Mann, Jill.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Literature in Fourteenth-Century England (Tubingen: Gunter Narr; Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1983), pp. 165-83.
Demonstrates that "the parent-child relation is one of the central motifs" of CT. Focusses on MkT, MLT, PrT, PhyT, and ClT to argue that Chaucer explores not only the power relations between parent and child but those parallel relations as well…
Stone, Kara M.
Dissertation Abstracts International A77.11 (2017): n.p.
Argues that the "bond between parent and child in late medieval England was deeply felt and often conflicted as demonstrated by the literature of the period," including MLT.
Dauby, Hélène.
Leo Carruthers and Adrian Papahagi, eds. Jeunesse et vieillesse: Images médéivales de l'age en littérature anglaise (Paris: Harmatten, 2005), pp. 103-15.
The Tale of Beryn shows that bargaining is essential in the mercantile world. It uses the "biter bit" pattern and--unusual in CT--reflects the moral growth of an individual. First shown misbehaving like the rioters in PardT, Beryn undergoes a true…
Holsinger, Bruce.
New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 131-36.
Reports the finds of "Dr. Lollius" who reputedly discovered, through DNA analysis of "covertly obtained slivers of parchment and vellum," that several extant Chaucer manuscript are "human skin." The pseudo-report is offered to provoke contemplation…
In the course of "Englishing" certain foreign texts, some early printers used Chaucerian "paratexts," evoking Chaucer's works, allusions, or style in efforts to bridge the gap between one literary period and the next and to express nostalgia for a…
Fredell, Joel.
Early Book Society Newsletter 3:2 (1998): [7-12]
Categorizes patterns of paragraphing in the "landmark" manuscripts of CT as "sparse" or "dense," arguing that the patterns emphasize the "florilegium qualities" of CT and focusing on uses of paraphs in SqT.
Not all manuscripts of Ret read LGW as "xxv" tales (other numbers are "xix" and "xx"). Edward of Norwich (ca. 1406) uses "xxv" and refers to the work as the "Goode Wymmen," not, as is more common, the book of "ladies." He may have read Ret, in which…
Joyner, William.
Papers on Language and Literature 12 (1976): 3-19.
The juxtaposed stories of Aeneas and the dreamer are linked by parallel plots, by the segmentation of narrative units, and by verbal elements like the repetition of key rhymes. These correspondences and those of two other journeys interwoven into…
Gill, Sister Anne Barbara.
Washington, D. C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1960
Surveys critical opinion about the relation of the palinode in TC to the body of the poem, and then focuses on the characters' various views of love and the narrator's "ironic mask." In contrast with the "pragmatic limitations" of Pandarus's view of…
Yuan, Xianjun.
Beijing: Peking University Press, 1995.
Reads TC as a "jubilant celebration of earthly love" which "testifies to the accessibility of Christian salvation by means of human love" (xi). Earthly love and divine love are balanced in the poem, with Troilus regarding Criseyde as the "Blessed…
A novel of suspense mystery in which historian Lizzie Manning follows the steps of the Wife of Bath and learns that Alisoun and her descendants had impact on English art and on the location of the bones of Thomas Becket.
Kirk, Elizabeth D.
Mary J. Carruthers and Elizabeth D. Kirk, eds. Acts of Interpretation (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 257-77.
The double ending of TC reconciles issues about love raised in the story. Chaucer has made Troilus a lover in the tradition of courtly love but has also used Dante's "Paradiso" for his version of heaven. The pagan setting illuminates Christian…
Bisceglia, Julie Jeanne.
Dissertation Abstracts International 41 (1980): 258A.
TC can be read with two distinct poetic traditions in mind: the serious, Platonic ideal represented by Dante, which desires absolute truth, purposeful behavior, and an immutable self; and the Ovidian rhetorical ideal which upholds behavior shaped by…
The style of PF weights the syntagmatic axis of discourse, whereas "Pearl" weights the paradigmatic axis. This difference is revealed in the way each poem treats lexical innovation, the relation between syntax and verse form, and the relation…
[Ruud, Jay, ed.]
[Aberdeen, South Dakota: Northern State University, 1989.]
Twenty-one papers on CT by various authors. For individual essays, search for Papers on the "Canterbury Tales": From the 1989 NEH Chaucer Institute under Alternative Title.
Fanego Lema, Teresa, ed.
Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1993.
Thirty literary and linguistic essays from the SELIM IV conference (September 1991), on topics ranging from "Beowulf" to Robin Hood and including discussions of lyrics, drama, dream visions, and various individual works and themes. For essays that…
Thirty-four essays--half in German, half in English--by various authors. Topics range from general discussions of the reception of the Middle Ages in traditional art and literature to medievalism in architecture and modern and postmodern film,…
Mosser, Daniel W.
John Slavin, Linda Sutherland, John O'Neill, Margaret Haupt, and Janet Cowen, eds. Looking at Paper: Evidence & Interpretation. Symposium Proceedings, Toronto 1999 (Ottawa: Canadian Conservation Institute, 2001), pp. 122-27.
Mossser describes a watermark archive and a plan to mount the collection's data on the WWW, exemplifying the utility of the archive by identifying watermarks (and dates) of the paper stock in three manuscripts of CT: Cambridge MS Dd.4.24 [Dd],…
Duncan, Edgar H., moderator.
Jerome Mitchell and William Provost, eds. Chaucer the Love Poet (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973), pp. 91-106.
Panelists include Norman E. Eliason, Robert E. Kaske, Edmund Reiss, and James I. Wimsatt, exchanging views on Chaucer's love poetry and fielding questions from the audience at a symposium held at the University of Georgia, 1971. Recurrent concern…
The crux may be explained by reference to Canticles 3:11 and the medieval commentators (e.g., William Durandus in his "Rationale divinorum officiorum"). The first crown is Criseyde's virtue; the second is the pity that Pandarus asks her to show…
Edwards, Robert R.
R. A. Shoaf, ed. Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: "Subgit to alle Poesye": Essays in Criticism. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, no. 104. Pegasus Paperbacks, no. 10 (Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1992), pp. 74-87.
Contrasts Chaucer's depictions of desire in TC with source passages in Boccaccio's "Filostrato" and with a passage in Dante's "Purgatorio." Chaucer's depiction is based on the "impoverished" view of desire presented in Boethius's "Consolation" and…
Wentersdorf, Karl P.
Studies in Philology 89 (1992): 293-313.
"Hazel" imagery in medieval and Renaissance literature suggests a meaning for Chaucer's "haselwode" quite different from the traditional interpretations--one rooted in poetic convention (erotic imagery) and social custom (going a-nutting).
Modarelli, Michael.
English Studies 89 (2008): 403-14.
Modarelli examines the characterization of Pandarus in TC, particularly the way he acts "with the agency of an author"--one in a "trinity" of authors that includes the narrator and the poet. Using Tzvetan Todorov's formulation of "constructive…
