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."
Graves, Robert.
New York: Academy of American Poets, 1965.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this lecture was recorded on February 18, 1965, and includes comments on "flaws" in Chaucer's poems, as well as ones by Milton, Longfellow, Keats, Poe, and more.
Dodds, M. H.
Notes and Queries 201 (1956): 317-18.
Responds to a query by Lisle C. John (Note and Queries 201 [1956]: 97-98), suggesting that “borrow” may mean borwe” (pledge) or “borough” (referring to Canterbury).
Luo, Yue, trans.
Nanjing: Jiang su feng huang wen yi chu ban she, 2022.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a translation of CT into Chinese; apparently adapted, suggesting that Philippa's illness is Chaucer's motive for undertaking his pilgrimage.
In Japanese; accessible online at CiNii Articles [http://ci.nii.ac.jp/]. Abstract in Italian included in the back matter of the volume (p. 1), under the title "L'Episodio Dantesco di Conte Ugolion in Chaucer."
An, Li.
Forum for World Literature Studies 5.3 (2013): 503-11.
Assesses the combination of Christian marital ideals and secular courtly love in BD, arguing that the two are compatible in the poem. In Chinese, with English summary.
Choi, Yejung.
Medieval English Studies 7: 149-75, 1999.
In LGW, if the God of Love and Alceste criticize Chaucer, they do so as representatives of a text community based on Augustinian hermeneutics. Chaucer undermines the legitimacy of their view of poetry, inscribing his own presence and intent in the…
In Japanese; accessible online at CiNii Articles [http://ci.nii.ac.jp/]. Abstract in Italian included in the back matter of the volume (pp. 3-4), under the title "L'Incontro del Chaucer e la Letteratura Italiana."
Park, Sae-gon.
Journal of English Language and Literature 41 (1995): 827-45
Draws examples from "Beowulf" and CT to demonstrate transition in impersonal constructions in the Middle English period, especially evident in uses of the expletive "it" with an infinitive ("It happed hym to ride").
