Bradbury, Nancy Mason.
Urbana and Chicago: University of illinois Press, 1998.
Explores how Middle English metrical romances reflect "proximity to orally transmitted legends." Treats the "Tale of Gamelyn" and related outlaw ballads as "fragmentary remains of a predominantly oral tradition,"Havelock the Dane" as an early…
Pinti, Daniel J., ed.
New York and London: Garland, 1998.
Reprints eleven essays or book chapters pertaining to Chaucer's reception, with topics such as scribal habits, Chaucer's influence on later poets, Chaucerian apocrypha, and others.
Bawcutt, Priscilla.
Helen Cooney, ed. Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 179-96.
Bawcutt surveys love poetry of medieval Scotland in various genres, emphasizing the variety of tones and exploring the importance of Chaucer's influence.
A close reading of passages in KnT reveals Chaucer's close familiarity with the medieval construction industry. Although Chaucer supervised building rather than creating buildings, as a poet, he is supreme master over his own creative process.
Walisiewicz, Marek, Diana Loxley, Johnny Murray, and Kirsty Seymour-Ure, eds.
New York: DK, 2018.
Brief, illustrated summaries of the lives and works of writers, mostly from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The opening chapter covers fifteen “Pre-19th Century” writers from Dante to Voltaire, arranged chronologically, with a…
Rowley, Sharon M., ed.
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Explores literary legacy of medieval writers, including Chaucer, Gower, and Wyclif "in light of the translation and interpretive reproduction of the Bible in Middle English. For four essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Writers, Editors and…
Baker, Alison Ann.
Dissertation Abstracts International 64 (2004): 2481A
Baker compares medieval and modern theories of textual production and examines the development of characters in TC by means of textual variants among the work's manuscripts.
Johnston, Andrew James.
Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 50: 21-43, 2000.
Using the wrestling scene in KnT 1.2959-64 as a point of departure, the author argues that the violent homoeroticism of the passage, elevated by Chaucer to a matter of state, "exposes Boccaccio's classicism as a veneer under which the traditional…
Considers patronage and the developing status of the poet in the role of "court maker" in late medieval England, aligning the change with the influence of Italian culture. In his response to Th, the Host represents a courtly "negative feedback loop,"…
Shaw, Judith.
English Language Notes 21:3 (1984): 7-10.
Augustine's commentary on Matt. 7:3-5 provides context for the discussion of wrath in ParsT. Chaucer uses Augustine's distinction of the false judge, who sees his own faults mirrored in the eyes of another, to show how several of the pilgrims commit…
Merrill, Thomas F.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language 4 (1962): 341-50.
Treats Friar John's "digression" on anger in SumT as an "instance of mistaken penitential preaching" that is, satirically, aimed at Huberd the Friar. The awkward, inappropriate length of the address is part of the Sommoner's riposte to his adversary…
Chaghafi, Elisabeth.
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 168-88.
Studies the paratextual materials that accompany and supplement the text of Chaucer's works in Speght's editions of 1598 and 1602, showing that these materials present Chaucer to early modern readers as ancient but still worth reading, in part…
Rigby, S. H.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 35 (2013): 329-71.
Surveys classical and medieval notions of courage ("fortitude") with particular attention to Giles of Rome and chroniclers of the Battle of Agincourt, and recurrent comments on Chaucer's Knight, Squire, and Troilus. Describes the criteria and nuances…
Sabadash, Deborah Margaret.
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1994): 561A.
Expands Ernst Curtius's world-upsidedown topos through Bakhtinian theories of textual dialogue and the carnivalesque to reveal the rich variety of a wide sampling of medieval texts, including CT.
Mayer, Lauryn Stacey.
Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 565A, 2001.
Studies the manuscript transmission ("more akin to gene splicing than copying") of Old English poetry and prose, chronicle histories, and Chaucer. To establish Chaucer as a forerunner of later poetry, printers deliberately modify his works.
The Man of Law uses the discourses of orientalism and antifeminism to suggest the proximity of Islam to Christianity and of women to men, as well as the necessity of reinscribing Muslims and women as clearly delimited Others. MLT attempts to forge a…
Green, John Martin.
Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 5403A
KnT explores four hypothetical world views: the world ruled by Fortune, exemplified by Theseus and the Theban widows; man bewailing his helplessness, Palamon and Arcite in prison; man attempting to control social disorder, the tournament; man…
Washburn, Katharine, John S. Major, and Clifton Fadiman, eds.
New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1998.
Includes two excerpts from Chaucer in modernized English (pp. 527-28), translated by Burton Raffel and Selden Rodman: the ballade from LGWP (F249-69) and TC (5.1786-1834).
Lears, Adin E.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020.
Connects noise and knowing and unknowing in late medieval English literature. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss HF and WBT respectively, suggesting how Chaucer's texts "present lay uses of language as noise."
Barwell, Graham, and Christopher Moore.
Jenna Ng, ed. Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds (New York:Bloomsbury, 2013), pp. 207-26.
Explores the goals and accomplishments of an interdisciplinary (English studies and communication) pedagogical experiment in adapting portions of CT to the online game "World of Warcraft," commenting on the processes of animation, mediation, and…
Wiggin, Bethany.
Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 49.2 (2013): 112-31.
Argues that the novel has a far-reaching international history, evident in early eighteenth-century works translated and published in Amsterdam and Leipzig such as "Les Mémoires de Madame la Marquise de Frêne," which shows not only proof of…
Copeland, Ann.
Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 33.3-4: 161-80, 2002.
Copeland describes the difficulties and potential for confusion in imprecise library cataloging of digital versions of books, focusing on differences between particular works and books and assessing as one example the 1998 Octavo CD-Rom version of…
