Addresses the engagement of medieval literature in the construction of European and Muslim identities in CT. Traces the origin and the politics behind the western construction of Muslims as "God's enemies in the Middle Ages and how this…
Explores why Chaucer sets CT in April, rather than the traditional month of May, and concludes that the disruption of expectations leads the reader to reflect and realize the tales are a mix of the secular and the sacred.
Blandeau, Agnès.
Isabelle Fernandes, ed. Martyr et martyre: Dans la Chrétienté de l'Europe occidentale, du Moyen Age jusqu'au début du XVIIe siècle (Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2020), pp. 85-04.
Includes references to GP, MLT, SNT, ClP, PrT, and FrT.
Traces the readership of Chaucer in China, offering analyses of texts and translations available and frequency of Chaucer's verse in university curricula. Ties this readership to various factors, including interest, social context, and history.
Warren, Michelle R.
Literature Compass 15, no. 6 (2018): n.p.
Explores interrelations among world literature studies, comparative literature studies, textbook marketing, translations of Chaucer's works into various languages, Ngugı wa Thiong'o's concept of "globalectics," and the essays accompanying Warren's…
Walter, Katie.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Explores the transgressive and reparative potential of the mouth in medieval thinking--scientific, pastoral, and literary (especially "Piers Plowman"). Includes no sustained attention to Chaucer's works, but the index lists nearly forty references to…
Tracy, Kisha G.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 24, no. 1 (2017): 45-60.
Exemplifies the utilities of Google Maps in creating instructor-generated and student-generated maps for teaching aspects of undergraduate coursework in medieval literature, with five sample maps and an assignment designed for a course in English…
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…
Staley, Lynn.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.
Concentrates on Anne of Bohemia, Chaucer and the trinity, and the figure of the medieval merchant: "three 'offices' of the active life as they underpin Chaucer's growing understanding of the relationship between individuals and their communities."
Situates the digital humanities (DH) within media history by arguing that DH depends upon collocation of visual, perspectivistic technology and artistic pursuit, as does anamorphosis. Exemplifies anamorphosis by means of Hans Holbein's "The…
Rogers, Will, and Christopher Michael Roman, eds.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2020.
Discusses medieval English, French, and Latin sources and offers directions for discovering queerness by connecting these texts to recent developments in queer theory, including queer phenomenology and queer failure. For two essays pertaining to…
Orlemanski, Julie.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Studies medical language and the "etiological imagination" of late medieval England, i.e., the "envisioning, arbitrating among, and emplotting [of] intricate causal chains" that seek to represent or explain the "frictional interface of causation and…
Argues that Christian and pagan acts of prayer in Chaucer's works are fundamental to understanding his creative piety. Chaucer's literary representations of prayer are collaborative and participatory "scripts" that involve the reader in the sacred…
Magnani, Roberta,
McAvoy, Liz Herbert
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 311-24.
Posits a "radical revisioning of canon formation . . . made possible by positioning women as queering agents," and discloses the "female-coded discourses of spirituality and literacy embedded" in KnT. Reads the romance against "The Booke of Gostlye…
Miles, Laura Saetveit.
Watt, Diane..
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 285-93.
Introduces the six essays in this cluster, clarifying distinctions between literary canon formation and literary archive, with particular attention to women's devotional writing and reading in Middle English. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer,…
Ludwikowska, Joanna.
Early Modern Literary Studies 20, no. 1 (2018): 1-51. Open access journal at https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/emls/index (accessed February 6, 2022).
Argues--with qualifications--that the Reformation did not have "any direct, significant influence on the changes in the discourse on female vices and virtues" in the early modern period. Focuses on social conditions, conduct literature, and fiction,…
Little, Katherine C.
Exemplaria 31 (2019): 117–28.
Disagrees with "theorists of materiality" who regard lists as "transparent," or "utopian, or egalitarian, or decentering." Examines how the list of "thynges" in KnT (3017ff.), though different from the analogous list in Boccaccio's "Teseida," "makes…
Lears, Adin E.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020.
Connects noise and knowing and unknowing in late medieval English literature. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss HF and WBT respectively, suggesting how Chaucer's texts "present lay uses of language as noise."
LaBarge, Elizabeth.
Once and Future Classroom 15, no. 1 (2019): 107-15.
Offers evidence (including quotations from students) that teaching CT in a bilingual (English/Spanish) high school helps students to "feel part of the conversation in college" and "to reflect on their own lives and cultures." Moreover, such students…
Krstovic, Jelena.
Lawrence Trudeau, ed. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 260 (Farmington, Mich.: Gale, 2017), pp. 114-0.
Reprints eleven examples of Chaucer criticism published between 2001 and 2013 and an excerpt from 1934. The introduction by Krstovic summarizes Chaucer's biography, major works, and critical reception, updating information supplied in Volume 56 of…
Frames an assessment of literary theory with opening and closing comments on TC, claiming that, at the end of the poem, "Chaucer, in effect, is doing theory" and, by doing so, "converts his text into something residual and emergent, pleasurable and…
Johnson, Ian, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Includes fifty brief essays that offer "historical and conceptual information and perspectives" to aid in understanding Chaucer's works: J. A. Burrow, "What Was Chaucer Like?"; Andrew Galloway, "Chaucer's Life and Literary 'Profession'"; Jeremy J.…
Describes backgrounds, and analyzes depictions of and references to Minerva in late medieval British literature, exploring her as ""redemptress, mistress of the liberal arts, patroness of princes, idol, and Venus' ally," and arguing that writers of…
Hennequin, M. Wendy.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 24, no. 1 (2017): 121-40.
Justifies the use of historical re-creation assignments in university classrooms, offering in appendices a sample assignment and a grading rubric. Describes examples of more and less successful student projects, with commentary and illustrations,…
