Viewed in light of Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation," the Pardoner's relics are simulacra, which allows Chaucer to question their "realness." The textuality of PardT (and CT as a whole) is to be read as a hyperreality.
The selectivity of oral performance and scribal practice parallels the selectivity of hypertext presentation, raising questions about the order of the tales in CT. In MilP, the narrator enjoins readers to arrange the tales as they wish, adumbrating…
N. F. Blake's various arguments for the authenticity of the text of Hengwrt are not persuasive, though his thesis regarding a single developing author's copy for CT remains valuable.
McLaughlin, Becky Renee.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
Uses psychoanalysis as a "pedagogical tool" to understand Chaucer’s pilgrims in CT. Begins with the "spectacle of hysteria" to explore "ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language" in CT. Discusses "perversions of…
MilT, RvT, FrT, SumT, ShT, MerT can be called fabliaux if this term is taken in a typological, rather than strictly historical, acception. Their homogeneity is, however, only apparent. The six tales from CT are divided into three…
Chism, Christine N.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 340-56
Describes the office of canon and the science of alchemy as background to the Canon, who chooses not to join the Canterbury pilgrimage. The history of corruption and reform among canons is a "touchstone" for understanding the character Chaucer…
Caie describes features of manuscript ordinatio, material, glossing, etc. to show how late medieval English vernacular manuscripts (especially those of Chaucer and Gower) lay claim to authority even while their authors assert that they are only…
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, dir.
Produzioni Europee Associati; Les Productions Artistes Associés, 1972.
Selections from CT adapted for film, including portions or versions of GP, MerT, CkT, MilT, WBP, RvT, PardT, SumPT, and additional ribald material. Screenplay by Pasolini. Available with sub-titles and/or dubbing in various languages, including…
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that this is an Italian translation of Geraldine's McCaughrean's adaptation of selections from CT (1984), designed for a juvenile audience, with illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus.
Hilmo, Maidie.
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, ed. Women and the Divine in Literature Before 1700: Essays in Memory of Margot Louis (Victoria, Canada: ELS Editions, 2009), pp. 107-35.
Hilmo explores the iconography of representations of the Prioress, the Second Nun, and their Tales, commenting on the Ellesmere illustrations of the tellers, the Vernon manuscript depiction of PrT, two manuscript depictions of Saint Cecilia, and the…
Brinton, Laurel J.
John Deely and Jonathan Evans, eds. Semiotics 1986 (Lanham, New York, and London: University Press of America, 1987), pp. 3-14.
Delimits "the notion of iconicity in syntax before examining how iconic word order patterns contribute to the 'iconic text interpretation.'" Applies theories to Mel.
Adanur, Evrim Doğan, ed.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
Includes forty-six papers presented at the fifth international IDEA conference, held at Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey in 2010. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for IDEA: Studies in English under Alternative Title.
Defines ClT as an example of "Ideal Fiction," generally unpalatable to modern taste, identifying the presence of a manipulator in the plot (Walter), the narrative "distance" achieved through its combination of "ordinariness" and fantasy, the…
Bachman, William Bryant,Jr.
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 6696A.
By the fourteenth century Augustinian idealism had lost ground to rising confidence in the experiential world. TC, KnT, FranT, and NPT all reveal the movement towards determinism. The idealism of the ParsT forms an opposition to this movement.
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Identifies classical and medieval uses and understandings of "tragedy." For Aristotle, tragedy was a serious story, although one that might end happily. The notion of "irretrievable misfortune" came to dominate the late-classical use of the term.
Fleming, Carolyn Evine Mary Elizabeth.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Liverpool, 1987. Dissertation Abstracts International A81/1(E) and A50 (1990): 3601. Abstract available vis ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Explores ideas of selfhood evident in medieval literature and sixteenth-century printed versions of select romances. Includes discussion of how Chaucer in WBT "utilises the methods and vocabulary at his disposal to generate debate on the 'self'."
Johnson, James D.
Chaucer Review 29 (1994): 194-203.
An annotated list of thirty-seven items, intended as an update of Caroline Spurgeon's "Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, 1357-1900."
Johnson, James [D.]
Chaucer Review 39 (2005): 436-55
Tabulates and annotates fifty-seven studies that identify or discuss allusions to Chaucer, presented as a continuation of Caroline Spurgeon's Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion (1925). Includes a name and title index for the…
Strohm, Paul.
Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 14-23
Contemplates the notion that "identification" with a given author is a "frequent, if unacknowledged, component of literary appreciation." Theorizes the notion in Freudian terms and those of reader-response criticism, exploring the processes and…
Düzgün, Şebnem.
Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 6, no. 10 (2018): 113-23.
Assumes that the loathly lady in WBT is a witch, and maintains that she is "stigmatised in the poem to enforce the medieval discourse that appreciates nurture against nature, obedience against revolt, and youth and beauty against old age and…
