Edwards, Robert R.
Patrick Cheney and Frederick A. de Armas, eds. European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 104-28.
The twin rubrics of succession and invention guide Statius's response to Virgil and, in turn, Boccaccio's response to Statius, Chaucer's responses to Boccaccio, and Lydgate's response to Chaucer. By exploiting the silences of their predecessors, the…
Defines parody and surveys "all of the major literary parodies in Middle English, Old French, and Middle German," including "three little-known anti-courtly parodies by Hermann von Sachsenheim and Geoffrey Chaucer." Includes comments on ManT.
A collection of essays previously published, to which Delany has added a new essay, "Run Silent, Run Deep: Heresy and Alchemy as Medieval Versions of Utopia," to examine utopian discourse in the Middle Ages.
Minnis, A. J.,and A. B. Scott,
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
Treats "the tradition of systematic commentary on authors both sacred and profane, Latin and vernacular, 'ancient' and 'modern,' from around 1100 until around 1375." Selections are descriptive, evaluative, and critical.
D'Arcens, Louise, and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.
Twelve essays by various authors on the concept of "voice" in medieval literature, with an introduction by the editors, an appreciative tribute to David Lawton by John M. Ganim, and a comprehensive index. Generally, the essays focus on the literature…
King, Pamela M.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
Provides close readings of canonical medieval texts, including "Piers Plowman," Malory's "Morte Darthur," and CT. Emphasizes KnT, GP, MilT, PrT, SumT, PardT, and FrT.
Galloway, Andrew.
London and New York: Continuum, 2006.
A guide to Old and Middle English literature, its contexts, and its reception. Separate sections address political and social contexts; literary genres and the communities that produced them; reception from the Renaissance to current debates; and…
Mandel, Jerome, and Bruce A. Rosenberg, eds.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970.
Twenty-five essays, by various authors, on medieval literature and medieval and modern folklore. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies under Alternative Title.
Nine essays on medieval English literature, a preface by Derek Brewer, an introduction by Aers, and a bibliography of Pearsall's publications through 1998. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry…
Anthologizes seventeen essays by Knight, “written over several decades focused on the social and political contexts of medieval literature," three previously unpublished, one of which pertains to Chaucer: Chapter 14, "Chaucer's Fabliaux and Late…
Kline, Daniel T., ed.
New York and London : Routledge, 2003.
Sixteen essays by various authors, most of them addressing individual texts as literature written for children--for example, "The Babees Book," "Sir Gowther," Aelfric's "Colloquy," and selections from the "Gesta Romanorum" and from Gower's "Confessio…
Investigates whether modern translation theory can be usefully applied to the Middle Ages, when the "skopos" or "wider development of the literary culture" differed so widely from today's cultures. Long uses "skopos" theory and "polysystems" theory…
Muscatine, Charles.
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
Fourteen previously printed pieces by Muscatine, including articles, sections of books, and reviews. The four essays that pertain to Chaucer are "The Canterbury Tales: Style of the Man and Style of the Work" (1966), "Chaucer's Religion and the…
Treharne, Elaine,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Surveys the emergence of earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including well-known texts, such as "Beowulf" and CT, and less familiar manuscript and print works. Includes discussion of CT, LGW, and TC.
Crocker, Holly A., and D. Vance Smith, eds.
New York; Routledge, 2014.
Includes thirty-eight essays, new and previously printed. by various authors who examine debates within English medieval literary studies on topics that focus on gender and sexuality, politics, language, nationhood, science, and desire. For six…
Aers, David, ed.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.
Ten essays by various hands. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology, and History under Alternative Title.
Machan, Tim William, ed.
Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1991.
In addition to the introduction, this collection contains nine original essays focusing on the interrelations between textual and interpretive studies of late Middle English literature. The authors discuss the effect of editorial decisions on…
Weisl, Angela Jane, and Anthony Joseph Cunder.
New York :Routledge, 2018.
Introduces western medieval literature and latter-day medievalism, focusing on multiple modes and genres and selected authors (Dante, Boccaccio, the "Gawain"-poet, Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Sir Thomas Malory). Designed for classroom use, seeks…
Holloway, Julia Bolton.
American Benedictine Review 32 (1981): 114-21.
Recent Princeton performances of the "Officium Peregrinorum" (from Luke 24) reveal probable echoes in CT of the liturgical drama of Christ's pilgrimage to Emmaus in the pilgrimage frame itself, in the poet who like Christ uses "lying" fables to…
Butterfield, Ardis.
University of Toronto Quarterly 88.2 (2019): 142-59.
Reexamines theories of Auerbach and Spitzer through the lens of issues of translatability and untranslatability in medieval lyrics. Argues that medieval lyric poetry "shows the power of untranslatability to disrupt and re-make literary history."…
Hirsh, John C., ed.
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005.
A classroom anthology with notes, marginal glosses, introductions, bibliographical citations, and occasional illustrations. Fifty poems arranged by topic into ten categories, with three appendices of additional poems, including one appendix titled…
Phillips, Kim M.
Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003.
Examines how the "experiences and voices" of young, unmarried women in late-medieval England reflect ideals of femininity and the social processes of becoming adult women. Focuses on social history and literature, with recurrent mention of CT, TC,…
Cosman, Madeleine Pelner.
New York State Journal of Medicine, October 1, 1972, pp. 2439-44.
Argues that Chaucer's Physician is idealized, "a splendid representative of both medieval physician and medieval surgeon." Uses evidence from medieval malpractice cases, and comments on various "transportable medicozodiacal instruments."
Ambrisco, Alan Scott.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1569A, 1999.
In medieval thinking, cannibalism became a marker setting off the Christian West from the barbarian East. Gradually, cannibalism came to be perceived sometimes figuratively, involving both the self and the other and a sense of identity. Ambrisco…
