Sinnreich-Levi, Deborah M.,ed.
New York: AMS Press, 1998.
Thirteen essays reexamining Deschamps's work and life. While critics in the first half of the century saw Deschamps as a possible source for Chaucer and as an admirer of Chaucer's work, these essays investigate a wider context for his work, including…
Matthews, William.
Modern Language Review 51 (1956): 217-20.
Identifies a ballade by Eustache Deschamps (number 880: "Que diriez vous du froit mois de Janvier") as an analogue, possibly a source, of several details in MerT.
Erzgräber, Willi.
H. Maes-Jelinek et al., eds. Multiple Worlds, Multiple Words: Essays in Honour of Irene Simon (Liege: University of Liege, English Department, 1987), pp. 103-21.
Examines Chaucer's fabliaux (MilT and RvT) as designed for a courtly audience and TC as revealing a "subtle interplay between nobility, gentry, and the middle class." Chaucer's work is symptomatic of a general literary development: "the exploration…
Wallace, David, ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Surveys the literatures of late medieval Europe (eastern, western, and peripheral) from the onset of the Black Death to the end of the Great Schism at the Council of Constance, describing historical events, cultural conditions, ideological…
Most of the objects and language associated with the Pardoner mirror his fragmentation of incompleteness. Significantly, the literary background in the "Roman de la Rose" follows the account of the castration of Saturn and Raison's defense of plain…
Knapp, Ethan.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21 (1999): 247-73, 1999.
Hoccleve's three encomia for Chaucer in "Regement of Princes" praise Chaucer's genius but also pose strategies for "poetic usurpation." In applying them to Chaucer, Hoccleve capitalized on the "polyvocality" of the metaphors of father, master, and…
Shore, Rachel.
Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric 5 (2008): 98-106 [Electronic Publication].
Chaucer uses his naïve narrator to achieve an effective balance among the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos in CT. Also, this narrator's view of the Prioress overwhelms her appeal to ethos in PrPT and her heavy emphasis on pathos also…
The three Aristotelian modes of persuasion are ethos (character), pathos (emotion), and logos (reason). In his long poem, Chaucer fails as narrator-rhetor (ethos, logos) but succeeds as human (pathos) and is himself a rhetorical solution to a…
Czarnowus, Anna.
Rafal Boryslawski, Czarnowus, and Lukasz Neubauer, eds. Marvels of Reading: Essays in Honour of Professor Andrzej Wicher (Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego, 2015), pp. 103-13.
Assesses representation of the mothers-in-law in MLT and their equivalent in the BBC adaptation, where the mother-in-law is of Iranian origin, but looks on Custance from a highly racist perspective.
Offers a psychoanalytical reparative reading of PrT, focusing on PrP, the conclusion of the tale, and various intertexts (Psalm 8; the "Alma Redemptoris Mater"; and Dante's "Purgatorio," XXXIII), unpacking interplays between utterance and intention;…
Craun, Edwin C.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Discusses how the late medieval Church encouraged and participated in "fraternal corrections," and establishes connections with major English reformist writings, including "The Book of Margery Kempe" and "Piers Plowman." Brief mention of Chaucer's…
Simpson, James.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 20 (1998): 73-100.
Reads LGW as a work about "voluntarist" hermeneutics, reflected in Cupid's "cupidinous," tyrannical understanding of TC and in the narrator's telling of the legends as a "testamentary document of a dying author."
Mitchell, J. Allan.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004.
Examines the ethics of exemplarity in "Confesso Amantis" and in CT, arguing that reading for the moral--deliberating ethically--is improvisatory and reflexive and aims at practice rather than theory. Exemplarity involves the reader in its moral…
Mitchell, J. Allan
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Mitchell explores the relationships among fortune, ethics, and validity in TC and other late medieval writings: Usk's "Testament of Love," "The Chaunce of the Dyse," Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Lydgate's "Fall of Princes," and Malory's "Morte…
Rosenfeld, Jessica.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
Examines pleasure, happiness, and enjoyment in late-medieval literature as it was influenced by Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," mediated by commentaries and the "Roman de la Rose." Considers a balance of intellectualism and voluntarism, and an…
Collects sixty-two case studies, accompanied by "questions to consider," designed as exercises in decision-making for library managers. Study number 58, "This Is the Year for Chaucer" (pp. 105-07), pertains to the development of the Chaucer…
Marshall, Helen.
Helen Marshall. Hair Side, Flesh Side (Toronto: ChiZine, 2012), pp. 218-28.
Short story about an Oxford graduate student, ambivalent about love and about her Chaucer studies, visited by the poet at nighttime. Includes recurrent allusion to the ambiguous gate in PF 123ff.
Bevis, Richard.
Eighteenth-Century Life 10 (1986): 44-58.
Reevaluates Pope's adaptation of HF, "The Temple of Fame," focusing on how radically he reworks Chaucer's narrative, shifting it to a more "scenic" poem by introducing elements from "An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries," a piece of…
A large-format art-book version of the Nevill Coghill translation of the poetic portions of CT, with illustrations of the tales (rather than the pilgrims) by Frink and a brief introduction by Coghill that comments on the contemporary vitality of the…
Berrozpe Peralta, Carlos.
[Albacete, Spain]: C. Berrozpe, 2006.
Includes a diachronic linguistic analysis—phonetic, orthographical, morphological, syntactical, lexical, and stylistic—of the description of the Reeve from GP. Traces elements backward to Old English and forward to Modern English.
Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates this musical recording includes a track (no. 4; running time 4:01) entitled "Quero Pensar : A Mulher de Bath" [I Want To Think (The Wife Of Bath)], one of sixteen total tracks. Lyrics in Portuguese. Additional…
Gamaury, Martine.
Andre Lascombes, ed. Identites et differences (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, no. 17, 1992), pp. 45-58. Also in Pierre Sahel, intro. Difference et identite. CARA (Centre Aixois de Recherches Anglaises), no. 12 (Aix-en Provence: Universite de Provence, 1992), pp. 11-23.
The pathology of Troilus shows conflict between his roles as warrior and lover, reflected in the artistic rendering of his dreams and emotional pain. His agony melds personal sorrow and traditional courtly suffering. Pandarus acts as a…
Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel de la.
María Dolores Fernández de la Torre Madueño, Antonia Mara Medina Guerra, and Lidia Taillefer de Haya, eds. El Sexismo en el lenguaje. 2 vols. (Málaga: Disputacíon Provincial de Málaga, 1999), vol. 1, pp. 261-70.
Describes female sexual stereotyping in Chaucer's depictions of the Wife of Bath, Griselda (ClT), Custance (MLT), Dorigen (FranT), and the Prioress (GP).
Hagstrum, Jean H.
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
A historical assessment of representations of heterosexual love and marriage in the art, myth, and religion of the Western world, concentrating on differing ways in which esteem and desire have been aligned, rationalized, and sanctified.
