Delany, Sheila.
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Reads Bokenham's "Legends of Holy Women" as a parody of Chaucer's LGW, itself a parody of hagiography. By inverting Chaucer's parody, Bokenham critiques Chaucer's emphasis on the classics and reasserts an Augustinian emphasis on Christian aesthetics…
Lyons describes twenty-four journeys derived from early travelogues, now known to be fictional or fanciful. Includes description of the likely spurious "Inventio Fortunata," attributed to Nicholas of Lynn by Richard Hakluyt. Also speculates that…
Al-Hariri of Basra.
Cooperson, Michael, trans.
New York: New York University Press, 2020.
Translates al-Harırı's Arabic classic "Maqamat," with sections imitating
or emulating the styles of various writers in English (Mark Twain, Virginia
Woolf, John Lyly, etc.). The "Author's Retraction" is "modeled on" Ret.
Al-Hariri of Basra.
Cooperson, Michael, trans.
New York: New York University Press, 2020.
Translates al-Harırı's Arabic classic "Maqamat," with sections imitating or emulating the styles of various writers in English (Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, John Lyly, etc.). The "Author's Retraction" is "modeled on" Ret.
Ransom, Daniel J.
Chaucer Review 43 (2009): 376-99.
An examination of Chaucer's use of temporal terminology—from references to "eternity and perpetuity" to references to seconds and moments, including seasons, days, nights, and hours—suggests that he uses such terminology with a modicum of…
Van, Thomas A.
Papers on Language and Literature 7 (1971): 3-12.
Traces the imagery and diction of hunting, snaring, imprisoning, and entrapment in TC and KnT, showing how it informs the concern with destiny, freedom, and interpersonal manipulation in the poems.
Dalton, Emily.
Dissertation Abstracts International A79.03 (2017): n.p.
Considers names in BD as part of a larger examination of nomenclature's role in defining Englishness within the context of other linguistic traditions.
Woods, Marjorie Curry.
Charlotte Cook Morse, Penelope Reed Doob, and Marjorie Curry Woods, eds. The Uses of Manuscripts in Literary Studies: Essays in Memory of Judson Boyce Allen (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992), pp. 19-39.
Medieval rhetorical textbooks and school commentaries illuminate Chaucer's attention to literal meaning. Discussions of such devices as amplification and abbreviation help explain interrelations and conflicts between poetical structures and…
Observes that in Chaucer's short-line verse, headless lines are much more common than initial inversion, whereas in his iambic pentameter the exact opposite occurs. Argues that Chaucer and his predecessors used such metrical license "very…
Weisl, Angela Jane.
In Alison Langdon, ed. Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 113-32.
Analyzes the speech of Chaucer's birds and claims that Chaucer "endows the avian world with a series of communicative strategies as diverse as--and profoundly linked to--his own poetic strategies." Looks at SqT, GP, and PF.
Shigeo, Hisashi.
Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Sachiho Tanaka (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 1988), pp. 15-24.
Surveys theories of Criseyde's betrayal in TC; maintains that her depravity results in Pandarus's deliberate actions and Troilus's passion, along with her own weaknesses; and emphasizes Chaucer's characterization of Criseyde as a complex woman.
Argues that "Inferno" V does not justify dismissing Francesca's love for Paolo as "lust," given the continuity between the "disiato riso" that leads them to kiss and the "santo riso" of Beatrice that draws Dante upward to Paradise. Echoing Dante and…
Taitt, Peter.
Notes and Queries 216 (1971): 284-85.
Explains that Chaucer's source for his account of Lot's incest, followed as it is by reference to Herod and the slaying of John (PardT 7.485-91), is likely to have been Peter Comestor's "Historia Libri Genesis" rather than the biblical account. Also…
Sanderlin, George.
USF Language Quarterly 24 (1986): 47-48.
Contrary to contentions of A. C. Spearing and others that Criseyde is a passive heroine "at the mercy of events," Criseyde is a decisive figure who actively takes charge of her own destiny. She is representative of emerging "scientific" intellectual…
Olsen, Alexandra Hennessey.
Geardagum 08 (1987): 1-12.
Critics have argued that Chaucer intended the reader to view Criseyde as a woman destined to be a whore, Diomede as an unscrupulous seducer, and Troilus as an ideal knight. But if a fourteenth-century view is adopted, Diomede can be viewed in a…
Keiser, George R.
Chaucer Review 12 (1978): 191-201.
The arrangement of CT proposed by Henry Bradshaw a century ago solves the problems of geography and the Endlink to MLT which are present in the Ellesmere arrangement. Recent arguments against the Bradshaw shift offer no real evidence to reject it.
Argues that the Summoner "triumphs over" the Friar in their tale-telling competition, revealing his greater intelligence and competence, but also indicating that his social success discloses a more fundamental "malignancy and egotism." Compares the…
Wallace, David.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997): 63-91.
Summarizes the political, economic, and social aspects of late-medieval Flanders and evokes a sense of English attitudes toward them. Chaucer's references and allusions to Flanders and Flemings in GP, Th, ShT, PardT, and CT anticipate the more…
Friedman, Bonita.
David Chamberlain, ed. New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems (Lanham, Md.; New York; and London: University Press of America, 1993), pp. 173-90.
Thought to be the work of Chaucer until the 1870s, "The Court of Love" manipulates the conventions of love lyric and allegory, including several details from LGW, PF, and Pity. Such manipulation produces humor, depicting Philogenet as a kind of…
Discusses the work of J. B. Severs, the manuscript tradition of Petrarch's Griselda narrative, and the form in which it would have been accessible to Chaucer.
Hirose, Sutezo.
Hisayuki Sasamoto et al., eds. Hearts to the English-American Language and Literature: Essays Presented to Emeritus Professor Sutezo Hirose in Honour of His 88th Birthday (Osaka: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 1999), pp. iii-vi.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that this is a poem composed of lines drawn from a select group of literary works, including CT and works by Kerouac, Camus, Hemingway, Pound, and more.
