Wimsatt, James I.
Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector, eds. The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), pp. 201-10, 287-89 (notes).
Examines "the paradigm of consoler-consolation-consolee" in The Consolation of Philosophy, Roman de la Rose, Remede de Fortune, and TC. The Consolation is "sub-text or perhaps super-text." The other texts mediate in Chaucer's adaptation of…
Fry, Chandler Thomas.
Ph.D. Dissertation. Duke University, 2021
Dissertation Abstracts International A82.11(E). Open access at https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/items/d005dd73-6232-43ef-94ce-537d1d9a7767 (accessed December 19, 2024).
Clarifies the "centrality and complexities" of political and ethical law discourse in late medieval England, showing how it is used in works by Thomas Usk and how in TC and KnT Chaucer "questions the view that the natural law is an unshakeable…
Troilus ultimately travels to the ninth--not the eighth--sphere at the end of TC, a place ripe with "symbolic valence," reinforcing Chaucer's narrative focus on constant change and the ambiguity that comes with it.
Fein, Susanna Greer, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger, eds.
Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991.
This collection of essays by various authors addresses the rivalry and tension among characters, themes, styles, and genres in CT.
For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Rebels and Rivals under Alternative Title.
Boyd, David Lorenzo.
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1991): 909A.
On the basis of insights provided by manuscripts (especially Harvard MS English 530), certain works by Hoccleve and Lydgate reveal unifying themes. To fifteenth-century readers, Chaucer's PF treated the relationship of common profit and individual…
Griffiths, Gwen.
Papers on Language and Literature 25 (1989): 242-63.
The divergence of critical opinion about MerT attests to Chaucer's success in prompting multiple responses to his text and in allowing no definitive reading. In the tale, "the narrator/narratee relationships are reflected in a multiplicity of…
Baker, Donald C.
University of Mississippi Studies in English 1 (1960): 97-104.
Argues that "the role of the artist as purveyor of Fame" is the fundamental unifying theme of HF and suggests that Chaucer may have intended to resolve tensions between Dantean and Boethian views of the poet (as teacher and misleader, respectively)…
Fisiak, Jacek, and Hye-Kyung Kang, eds.
Seoul, South Korea: Thaehaksa, 2005.
Twenty essays by various authors on topics in theoretical linguistics and in Old and Middle English linguistics and literature. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Recent Trends in Medieval English Language and Literature under…
Jankowski, Eileen S.
Chaucer Review 30 (1996): 306-18.
Lexical similarities and broad organizational strategies in Bokenham's legend suggest that his sources were SNT, the "Legenda," and the "Passio." Bokenham reveals an early fifteenth-century appreciation of Chaucer's skill as author and translator.
Zissos, Andrew.
International Journal of the Classical Tradition 13.2 (2006): 165-85.
Zissos surveys the reception of Valerius Flaccus's "Argonautica," briefly discussing Chaucer's references to the author and the work in LGW, identified by E. F. Shannon in 1929. Chaucer was the first to refer to the poem after the postclassical…
Schildgen, Brenda Deen.
Comparative Literature 65.1 (2013): 85-100.
Focuses on the episode of "wood-stripping" that occurs in Statius' :Thebaid" (6.84-117), Boccaccio's "Teseida" (11), and KnT (4.2919-62). While Statius' account is the major model for the others, all versions imply social-political criticism,…
Lerer, Seth.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 83-95.
Lerer comments on the recent study of Chaucer reception and exemplifies the "status of Chaucer's authority" in a letter of Alice Paston to her son, a version of Truth in Tottel's "Miscellany," and an allusion to KnT in "The Two Noble Kinsmen." Each…
Doyle, Laura.
Literature Compass 15.6 (2018): n.p.
Places the cluster of Chaucer essays in this special issue of "Literature Compass"--entitled "Chaucer's Global Compaignye"--in the context of the journal's "Global Circulation Project," and comments on each of the included essays. For individual…
Noting the heritage of critical commentary about the Pardoner's sexuality, Minnis calls for refocusing attention on the central issue: the Pardoner's immorality. The Pardoner, probably a lay person, is placed within the context of medieval indulgence…
Keller, Kimberly Anne.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1999): 122A.
A psychoanalytic, Lacanian study of the lover's complaint reveals the fragmented lover as seeking at once wholeness through recognition of his "trouthe" by the lady and union with her. Treats lovers' fantasies and failures in TC, Lydgate, Hoccleve,…
Hahn, Thomas, ed.
Special Issue of Exemplaria 2 (1990):1-353.
A collection of seventeen essays arising out of a conference entitled "History/Text/Theory: Reconceiving Chaucer," held at the University of Rochester on 21-23 April 1988. The essays use the discourses of modern literary theory to reconsider the…
Dyches, Jeanne, and Brandon L. Sams.
Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education 25 (2018): 370-83.
Offers "pedagogical realism" as an approach to reconciling the "goals of social justice" with canonical "curricula standards" in English instruction, illustrating how to use the motif of rape in teaching WBT.
Ramirez Arlandi, Juan.
Margarita Gimenez Bon and Vickie Olsen, eds. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature. (Vitoria-Gasteiz: Dpto. Filologia Inglesa, 1997): pp. 247-52.
Investigates varying presentations of marriage in the Marriage Group of CT, concluding that the "true idea of marriage is the result of combining the features that different characters exhibit."
Youmans, Gilbert.
C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson, eds. English Historical Metrics (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 185-209.
Reexamines Halle and Keyser's three principles of the iambic line as applied to Chaucer's verse, arguing that the verse is better explained by a prototypical hierarchy of stresses than by a pattern of alternating weak and strong stresses. Kiparsky's…
Evans, Deanna Delmar.
Studies in Scottish Literature 35-36 (2007): 444-54.
Critiques the appropriateness of the label "Scottish Chaucerian" for William Dunbar, focusing on relations between Chaucer's Th and Dunbar's "Sir Thomas Norny," observing that there is "no reason to assume" direct influence and identifying…
Lawton, Lesley.
Miranda: Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone 12 (2016): 1-21. Open access journal at http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/8646 (accessed February 6, 2022).
Explores how medieval romances convey stereotypes that "often appear as a feature of tales of identity in which the male subject position of active self-affirmation is partly developed in relation to female figures" of vulnerability. Includes…
Bychowski, M. W.
In Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp, eds. Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2918), pp. 221-49.
Uses Judith Butler's transgender theory to read the skin of the Pardoner as an example of cooperative agency resulting in a reconstructed identity, in contrast to the surgically enforced violence of cutting off Virginia's head in PhyT in order to…
