An introductory textbook grammar of Middle English, particularly Chaucer's dialect, with a brief history of the English language and descriptions of the parts of speech, morphology, pronunciation, etc. Includes an edition of the GP, edited from the…
Keller, Wolfgang.
Zeitsprünge: Forschungen zur frühen Neuzeit 21, nos. 3-4 (2017): 339-59; abstract in English, pp. 413-14.
Clarifies the late medieval shift from household economics to usurious commerce, and argues that HF, John Lydgate's "Temple of Glass," and Gavin Douglas's "Palice of Honour" depict the "dissolution" of traditional households entailed in this shift.…
Johnston, Andrew James.
R. Howard Bloch, Alison Calhoun, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Joachim Kupper, and Jeanette Patterson, eds. Rethinking the New Medievalism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), pp. 181-97.
Explores how in KnT ekphrasis (here the "verbal depiction of fictional images rather than of real ones") serves "a specific politics of representation" in which "the verbal and the visual" and "the classical and the medieval" are locked in…
Cerezo Moreno, Marta.
Ángeles de la Concha, ed. El sustrato cultural de la violencia de género: Literatura, arte, cine, y videojuegos (Madrid: Síntesis, 2010), pp. 19-44.
Analyzes how art--canonical literature, in particular--helps to construct, consolidate, and transmit patriarchal ideologies that support violence and female subjection. Assesses KnT as an example of how a masculine gaze affects female identity.…
Explores interrelations among youth, old age, virginity, and chastity in PhyT and WBPT as they "reveal the links between eroticism and control over bodies." Includes an abstract in English.
This anthology of international short fiction in Spanish translation is intended for classroom use, with a pedagogical introduction (pp. 9-105) and study questions (pp. 485-524). It includes PardT (pp. 123-31), without PardP, as well as tales by Don…
Gomez, Francesc J.
Magnificat: Cultura i literature medievals 2 (2015): 159–96.
Taking as a starting-point the study of a chapter from the "Tractat de les penes particulars d'infern" by Joan Pasqual (c. 1436), traces the dissemination (and the "stemma narrationum") of two narrative motifs: the fake alchemist and the king…
Bishop, Kathleen [A.]
Nancy M. Reale and Ruth E. Sternglantz, eds. Satura: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honour of Robert R. Raymo (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001), pp. 227-37.
Identifies a number of points of comparison between Juan Ruiz's "El Libro" and CT: wide range of genres, ecclesiastical satire, comparable characters (e.g., the Prioress and Doña Garoa; the Wife of Bath and Trotaconventos), narrators'…
Vila de la Cruz, Maria Purificacion.
Luis A. Lazaro Lafuente, Jose Simon, and Ricardo J. Sola Buil,eds. Medieval Studies: Proceedings of the IIIrd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Madrid: Universidadde Alcala de Henares, 1996), pp. 369-84.
The structure of CT reflects aspects of Chaucer's world, in particular the structure of gothic cathedrals.
Serrano Reyes, Jesús L., trans.
Madrid : Ediciones Siruela, 2005.
An anthology of Spanish translations of Chaucer's dream visions. Includes previously published translations of BD and HF, plus new translations of PF and LGW. Notes and introduction by the translator.
Gomez Lara, Manuel J.
Actas del V Congreso de AEDEAN (Oviedo: Alhambra, 1983), pp. 189-201.
Reflecting social contradictions involved in the love relationship in TC, Criseyde's direct speech presents her inner contradictions, transmitted through direct statement and complex "symbology."
Alvarez Amoros, Jose Antonio.
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 11 (1985): 47-68.
The fluctuation of the narrative point of view in GP results in a paradox: whereas the compositional devices inhibit verisimilitude, received critical opinion recognizes the pilgrims as highly realistic representatives of fourteenth-century life. …
Olivares Merino, Eugenio M.
Juan Paredes, ed. Medioevo y literatura, III: Actas del V Congreso de la Asociacion Hispanica de Literatura Medieval (Granada, 27 septiembre-1 octubre 1993), 4 vols. (Granada, Nicaragua: University of Granada Press, 1995), pp. 491-97.
Comments on Chaucer's description of Pedro I of Spain in MkT, and on similarities between CT and de Ayala's "Rimado."
González Miranda, Emilio.
Armando López Castro and María Luzdivina Cuesta Torre, eds. Actas del XI congreso internacional de la Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval: Universidad de León, 20 al 24 de septiembre de 2005. 2 vols. (León: Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Léon), 2007: vol. 2, pp. 641-49.
Compares the dream of Chauntecleer in NPT with the dreams of the roosters in "Roman de Renart" and "Reinart Fuchs." In Spanish.
Perez Martin, Ma. Jesus.
Filologia Moderna 6 (1966): 323-27.
Observes shifts in tone in NPT 7.2888-2907 (a conversation between Chanticleer and Pertelote), commenting on how these shifts contribute to characterization and drama.
León Sendra, Antonio R., and Jesús L. Serrano Reyes.
Antonio Ruiz Castellanos, Antonia Viñez Sanchez, and Durán Sáez, eds. Retórica y Texto (Cádiz: Universidad de Cádiz, 1998), pp. 332-38.
Explicates aspects of rhetoric, person, and theme in lines 1868-1915 of HF.
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