Brown, Peter.
Peter Brown, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 22-50.
Argues that Middle English dream visions from the second half of the fourteenth century allowed writers to experiment with altered states of consciousness and liminality. Discusses French and Middle English dream visions, including BD, HF, LGW, and…
Burnley, J. D.
Erik Cooper, ed. This Noble Craft . . .: Proceedings of the Xth Research Symposium of Dutch and Belgian University Teachers of Old and Middle English and Historical Linguistics, Utrecht, 19-20 January, 1989. Costerus New Series, no. 80 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991), pp. 43-57.
Drawing on recent socio- and ethnolinguistic insights, Burnley examines the complex stylistic associations of commonly used language in a variety of spoken and written contexts. The structure of Chaucer's English is not neat and orderly but…
Zhou, Yue.
Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 375-90.
Discusses adjectives employed to modify knightly characters in TC, GP, KnT, Th, BD, and Anel.
Harris, Carissa M.
Chaucer Review 57 (2022): 475-83.
In light of newly discovered documents surrounding Cecily Chaumpaigne, calls for more attention to the servant women depicted in Chaucer's texts and the use of the word "endure" in his corpus.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31: 113-46, 2001.
Echoing Chaucer's poetry while portraying non-Christian, racialized others, the Middle English romance "The Sultan of Babylon" invokes a "Saracen Chaucer" whose status as national poet depends on such markers of difference.
Lee, Sung-Il.
Medieval English Studies 05 (1997): 201-16.
Henryson's emulation of Chaucer is evident in his adoption of the stanza form of TC for his "Testament," yet he expresses his "rivalry" with his prececessor by offering a different conclusion.
Roberts, Jane.
Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen, eds. Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry. King's College London Medieval Studies, no. 5 (London: King's College Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1991), pp. 103-21.
Explores the "moralitas" of Henryson's poem and conjectures that KnT was a "major shaping force" in it.
Yamanaka, Margaret.
Bulletin of Gifu Women's University 47 (2017): 11-18.
Compares two travel diaries by Jerry Ellis (1974-). Includes a detailed description of "Walking to Canterbury--A Modern Journey through Chaucer's Medieval England," which contains references to NPT, SumT, WBT, and ParsT.
G. K. Chesterton's "Chaucer" makes the "spaciousness" and capacity of Chaucer's writings available to twentieth-century readers. Chesterton associated Chaucer's sanity and vitality with Aquinas, who shared with Chaucer medieval orthodox Christian…
Hill, Betty.
Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Literary and Historical Section 14 (1971): 207-20.
Reads six stanzas from TC (3.85-126), closely analyzing rhymes and rhythm, alliteration, diction and phrases, repetitions and echoes of other works to exemplify the "pliable pleasure" afforded by Chaucer's style and his engagement with oral and…
Medcalf, Stephen.
Stephen Medcalf, ed. The Later Middle Ages (London: Methuen; New York: Holmes & Meier, 1981), pp. 1-55.
Seeks to bridge the intellectual and emotion distance between modern readers and medieval literature, addressing the nature of semantic change and changing ideas about human personality. Includes commentary on a range of medieval works, with extended…
Murphy, Michael.
Mediaevalia 9 (1986, for 1983): 205-23.
Argues that if we read CT aloud we should generally do so in our own dialects rather than in "Semblance," the reconstructed version of the fourteenth-century English dialect of the Southeast Midlands.
Dabydeen, David.
Maggie Butcher, ed. Tibisiri: Caribbean Writers and Critics (Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1989), pp. 121-35.
Interrogates differences and tensions between modern black British poetry and the dominant Anglo-American tradition, focusing on the use of "Caribbean creole" to resist colonial subordination of black voices. Refers to Chaucer and the tradition of…
Evans, Ruth.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 3-26.
Contemplates the value of studying Chaucer in light of national and international calls to decenter the poet and his works, considering the history and politics of these calls, the nature of canon-making, and several instances where "Chaucer's work…
Challenges existing editions of CT and proposes an alternative that would include the old-spelling version of Hengwrt with new spelling, glossing, and annotations.
Chocano Díaz, Gema, Noelia Hernando Real, and Ana Ardid Gumiel, eds.
Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2020.
Includes a selection of passages from Chaucer, with word-by-word English translations and an introduction to Chaucer's linguistic and literary context. Intended for use as a manual for Middle and early modern English literature survey courses.
Chaucerians must encourage or revive linguistic and cultural literacy of the Middle Ages among students and colleagues, both because the Middle Ages are of significant interest in popular culture and because they offer access to "familiar…
Challenges the identification of Adam Pynkhurst with Scribe B (the "label nowadays given to the scribe" of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of CT). Surveys the history of identifying Pynkhurst as Scribe B, examines paleographical and linguistic…
Novacich, Sarah Elliott.
Philological Quarterly 94, no. 3 (2015): 201–23.
Discusses the idea of "poetic feet" of versification in poetry, and examines how travel narratives are linked to poetic language. Compares CT (particularly ParsT, MkT, KnT, Tho, Mel, and TC, to Dante's "Inferno" and Mandeville's travel narrative.
Argues that in the Dido account of LGW Chaucer "channels" deep-seated cultural "anxiety about Phoenicians as he asserts his place in a Roman-centered Western tradition." By "removing the story of Dido's diasporic leadership, and misidentifying her…
Allen, Valerie.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Considers the imagery and implications of flatulence, wind, excrement, and refuse in medieval culture, considering anecdotes, visual imagery, religious commentary, and other literature. Occasional mention of Chaucer's works, with focused attention…
Ida, Hideho.
A Collection of Treatises on Languages and Literature 38 (2021): 35-45.
Categorizes nouns in NPT into twenty groups according to their meanings, counts the numbers of Latin-based nouns and Old English-based nouns in each category, and considers possible implications of their proportions. In Japanese.
