Hines, Jessica.
Religion & Literature 54 (2022): 49-71.
Presents the role of pity as an "essential virtue" that does not negate suffering in TC; claims that Chaucer shifts language as a way to understand the "complex social and subjective position of pity" in TC.
Considers WBPT and SNPT, along with woman writers of the 13th-15th centuries, as part of the development of a female "subject consciousness." Also examines Grisilde in ClT.
Merrill, Rodney Harpster.
DAI 31.08 (1971): 4172A.
Considers lyric poems "not as statements but as imitation of statements," and includes discussion of the "Brooch of Thebes" (i.e., Chaucer's Mars and Ven). Also comments on Chaucer's relations with Eustace Deschmaps and Oton de Grandson.
Martin, Wallace,and Nick Conrad.
Papers on Language and Literature 17 (1981): 3-22.
The Levi-Strauss formula for the structure of myth can be applied to analogues of ShT to illuminate disputed interpretations. In a list of similar actions in columns, not chronological, the ShT shows eight implications of the Levi-Strauss formula.
Considers John Metham's "sonnet," which presents the first sonnet-like form in English. While disputing that Metham's poem should be viewed as the first sonnet in English, its similarities and interpretations help to advance considerations about form…
Strohm, Paul.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 17-40.
Gower's "Confessio" and Chaucer's CT reflect a process of mediation in which problematic social realities are restated or reconceived. The two writers treat two medieval aesthetics, unity-in-diversity and hierarchies, though Chaucer encourages…
Pelen, Marc M.
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 9 (1979): 277-305.
Structure and theme of the Vision are established not only by the "Roman de la Rose" but by Latin poems: (1) visionary setting and (2) questing love-debate for a solution to the turmoil resolved (or unresolved) at (3) a Court of Love. Chaucer's…
Strouse, A. W.
New York: Fordham University Press, 2021.
Uses Pauline "theo-poetics of circumcision" to explore circumcision and "uncircumcision" as hermeneutic tropes, focusing on allegoresis and amplification, and analyzing queerly Augustine's Boy with a Long Foreskin" (from "De Genesi ad litteram");…
Cannon, Christopher.
Paul Strohm, ed. Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 177-90.
Cannon summarizes medieval theories of literary form, including that of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, as adapted by Chaucer in TC. Applies the theories to various works in Middle English.
Kelly, Douglas.
Kathryn Karczewska and Tom Conley, eds. The World and Its Rival: Essays on Literary Imagination in Honor of Per Nykrog. Faux titre, no. 172 (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1999), pp. 59-77.
Examines adaptations of conventional depictions of change in literary characters--in works by Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France, and Benoît de Sainte-Maure. Contrasts the change in Benoît's Briseida with that in Chaucer's Criseyde, focusing…
Considers the "influence of the thirteenth-century Pseudo-Boethian forgery 'De Disciplina Scolarium' on medieval understandings of Boethius." Includes "'Bitwixen game and ernest': Contrary Boethianism in TC," which examines the "contraries" of the…
di Carpegna Falconieri, Tommaso, and Lila Yawn.
Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones, eds. The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 186–215.
Briefly invokes Chaucer, noting Pasolini's 1971 film, "The Canterbury Tales," and its adaptation of Chaucer's work to highlight increasing cultural degradation as works are transmitted.
Lancashire, Ian.
Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Explores literary composition as "cybertextuality," employing a fusion of cognitive theory, stylistic analysis, computer applications, and attribution studies. The goal is to uncover the compositional processes of writers by examining their verbal…
Hannam, James.
Carl Kears and James Paz, eds. Medieval Science Fiction London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 2016(), pp. xv-xxv.
Defines medieval science fiction and provides a survey of types of science appearing in medieval literature, including natural philosophy (in NPT and PF), alchemy (in CYT), herb lore (in GP), and astronomy.
Cannon, Christopher, intro.
Larry D. Benson, gen. ed. The Riverside Chaucer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. iva-ivh.
Foreword to the reissue of the paperback version of The Riverside Chaucer, assessing the legacy of the Riverside text in light of editorial theory and modern computers.
Jost, Jean E.
Medieval Perspectives 1 (1986): 75-88.
Chaucer uses a medieval commonplace--vowing--as a function of genre: tragedy, comedy, or fabliau. In PardT, fashioning an illegitimate triple vow to eradicate Death, and bound by sworn brotherhood, three hoodlums effect upon themselves a grim,…
In NPT, the thrust of the satire on the relation between foreknowledge and free will is that theories like Bishop Bradwardine's simple necessity, St. Augustine's paradox, and, most notably, Boethius' conditional necessity are too abstract and…
Richmond, Velma Bourgeois.
Christianity & Literature 54 (2005): 363-96.
Four historical paintings by Ford Madox Brown (1821-93) exhibit the interplay among literature, art, and religion in Victorian medievalism. Chaucer is the primary focus in The Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry (1845) and Chaucer at the Court of…
The two portions of SqT align the cultural differences between the Mamluk emissary and the Mongol court with the species differences between the falcon and Canacee. Capitalizing on symbolic, metonymic connections between animals and humans and…
Mathewson, Jeanne T.
Annuale Mediaevale 14 (1973): 35-42.
Argues that Chaucer's additions to his sources in PhyT (Virginia's speech and the reference to Jephthah's daughter) convey a sense of masculine blindness to feminine reality--seeing only the "transient conditions of beauty, youth, and virginity."
Huth, Jennifer Mary.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 159A.
Examines the rise of professionalism and women's efforts to achieve autonomy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England as represented in the mystery cycles, Chaucer's Wife of Bath, and Margery Kempe.
Barnes, Donna R., ed.
Minneapolis, Minn.: Burgess, 1971.
An anthology of readings that pertain to medieval education among various classes and institutions, with individual readings drawn from primary sources and modern analyses, and with brief sectional introductions by the editor. Among the 95 readings…
