Uses a "political theology of the refugee as neighbor" to explore contiguities between "Refugee Tales" (2016) and CT. Explicates nuances of "tendre/"tender" in the works and examines the absent presence of Theban refugees in KnT. The Knight "edits…
Veldhoen, N. H. G. E.
J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Richard Todd, eds. In Other Words: Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation and Lexicology Presented to Hans Meier on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter Mouton, 2019), pp. 107-16.
Seeks to answer the "demande d’amour" of FranT (1622), first eliminating Dorigen and the magician from consideration of who is most "fre," and then arguing that Aurelius and Arveragus have effectively equal claim to be named--a complicated balance…
Compares and contrasts John of MilT with January of MerT as "ridiculous figures" and "gulls of courtly love," the first "senex amans" naïve, the second lascivious. Both men violate "an existing societal order" and the ideals of "sexual propriety and…
Lynch, Andrew.
Joanna Bellis and Laura Slater eds. Joanna Bellis and Laura Slater eds. Representing War and Violence 1250-1600 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2016), pp. 79-94.
Assesses John Lydgate as "the premier learned war poet of the later English Middle Ages," exploring his "Troy Book" and "Seige of Thebes" for the ways they depict the violence of war. Includes recurrent attention to Lydgate's sources, Chaucer's TC,…
Coleman, Joyce.
Martin Chase and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds. Reading and Writing in Medieval England: Essays in Honor of Mary C. Erler (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2019), pp. 9-38.
Explicates the scene of Pandarus's interruption of Criseyde's reading group (TC,
II.85ff.), attending to its intertextualities, the implications of its setting in a paved "secular parlor," the nature of the female aristocratic readers, and…
Argues that "as a better joke," "worly" is preferable to "worthy" in Tho (7.917). The latter appears to be "scribal normalization" of Chaucer's mocking of a "well-worn native" word.
Argues that Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" alludes to KnT (particularly the figures of Emelye and Arcite) in ways that "perforate the boundaries" of the chronology of Shakespeare's borrowings the from the tale in "Dream" and in "The Two…
Cannon, Christopher.
Essays in Criticism 66 (2016): 277-300.
Sketches "the mode of literacy" that "occupies a borderland just beyond the precincts of surviving evidence," exploring "the role of dictation" rather than "a sequence of errors in copying that stands between" versions of such texts as TC and "Piers…
Goodrich, Micah.
Will Rogers and Christopher Michael Roman, eds. Medieval Futurity: Essays for the Future of a Queer Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2020), pp. 153-80.
Traces Chaucer's uses of purses and other cavities in PardPT as sites of queer reproduction. Throughout, "locates the ‘purs’ as a gendered, sexualized, and economized site of social exchange."
Huffman, Rebecca.
Dissertation Abstracts International A81.04 (2019): n.p.
Includes discussion of the version of ParsT in Longleat, MS 29, a compilation of devotional works where Chaucer's name is "cut from the tale and the work presented in an unambiguously religious context."
Gnerro. Mark L.
Notes and Queries 207 (1962): 164-65.
Locates the origins of Pandarus's "proverbial expletive" about "haselwodes" (TC 3.890) in the tradition of magical divination by sticks (rhabdomancy), commenting on the "appositeness" of assigning the proverb to the "hard-headed, skeptical Pandarus."
Laidlaw, Martin.
Victoria Blud, Diane Heath, and Einat Klafter, eds. Gender in Medieval Places, Spaces and Thresholds (London: Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 2019), pp. 107-22.
Examines conflicts between secular and religious notions of masculinity in the Monk's description in GP and in MkPT, showing that they depict the Monk's "inability to abide by the expected behaviours of his vocation" and expose him to ridicule by the…
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…
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…
