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…
Turner, Marion, Eleanor Baker, Rodger Caseby, Clare Cory, Jim Harris, Nicholas Perkins, and Charlotte Richer
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 3 (2022): 70-78.
Collaborative reflection on the presentation and value of a study-days enhancement program called "Chaucer's World," designed both to help UK secondary education students prepare for the A-level English Literature exam and to increase appreciation of…
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…
Fisher, Ruth M.
Notes and Queries 210 (1965): 168-70.
Adduces precedents in French for Chaucer's punning in ShT on "cosyn" and its derivatives to mean "harlot" as well as "prospective victim," part of a larger pattern of "mocking irony" in his various uses of the words.
Strakhov, Elizaveta.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 157-75.
Argues that the differing treatments of Morpheus in BD and Machaut's "Fonteinne amoureuse" "reflect on the advantages and limitations of 'imitatio' as a tool for authorial self-promotion." Underlying this reflection are contrasting strategies for…
Discusses kitsch as a "counter aesthetic" that results from a "failed dialectic of beauty and ugliness," and explores the Nazis' "Anti-Kitsch Law," Theodor Adorno's aesthetic theory, the Prioress's "countrefete cheere" and sentimentality, the gore…
Considers locations in Chaucer's corpus where he might have depicted divine speech, before highlighting how Jesus' words serve as "auctoritas" in ParsT. Comparing this method to the absence of depictions of divine speech in Chaucer's other works,…
Okamoto, Hiroki.
Bulletin of the Society for Chaucer Studies 5 (2017): 3–21.
Reconsiders the role of the clerks' northern dialect in RvT as well as the Reeve's Norfolk dialect, paying particular attention to the fading of the former within the tale.
Lutyens, Elisabeth, composer.
[London]: Schott, 1957. Facsimile (perusal score) available at https://www.schott-music.com/en/preview/viewer/index/?idx=MTUzNzA5&idy=153709&dl=0; accessed June 23, 2024
Includes Middle English texts by Chaucer (with glossary appended at end of document) in nine parts: I Proem (PF 1-4); II Pastorale (19 lines selected from LGWP-F 35ff.; III Pleynte (TC 1.400-20); IV Invocation I (TC 3.1-14); V Invocation II (TC…
Manzalaoui, M. A.
Notes and Queries 207 (1962): 369-70.
Assesses the syntax and meanings of "derring-do" or "dorynge-do" in John Lydgate's "Troy Book," which follows in the first instance Chaucer's uses of the phrase to describe Troilus in TC 5.837-40.
Cassidy, Frederic G.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 57 (1958): 739-42.
Suggests that "don thyn hood" in TC 3.954 may have the literal meaning of "put on your nightcap" or, more likely, the figurative meaning of "restrain yourself," the latter drawn from the practice of hooding a hawk.
Argues that not just TC but also Anel has an important function in Henryson's "Testament." Echoes of this poem affect judgment of Cresseid and Troilus, and the question of what constitutes "truth," for lover, narrator, or reader. The notion of…
Sanders, Barry Roy.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.03 (1967): 1058A.
Surveys scholarship concerning Chaucer's word-play, describes the place of "double-entendre" in rhetorical tradition, and explicates 204 of Chaucer's word-plays in CT, concluding that there is some correlation between punning and the bawdy tales.
Tasioulas, Jacqueline.
Medium Aevum 82.2 (2013): 213-35.
Explores "the role of the imagination" in KnT, with attention also to MilT and RvT, focusing on the "cerebral process" in the "amorous desire" of the characters, especially Arcite, whose lovers' malady results from his "lack of imaginative control."…
McKinley, Kathryn.
Nino Zchomelidse and Giovanni Freni, eds. Meaning in Motion: The Semantics of Movement in Medieval Art (Princeton, N.J.: Department of Art and Archeology, Princeton University, 2011), pp. 215-32.
Reads the description of the temple of Venus in HF in light of its literary sources and late medieval church ambulation, investigating how ideas of physical, aesthetic, and spiritual motion underlie the narrator's moving gaze. Includes five b&w…
Franke, William.
William Franke. Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 43–69.
Addresses the "bifurcation of philosophy and theology intervening between Dante and Chaucer," arguing that Chaucer "never demonstrated any confidence that poetry could in any way represent the reality of the divine." Assesses the "empiricism" of LGW,…
Connects the complicated relationship among FranT's three main characters and the political relationship of England, France, and Brittany. Asserts that each character symbolizes one of these places and shows how the dynamics of love and sex merge…
