Utz, Richard J.
Studies in Medievalism 6 (1993): 76-91
Compares the consciously nominalistic modern poetics of German realist Andersch to Chaucer's nominalist mentality as evident in the anti-deterministic mood in TC.
Trigg identifies two conflicting motivations for the making of Brian Helgeland's film "A Knight's Tale": the desire for academic research to provide legitimacy and the desire to create a new fictional narrative to engage a contemporary audience. This…
Burrow, J. A.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Deals with the ideas behind Middle English literature, wirters, audiences, genres, personality versus impersonality, allegory, edification, and the attitude of later ages to the literature of medieval England.
Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn,Rosalynn Voaden, Arlyn Diamond, Ann Hutchison, Carol M. Meale, and Lesley Johnson, eds.
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2000.
Twenty-three essays by various authors discuss female literature, conduct, and society in late-medieval literary, religious, and historical texts of Britain. Includes a celebration of Felicity Riddy, a bibliography of her publications, and an index.…
Wilson, Katharina M., ed.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.
An anthology of women writers from the ninth through the fifteenth centuries, edited and translated by various hands,with biographical and critical studies; includes writings of Dhouda, Hrotsvita, Marie de France, Heloise, Hildegard of Bingen,…
Adams, Jenny, and Nancy Mason Bradbury, eds
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017.
Collection of essays that represents multifaceted views of gender and material culture in late medieval France and England. For seven essays that pertain to Chaucer search for Medieval Women and Their Objects under Alternative Title.
Zhang, John Z.
English Language Notes 28 (1991): 10-17.
Suggests that the prison window in KnT "alludes to certain medieval paintings that reveal the meaning of the scene"; also discusses symbolism and allegory in KnT.
Kendrick, Laura.
S. Douglas Olson, ed. Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), pp. 377-96.
Investigates the performative nature of Deschamps's "relatively faithful French translation," "Geta et Amphitrion," and proposes an occasion when it might have been performed. Contrasts Deschamps's treatment of Plautus's Latin original with those of…
Tinkle, Theresa.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Mythographic tradition provided Chaucer and his contemporaries a wide variety of significations for the figures of Cupid and Venus. Tinkle surveys this variety from antiquity forward, showing that vernacular representations of Cupid and Venus…
Clough, Andrea.
Medievalia et Humanistica 11 (1982): 211-27.
Fourteenth-century practice recognized at least three categories of tragic narrative: "de casibus" tragedy, the Ovidian tale of the deserted heroine, and the tale of ill-fated lovers. In TC, Chaucer combined the first and last of these in a new…
Spearing, A. C.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Rewriting literary history from Chaucer to Spenser, Spearing challenges C. S. Lewis's view that Chaucer "medievalized" his Renaissance-oriented sources, especially Boccaccio and Dante.
Robertson, Kellie.
Literature Compass 5.6 (2008): 1060-80.
Surveys materialist "thing theory" as background on how objectivities and subjectivities interacted in medieval and early modern cultures. Summarizes work to date on the topic and considers how the accoutrements of the Merchant (especially his hat)…
Despite opinions to the contrary, literal theory was practiced in the later Middle Ages. It appears in glosses and prologues of the Latin "auctores" studied in schools and universities and in biblical glosses, exegeses, and commentaries. This…
Finke, Laurie A., and Martin B. Shichtman, eds.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987.
A collection of essays that question "traditional perceptions of medieval texts and the fictions and ideologies that structure these perceptions" (introduction). For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Texts and Contemporary…
Sixteen stories from medieval French and English literature, adapted for juvenile readers. Includes NPT, WBT, PardT, CYT (Part 2), and FrT, and comments briefly on Chaucer's life and on CT, crediting the poet with the idea of suiting tales to…
Kennedy, Edward Donald,Ronald Waldron, and Joseph S. Wittig,eds.
Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Wolfeboro, N.H. : D. S. Brewer, 1988.
Contains twenty-one articles and notes on Old and Middle English literature and language (including seven on "Piers Plowman," three on Chaucer), reflecting Kane's interests: source study related to literary analysis, textual criticism, paleography,…
Discusses pre-World War II state of medieval studies, its pro-Germanic/Nordic focus, and the academy's anti-Mediterraneanism. Argues that this period saw significant changes in the field, including a shift toward more interdisciplinary approaches and…
Bessinger, Jess B., Jr., and Robert R. Raymo, eds.
New York: New York University Press, 1976.
Fifteen essays by various authors, commemmorating Hornstein's retirement. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Studies in Honor of Lillian Herlands Hornstein under Alternative Title.
Heyworth, P. L., ed.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.
The festschrift includes fifteen essays on medieval topics: Langland, medieval music, Gower, poetry and art, drama, punctuation, the "arbor caritatis," Thomas More, Sir John Fastolf, and articles on Chaucer and related matters. For six essays that…
Bald, Wolf-Dietrich, and Horst Weinstock, eds.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1984.
Seventeen essays on Old and Middle language and literature. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Studies Conference Aachen 1983 under Alternative Title.
Griffith, John Lance.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 2.2 (2021): 28-38.
Offers pedagogical justification for using Brian Helgeland’s movie "A Knight’s Tale" in multicultural teaching, with attention to the movie's brief mention of BD and discussion of the poem's usefulness in broadening student awareness.
Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen].
Julian N. Wasserman and Lois Roney, eds. Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature (Syracuse, N. Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1989), pp. 9-30.
Treats the anxiety caused by the "instability and arbitrariness" of language as a "transcendental medium...between phenomena and ideas."
Hart, Thomas Elwood.
Chaucer Review 16 (1981): 129-70.
Numerology is an aesthetic basis for TC. The architectural metaphor of Geoffrey of Vinsauf and Euclid's theorem on proportion in triangles can be used to demostrate proportions (involving line numbers) in TC.
