Blatt, Heather.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
Draws on modern media studies to clarify practices of "participatory reading" in late medieval England, exploring how vernacular authors, texts, and manuscripts elicit and/or limit the agency of their readers who engage with texts in making meaning,…
Argues that Rudyard Kipling's story "The Wish House" was influenced by WBP. Key words in Chaucer's text ("daunger," "chep") and connotations of the word "ash" (part of the surname of Kipling's leading character, Ashcroft) reveal that Chaucer's work…
Yvernault, Martine.
Colette Stévanovitch and Henry Daniels, eds. L'Affect et le jugement: Mélanges offerts à Michel Morel à l'occasion de son départ à la retraite, 2 vols. (Paris: AMAES, 2005), 2: pp. 563-71.
Yvernault explores various levels of the love discourse in PF in relation to the roles played by reflection and silence.
Prior, Sandra Pierson.
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 16 (1986): 57-73.
Not mere humorous touches, Chaucer's complex parodies of the mystery plays of Noah and Herod cover "biblical figures and events, the contemporary religious drama,...and exegesis, which lay behind the widespread use of typology." MilT explodes in…
Calderwood, James L.
English Studies 45 (1964): 302-09.
Argues that in PardPT the Pardoner "is parodying himself—deliberately magnifying his character and conduct in order to portray himself as a monster of evil" exaggerating so that the other pilgrims will interpret him comically, as a "charming…
Surveys parody and parodic devices in Middle English literature, arguing that, though there is much that is coarse in this literature, there is little actual parody outside of liturgical texts. Th is Chaucer's only true parody, although elsewhere…
Bashuna, I. G. [И. Г. Башuна].
M. L. Remneva, ed. Aktual'nye Problemy Iazykoznaniia i Literaturovedeniia (Moscow: Moskovskii Ggosudarsvennyi Universitet imeni M.V. Lomonosova, 1994), pp. 138-46.
Dane, Joseph A.
Norman and London : University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
Proposing to assess "how our language of parody...acts to manipulate the literature it is intended to describe," Dane explores the relation of genre to politics. Part 4, "The Classification of Medieval Parody," contains a chapter, "The…
Macdonald, Dwight, ed.
New York: Random House, 1960; London: Faber and Faber, 1961.
A chronological and thematic anthology of literary parodies that opens with Pr-ThL, Th, and a section of Th-MelL in Middle English as examples of parody of romance, followed by an "Imitation of Chaucer" by Alexander Pope and "A Clerk Ther Was of…
Sola Buil, Ricardo J.
Margarita Gimenez Bon and Vickie Olsen, eds. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Vitoria-Gasteiz: Dpto. Filologia Inglesa, 1997), pp. 338-45.
Explores Chaucer's use of parody and manipulation of narrative tradition to develop realistic characters or "subjectivities" in CT.
Sprunger, David A.
Nona C. Flores, ed. Animals in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays (New York: Garland, 1996), pp. 67-81.
Discusses manuscript drolleries that represent physicians, commenting on the conventional clothing of Chaucer's Physician and the flask or jordan the Physician holds in the Ellesmere illumination.
Japanese translation of PF, based on Derek S. Brewer's 2nd edition (1972) and The Riverside Chaucer. Includes Japanese translation of Brewer's commentary.
Giancarlo, Matthew.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Studies the intersection between the "growth of parliament" and the "development of poetry" from c.1376 to 1414, focusing on depictions of parliaments in literature. Poets such as Langland, Gower, and Chaucer had "extensive parliamentary…
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…
