Advocates the use of student-generated creative writing in a course called "Surviving Trauma in the Middle Ages," focusing on reading ClT in tandem with Patience Agbabi's retelling of Chaucer'stale, "I Go Back to May 1967," from "Telling Tales"…
Minnis, Alastair.
New Medieval Literatures 22 (2022): 114-61.
Assesses the demonic presence in FrT (the Green Yeoman), placing "Chaucerian demonology within a wider intellectual and cultural context" from St. Augustine to the "Malleus maleficarum." Surveys views on demonic/angelic presence as apparition,…
Znojemská, Helena.
Acta Universitatis Caroliniae: Philologica 2 (2022): 21-37.
Examines female desire and sovereignty in WBT and its analogues, arguing that "the texts reveal the tensions among the various ideologies of women's (and men's) positions which the[ir] culture sustains," and suggests that they, paradoxically,…
Price, Vicki Kay.
Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 70-84.
Connects the "[f]inancial discourse" of WBP with those of "The Book of Margery Kempe" and of "Paston women's papers," showing that fictional and historical women share a mutual mercantile "understanding of life" that unites their "spiritual, marital,…
Identifies the "Catholic Humanist rhetorical" ideal that combines "wit and wisdom" in Shakespeare's "As You Like It," examining ten individual scenes. Opens with background to this ideal in European humanism, especially Italian and English, including…
Ida, Hideho.
A Collection of Treatises on Languages and Literature (Faculty of Letters, Tokushima Bunri University) 40 (2023): 15-27.
Classifies nouns in WBT into semantic categories and discusses proportions of OE-derived nouns to Latin-derived nouns within some of these categories. In Japanese.
Evans, Ruth.
Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 85-100.
Explores ways that "Jacques Lacan's radical account of sexual difference" as "the articulation of an impasse of language" can open ways to see beyond "normative views of sexual difference and femininity" in reading WBPT.
Studies the "co-articulation of the transhistorical issues of gender, race, and sex" in WBPT and Zadie Smith's "Wife of Willesden," arguing that they "invoke similar forms of sexual assault and feminine abuse while undermining analogous abstractions…
Presents new evidence, particularly the Wycliffite Bible, and disagrees with J. A. Burrow that Custance's speech in MLT when she reaches Northumbria is a debased kind of Latin. Argues the speech is not a mercantile "lingua franca" and claims that…
Contrasts MLT with "The King of Tars," "Bevis of Hampton," and the Becket legend (where Thomas Becket's mother is a "heathen or Saracen"), arguing that, unlike the "contradictory approaches . . . to the conversion of the Muslim Other elsewhere, MLT…
Focuses on Henry Brooke's 1741 verse adaptation/translation of MLT as a rewriting of English history that asserts "national identity" and "looks fondly at the relationship between the Anglican Church and State, ultimately equating its hopeful…
Houlik-Ritchey, Emily.
Emily Houlik-Ritchey. Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023), pp. 167-208.
Analyzes the role of Iberia in Constance narratives by Trivet, Chaucer, Gower, and the Portuguese and Castilian translators of Gower's version. Accepts that the Anglo-Castilian politics of John of Gaunt's marriage to Constance of Castile undergird…
Davis, Rebecca.
New Medieval Literatures 23 (2023): 179-218.
Assesses "self-referential reflections on storytelling" in MLT and Mel, focusing on how the "resistive narrative agency" of their female protagonists calls attention to "questions central to the literary enterprise itself," particularly through…
Brent, Jonathan.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 171-203.
Assesses the "political and historical meaning" of Trevet's version of the story of Constance--"part of [the] longer world history" of his "Cronicles" and the occasion in it when idolatry is "reformulated as Islam." Includes occasional comments on…
Jones, Dylan.
Memoirs of the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Fukui 7 (2023): 15-38.
Analyzes three European folktales (Breton, Danish, and Irish) within the "miller-plot" subgenre, comparing them to RvT, "The Mylner of Abyngton," and other stories to highlight their shared features and deeper connections. Suggests that these…
Wu, Yu-Ching.
Review of English and American Literature 42 (2023): 31-73.
Focuses on "neighbor theory" and on uses of "neighebor(es)" in CT to argue that the "concept of community in Chaucer is constantly overshadowed by conflicts of interest and the presence of a loving/fearful neighbor." Assesses MilT as an extended…
Parsons, Ben.
Jongenelen, Bas.
Fabula: Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung/Journal of Folktale Studies/Revue d'études sur le conte populaire 64 (2023): 282-97.
Explains how MilT has overdetermined scholarship concerning the folk motif of the misdirected kiss, limiting understanding of the range of the motif. Expands this range, and enlarges the number and variety f analogues to Chaucer's use of the motif.…
Jucker, Andreas H.
Seiler, Annina.
Chaucer Review 58, no. 1 (2023): 35-59.
Focuses on the word "queynte" in MilT to explore the challenges translators face when rendering modernizations that are descriptively and stylistically true to original Middle English texts. Insists that to achieve the correct level of politeness or…
Higashinaka, Hana.
Colloquia (journal by postgraduates at the Department of English and American Literature, Keio University) 44 (2023): 53-64.
Examines MilT through the lens of medieval optical theories, particularly those of Ibn al-Haytham and Roger Bacon. Argues that Chaucer's depictions of visual perception, distance, and light may be influenced by these optical theories, using them…
Bertolet, Craig E.
Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 7-20.
Uses Giorgio Agamben's discussion of "homo sacer" to argue that the "bare life" of imprisonment for Emelye, Palamon, and Arcite in KnT serves Theseus's sovereignty. Justifying exceptions to previous rulings, Theseus maintains his power through…
Comments on food-producing labor as a motif in GP (and elsewhere in CT), in contrast with idleness, wealth-seeking, or nonproductive labor, especially among clerics. Associates these concerns with English history and ideological struggle.
Zuraikat, Malek J.
Literature Compass 20 (2023): 15 pp.
Surveys issues of gender in CT and Chaucer studies, arguing that Chaucer's realistic portrayal of human variety makes it difficult to claim him to be either feminist or misogynistic.
Thormann, Janet, with Aranye Fradenburg Joy.
Santa Barbara: Brainstorm, 2023.
Psychoanalytic exploration of several unexpected happy outcomes in CT where links between sexual "emergence and abeyance . . . issue in the hope of a beneficent future." MerT "focuses on the Real by way of an impossible suffering of enjoyment through…
Offers pedagogical advice for developing interactive games, concentrating on character development, narrative structure, and technique. Invokes CT at several junctures, commending Chaucer's innovative techniques as background to developments in…
Reflects on practical and theoretical issues in teaching CT, especially the usefulness (or not) of translations, glossaries, dictionaries, and the Norton edition of the work. Includes personal reminiscences.
