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.
Finlayson, J. Caitlin.
Philological Quarterly 79 : 225-47, 2000.
A major source of Keats's poem is the Middle English "La Belle Dame sans Mercy," mistakenly attributed to Chaucer in the 1782 edition of "The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," which Keats owned.
Brockman, Bennett A.
Children's Literature 2 (1973): 40-49.
Discusses the "sentimental reverence for the child's innocence" in a variety of medieval texts, including the account of Hugolino in MkT, compared with the version in Dante's "Inferno" 33, In both versions, the children have "precocious knowledge"…
Pigg, Daniel F.
Tennessee Philological Bulletin 29 (1992): 15-23.
Placed in the context of medieval sign theory, SumT becomes a satire on reading and interpretation. The humor of the friar in the Tale depends upon seeing him as an interpreter who overlooks the literal sense of signs.
Arthur, Ross G.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.
Educated English audiences of the fourteenth century would have been familiar with the "formal theory of signs" from sermons, poetry, and heraldic practice and would have appreciated the pentangle, green girdle, and wound in Gawain's neck. The…
Salisbury, Joyce E.
New York and London : Garland, 1990.
Interdisciplinary (covering religion, medicine, history, literature, and philosophy from early Christian times through the late Middle Ages), this annotated and indexed guide to medieval sexuality and attitudes toward sex and the body contains…
Nolan, Maura.
The Minnesota Review 80 (2013): 145-58.
Analyzes two medieval explorations of sensation--one by Thomas Aquinas, the other by Chaucer--and locates them within Theodor Adorno's account of aesthetics. Views Chaucer's poetry as a hinge between Aquinas' explanation of sensory perception and…
Kamath, Stephanie Gibbs, and Rita Copeland.
Rita Copeland and Peter T. Struck, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Allegory (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 136-47.
Kamath and Copeland survey the legacy of philosophical allegory and secular allegory--largely inspired by the "Roman de la Rose"--in late medieval France and, by extension, England. They focus on Machaut, Froissart, and Deschamps and their relative…
Cadden, Joan.
Medievalia et Humanistica 14 (1986): 157-71.
Medical and scientific authors discussed sexual matters with clinical frankness. Chaucer's Merchant sees Constantinus Africanus as "a pander, a peddler of love potions."
