp. 3-19.
Begins with attempts to position Chaucer, TC, and the reading subject (the author himself ), and reads the Prologue and Epilogue of TC in literary, historical, and anthropological terms. In Japanese.
Finlayson, John.
English Studies 86 (2005): 493-510.
NPT can best be approached by focusing on form and style rather than on theme and narrator. Attempting to define a central theme or message is frustrated by the Tale's allusive richness and multiplicity of perspectives, and the narrator is largely…
Sharp, Michael D.
Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 173-85.
MkT critiques secular masculinity, represented by the Host and the Knight; their comments about the Tale disclose more about themselves than about the Tale or its teller. Against these two figures, the "Monk remains a figure of resistance."
Gaylord, Alan T.
Chaucer Yearbook 1 (1992): 87-109.
Riches of tone and ambiguities encourage us to read Chaucer's poetry silently. Oral performances can illuminate and entertain, but they limit perception of range and depth of meaning. Gaylord examines unpunctuated portions of the Prioress's sketch,…
Includes previously published essays on English medieval writers, including Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and Ranulph Higden. Contains one unpublished essay, "Towards a Bohemian Reading of Troilus and Criseyde." Topics are divided into subsections:…
Rigby, Stephen H.
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 1-23.
Introduces a collection of essays and emphasizes how different social, historical, and ethical "interpretative frameworks" can deepen an understanding of Chaucer's pilgrims in GP.
Matthews, David.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 233-37.
Discusses how professors can help students approach difficult texts such as CT, whether by helping students choose good translations or by sharing methods with non-medievalists, in particular modernists, who also confront hard-to-read.
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Interlinear translation in modern English of the selections from Chaucer in the 8th edition of the "Norton Anthology of English Literature" (2006), edited by Alfred David and James Simpson. Includes GP, MilPT, MLE, WBPT, PardPT, NPT, ParsP, Ret,…
Ishiharada, Masahiro.
Hisayuki Sasamoto et al., eds. Hearts to the English-American Language and Literature: Essays Presented to Emeritus Professor Sutezo Hirose in Honour of His 88th Birthday (Osaka: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 1999), pp. 19-39 (in Japanese)
Collates variants between manuscripts and modern printed editions of GP, based on the catalog of variants in Manly and Rickert and the Variorum GP.
Collette, Carolyn P.
Christoph Huber and Henrike Lähnemann, eds. Courtly Literature and Clerical Culture / Höfische Literatur und Klerikerkultur / Littérature courtoise et culture cléricale. Selected Papers from the Tenth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, Universitat Tübingen, Deutschland, 28 Juli-3 August 2001 (Tübingen: Attempto, 2002), pp. 177-94.
Collette reads the end of CT against Philippe de Mézières' "Songe du vieil pelerin," indicating Chaucer's connections with contemporary Anglo-French literature and exploring the relations between politics and morality in four Tales: alchemy as a…
Rose, Christine M.
Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 21-60.
Rose surveys instances of rape or threatened rape in Chaucer's works, arguing that, though Chaucer presents rape as a trope that enfigures reader response or male competition, we must recognize and confront its literal value, accepting it both in…
Gaston, Kara.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Considers Chaucer's writings and their Italian influences, arguing for a view of Chaucer's poetry and its form over time, tracing "form as an object of discovery, rather than of recovery, and reading as a way of actively participating in the history…
Ensley, Mimi.
Journal of the Early Book Society 18 (2015): 136–57.
Establishes that John Harington owned a copy of William Thynne's 1542 edition of Chaucer's complete works and may have annotated it when he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Comments on Harington's annotations and speculates on communal reading…
Knox, Philip, Mark Griffith, and William Poole.
Medium Aevum 85.1 (2016): 33-58.
Proposes that prefatory verses published in Kynaston's Latin translation of TC demonstrate a high degree of academic interest in Chaucer in seventeenth-century Oxford. Several verses praise Kynaston by criticizing Chaucer's "rudeness," but others…
Fuller, David.
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 263-84.
Fuller insists that sound is "intrinsic to meaning" in reading Chaucer, commenting on the importance of metrical patterns and syntactic structures, appropriate intonation and pace, and pronunciation of final -e. Although it is difficult to…
McClellan, William.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Applies a "New Paradigm for Reading" to MLT based on the "new ethics" of Giorgio Agamben's analysis of Levi Primo's testimony of Auschwitz, combined with Walter Benjamin's concept of "constellations" of images that fuse past and present. Focuses on…
