Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Yuichiro Azuma, Kotaro Kawasaki, and Koichi Kano, eds. Chaucer and English and American Literature: Essays Commemorating the Retirement of Professor Masatoshi Kawasaki (Tokyo: Kinseido, 2015), pp. 358-79.
Examines the implications of "siege" in TC from cognitive viewpoints. Argues that the siege of Troy as a prototype of "siege" is repeated in metaphorically diversified forms such as Pandarus's enclosure of Troilus and Criseyde, and that this "siege"…
Takana, Hidekuni.
Bulletin of Seikei University 46 (2011): 13–22.
Compares WBT with its Middle English analogues and comments on the relations between WBPT and ShT. http://repository.seikei.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/10928/86/1/bungaku-46_13-22.pdf (accessed January 12, 2016). In Japanese.
Duncan, Edgar H.
Tennessee Studies in Literature 11 (1966): 19-33.
Explicates the thematic and characterizing recurrences of hands and hand imagery in WBP, focusing on the eleven variations of the phrase "bear on hand" as they evoke and sustain the Wife's concern with wifely control in marriage, convey a sense of…
Examines the apocalyptic genre of English short-verse prophecies, which were attributed to authorities such as Merlin, Bede, and Chaucer, who existed safely in the past but often also on the margins of political and religious orthodoxy. Popular from…
Miller, Timothy S.
Studies in Medievalism 28 (2019): 148-75.
Surveys "(neo)medievalism in contemporary board-game culture," including discussion of two games inspired by CT: the "roll-and-move" "Hazard: From the Canterbury Tales" and "The Road to Canterbury."
Suggests that "popular superstition" of "ill-luck" underlies the Host's reference to "fynde an hare" in Th-MelL 7.696, supported by his use of "elvyssh" at 7.703.
DeLuca, Dominique.
Albrecht Classen, ed. Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: The Material and Spiritual Conditions of the Culture of Death (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), pp. 239-61.
Refers to the death-bearing rioters in PardT as an example of the theme, found in medieval art, of "death as living within" the body.
Crawforth, Hannah.
Gordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin, and Virginia Mason Vaughn, eds. Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception, Performance (New York: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2014), pp. 25-34.
Explores aspects of the diction of "The Two Noble Kinsmen," focusing on nuances derived from the glossaries in Thomas Speght's editions of Chaucer's Works, with particular attention to KnT, the source of "Kinsmen," and to issues of gender identity.
Rogers, Cynthia A.
Chaucer Review 51.2 (2016): 187-208.
Argues that Pity is both a "clever critique" of the French lyric genre of complaint and "loving homage" to it, assessing aspects of exaggeration, repetition, structure, conventional theme and diction, wordplay, etc. as evidence that the poem evokes…
Edwards, Suzanne M.
Chaucer Review 54.3 (2019): 230-52.
Centers on Gloria Naylor’s novel "Bailey’s Café," and examines how feminist approaches have informed scholarship of Chaucer's work, often to battle the misogyny of his works, that nevertheless can upload the heteronormative and patriarchal values to…
Argues that the two instances of Malory's refutation of his sources in "Morte" are "a form of retraction," and that combined with the work's final explicit they "lie in the literary shadow Ret,” comparing and contrasting Ret with Malory's…
Gordon, Stephen.
Supernatural Encounters: Demons and the Restless Dead in Medieval England c. 1050–1450 (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 161-83.
Surveys the "literary context" of FrT and shows that in his discussion of demons (1447–1522) Chaucer uses Vincent of Beauvais, Thomas Aquinas, and "the broad cultural sediments of local revenant belief." Also suggests that the possibility that the…
Describes the first printings of Chaucer's works in China, during the Republican period (1912–1949). All are portions of CT translated into Chinese from modern English adaptations for children, providing for children and adults alike contact with…
Offers evidence from medieval naturalists and bestiaries to clarify that the she-ape simile in ParsT 10.424 means that the "proud dandy . . . is ridiculously like a wretched ape sticking up its bare bottom when the moon is full."
Examines LGW as a poetic work that invites criticism as a function of how it is structured. Looks in depth at Alceste and her efforts in the poem, reappraising how she achieves success with the God of Love.
Assesses occurrences of the diction and sentiment of tenderness, pity, and consolation in Chaucer's works (GP Prioress, BD, TC), linking them with Bothius's "Consolation of Philosophy." In Japanese.
Clogan, Paul M.
Philological Quarterly 43 (1964): 272-74.
Suggests that the explanation of Cybele as the "flower of spring" in the "Liber Imaginum Deorum" of Albricius I (also known as Mythographer III, perhaps Alexander Neckham) may be the source of Chaucer's reference to Cybele in his praise of Alceste…
Woolf, Edward J.
Dissertation Abstracts International 27.09 (1967): 3022-23A.
Tabulates and analyzes Chaucer's "normalized diction," i.e., a "diction that is very repetitive and free from syntactic eccentricity, a diction that utilizes the same words to express the same ideas in different contexts." Compares and contrasts…
Parsons, Ben.
Notes and Queries 260 (2015): 525-29.
Although the phrase "Colle oure dogge" (NPT 7.338) has been cited as support for the notion that "collie" derives from a medieval pet name, a review of attestations of "colle" provides no evidence that dogs given that name tended to be members of the…
Elmes, Melissa Ridley.
Medieval Feminist Forum 54.1 (2018): 50-64.
Reviews the scholarship concerning the bond between Canacee and the falcon in SqT and argues that this posthumanist bond "derives from their femaleness, which for the tale-teller transcends species in favor of a gendered sameness borne of similar…
Argues that the "bond" between Canacee and the falcon in SqT is "grounded in the theme of female friendship" although seen from the "avian perspective"--an "intersectional" approach that "interprets Canacee as avian, rather than the falcon as…
Friedrich, Jennie.
In James L. Smith, ed. The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2017), pp. 35-52.
Explores relations among imagery of hearts, transplanting, "bodily estrangement," and travel in TC, focusing on Criseyde, her brooch, her dream of the eagle, her departure from Troy, and how she "begins to embody foreignness by the end of the…
Lee, Jenny Veronica.
Dissertation Abstracts International A74.02 (2013): n.p.
Investigates how Chaucer, Gower, Langland, Usk, and Hoccleve use confessional discourse to challenge Latinity and "authorize their own literary productions." Includes discussion of the "self-abasing literary self-portrayals as penitents" found in…
