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…
Ensley, Mimi.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Notre Dame, 2019. Dissertation Abstracts International A81.09(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (last accessed March 31, 2025).
Includes recurrent comments on early modern reception of Chaucer and his status as a laureate poet, with focused attention on the spurious attribution to Chaucer of the romance "Kynge Rycharde cuer du lyon" found in an annotation to the work in the…
Kaylor, Noel Harold Jr.
Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. and Richard Scott Nokes, eds. Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language, and Culture (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 2007), pp. 133-53.
Kaylor contrasts themes and techniques of Dante's "Commedia" and Chaucer's TC (and CT), suggesting that a shift in "frame-of-reference" occurred between the times of the two poets. Dante is concerned with universal, absolute, and transcendent…
Takimoto, Jiro.
Baika Review 12 (1979): 1-24. English and American Literature Society, Baika Women's College.
Kittredge's dialectical interpretation of the Marriage Group in CT is re-examined in terms of the different views presented by W. W. Lawrence, D. R. Howard, J. L. Hodge, and C. C. Olson. The conclusion is that there seems little to be revised in…
Kennedy, Ruth.
Warwick Gould and Thomas F. Staley, eds. Writing the Lives of Writers (Houndsmill, Basingstoke, and London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press; in association with the Centre for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 1998), pp. 54-67.
Like other biographies, those of Chaucer have been constructed in light of the biographers' assumptions and images. Surveys biographies and biographical comments on Chaucer and suggests that modern commentary neglects the transcendent in his works.
Robinson, Olivia.
English: The Journal of the English Association 64, no. 244 (2015): 27-41.
Argues that Rom should be recontexualized, viewing the work not as a Chaucerian fragment, which perpetuates a fragmentary approach to the work, but as part of a tradition of translation. Analysis of decorated initials and borders in Hunter 409…
Ida, Hideho.
A Collection of Treatises on Languages and Literature 39 (2022): 1-16.
Classifies the nouns in NPT using the categories presented by an English lexicon. Considers the proportion of Latin-based nouns and Old English-based nouns in each category. In Japanese.
Suggests that Chaucer's LGW is part of a "counter-tradition" (also including Shakespeare, Milton, and Lucy Hutchinson) that develops against the epic's "images of sexual violence against marginalized females," and that this counter-tradition provides…
Edwards, Robert R.
Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1989.
Analyzes the intricate relationship among literary theory, poetry, and music, with examples from Chaucer and others--specifically, the "strategies of poetic composition" and the "location of invention within the text"--to produce "a literary reading…
A New Historicist assessment of Middle English mirrors for princes: Chaucer's Mel and works by Trevisa, Hoccleve, Lydgate and Burgh, Hays, Ashby, and Gower. These texts construct an ideal king and normative social values and-set against the reign and…
Dello Bouro, Carmen J.
Darby, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1981.
Includes essays by Leonhard Schmitz (1881), George Dawson (1886), William Calder (1892), John W. Hales (1893), Frank J. Mather (1899), Henry C. Beeching (1900), Alfred Ainger (1905), George H. Cowling (1934), and "Chaucer at Woodstock" (1882).
Mast, Isabelle.
Katherine J. Lewis, Noël James Menuge, and Kim M. Phillips, eds. Young Medieval Women (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), pp. 103-32.
In Confessio amantis and his other works, Gower avoids the word "rape," perhaps because of its ambiguity, and he presents forced coitus in ways sympathetic to the victim and cognizant of female repression. Mast includes recurrent comparisons with…
Amsler, Mark.
Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 61-96.
Although "mythographers allegorized Ovid's rape narratives as stories of cosmological creation or spiritual desire," Christine de Pizan presents Apollo's assault on Daphne (Épîstre d'Otha) as a disfigurement of the female body; in his tale of…
Saunders, Corinne J.
Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2001.
Surveys modern and postmodern theorizing of rape and addresses rape in medieval England. Topics include secular, legal notions of rape; rape in canon law, theology, and confessional manuals (especially vernacular ones); rape motifs in hagiography…
Harris, Carissa M.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Comments on several medieval legal cases involving charges of rape, describes the role of rape in pastourelle tradition, and argues that, even though "no form of justice . . . can fully undo rape's harms," WBT "demonstrates the pressing need for…
Richman, Gerald.
Studia Neophilologica 61 (1989): 161-65.
The rapist-knight's plea to "Tak al my good and let my body go" (WBT 3.1061) highlights his role reversal not only with the raped maiden but also with women bound to legalized rape by the concept of the "marriage debt." Richman suggests that the…
Schleiner, Winfried.
Comparative Literature Studies 9 (1972): 365-75.
Argues that the theme of testing female patience, found in ClT, Chretien's "Erec and Enide," and Robert Greene's "Friar Bacon and Friar Bongay," "demonstrates the interdependence of traditional motif, aesthetic sensibility, and societal structure."…
Bestul, Thomas H.
Medieval Feminist Forum 45.1 (2009): 68-92.
Biographical sketch of Bressie, focusing on her work with John M. Manly, Edith Rickert, and Lilian Redstone on the Chaucer life-records and her unsuccessful competition with Martin Crow to publish works related to Chaucer. Bestul admires Bressie's…
Folch-Pi, Willa Babcock.
Notes and Queries 212 (1967): 10-11.
Translates a passage from Ramon Llull's thirteenth-century "De les Maravalles del Mon" (also known as "Felix" or "Livre de Meravalles") that has "marked similarities" with the account of the first deception in CYT.
Eads, Martha Greene.
Comparative Literature 63.1 (2013): 75-87.
In discussing Denise Giardina's novels set in Appalachia, offers observations regarding the effective portrayal of life in the mountains of the South, and compares this understanding to how the original language of Chaucer enhances the reading and…
Middle English "ragen" acquires meanings within a defined semantic field of sexual activity and then attracts to itself a limited set of further energetic sexual meanings. Among instances illustrating this usage are GP (1.257), MilT (1.3774), and…
Jones, Mike Rodman.
Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2011.
Includes Chaucerian apocrypha, "The Plowman's Tale" and "Jack Upland," in an examination of the figure of the plowman in English early modern imagination, from "Piers Plowman" to the 1590s. Argues that there was a "highly politicized tradition of…
Clarifies medieval understanding of the romance genre by exploring medieval catalogs of romances and applying George Lakoff's theory of "radial" categories. Includes comments on several of Chaucer's works and on several medieval lists that do not…
Whitaker, Cord J.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Treats geography, lineal descent, and "religious and political difference" as racial markers in MLT and its analogues, suggesting that skin color "lurks in the shadows." Designed for pedagogical use, includes several exercises and questions for…
