Sauer, Hans.
Manfred Markus, and others, eds. Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A Multi-Dimensional Approach (Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2012), pp. 157-75.
Tabulates, describes, and analyzes the interjections used in RvT, summarizing their functions, etymologies, morphologies, and semantics, and using the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse to explore the extent to which the usage in RvT is…
Crisp, Delmas Swinfield,Jr.
Dissertation Abstracts International 40 (1980): 5450A.
Though CT was neither orally prepared nor heavily alliterative, traces of both traditions are present in the work. The oral tradition almost certainly influenced Chaucer's work more predominantly. The evidence of formulaic diction in CT is strong;…
Love, Nathan, and others.
Encomia 14 (1992): 21-147.
Annual bibliography of the International Courtly Literature Society, listing 806 items, briefly annotated in some cases. The subject index lists thirty-two Chaucerian works and topics.
Ferster, Judith.
David Aers, ed. Medieval Literature (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), pp. 148-68.
Modern phenomenological hermeneutics offers a profitable method for interpreting Chaucer. Five basic hermeneutical principles can be illustrated by a close reading of FranT, including the imitation in real life inspired by the tale.
Yager, Susan, and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds.
Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013.
Fourteen essays by various authors, plus an introduction, honoring the scholarship and teaching of Alan Gaylord. The essays mirror Gaylord's work and methods, including exegetical historicism, close reading, prosodic criticism, and pedagogy. The…
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Interpretation: Medieval and Modern (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 107-22.
Chaucer had a rare sense of genre for a medieval writer. Not only was he "one of a small number of generic innovators," but he also reinterpreted and practiced genres and had a "following of practitioners." Kelly surveys Chaucer's use of genre…
Boitani, Piero, and Anna Torti,eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993.
Ten essays on medieval theories of interpretation and modern approaches to medieval texts. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Interpretation: Medieval and Modern under Alternative Title.
Rydel, Courtney.
Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age 16 (2017): 289-302.
Explores how vernacular translators of Jacobus de Voragine’s “Legenda Aurea” lend theological authority to their works by appropriating or emulating the onomastic etymologies in Jacobus’s work. Includes discussion of Chaucer’s close…
In the drawing of the Canterbury Pilgrims, Blake's antithetical method, employing ironic juxtaposition and counterpoint, invites the viewer to participate in the exercise of the Divine Vision of forgiveness by distinguishing "States from Individuals…
Aers, David.
Peter Brown, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 84-98.
Unlike the dream interpretations in the works of Freud and Milton, dreams in Chaucer's poems reveal the strategies of power and gender that shape the interpretation of dreams. Discusses WBP, NPT, and TC.
Parry, Joseph D.
Philological Quarterly 80.2 : 133-67, 2001.
Because Alisoun in MilT and May in MerT are exempted from retribution for their active roles in adultery and deception, readers are invited to ask how women are or are not fully part of the systems by which we conceptualize accountability for…
Sadlek, Gregory M.
South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 10 (1993): 22-37.
Chaucer's translation of "Roman de la Rose" and his indirect references to Oiseuse (Idleness) in his own poetry illuminate her significance, normally explained by critics as having exegetical or courtly meaning. LGWP, KNT, SNT, and ParsT reinforce…
Hardman, Phillipa.
English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 6 (1996): 52-69.
Discusses the blanks left for illustration in Corpus Christi College MS 61, suggesting a possible strategy for prospective illustrations, including initials: the illustration would have emphasized choice as an aspect of narrative structure. The…
An inscription at the end of ParsT in a copy of Thynne's edition at Beinecke Library, Osborn Collection, Yale University, reveals something of the general reception of the Wife of Bath.
Willis, Katherine E. C.
Arthuriana 18.1 (2018): 3-19.
Argues that the "interpretive reading" underlying T. H. White's uses of William Twiti's "The Art of Hunting" as a source in "The Once and Future King" is similar to medieval rhetorical techniques of amplification. Exemplifies similar kinds of…
Jost, Jean E.
Albrecht Classen, ed. Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: New Approaches to a Fundamental Cultural-Historical and Literary-Anthropological Theme (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), pp. 599-632.
Contrasts Chaucer's Troilus and the title character of "Sir Tristrem," with comments on brutality and violence in "Athelston," exploring the "nobility" or lack of nobility of masculine protagonists in courtly romance. Devotion and affection dominate…
Beattie, Cordelia, and Kirsten A. Fenton, eds.
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Collection of case studies exploring ways in which medieval gender intersected with other categories of difference, including religion and ethnicity. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Juliette Dor, "Chaucer's Viragos: A Postcolonial…
Zarins, Kim.
Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media 4.1 (2017): 1-63.
Interprets the Pardoner as an intersex person, taking his sexuality literally rather than figuratively, a matter of variation rather than lack. Clarifies these concepts in the history of science and the history of Chaucer criticism, and compares the…
Gorst, Emma.
New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 147-54.
Considers the speaking birds in ManT and PF for the ways they suggest the "destabilization of human identity," also considering the topic in the late-fourteenth-century tale, "The Woman and the Three Parrots."
Green, Richard Firth, and Linne R. Mooney, eds.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Ten essays by various authors, a forward and an introduction, a bibliography of Rigg's publications, and a subject index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer; search for Interstices under Alternative Title..
Schoeck, R[ichard] J.
Bamberg: H. Kaiser-Verlag, 1984.
Defines and anatomizes "intertextuality," and proceeds to examine aspects of Thomas More's "Utopia" in this light. Uses examples from Chaucer to help clarify the varieties of the concept: from NPT, Chauntecleer's Latin misquotation as an example of…
Cibula, Peter R., III.
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Irvine, 2022.
Available at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3x49m6h9 (accessed November 15, 2023).
Argues that 'Augustine's theology allows us to see providence in romance as a doubled perspective that recognizes the existential smallness of individuals and their collective participatory power in a plural world," addressing KnT, ClT, and…
Grant, Colin J.
Journal of English Linguistics 42 (2014): 359-79.
Fulk extols two collaborative editions of Chaucer for their excellent textual editing: The Variorum Chaucer by Ruggiers and Ransom, and Benson's Riverside Chaucer; additionally, praises Peter Robinson's digital Canterbury Tales Project. Warns…
