Miles, Laura Saetveit.
Watt, Diane..
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 285-93.
Introduces the six essays in this cluster, clarifying distinctions between literary canon formation and literary archive, with particular attention to women's devotional writing and reading in Middle English. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer,…
Harris, Carissa M., and Fiona Somerset.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 268-71.
Identifies Criseyde's comment to Troilus about consent in TC, 3.1210–11 as evidence of her awareness of difference between "survival strategy" and "affirmative consent."
Cites Chaucer's self-awareness in attention to his sources, comments on the role of "source study" in Chaucer criticism, and introduces eight brief essays first presented at the 2004 congress of The New Chaucer Society in Glasgow. For the eight…
Morse-Gagné, Elise E.
Susan Yager and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds. Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord (Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013), pp. xix-xxxii.
Includes a brief biography of Alan Gaylord and summary of his teaching career at Michigan and Dartmouth. Among the hallmarks of Gaylord's work are interdisciplinarity, a sense of playfulness, and the value of performance both within and outside the…
Benson, C. David.
C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 1-7.
Darwinian, Freudian, and Marxist approaches to CT have "obscure(d) the historical and intellectual context of the religious tales" (Mel, ParsT, ClT, MLT, PrT, SNT), making them the "most marginalized" of Chaucer's works. Articles in the…
Green, Clarence.
Language and Literature 26.4 (2017): 282-99.
Introduces a "Corpus of the Canon of Western Literature" (CCWL) based on Harold Bloom's "The Western Canon" and utilizes corpus stylistics to "operationalize" the argued coherence of the western canon. Using CT as an example, illustrates how tagging…
Evans, Deanna Delmar.
Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 9 : 116-33, 2002.
Describes a pedagogy for teaching ClT in comparison to the Griselda story in Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies--as part of a course that treats "Chaucer in context" as a means to encourage students to engage actively in their…
Frye, Northrop, and Robert B. Denham.
UTQ 81 (2012): 95-110.
Chaucer is aware of poetic or aureate diction but seldom uses it. He is "essentially a poet of 'occupatio'." Language change rapidly made Chaucer's meter difficult to imitate, even for Lydgate. Like other writers, Chaucer introduces new Latinate…
Kinch, Ashby.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 3-22.
Establishes the linked "material, domestic, and spiritual economies" apparent in the Luttrell Psalter as a creative analogue of CT since both texts emphasize "meta-artistic play," hybridity, and multiple frames of reference. Reading images in the…
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…
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…
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…
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..
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."
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
