Jones, Dylan.
Memoirs of the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Fukui 7 (2023): 15-38.
Analyzes three European folktales (Breton, Danish, and Irish) within the "miller-plot" subgenre, comparing them to RvT, "The Mylner of Abyngton," and other stories to highlight their shared features and deeper connections. Suggests that these…
Wu, Yu-Ching.
Review of English and American Literature 42 (2023): 31-73.
Focuses on "neighbor theory" and on uses of "neighebor(es)" in CT to argue that the "concept of community in Chaucer is constantly overshadowed by conflicts of interest and the presence of a loving/fearful neighbor." Assesses MilT as an extended…
Parsons, Ben.
Jongenelen, Bas.
Fabula: Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung/Journal of Folktale Studies/Revue d'études sur le conte populaire 64 (2023): 282-97.
Explains how MilT has overdetermined scholarship concerning the folk motif of the misdirected kiss, limiting understanding of the range of the motif. Expands this range, and enlarges the number and variety f analogues to Chaucer's use of the motif.…
Jucker, Andreas H.
Seiler, Annina.
Chaucer Review 58, no. 1 (2023): 35-59.
Focuses on the word "queynte" in MilT to explore the challenges translators face when rendering modernizations that are descriptively and stylistically true to original Middle English texts. Insists that to achieve the correct level of politeness or…
Higashinaka, Hana.
Colloquia (journal by postgraduates at the Department of English and American Literature, Keio University) 44 (2023): 53-64.
Examines MilT through the lens of medieval optical theories, particularly those of Ibn al-Haytham and Roger Bacon. Argues that Chaucer's depictions of visual perception, distance, and light may be influenced by these optical theories, using them…
Comments on food-producing labor as a motif in GP (and elsewhere in CT), in contrast with idleness, wealth-seeking, or nonproductive labor, especially among clerics. Associates these concerns with English history and ideological struggle.
Zuraikat, Malek J.
Literature Compass 20 (2023): 15 pp.
Surveys issues of gender in CT and Chaucer studies, arguing that Chaucer's realistic portrayal of human variety makes it difficult to claim him to be either feminist or misogynistic.
Thormann, Janet, with Aranye Fradenburg Joy.
Santa Barbara: Brainstorm, 2023.
Psychoanalytic exploration of several unexpected happy outcomes in CT where links between sexual "emergence and abeyance . . . issue in the hope of a beneficent future." MerT "focuses on the Real by way of an impossible suffering of enjoyment through…
Offers pedagogical advice for developing interactive games, concentrating on character development, narrative structure, and technique. Invokes CT at several junctures, commending Chaucer's innovative techniques as background to developments in…
Reflects on practical and theoretical issues in teaching CT, especially the usefulness (or not) of translations, glossaries, dictionaries, and the Norton edition of the work. Includes personal reminiscences.
Nakley, Susan.
Matthew Stratton, ed. The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English (London: Routledge, 2023), pp. 172-82.
Explores how "blame" links politics and literature in late medieval England, arguing that CT (especially MilP and Ret) "democratizes narrative authority and erodes authorial intention by redistributing doubt and confidence through blame," thereby…
Asks "[w]hat kind of stories could let . . . refugees be admitted to the category 'Australian,' in a more inclusive version of [the] actual and potential inhabitants" of the nation? Explores how and to what extent CT might be a useful model for…
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this volume, concerned with unfinished literature, includes discussion of CT, along with Virgil's "Aeneid," Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls," Robert Musil's "Man without a Soul," and other works. In Swedish.
Kline, Daniel T.
Helen Brookman and Olivia Robinson, eds. Creating Playful First Encounters with the Pre-Modern Past (Leeds: Arc Humanities, 2023), pp. 23-39.
Describes a pedagogy for using role-playing exercises in teaching CT in advanced undergraduate and early graduate classes. Comments on theories of "play and game," including notions of role-playing games, and explains a nested set of assignments and…
Ingham, Patricia Clare.
Roberta L. Krueger, ed. The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 211-27.
Argues that, in select romances, Chaucer confronts "serious matters"--political, social, ethical, and aesthetic--and experiments with the range and flexibility of the genre, comparing KnT and WBT as metacritical romances that interrogate their own…
Cowdery, Taylor.
Taylor Cowdery. Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 15-51.
Examines Chaucer's various engagements with the commonplace notion that "wordes moote be cosyn to the dede" (GP, 742), focusing on CT, which initially presents literature as unconstrained by norms, and later counters this flexibility to show that…
Bude, Tekla.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 73-103.
Shows that "actuarial forms of thinking" underlie the CT, particularly the tale-telling contest, the opening and closing of the GP, sea-trade and risk in the GP descriptions of the Merchant and the Shipman, and associative links nbetween mercantilism…
Waldman, Peter.
Ph.D. dissertation (Florida State University, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A85.03(E). Fully accessible at https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:927778 (accessed February 2, 2025).
Explores confession and intention ("entente") in selected works of Chaucer: TC, LGWP, FrT, PardT, ParsT, and Ret, reading them as a "progression" that "resembles the evolution of penitential concepts across the whole of the medieval period." Assesses…
Collects ten essays by various authors on topics in mystical and devotional texts in Middle English, with an introduction by Amy N. Vines, a list of publications by Denise N. Baker, and a comprehensive index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer,…
Staley, Lynn.
Amy N. Vines and Lee Templeton, eds. New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature: Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2023), pp. 183-202
Suggests John of Gaunt commissioned BD to elegize Blanche of Lancaster and to claim a "new future," a move inspired by Edward I's memorialization of Eleanor of Castile. An "important commission for Chaucer," BD gave him "opportunity to begin to…
Craun, Edwin.
Amy N. Vines and Lee Templeton, eds. New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature: Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2023), pp. 55-72.
Shows that aspects of the late medieval "pastoral program" of obligating "all Christians to admonish their neighbors about their sins" underlies the Reeve's reproval of the Miller and the Canon's Yeoman's of the Canon. In these cases, distortions of…
Shapiro, Aaron Herschel.
Ph.D. dissertation (Middle Tennessee State University, 2023). Dissertation Abstracts International A85.06(E). Fully accessible at https://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/items/1a770bf2-20f3-4ebb-b53a-952d55b25a52 (accessed February 2, 2025).
Traces the development of a "salvific but antisemitic fantasy of Judaization" in western aesthetics from St. Paul to modern writers, and identifies an "alternate mode of modern poetics based in the Jewish philosophy of language and in the practice of…
Berry, Craig A.
Steven Rozenski, Joshua Byron Smith, and Claire M. Waters, eds. Mystics, Goddesses, Lovers, and Teachers: Medieval Visions and Their Modern Legacies. Studies in Honour of Barbara Newman (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023), pp. 261-76.
Reviews critical approaches to Ret, reading it as both confessional and aesthetic, comparing its duality with those in Purse and the ending of TC, and exploring resonances with ParsT. Assesses Ret as a recantatory formulation that asks its…
Roders, Dana M.
Ph.D. dissertation (Purdue University, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Partially accessible at https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI30501530/ (accessed February 1, 2025).
Investigates "how medieval authors implement impaired bodies in service of spiritual exploration," addressing depictions of impaired bodies generally excluded from disability studies, such as "personified sins, aging bodies, and martyrs' bodies."…
Anatomizes the motif of resistance to love "across the chronology and variety of medieval English romance, from twelfth-century Anglo-Norman lais to fifteenth-century prose works," exploring "ways in which it reinforces or subverts contemporary…
