Fifteen essays and notes on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English and Scottish writings, four never before printed. For two previously unprinted essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Essays on Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.
Gruber, Loren C., ed., with the assistance of Meredith Crellin Gruber and Gregory K. Jember.
Lewiston, N.Y. : Mellen Press, 2000.
Twenty essays by various authors, and a bibliography of Tripp's publications. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. under Alternative Title.
Minnis, A. J.,Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre,eds.
Sixteen essays by various authors on Anglo-French, Latin, and (especially) English literature produced during the reign of Richard II. Includes bibliography of Burrow's publications. For eleven essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Essays on…
Gaylord, Alan T., ed.
New York and London : Routledge, 2001.
Prints fourteen pieces, ranging historically from Thomas Tyrwhitt and George Saintsbury to recent commentary, including new essays by Richard Osberg, Emerson Brown, and Winthrop Wetherbee. Includes an introduction that summarizes the contributions…
Four essays by various authors focus on editing Hoccleve's works, his variety of styles, and the relation of his works to those of Chaucer and Christine de Pizan. Includes a bibliography, an index, and an introduction that surveys critical…
Smith, Jeremy J.
London and New York: Routledge, 1999.
Introduces Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English, describing developments in syntax, morphology, pronunciation, lexicon, and dialects. The selection of samples for discussion and assessment includes excerpts from GP, PardT, and ParsT,…
Hagstrum, Jean H.
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
A historical assessment of representations of heterosexual love and marriage in the art, myth, and religion of the Western world, concentrating on differing ways in which esteem and desire have been aligned, rationalized, and sanctified.
Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel de la.
María Dolores Fernández de la Torre Madueño, Antonia Mara Medina Guerra, and Lidia Taillefer de Haya, eds. El Sexismo en el lenguaje. 2 vols. (Málaga: Disputacíon Provincial de Málaga, 1999), vol. 1, pp. 261-70.
Describes female sexual stereotyping in Chaucer's depictions of the Wife of Bath, Griselda (ClT), Custance (MLT), Dorigen (FranT), and the Prioress (GP).
Gamaury, Martine.
Andre Lascombes, ed. Identites et differences (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, no. 17, 1992), pp. 45-58. Also in Pierre Sahel, intro. Difference et identite. CARA (Centre Aixois de Recherches Anglaises), no. 12 (Aix-en Provence: Universite de Provence, 1992), pp. 11-23.
The pathology of Troilus shows conflict between his roles as warrior and lover, reflected in the artistic rendering of his dreams and emotional pain. His agony melds personal sorrow and traditional courtly suffering. Pandarus acts as a…
Berrozpe Peralta, Carlos.
[Albacete, Spain]: C. Berrozpe, 2006.
Includes a diachronic linguistic analysis—phonetic, orthographical, morphological, syntactical, lexical, and stylistic—of the description of the Reeve from GP. Traces elements backward to Old English and forward to Modern English.
A large-format art-book version of the Nevill Coghill translation of the poetic portions of CT, with illustrations of the tales (rather than the pilgrims) by Frink and a brief introduction by Coghill that comments on the contemporary vitality of the…
Bevis, Richard.
Eighteenth-Century Life 10 (1986): 44-58.
Reevaluates Pope's adaptation of HF, "The Temple of Fame," focusing on how radically he reworks Chaucer's narrative, shifting it to a more "scenic" poem by introducing elements from "An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries," a piece of…
Marshall, Helen.
Helen Marshall. Hair Side, Flesh Side (Toronto: ChiZine, 2012), pp. 218-28.
Short story about an Oxford graduate student, ambivalent about love and about her Chaucer studies, visited by the poet at nighttime. Includes recurrent allusion to the ambiguous gate in PF 123ff.
Collects sixty-two case studies, accompanied by "questions to consider," designed as exercises in decision-making for library managers. Study number 58, "This Is the Year for Chaucer" (pp. 105-07), pertains to the development of the Chaucer…
Rosenfeld, Jessica.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
Examines pleasure, happiness, and enjoyment in late-medieval literature as it was influenced by Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," mediated by commentaries and the "Roman de la Rose." Considers a balance of intellectualism and voluntarism, and an…
Mitchell, J. Allan
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Mitchell explores the relationships among fortune, ethics, and validity in TC and other late medieval writings: Usk's "Testament of Love," "The Chaunce of the Dyse," Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Lydgate's "Fall of Princes," and Malory's "Morte…
Mitchell, J. Allan.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004.
Examines the ethics of exemplarity in "Confesso Amantis" and in CT, arguing that reading for the moral--deliberating ethically--is improvisatory and reflexive and aims at practice rather than theory. Exemplarity involves the reader in its moral…
Simpson, James.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 20 (1998): 73-100.
Reads LGW as a work about "voluntarist" hermeneutics, reflected in Cupid's "cupidinous," tyrannical understanding of TC and in the narrator's telling of the legends as a "testamentary document of a dying author."
Craun, Edwin C.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Discusses how the late medieval Church encouraged and participated in "fraternal corrections," and establishes connections with major English reformist writings, including "The Book of Margery Kempe" and "Piers Plowman." Brief mention of Chaucer's…
Offers a psychoanalytical reparative reading of PrT, focusing on PrP, the conclusion of the tale, and various intertexts (Psalm 8; the "Alma Redemptoris Mater"; and Dante's "Purgatorio," XXXIII), unpacking interplays between utterance and intention;…
Czarnowus, Anna.
Rafal Boryslawski, Czarnowus, and Lukasz Neubauer, eds. Marvels of Reading: Essays in Honour of Professor Andrzej Wicher (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego, 2015), pp. 103-13.
Assesses representation of the mothers-in-law in MLT and their equivalent in the BBC adaptation, where the mother-in-law is of Iranian origin, but looks on Custance from a highly racist perspective.
The three Aristotelian modes of persuasion are ethos (character), pathos (emotion), and logos (reason). In his long poem, Chaucer fails as narrator-rhetor (ethos, logos) but succeeds as human (pathos) and is himself a rhetorical solution to a…
Shore, Rachel.
Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric 5 (2008): 98-106 [Electronic Publication].
Chaucer uses his naïve narrator to achieve an effective balance among the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos in CT. Also, this narrator's view of the Prioress overwhelms her appeal to ethos in PrPT and her heavy emphasis on pathos also…
