Explores Chaucer's depictions of women in LGW and Christine de Pizan's illustration of women in Cité, demonstrating how "recent work in cognitive science, which studies how humans create categories," shows that "both Chaucer and Christine are…
As narrator Chaucer partakes heartily in the general mood of each book of TC. The detached coldness of the poem's apocalyptic ending suggests divine omniscience, making the reader acutely aware of the difference between his perception of the mutable…
Sabine, Maureen.
Jonathan Hall and Ackbar Abbas, ed. Literature and Anthropology (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1986), pp. 52-95.
Reads PardT as evidence of the "darker undercurrents" of Chaucer's worries about his worldly success, especially as reflected in the night-time setting of the tale, its demonic imagery, and the Old Man's associations with avarice, death, and the…
Bowers, John M.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Reconstructs Tolkien’s efforts to co-edit (with George S. Gordon) a Clarendon student edition to have been titled "Selections from Chaucer’s Poetry and Prose"—never finished and long lost. Observes how Tolkien's extant notes and glossary to this…
Encourages more thorough integration of Chaucer studies and Middle English studies, exemplifying the potential by examining the "pragmatic dimension" of "curteisly" in RvT (1.3997) and suggesting that John and Aleyn's use of low-prestige dialect may…
Jordan, Robert M.
John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986. (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987): pp. 51-57.
Reviews major modern critical theories and theorists, explains Todorov's distinction between interpretation and analysis, and develops the idea that "the language-oriented emphasis of much contemporary theory correlates closely with medieval ideas…
Sadlek, Gregory M.
Chaucer Review 17 (1982): 62-64.
Pandarus tells Troilus "don thyn hood," which usually has been intrepreted to mean "put on your hat," signifying that the prince should delay action. But "hood" had a secondary meaning of warrior's helmut, and the sense of "prepare yourself for…
Klassen, Norman.
Modern Philology 111 (2014): 585-92.
Placement of a semicolon at the end of GP 1.13, rather than at the end of 1.14 is syntactically correct. The meaning is that both "folk" and "palmeres" wish to go "to ferne halwes."
Krygier, Marcin, and Liliana Sikorska, eds.
New York: Peter Lang, 2007.
Includes three essays on Middle English language (fricative spellings, 'before' as a temporal conjunction, and multiple negation) and four on Middle English literature (an East Anglian miracle play, Malory's "Morte Darthur," TC, and Sheela-na-gig…
Labriola, Albert C.
Carla E. Lucente, ed. The Western Pennsylvania Symposium on World Literature: Selected Proceedings, 1974-1991: A Retrospective (Greensburg, Penn.: Eadmer, 1992), pp. 67-71.
Viewed in light of A Midsummer Night's Dream, KnT is "more comic" than traditionally assumed; its cyclic pattern of "proliferating catastrophes becomes humorous."
Nevalainen, Terttu,and Leena Kahlas-Tarkka,eds.
Helsinki: Societe Neophilologique, 1997.
Twenty-nine essyas, by various authors, on English historical and developmental linguistics; includes a list of publications by Rissanen. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for To Explain the Present under Alternative Title.
Jewell, Brianna Carolyn.
Ph.D. dissertation. University of Texas, 2016). Available at https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/68251. Accessed 13 December 2020.
Theorizes three medieval literary tropes ("the bodily cut; stained glass; and, the grafted tree") as means to connect "exclusive entities" (dead and living, past and present, and earthly and celestial), as well as the medieval/postmodern divide.…
McAlpine, Monica E.
John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986. (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987): pp. 147-55.
Discusses pedagogical techniques for teaching vocabulary study and translation and recitation of Chaucer's language.
Chaucer's pilgrims in CT do not reach the martyr's shrine in the cathedral, Langland's pilgrims in "Piers Plowman" do not attain any of his even remoter visionary goals, and Spenser's Arthur in "The Faerie Queene" falls short of his ideal destination…
Analyzes Criseyde, arguing that Chaucer forces the reader's "active engagement" with the language in Criseyde's soliloquy, which reinforces the ambiguity of her character.
Jennings, Margaret, C.S.J.
Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 175-91.
The variations in scribal changes to Chaucer's text portray the various scribes' attitudes not only toward the subject matter of TC but toward the tale's central characters as well.
Mulvihill, John Francis.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 1345A.
Ancient and medieval poems often received no titles from their authors. With commercial dissemination, editors provided titles to attract readers, as with poems by Chaucer, Wyatt, Shakespeare, and Dickinson. Authorial titles tend to orient readers…
Higgins explores the "incidental affiliations" between CT and "The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy," demonstrating how flyting tradition informs CT, especially Part 1 and the debate between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk. The tale-telling contest is…
Employs Jacques Le Goff's ideas of "Church time" and "merchant's time" to consider reckoning of time and social rank in the York cycle, "Pearl," and works of Chaucer. In particular, Astr suggests knowledge of time, while MilT and ShT demonstrate…
McCarthy, Conor.
Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones, eds. The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 239-53.
Uses Chaucer and the "Pearl"-poet as metonyms for the tasks of translating and updating medieval works for later readers. Evokes both works in these translations, if at times obliquely.
Davis, Kathleen.
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 239-48.
Views the BBC television version of MLT as an exploration of the simultaneities of past, present, and future, interrelated with motifs of amnesia, immigration, political struggle, religious warfare, and the "correlation of spiritual and sexual…
The essays in this special issue (43.4) of the "The Chaucer Review" open new perspectives on Chaucer's works, placing them in the context of the "new impulses toward quantification and measurement" in and beyond late medieval England.
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.
Journal of British and American Literature (Komazawa University) 29 (1994): 11-24.
Exploring the meaning of time in medieval English literature, Kawasaki suggests that there are two time dimensions in Chaucer, relating them to Chaucer's doubleness or ambiguity. In Japanese.
Knapp, Peggy A.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
The words Corage/Courage, Estat/Estate, Fre/Free, Gloss, Kynde/Kind, Lewid/Lewd, Providence, Queynt/Quaint, Sely/Silly, Thrift, and Virtu/Virtue are time-bound. Like all other language, they are bound to and bounded by the social formation in which…
