Schrock, Chad.
Modern Language Review 114 (2019): 643-61.
Examines biblical images, allusions, themes, and narrative patterns in MilPT, exploring various ways that the Miller and Nicholas appropriate the Bible's "authority for personal rhetorical ends." Chaucer's providence-like control of his material is…
Wu, Yuching.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.07 (2019): n.p.
Aligns happy endings with the "rhetoric of bliss" in Middle English romances and includes discussion of jealousy as the crux of KnT, arguing that the "happy closure" of the narrative can only come about when the jealousy between Palamon and Arcite is…
Montroso, Alan S.
Dissertation Abstracts International 80 (2019)
Studies caves in medieval literature as "agential bodies" that challenge "us to reconsider the stories of the women, monsters and marginalized beings who are made to inhabit subterranean spaces" Includes discussion of Emelye's address to Diana as…
Knoetze, Retha.
English Academy Review 34, no. 1 (2017): 85-98.
Assesses KnT in light of conventions of the romance genre and Boccaccio's "Teseida," arguing that the tale engages tensions "between a traditional communal feudal ideology and a newer more individualist and commercial outlook present in Chaucer's…
Irvin, Matthew W.
Chaucer Review 55, no. 4 (2020): 379-96.
Examines pity and the construction of pity in KnT in particular to show how Chaucer's use of and changes to the "Teseida "produce a desire for female autonomy that doesn’t threaten male patriarchy.
Thompson, Kenneth J.
Chaucer Review 55, no. 1 (2020): 55-69.
Corrects errors in the discussion of the Knight's Yeoman in criticism by offering a discussion of the Yeoman and his weapons in GP, and “contextualizes the peacock fletching of the Yeoman's arrows by explicating birdwing anatomy, the appearance of…
Bolens, Guillemette.
Miranda Anderson and Michael Wheeler, eds. Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 66–85.
Exemplifies how the interactive and "enactive" process of reading details of the frame narrative of CT (GP and links between tales) prompts cognition in ways that are analogous to the "distributed cognition" of human sensorimotor operations. Focuses…
Wright, Sarah Breckenridge.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020.
Explores "expressions of mobility" in the frame narrative and tales of CT to show how physical and metaphorical mobilities are shaped by "geographical, ecological, sociopolitical, and gendered identities."
Ward, Jessica D.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.01 (2019): n.p.
Addresses the "challenge posed to Christian ethics due to the proliferation of urban markets and increased personal wealth in medieval England," examining various
aspects of avarice in "Piers Plowman"; John Gower's "Confessio Amantis"; and CT,…
Examines marital rape across CT, acknowledging that, while marital rape was impossible in medieval English law, it was a topic discussed and handled throughout CT. Gives particular attention to MerT, SNT, MkT, WBPT, and ShpT.
Offers comprehensive introduction to CT, focusing on language, genres, forms, historical background, and critical history related to Chaucer. Provides exercises, strategies, and ideas for teaching Chaucer in undergraduate courses.
Comments on CT as a “text born in trauma,” observing “numerous wounds” in KnT and MkT and linking them with James Comey's 2017 testimony before the US Senate Intelligence Committee.
Read, Lee.
Once and Future Classroom 15, no. 1 (2019): 96-106.
Explores relations between word and deed, deception and truth in CT as examples of how fiction can help high-school students learn "critical thinking skills, self-reflection, perseverance, the value and danger of duplicity, and the power of…
Pugh, Tison.
Chaucer’s Losers, Nintendo’s Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019), pp. 71-98.
Approaches the tale-telling contest of CT as its "ludonarrative framework" and analyzes its "gaming elements," arguing that--complicating the win/loss binary--the work queers victory, depicts the "abundant pleasures of defeat," and reformulates "the…
Murchison, Krista A.
Modern Language Review 115, no. 3 (2020): 497-517.
Argues that audience-based lines of interpretation are no more reliable than author-based loci of interpretation, and reviews the "ars predicandi", religious guides, and the "ars poetica" (literary works), analyzing "how writer and actual audiences…
Morrison, Susan Signe.
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 10, no. 1 (2019): 40-59.
Contemplates similarities and analogies between reading and walking and between medieval and modern pilgrimage narratives, commenting on ecopoetics, biopoetics, and topopoetics, and on relations between design and contingency, human and nonhuman…
Miller, Timothy S.
Studies in Medievalism 28 (2019): 148-75.
Surveys "(neo)medievalism in contemporary board-game culture," including discussion of two games inspired by CT: the "roll-and-move" "Hazard: From the Canterbury Tales" and "The Road to Canterbury."
McLaughlin, Becky Renee.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
Uses psychoanalysis as a "pedagogical tool" to understand Chaucer’s pilgrims in CT. Begins with the "spectacle of hysteria" to explore "ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language" in CT. Discusses "perversions of…
Martínez López, Miguel.
Cuadernos del CEMYR (Centro de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas) 27 (2019): 109-44.
Examines "exceptional crimes" in CT in the context of the main English legal texts that regulated, prosecuted, and punished medieval criminals. The procedural singularities of this type of prosecution are explored first through the analysis of the…
A frame-tale narrative modeled on and adapted from CT, with tales told by a range of individuals traveling by bus in 1969 to attend the "Woodstock Music and Art Fair." The introduction acknowledges Chaucer's inspiration in form, styles, and…
Levelt, Sjoerd.
Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 14-16.
Examines sources that Boxhorn drew upon for quoting GP and for (mis)identifying its author to show that, contrary to what scholars have believed, this seventeenth-century Dutch professor of history and rhetoric "was acquainted with neither Chaucer…
Johnston, Andrew James.
Christoph Kleinschmidt and Uwe Japp, eds. Der Rahmenzyklus in den europäischen Literaturen: Von Boccaccio bis Goethe, von Chaucer bis Gernhardt (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2018), pp. 41–57.
Examines features of CT that make it difficult to fit the work into the modern “frame” of teleological development, medieval to modern. Focuses on "postmodern" features of the work, its tensions between allegory and realism, and its game-like…
Addresses the engagement of medieval literature in the construction of European and Muslim identities in CT. Traces the origin and the politics behind the western construction of Muslims as "God's enemies in the Middle Ages and how this…
Explores why Chaucer sets CT in April, rather than the traditional month of May, and concludes that the disruption of expectations leads the reader to reflect and realize the tales are a mix of the secular and the sacred.
Blandeau, Agnès.
Isabelle Fernandes, ed. Martyr et martyre: Dans la Chrétienté de l’Europe occidentale, du Moyen Age jusqu’au début du XVIIe siècle (Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2020), pp. 85-04.
Includes references to GP, MLT, SNT, ClP, PrT, and FrT.
