Lee, Dongchoon.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 14 (2006): 265-300.
Reads FranT as Chaucer's satiric portrayal of the narrator, focusing on the character of the Franklin, contradictions within his narrative, his characters' concern with public show, and legal aspects of Arveragus and Dorigen's clandestine marriage.
Examines an "uncanny chain of othering" whereby the GP description of the Prioress, the PrP, and PrT associate the Prioress with Jews through imagery of sensuality and filth. Also explores how this association reflects the "fears and fantasies" of…
California Health Kids Resource Center.
Hayward, Calif.: California Health Kids Resource Center, 2002.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, where [vol. 3] is entitled "The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer," with the volumes described as "Lesson-plan booklets integrating HIV/AIDS education with core literature in grades 6-12."
Fichte, Joerg O.
Willi Erzgraber and Sabine Volk, eds. Mundlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit im englischen Mittelalter. Script Oralia, vol. 5 (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988), pp. 121-31.
Examines both "authorial strategies guiding and determining the reception" of CT and the reception itself--especially the "free-flowing live speech" of WBP and CYP, oralizations in KnT and MLT, dialogue in MilT and FrT, and figures of sound in…
Uses WBT to exemplify Chaucer's combination of narrative devices characteristic of the rhetoric of oral persuasion: plot combined with exemplary materials and "direct statement" of theme or moral directive. WBT concerns human willfulness, evident in…
Includes two reminiscences and thirty-four essays in Japanese. For the reminiscence and the six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Hearts to the English-American Language and Literature under Alternative Title.
McMillan, Ann.
Constance H. Berman, Charles W. Connell, and Judith Rice Rothschild, eds. The Worlds of Medieval Women (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 1985), pp. 122-29.
In LGW, Chaucer explodes "the notion that women are, or should be, self-ordained victims." Women in Cupid's Paradise wallow in an "orgy of self-congratulation" for having died for love. The pathos of women destroyed by passion is emphasized in the…
Considers "connections between the thinking subject and affected body in the medieval period," focusing on "heaviness" as a state of health and a condition for communication. Cites instances in Mel and TC as examples of external and internal…
Cohen, Jeffrey James.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 91-108
Ecocritical examination of "heavy atmosphere" as an environmental state, an affective state, and/or a narrative tone or "feel" in several of Chaucer's narratives, with focus on RvT, TC, and KnT. Explores parallels between medieval cosmology, humoral…
Kiernan, Kevin S.
Annuale Mediaevale 16 (1975): 52-62.
Chaucer has greatly expanded the role of Hector from his comparatively minor status in Boccaccio. As an honorable man of action and reason, Hector is a thematic contrast to Troilus, who is often prostrated by egocentric passions and loses Criseyde…
Collette, Carolyn P.
Chaucer Review 29 (1995): 416-33.
The concept of prudence was well known in the Middle Ages and was often seen as a specifically feminine virtue in medieval French texts. Drawing from those texts, Chaucer also underscores the feminine, making Mel a story for "real women living…
Surveys representations of Helen in literature, assessing the characterization in light of prevailing attitudes towards such topics as beauty, sexual culpability, and rape. Includes a summary of Chaucer's Helen in TC as an example of ambiguity, where…
Assesses the likelihood of Chaucer's familiarity with Peter Abelard's "Historia Calamitatum" and his knowledge of the story of Heloise and Abelard via Jean de Meun, arguing that the "Historia" has parallels with Chaucer's treatment of virginity…
Building on medieval "gender comedies," including Chaucer's (especially WBP and the fabliaux), Lydgate anticipates the family-state analogy that pervades early modern political theory. By giving the complaints of abused husbands a court hearing, the…
Contains archival evidence and unpublished papers from Henry Bradshaw. Examines Bradshaw's "rhyme tests," which he used to establish Chaucerian authorship of the "Tale of Gamelyn" and Rom, and accounts for Walter W. Skeat's sometimes incorrect…
Analyzes the lexicon of Henry Daniel's medical treatise on urine, "Liber uricrisiarum," as it is found in Huntington, MS HM 505. Shows that often "Daniel and Chaucer share a precise vocabulary," detailing their similar uses of "piss," and tabulating…
Rothwell, W[illiam].
Modern Language Review 99 (2004): 313-27.
Henry of Lancaster is usually treated in the context of medieval English history; Chaucer, of medieval English literature. Better understanding of the Anglo-French language and culture familiar to both men helps us appreciate Anglo-French and assess…
MacDonald, Donald.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 8 (1967): 451-61.
Shows that NPT was the "principal source" for Henryson's "Tale of the Cock and Fox," listing and discussing eight shared features that are found in "no other extant version of the fable."
Kindrick, Robert L.
New York and London: Garland, 1993.
Summarizes fundamental information about Henryson and surveys his use of and familiarity with the medieval rhetorical arts ("ars poetriae," "ars dictaminis," and "ars praedicandi"). Kendrick mentions Chaucer throughout as a source and model for the…
Torti, Anna.
Margarita Gimenez Bon and Vickie Olsen, eds. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature [SELIM, 26-28 September 1996] (Vitoria-Gasteiz: Dpto. Filologæa Inglesa, 1997), pp. 346-65.
Examines Henryson's treatment of Chaucer's story of Criseyde, focusing on Henryson's innovation and concern with artistic creativity, evident in his punishment of Cresseid with leprosy.
