Toner, Anne.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Studies various kinds of narrative suspension and ellipsis in English literature, and includes comments on a reference to SqT in the expository essay that accompanies the Gothic tale "Sir Bertram, a Fragment" (1773). Connects the essay with Thomas…
Killough, George.
James M. Hutchisson, ed. Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism (Troy: N. Y.: Whitson Publishing, 1997), pp. 162-74.
The Pardoner and Elmer Gantry are "charlatan preachers," who are "comic satirical types." Both characters "reveal their own very human limits" and exemplify their authors' concern with the inadequacy of serious words to convey truth.
Hardman, C. B.
Reading Medieval Studies 6 (1980): 20-30.
Though Chaucer's reputation in the 16th century depended partly on works wrongly attributed to him, he was thought of as a proto-Puritan thinker, a model of eloquence, a love poet. Thus Spenser found it advantageous in the "Shepheardes Calendar" to…
Reprints twenty-seven essays by Wenzel and adds one previously unpublished lecture: "Moral Chaucer?" (pp. 189-204) which considers the "moral life" of Chaucer's characters, focusing on the "decision-making" by the two main characters in TC, and…
Reevaluation and continuation of the studies by John Burrow and by Richard Firth Green on the meaning of the word "elvish" in CT. "Elvish" in CYT carries the meaning "delusory," whereas elvish in the prologue to Th means "abstracted."
Burrow, J. A.
M. Teresa Tavormina and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 105-11.
Explores connotations of "elvyssh" in Pr-ThL as an aspect of "Chaucer's poetic self-representations" in CT and in HF, suggesting that they indicate characteristic reserve.
Rowland, Beryl.
John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986. (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987): pp. 3-14.
Rowland reviews Chaucer biography, noting the reluctance of most SAC contributors to explore Chaucer's life and their interest in his "mentality." Recent biography leaves a number of unresolved problems, difficulties, and mysteries in Chaucer's…
Rogers, Laura Mestayer.
Medieval Feminist Forum 31: 36-43, 2001.
Assessment of Schlauch's career and criticism, focusing on her Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (1927; rpt. 1969). Includes a bibliography of Schlauch's publications.
Interprets the GP description of the Prioress as a satire of an institution rather than a critique of an individual, offering the reading as a prolegomenon to a comparative discussion of the challenges of teaching English and teaching foreign…
As part of a larger discussion of "loathliness" and the transformation away from loathliness in the context of marginalization of women, examines WBPT. Particular attention is paid to "the implications of disembodying a Loathly Lady in a tale that…
Inskeep, Kathryn.
Dissertation Abstracts International A74.12 (2014): n.p.
Studies the "role of stigma in determining the social value of a lone woman of loathly proportions or perceptions," discussing a range of texts, medieval to postmodern, including two chapters on WBPT that assess the loathly lady as the "alter ego" of…
Randall, Jackie.
Rouse Hill, NSW: Schillings, 2016.
Item not seen; WorldCat information indicates this is a children's novel, set in the Middle Ages, about a gifted girl who flees her home in order to protect a Chaucer manuscript.
Minkova, Donka, and Robert Stockwell.
Donka Minkova and Theresa Tinkle, eds. Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism: Studies in Honor of H. A. Kelly (Frankfurt and New York : Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 129-39.
Of roughly 30,000 lines of Chaucer's iambic pentameter, only a tiny subset are variant. The majority of his lines follow a template of ten syllables, each foot beginning with a weak syllable. The essay refers specifically to FranT.
Houlik-Ritchey, Emily.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017.
Compares the functions and effects of Dorigen's "odd pleasure of intense feeling" in FranT with those of Marianne Dashwood in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, considering their feelings in light of their respective community structures and gender…
Ohno, Hideshi.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 61 (2017): 69-84.
Focuses on words and phrases collocating with "herte," "minde," and "soule" in CT and TC and analyzes how Chaucer "exerts his influence on the reader's/audience's emotion" through the use of these words.
Diller, Hans-Jurgen.
Francisco Fernandez, Miguel Fuster, and Juan Jose Calvo, eds. English Historical Linguistics, 1992 (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1994), pp. 219-34.
Studying four families of emotion words (wrath, anger, annoyance, grief) in the Chaucer canon, Diller draws several conclusions: the introduction of emotion words from French and their rivalry with native English words deserve close scrutiny;…
Spector, Stephen.
Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector, eds. The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), pp. 211-28, 289-300 (notes).
Explores the "joining of contradictions in irony" in the GP portrait of the Prioress and the "joining of contraries" in the "sublime paradox" in the allusion to the Incarnation in PrT. A further contradiction is "that the Prioress, whose faith and…
Hazell, Dinah.
Carmina Philosophiae 11: 43-74, 2002.
Explores how the character Theseus in KnT does and does not embody principles of political philosophy found in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy." Combining "idealism and political exigency," Theseus fulfills the "composite model of an ideal"…
Vance's concept of "power semantics" articulates how Chaucer uses transgressive exempla--"meta-examples which confound expectations"--to pit the discourse of medieval history against itself in PardT, predicating a literal critique of medieval culture…
Crafton, John Micheal.
Richard J. Utz, ed. Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm (Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Wales: Eswin Mellen, 1995), pp. 117-34.
Chaucer's works reflect a pattern of concern with the realist-nominalist issues of language. Early on, Chaucer critiques realism, and, later on, nominalism, while TC and especially CT pose the two views in dialogic debate. Fragment 6 (Phyt and PardT)…
Céspedes [Benitez], Irma.
Revista Chilena de Literatura 7 (1976): 5-26.
Explores the vibrant language of CT (and the difficulties of translation), its relations with oral tradition, and the constraints and possibilities of traditional medieval narrative set in tension with a competitive tale-telling contest among diverse…
Staley, Lynn.
Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 113-33.
Explores the trope of England as an idealized garden/island in imagery of homes in various medieval and Renaissance works, including NPT.
