Gutiérrez Arranz, José María.
J. Martin Arista, et al., eds. Convergent Approaches to Medieval English Language and Literature (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012), pp. 293-311.
Following a discussion of classical and medieval translation, imitation, commentary, and glossing, tabulates the sources of Bo--with newly proposed titles that fuse "interpretatio" and "exercitatio."
Morse, Charlotte C.
A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 316-44.
Traces the history and reception of J. A. Burrow's term "Ricardian" as an alternative to "Age of Chaucer," considering its use and its future in light of the present critical climate.
Crepin, Andre.
Jean-Jacques Blanchot and Claude Graf, eds. Actes du 2e Colloque de langue et de litterature ecossaises (moyen age et renaissance) (Universite de Strasbourg, 1978), pp. 113-24.
In discussing the standard alliterative line in medieval English poetry, notes Chaucer's attitude toward alliteration in ParsP and, focussing on TC, shows the diminishing role of alliteration in Chaucer. Alliterative patterns and phrases provide…
Matsushita, Tomonori, A. V. C. Schmidt, and David Wallace, eds.
Bern: Peter Lang, 2011.
Essays examine influence of classical learning, Germanic and Old Norse cultures, and Romance languages on the development of medieval English literature and language. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for From Beowulf to Caxton under…
Mann, Jill.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Examines "how animals mean" in beast fable, beast epic, and related literature in classical and medieval traditions, focusing on the uses of animals in Marie de France, Nigel of Longchamp, "The Owl and the Nightingale," the Reynard tradition,…
Godden, Malcolm, Douglas Gray, and Terry Hoad, eds.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.
Eleven essays by various authors, assessing materials from the eighth to the fourteenth century. Most essays pertain to the development of language and literary forms; Chaucer mentioned "passim."
Canitz, A. E. Christa, and Gernot R. Wieland, eds.
Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 1999.
Sixteen essays by various authors on Eastern and Western medieval literature and medievalism, plus a bibliography of Manzalaoui's publications. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for From Arabye to Engelond under Alternative Title.
Stevenson, Warren.
William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds. Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures (New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003), pp. 191-209.
Stevenson interprets William Blake's depiction of the Canterbury pilgrims (rendered in several manifestations) in light of contemporaneous works and Blakes "Descriptive Catalogue" (1809). Visual symbols, juxtapositions, and contrasts indicate that…
Thomson, Peter.
European Medieval Drama 1: 35-44, 1997.
Reads Chauntecleer's descent from the perch in NPT as evidence that medieval stage entrances were marked by "masculine assertiveness," useful for clarifying differences among characters in a limited troupe. Compares the narrative scene with dramatic…
Riehle, Wolfgang.
Beyer, Manfred, ed. Zum Begriff der Imagination in Dichtung und Dichtungstheorie: Festschrift für Rainer Lengeler zum 65. Geburtstag (Trier: WVT, 1998), pp. 186-205.
Explores political and ideological similarities between PhyT and Livy's version of the story, and traces these similarities in later English and German versions, especially the Tudor interlude "Apius and Virginia" and G. E. Lessing's bourgeois…
Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.,and Patricia Lee Youngue.
Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 55 (1981): 19-43.
The Virgilian "Iuppiter descendens" in CT combines the sacred and the profane. Sexual motivation governs the behavior and storytelling of some of the pilgrims. Medieval man was able to integrate the serious with the comical because he possessed a…
Reconsiders Harold Bloom's argument that Shakespeare, when creating Iago, was influenced by Chaucer's Pardoner. Goth explores the "dramatic" nature of the Pardoner's character and his relations with Vice figures from late medieval drama as well as…
Valdes Miyares, Ruben.
Antonio Leon Sendra, Maria C. Casares Trillo, and Maria M. Rivas Carmona, eds. Second International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Cordoba: Universidad de Cordoba, 1993), pp. 207-16.
While Chaucer approached TC as a "historical" poet, Henryson wrote as a "literary" poet, relying less than Chaucer on rhetorical ornamentation and more on his own invention.
Kolve, V. A.
John P. Hermann and John J. Burke, eds. Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry (University: University of Alabama Press, 1981), pp. 130-78.
In LGW, Chaucer suppressed most of the Cleopatra tradition (asps, etc.) to make her a medieval "good woman," who builds a shrine for Anthony and enters a snake pit to dramatize the grave-worm "topos." Alceste transcends the grave--the thematic…
Minnis, Alastair.
Nicola McDonald, ed. Medieval Obscenities (York: York Medieval Press, 2006), pp. 156-78.
Explores the "connection between dirty words and dirty things," focusing on the speech of "three outspoken female figures": Raison and La Vieille from the "Roman de la Rose" and Chaucer's Wife of Bath. While Raison attacks "linguistic equivocation"…
Shigeo, Hisashi.
Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 285-98.
From ABC through dream poems to LGW, Chaucer attempts to oppose cupidity to charity by ennobling the latter. However, he amalgamates various types of love in CT.
Shimomura, Sachi.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 2483A, 1999.
From Old English representations of doomsday to medieval romances, "layered narratives" provide audiences with visual judgment. The fair-to-foul transformations of Old English sermons and "Christ III" give way to the foul-to-fair transformations of…
Gaylord, Alan T.
Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector, eds. The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), pp. 177-200, 284-87 (notes).
The controversy regarding "the moral intelligence of the narrator" of FranT maps the "poetic terrain" of the tale., i.e., rhyme, meter, poetic structure, and complex literary plan. Gaylord examines the tale by two complementary and yet contradictory…
Normandin, Shawn.
Notes and Queries 260 (2015): 218–19.
In rendering Petrarch's explanation for why God tests humans in the form of a disjointed sentence (ClT, 1153-61), Chaucer points out its irrationality. Argues how this ploy resonates with the Clerk's expression of qualms about Petrarch at the…
Manzanas Calvo, Ana M.
Purificacion Fernandez Nistal and Jose Ma Bravo Gozalo, eds. Proceedings of the VIth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, 1995), pp. 223-30.
Margery Kempe and Alison of Bath represent a basic conflict: as representatives of the nascent bourgeoisie, they seek to inscribe themselves in a tradition that, since they are women, silences them.
Andreas explores the "interplay of serious and comic materials" in the "best work" of Chaucer and Shakespeare, commenting on the use of KnT in A Midsummer Night's Dream and on Shakespeare's adaptations of Chaucer's comic figures in his mechanicals.
