Lozowski, Przemyslaw.
A. Pajdzinska and P. Krzyzanowski, eds. Przeszlosc w jezykowym obrazie swiata (Past in the Linguistic Picture of the World). (Lublin: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej, 1999), pp. 25-50.
Cognitive linguistic analysis of Chaucer's uses of "meten" and "dremen," arguing that the two words are not synonymous as is usually assumed. In Polish.
Wheeler, Jeffrey Matthew.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3043A
Although false relics often figured in polemics, relics were popular through the early Reformation. Attitudes vary less than has been assumed among such writers as Guibert de Nogent, Lorenzo Valla, Wycliffe, Chaucer, Foxe, Latimer, Tyndale, and…
Matsuda, Takami.
Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature 32 (2017): 1-15.
Points out that a reference to a palmer in GP recalls both the pilgrimage for one's own penance and the vicarious pilgrimage. Argues that the system of pardon and vicarious pilgrimage are burlesqued in PardPT and SumT. Suggests that the idea of…
Orr, Patricia R.
Jane Chance, ed. The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1990), pp.159-76.
Traces the allegorical tradition of the Judgment of Paris from Fulgentius through Bersuire and other fourteenth-century writers (especially sources of the Troilus story) and examines Chaucer's use of and allusions to the myth. The journey of Troilus…
Explains palindromes and palindromic structures, rooted in classical and exegetical traditions, here exemplified by means of Augustine of Dacia's couplet. Then argues that PardT "features palinodromically arranged characters, settings, and words that…
Carruthers, Leo, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec, eds.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
This collection dedicated to André Crépin contains an introduction and eleven essays on different aspects of palimpsests, both in the technical and literary senses of the word. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Palimpsests and…
Aloni, Gila.
Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, and Tatjana Silec, eds. Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England (New York: Plagrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 157-73..
Chaucer rewrites his source in Ovid "Metamaphorses" 6 to show the strong bond between the sisters who provide solace to each other. The same kind of bond is shown among the women who support the raped maiden in the WBT. The meaning of rape in…
Ramsey, Roy Vance.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 8 (1986): 107-44.
New manuscript data reaffirm Ramsey's earlier argument that different scribes copied the Hengwrt and Ellesmere MSS of CT; M. L. Samuels is wrong in arguing that a single scribe copied these manuscripts and MS Corpus Christi 198. Handwriting alone is…
Dinshaw, Carolyn.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23: 19-41, 2001.
Dinshaw considers her autobiographical "queer diasporic experience" as a "pale Indian" in light of the representations of conversion, otherness, and paleness in MLT and the generally unnoticed presence of Indian influences on early English studies.…
Green, Richard Firth.
Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington, eds. The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England (New York: Cornell University Press, 2002), pp. 105-14.
Legal diction and references in KnT reflect concern in the 1380s with the growing influence of the Court of Chivalry and the revival of trial by battle.
Passmore, S. Elizabeth.
Medieval Feminist Forum 36: 36-40, 2003.
Passmore discusses three examples of "written women," whose stories are "filtered through the impressions and words of a male writer." The Wife of Bath's question about who painted the lion (WBP 3.692) indicates that women's writings, if unmediated…
Passmore, S. Elizabeth
Medieval Feminist Forum 36: 36-40, 2003.
Passmore discusses three examples of "written women," whose stories are "filtered through the impressions and words of a male writer." The Wife of Bath's question about who painted the lion (WBP 3.692) indicates that women's writings, if unmediated…
Liendo, Elizabeth.
Ph.D. dissertation (Pennsylvania State University, 2019). Item not seen. Abstract available at https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/16973eah27 (accessed December 1, 2021).
Argues that Ovidian influence on "the literary fantasy of erotic and poetic mastery" draws on a "model established in Ovid's 'Amores'," tracing “a "shared heritage" ranging from Andreas Capellanus, Chrétien de Troyes, Petrarch, Chaucer, and…
Salda, Michael Norman.
Chaucer Review 27 (1992): 111-25.
The inspiration for the text of the painted chamber with its "text and gloss" in BD was St. Stephen's chapel with its lavishly painted walls. Previous efforts to correlate Chaucer's text with particular illuminated manuscripts have been futile.
Schildgen, Brenda Deen.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2001.
Applying Habermas's notion of discourse ethics, Schildgen focuses on stories in CT that are "set outside a Christian-dominated world." Individual chapters include discussions of KnT and SqT, MLT, WBT and FranT, PrT and MkT, and SNT. Chaucer's…
Marenbon, John.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Examines the influence of paganism on Christian writers from the fifth century to the eighteenth century. Includes a chapter on entitled "Langland and Chaucer: The Continuity of the Problem of Paganism" (pp. 214–34).
Frankis, John.
Mary Salu, ed. Essays on Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge: Brewer, 1979), pp. 57-72.
The pagan references in TC perform two obvious functions: they provide local color and they help to delineate character (as in Pandarus' scorn of Troilus--who has just uttered a prayer to several pagan deities--calling him a "mouses hert," III,…
Noguchi, Shunichi.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 95-102.
KnT suggests the transitory nature of human life and offers as consolation the prospect of a heroic and noble death in the figure of Arcite.
White explores the role of literature in "peace studies," traces pacifist theory through the ages, and surveys pacifism in English literature from the Middle Ages to modern prose, poetry, and film. The chapter on the Middle Ages comments on Old…
Windeatt compares several of Chaucer's works and their sources to show that through variations in narrative pace and increased attention to pinpointing time, Chaucer makes something quite new. Considers PF, MLT, TC, KnT, and several of the tales in…
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn.
Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 20168), 1:208-26.
Describes late medieval literary production in the city of Oxford, characterizing it as a "crossroads for intellectual work of all kinds," summarizing its library holdings, and surveying affiliated literature. Comments on Oxfordian influences on…
McKinley, Kathryn Lillian.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 1155A.
Though Ovid's influence on Jean de Meun and Chaucer has long been recognized as far as mythology and irony are concerned,Ovid's "neoteric" narrative techniques also provided models for the two writers; cf. Chaucer's BD, TC, and WBT.
Bidard, Josselin.
Danielle Buschinger, ed. Médiévales, 11-12: L'antiquité dans la littérature et les beaux-arts (Amiens: Presses du Centre d'Études Médiévales, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, 2010), pp. 302-8.
Focuses on Chaucer's uses of Ovid, specifically his use of the legend of Pyramus and Thisbe in LGW.
Hardaway, Reid.
Dissertation Abstracts International A79.03 (2017): n.p.
Addresses Chaucer's works as part of a larger examination of the influence of Ovid's "Metamorphoses," particularly his employment of ekphrasis--the use of poetry to
portray other types of art.
