Sherman, Mark A.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 163A.
The two great poems of Chaucer and Spenser employ poetics even closer to each other than previously recognized. Just as Th in contrast to KnT revises perception of CT, Spenser's Thopas subverts orthodox interpretation. Both poems, by deferring…
The influence of KnT on Conrad's "The Lagoon" is evident in several details, in narrative method, and, more distantly, in the fact that each is written in English that is "unfixed and de-centered."
Steiner, Emily.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Discusses the literary and historical contexts of Langland's poetics, and argues that the poem's "multilingualism makes it an exemplary English poem." Chapter 2, "Learning (B.8-12)," refers to WBT, MilT, and ClT.
Driver, Martha W.
Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray, eds. Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings (Jefferson, N. C.: McFarland, 2009), pp. 140-60.
Focusing on Oberon and the mechanicals, Driver explores how medieval romances influenced Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and twentieth-century adaptations of it, observing the influences of KnT, Th, and other romances.
Johnston, Hope.
Studies in Bibliography 59 (2015): 45-70.
Links books as physical objects with customized Chaucer editions. Reviews how owners of early Chaucer editions customized their copies by adding "memorial inscriptions, title-page embellishments, and portraits inserted as frontispieces." As a result…
Stevenson, Kay Gilliland.
Chaucer Review 24 (1989): 1-19.
In BD, Chaucer examines the reader and the poet within the fiction of his narrative, while at the same time rereading and rewriting contemporary French poets.
Dinshaw, Carolyn.
Yale Journal of Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities 1 (1988): 81-105.
The widely separate and influential readings of TC by E. Talbot Donaldson and D. W. Robertson, Jr., while based on diametrically opposed theoretical principles, nevertheless find themselves in areement by virtue of their attempt to effect some manner…
Anthologizes short stories, tales and fables for juvenile readers, including a version of PardT (pp. 430-34) adapted by Jennifer Westwood, titled "Three Young Men and Death," originally published in 1967, here accompanied by a color illustration of…
Collects twelve stories that explore "the notions of fate, destiny, and coincidence," including a prose adaptation of the PardT, "A Meeting with Death: Adapted from 'The Pardoner's Tale' from 'The Canterbury Tales'" (pp. 79-90), which modifies the…
King, Lauren Rebecca.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
Dissertation Abstracts International A83.06(E).
Argues that Pizan and Chaucer "used their writing to open up educational opportunities" for their readers, seeking "to facilitate practices of engaged reading" for an expanding vernacular audience, with Chaucer modeling "problematic reading…
Fruoco, Jonathan.
In Virginia Allen-Terry Sherman, Eléonore Cartellier-Veuillen, James Dalrymple, and Jonathan Fruoco, eds. (Re)writing and Remembering: Memory as Artefact and Artifice (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2016), pp. 3-12.
Traces the "motif of visible speech" in HF, identifying its source in Dante's "Divine Comedy," and exploring its relations with questions of literary transmission, especially in depictions of the story of Dido, the eagle's speech, and the House of…
Godorecci, Barbara J.
RLA: Romance Languages Annual 8 (1996):192-96.
Assesses the modifications of Boccaccio's tale of Griselda (Decameron 10.10) in the translations of Petrarch and Chaucer, focusing on the uses and nuances of the verb "provare" (to prove) and its associations with "probus" (good). In ClT, Chaucer's…
Yeager, R. F., ed.
Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 1998.
Fifteen essays by various authors, each essay originally presented at the annual meeting of the John Gower Society between 1992 and 1997. Revised for publication, the essays explore issues of Gower's poetics and methods, his political concerns, and…
Stuhr, Tracy Jill.
Dissertation Abstracts International 77.03 (E) (2015): n.p.
Examines "how the non-human (the natural, not the other-worldly) world and its creatures were voiced in several late medieval English texts," including NPT and ManT.
Dobbs, Elizabeth A.
Chaucer Review 40 (2006): 289-310.
Aurelius's comparison of himself to the nymph Echo early in FranT enables glimpses of Narcissus in Dorigen and emphasizes the importance of speech and interpretation in the Tale: in particular, Aurelius's Echo-like interpretations of Dorigen's…
Chewning, Susannah.
Cindy L. Vitto and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds. New Perspectives on Criseyde (Fairview, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2004), pp. 165-80.
To alleviate disappointment at Criseyde's lack of agency, readers should appreciate her not as a "real" woman but as an embodiment of the medieval masculine imagination. Criseyde follows the pattern of many of Chaucer's female characters: caught in a…
Aers, David.
Cristina Maria Cervone and D. Vance Smith, eds. Readings in Medieval Textuality: Essays in Honour of A. C. Spearing (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016), pp. 85-96.
Reexamines own earlier writings about Troilus's metaphysical "philosophizing response" and journey in TC, in response to a critique from Spearing from March 25, 1989.
Chaucer's MkT and "Le Chevalier de la charrette" illustrate variations on the character Ugolino from Dante's "Inferno." Chaucer manipulates Dante's story to emphasize the Monk's exemplum: the fall of a a great man beset by adverse fortune.
Choi, Jiyeon.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 23.2 (2015): 145-59.
Focuses on the clothing of Alisoun of MilT and the Wife of Bath, with attention to color, stereotyping, and economic conditions. In Korean, with an abstract in English (pp. 158-59).
Ji-yeon, Choi.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 23.2 (2015): 145-59.
Focuses on fabliau and the clothing of Chaucer's women in MilT, WBT, and RvT, and claims that "women's desire and independent will are materialized by means of [the] Wife of Bath's clothing."
Chaucer used allegory to create a teleological statement of ideal behavior as an apologia for the most repressive aspects of ruling-class dominance and male chauvinism of the world in which he lived, and which he depicted on the literal level of ClT.
Keller, Wolfram R.
Diskursivierungen von Neuem 7 (2018): 1-23.
Argues that Chaucer’s "literary re-novation" of the Trojan source material, enacted in TC and theorized in HF, "is a matter of the purification and hybridization of foregoing traditions," terms derived from Bruno Latour. Explores the relations…
Smilie, Ethan K., and Kipton D. Smilie.
Interdisciplinary Humanities 31.3 (2014): 32-52.
Surveys Marxist scholarship concerning "class clowns" in American school rooms, classroom management of them, and their vocational potential. Then discusses Nicholas of MilT and John and Aleyn of RvT as students "who ‘work the system' for the sake…
