Nicolaisen, W. F. H., ed.
Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995.
Four plenary papers and eight sectional papers from the Twenty-Second Annual Conference, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 21-22 October 1988.
Parks, Ward.
Mark C. Amodio, ed. Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry (New York and London: Garland, 1994), pp. 149-79.
The tension between literacy and orality--evident throughout CT--can be seen in GP, where a literate and learned Chaucer positions himself as the mere recorder of oral performance. Th satirizes the English metrical romance, a genre deeply rooted in…
Taylor, Jerome.
College English 19.7 (1958): 304-06.
Describes an "experiment in the use of oral reading as a means of teaching" TC that increased students' "critical appreciation" of the poem and Chaucer's art.
Amodio, Mark C., ed.
New York and London: Garland, 1994.
Eleven essays by different hands define and explore the complex relationship between the emerging Middle English literate tradition and its receding oral ancestor in the centuries following the Norman Conquest. For three essays that pertain to…
Klassen, N.
Stanford Humanities Review 2:2-3 (1992): 129-46.
Surveys the late-medieval science of optics, focusing on Alhazen, Grosseteste, Bacon, Ockham, and their links between optics and epistemology. In Boccaccio's "Filostrato," sight is merely a convention of courtly literature, but Chaucer's optical…
Elbow, Peter.
Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1975.
TC, KnT, and NPT are constructed on the pattern of oppositions found in Boethius' "Consolation" and the dialectic method of scholastic philosophy. At crucial points, however, Chaucer relinquishes this method and chooses one side. The pattern of…
Baker, Alison A.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 23.1 (2016): 351-61.
Proposes a "mnemonic device" for six of the Roman classical gods (Apollo, Diana, Venus, Mars, Minerva, and Bacchus) "that can be used to teach and understand" them in CT and in Spenser's "Faerie Queene."
The "textual-critical ferment" of the 1980s prompted two "editorial ideas" that have largely (and sadly) been ignored by Chaucer editors and teachers: Derek Pearsall's suggestion that an edition of CT should allow the fragments to be arranged…
Pręczkowska, Helena, trans.
Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich – Wydawnictwo, 1963.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that Margaret Schlauch wrote an Introduction and that Witold Chwalewik edited the commentary in this Polish translation of selections from CT.
Describes and assesses the CT, with chapters on social and intellectual backgrounds, Chaucer’s life, his use of pilgrimage and frame tale conventions, GP, and each of the individual tales, following the Ellesmere order. Discussions of individual…
Zawadzki, Jarek, trans.
Maciej Sieńczyk, illus.
Katowice: Biblioteka Śląska, 2021.
Item not seen. Publisher's website indicates that this is the an "edition of the first complete translation [into Polish] of 'The Canterbury Tales'" [rugie wydanie pierwszego kompletnego przekładu "Opowieści kanterberyjskich"].
Bauer, Renate.
Manuel Braun and Cornelia Herberichs, eds. Gewalt im Mittelalter: Realitaten - Imaginationen (Munich: William Fink, 2005), pp. 181-201.
Bauer assesses formulaic or stereotypic depictions of Jews in "Cursor Mundi," Chaucer's PrT, Gower's "Confessio Amantis" (7.3207-3360), "Elene," "The Siege of Jerusalem," passion treatises, and The Croxton Play of the Sacrament.
Reprints materials from The Riverside Chaucer, with facing-page Italian translation in verse and prose, following the original. Volume 1 contains the dream poems and TC. Volume 2 includes CT. Both volumes include short introductions to the individual…
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson, eds.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012.
Richly illustrated text highlights issues that affected literary production, and focuses on how illustrations and glosses expand understanding of medieval English book culture. Introduction discusses different strategies of scribes in two versions of…
Silva, Chelsea.
Exemplaria 30 (2018): 49-65; 3 color illus.
Considers the medieval folding almanac as a tool to access information, examining British Library, MS Harley 937, the prologue of which uses Astr "to explain its intention to satisfy its uneducated reader," posing Astr as a "model for its…
Trigg, Stephanie.
In Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds. Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 182-99.
Considers the "history of staging readers' first encounters with the opening lines" of CT from manuscript to modern print editions, emphasizing the "material form" of GP in "The Riverside Chaucer." Explores the tension between "the formal qualities…
Lanham, Richard A.
Studies in Medieval Culture 3 (1970): 169-76.
Assesses Pandarus, Troilus, and Criseyde as prisoners of their own rhetorics (proverbial wisdom, courtliness, and expediency, respectively) and the social conventions that attend them, reading TC as a "comedy about man's inevitable imprisonment in…
Psychoanalytic argument that the old woman's curses are pivotal to the workings of hostility, manipulation, and eroticism in FrT. The summoner, the devil, and the woman reenact a patriarchal version of the Oedipal scenario, disrupted by the woman's…
Crick, Mark.
Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of Literature in 17 Recipes (London: Granta, 2005), pp. 89-92.
Presents a soup recipe, posed as a conversation in modern iambic pentameter between Chaucer's Host and the "Exciseman of London," who describes the preparation of the soup. Includes a color plate of a faux stained glass medallion of Chaucer as a…
Suggests that after studying in CT the relationship of different poetic styles to different social or cultural classes, one might examine the visual art of the Limbourgs' Calendar in the "Tres Riches Heures." The stylistic iconographics of the poet…
