Sweeten, David W.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation (Ohio State University, 2016). Available at https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=osu1468414544&disposition=inline (accessed April 4, 2020).
Explores "economic terms and metaphor" in Middle English literature "to determine what such treatment indicates about the shifting social relations of marriage in late medieval England." Discusses how, in WBP, the Wife "appropriate[s] economic…
Maslanka, Christopher.
Journal of Religion & Literature 49,3 (2017): 101-20.
Discusses the connection between physicality and personality in St. Christopher's hagiography in the "South English Legendary" and, in expanding this connection, uses Chaucer's descriptions of the Miller and the Wife of Bath in GP as additional…
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a fictional narrative that includes phallic parodies of various works of literature; CT is among them in a short account of a pilgrimage to the ketchup-bottle-shaped water tower in Ketchup City,…
Rushton, Cory James.
M. J. Toswell and Anna Czarnowus, eds. Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood (Cambridge: Brewer, 2020), pp. 143-54.
Maintains that Pearson's novel for juvenile readers "A Perfect, Gentle Knight" (2007) "earns the quotation that provides its title" from GP, 73, identifying echoes of the father–son relationship of Chaucer’s Knight and Squire, even though the novel…
Robinson, James.
Neil Roberts, Mark Wormald, and Terry Gifford, eds. Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 143–59.
Assesses the lifelong development of Ted Hughes's attitudes toward Chaucer in published and archival materials, including comments on Hughes's view of Chaucer as the "perfect model of a public poet" and as a "presiding presence" in his relationship…
Rijser, David.
NRC Handelsbad Book Supplement, February 7, 2020, pp. 4-5.
Traces the known facts about Chaucer’s life and career, thereby showing him to be a man of wide-ranging interests, immersed in the opening world of the early European Renaissance. Claims that Chaucer is a cosmopolite, far removed from the narrow,…
The occasions, imagery, and verbal play of the lyrical interludes in TC clarify Criseyde's role as a Christian archetype, one who leads Troilus from self-absorption to transcendence but who nevertheless remains ambiguous in her own silence and her…
Fradenburg, Aranye.
Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico, eds. The Post-Historical Middle Ages ((New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 87-115.
Fradenburg contemplates similarities between Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams" and medieval dream theory (especially Chaucer's in PF, BD, and NPT) as a way to explore the continuities of history and human psychology.
Finke, Laurie.
Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp, eds. Fleshly Things and Spiritual Matters: Studies on the Medieval Body in Honour of Margaret Bridges (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011), pp. 209-28.
Addresses the male gaze "at other men's bodies," focusing on visual art and on "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Includes comments on Chaucer's "lingering over the details of Nicholas's ass" in MilT.
Cervone, Cristina Maria.
English Language Notes 53.2 (2015): 103-17.
Explores "inversions of the material and the immaterial" in the description of the temple of Mars in KnT, describing how the narrator of the description is both "subjectless and immaterial," and investigating "how we think about what we imagine we…
Stinson, Timothy L.
Manuscript Studies 1.1 (2017): 115-34.
Considers literary completeness, its relations to philosophies of perfection, and "the ways in which incompleteness is a special characteristic of Middle English literature," particularly in manuscript studies. Surveys kinds of incompleteness in CT,…
Weinstock, Horst.
Horst Weinstock. Kleine Schriften: Ausgewahlte Studien zur Alt-, Mittel- und Fruhneuenglischen Sprache und Literatur. Heidelberg: Winter, 2003, pp. 99-109.
Weinstock constructs a pseudo-sonnet from Chaucerian couplets and submits it to translation, analysis, and commentary. First publishesd in Peter L. Oesterrich and Thomas O. Sloane, eds. Rhetorica Movet: Studies in Historical and Modern Rhetoric in…
Troilus cannot read the "text" of Criseyde's face because he is too self-absorbed. Thinking only of what she can do for him, he neglects her "context," fails to acknowledge her vulnerability, and thinks of her as an "image in stasis." Although…
Moore, Jeanie Grant.
Laurel Amtower and Dorothea Kehler, eds. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003), pp. 133-46.
As an often-married single woman, the Wife of Bath confronts and eludes the "binarisms that contained married women": married/not married, male/female, experience/authority, etc. In the fantasy of WBT, she succeeds partially in creating a "world of…
Hanna, Ralph III.
Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995), pp. 225-43.
Ellesmere was not edited in a modern sense; i.e., it was not revised or corrected for such matters as metrical regularity. Having compared approximately 6,000 lines of Ellesmere with parallel lines in six other manuscripts nearly contemporary with…
Rouse, Margitta.
Andrew James Johnston, Margitta Rouse, and Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, eds. Transforming Topoi: The Exigencies and Impositions of Tradition (Göttingen: V&R, 2018), pp. 59-88.
Argues that Shakespeare's exploration of the "nature of literary adaptation-as-innovation" in "The Rape of Lucrece"--conducted by means of “competing versions of the Troy story"--engages with the "Chaucerian poetics" of HF and TC, particularly…
Choi, Yejung.
Feminist Studies in English Literature 12.1 (2004): 249-78.
Assesses the overt or implied gender of the narrator in ABC, in PrPT, and in SNPT, exploring how each correlates with the depiction of the Virgin Mary in these works. Suggests that these depictions indicate that Chaucer was a "keen observer of the…
Yim, Sung-kyun.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 19.2 (2011): 165-86.
Explores Edmund Spenser's adaptation of SqT in Book 4 of his "Faerie Queene," focusing on how he develops a theme of friendship. Spenser claims Chaucer as source, but it seems neither that he "completes" SqT nor focuses on the Cambel/Canacee plot. In…
Kim, Jaecheol.
Journal of English Language and Literature (Korea) 58 (2012): 143-61.
Argues that a "pre-modern nationalist discourse" inspired Chaucer to "spawn his own 'nationalist discourse,'" and that Chaucer's reception as the "father" of English poetry "mediates thirteenth century post-colonialism and nineteenth-century…
Halacsy, Katalin.
Veronika Ruttkay, Balint Gardos, and Andrea Timar, eds. Ritka Müvészet: Írások Péter Ágnes Tiszteletére [Rare Device: Writings in Honor of Agnes Peter] (Budapest: ELTE BTK, 2011), pp. 363-70.
Provides historical, literary, and religious backgrounds to PrT, intended for classroom teaching of the tale and focusing on ethical values. In Hungarian.
The treatment of Chaucer (often in translation) in cultural studies programs tends to divest his verse of its poetic qualities as, for example, in the tournament in "The Knight and His Tale."
