Gerke, Robert S.
Proceedings of the International Patristic, Mediaeval, & Renaissance Conference 5 (1980): 119-35.
The Clerk and his tale serve as a corrective to the Wife of Bath's philosophy by "exploiting a fictional and moral failure of nerve on the Wife's part," since it is not realism but weakness that motivates the Wife.
Studies the "dynamic relationship" between Fortuna and Natura in PhyT, ClT, and KnT, surveying in an Introduction (pp. 9-45) their presence elsewhere in Chaucer's works and his antecedents. In PhyT which "approaches allegory" the "destructive forces…
Phillips, Helen.
Nottingham French Studies 38: 120-36, 1999.
Summarizes how contemporary intertextual theory complicates traditional notions of source relations. Surveys intertextual relations in Chaucer's works, especially examples where, by failing to "include the conclusion" from his source(s), Chaucer…
Depictions of Fortune and Fortune's effects in Malory's Morte Darthur have much in common with depictions in works by his English predecessors. Corrie comments on Chaucer's Bo, TC, KnT, and MkT.
Jost, Jean E.
Medieval Perspectives 28 (2013): 145-82,
Though medieval orthodoxy insisted on the reality of free will, TC presents three characters subject to fortune at every turn, perhaps because they are pre-Christian pagans. Troilus is a victim of fortune from the moment he sees Criseyde. Pandarus…
Surveys the literary and philosophical backgrounds of fortune, nature, and grace, and assesses their roles in CT, with particular attention to PhyT, PardT and the unity of Part 6. Includes an appendix that explores nineteen analogues to PardT
Haines, R. Michael.
Chaucer Review 10 (1976): 220-35.
That the Fortune-Nature-Grace topos is the unifying theme of Fragment C is supported by Chaucer's additions to its sources and by his probable revision of the link. PhyT shows the gifts of Grace overcoming Fortune and Nature; PardT shows the abuse…
Harder, Bernhard D.
University of Windsor Review (Ontario) 18:1 (1984): 47-52.
The coherence problem in KnT can be solved by viewing the tale as Boethian, but Theseus ironically perverts Boethian arguments from "De consolatione philosophiae" until those arguments contradict Boethian philosophy, typically telling a familiar…
Neel, Travis E.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Ohio State University, 2017). Available at http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492705588117003 (accessed May 8, 2022).
Examines "how Middle English writers appropriated different forms and figures of friendship in their discussions, critiques, and activations of friendship," describing modifications of classical, biblical, Boethian, and humanist models, with…
The introduction to this critical edition addresses cultural, historical, syntactic, and metrical aspects pertinent to Chaucer's works as well as to those of Charles of Orleans.
Sandidge, Marilyn.
Albrecht Classen, ed. Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic. (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007), pp. 357-73.
Youthful attitudes toward old age in the works of Boccaccio and Chaucer differ strikingly, perhaps because of demographic changes caused by the Black Plague. In Boccaccio, youth respects the wisdom of age, whereas in Chaucer young people resent the…
Takada, Yasunari, presiding.
Eigo Seinen 146.8: 478-87, 2000.
Discusses the reception history of Chaucer, ranging from Spenser through Shakespeare to the English Romantics. Panelists include Nahoko Miyamoto, Yoshiko Kobayashi, and Atsuhiko Hirota.
The Pardoner's invitation is not a physical threat to the pilgrimage but a further sign of his propensity to profit from others and to compensate for his "sexual difference." Storm's essay appeared in PMLA 97 (1982): 810-18.
The Pardoner's invitation is not an attempt to divert the pilgrims from their journey, and the Host's response is designed to restore the fellowship of the pilgrims, not to improve their spiritual well-being. Storm's essay appeared in PMLA 97…
Storm does not distinguish between his own and Chaucer's attitudes toward the Pardoner's homosexuality. Storm's essay appeared in PMLA 97 (1982): 810-18.
The Pardoner's self-revelation "heightens the challenge" of deceiving the pilgrims at the end of the sermon and does not preclude it. Chaucer uses the Host's response to the Pardoner's invitation to point to the pilgrims' spiritual weakness--even if…
Burlin, Robert B., and H. Marshall Leicester, Jr.
PMLA 95 (1980): 880-82.
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section that comment on textuality, narrative "absence," narrative "presence," and their usefulness in discussing "voice" in GP.
Questions John H. Fisher's "Language Policy for Lancastrain England" (PMLA 107) on method of establishing Chaucerian texts. See Fisher's "Forum Reply."
Since Chaucer does not describe the Pardoner's kiss, it could be either mouth-to-mouth or cheek-to-cheek; in either case, a public kiss signifies a sort of equality. A reply to Ann Barbeau Gardiner PMLA 108 (1993): 333-34.
Kretzschmar, William A., and Rodney Delasanta.
PMLA 93 (1978): 1007-08.
An exchange of letters in the PMLA Forum section, discussing the tone and details of Delasanta's essay, "Penance and Poetry in 'The Canterbury Tales," published earlier in 1978 in PMLA.
