Downes, Stephanie.
Patrick Colm Hogan and Bradley J. Irish, eds. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 409-20.
Surveys historical interest and recent theorization of emotion and affect produced by 'works, and assesses the role of books in the opening of TC (tears as ink) and in WBP (Jankyn’s book) as "affective, emotional objects that arouse a range of…
Bose, Mishtooni.
Louise D’Arcens, and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, eds. Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. 75-94.
Examines the "“fissure between spoken utterances and the body's voice" in Arveragus's burst into tears (FranT 5.1479–80), engaging the theme of truth in the Tale and the "dynamic between . . . irruptions of the somatic voice and the dissociative…
Fulton, Helen.
Louise D’Arcens, and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, eds. Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. 37-55.
Investigates free indirect discourse in GP, focusing on Chaucer's personae, the variety of his narrative positions, and their “focalisations” internal and external to the diegesis of the poem. Comments on focalization in the descriptions of the…
D’Arcens, Louise, and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.
Twelve essays by various authors on the concept of "voice" in medieval literature, with an introduction by the editors, an appreciative tribute to David Lawton by John M. Ganim, and a comprehensive index. Generally, the essays focus on the literature…
Chelis, Theodore.
Ph.D. dissertation. Pennsylvania State University, 2022.
Abstract accessible at https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/22564tbc126 (accessed November 15, 2023).
Argues that "the vernacular literature of late medieval England contributes importantly to the theorizing of psychological subjectivity and that this theorizing is connected fundamentally with the history of shame"; focuses on selected works by…
Bude, Tekla.
Sonic Bodies: Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), pp. 146-68.
Argues that Chaucer "experiments with the body-disabling power of music as a site of poetic potential," tallying how, in CT, "musical performance nearly always causes narrative tension" and music "prosthetizes disability"--"advental" insofar as it…
Bower, Hannah.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Explores relations between the practical purposes of medieval medical recipes and their imaginative and aesthetic effects, focusing on how the texts of these recipes reflect their broader discursive culture, c. 1375-1500. Cites Chaucer's recurrent…
Bordalejo, Barbara.
Digital Medievalist 14, special issue (2021). 8 pp.
Recounts brief personal history of experience with the Canterbury Tales Project, describes scholarly inattention to the project, and introduces the five essays in this special issue. For the five essays search for Digital Medievalist 14, special…
Dwyer, Seamus.
Roman Bleier, Brian Coleman, and Clare Fletcher, eds. Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World (New York: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 193-208.
Surveys critical attention to Adam and reads the poem as an exhortation to "moral and professional penitence." Focuses on “corect,” “rubbe,” and “scrape” as scribal activities and as metaphorical links to penitential erasure in Chaucer…
Kaempfer, Lucis.
Roman Bleier, Brian Coleman, and Clare Fletcher, eds. Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World (New York: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 105-19.
Examines joy in TC--looking forward to it in Books 1 and 2, experiencing it in Book 3, and remembering it in Books 4 and --as aspects of Troilus's identity and of the poem itself. Anticipated joy shapes the characterization of Troilus as a courtly…
Hanna, Natalie.
Roman Bleier, Brian Coleman, and Clare Fletcher, eds. Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World (New York: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 229-49.
Questions how and to what extent recurrent mention of Hector in TC helps to characterize Troilus as a knight. Instances and collocations of “knight,” “worthy,” related terms, and references to Hector, generally not found in Chaucer's source…
Morgan, Gerald.
Roman Bleier, Brian Coleman, and Clare Fletcher, eds. Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World (New York: Peter Lang, 2022), pp. 121-53.
Explicates the rhetorical, conventional, and philosophical aspects of the combination of physical beauty and moral virtue in Chaucer's portrait of Blanche in BD, "a triumph of the poet's art." Clarifies similarities and differences between Chaucer's…
Bleier, Roman, Brian Coleman, and Clare Fletcher, eds.
New York: Peter Lang, 2022.
Collects twelve essays from the 2016 conference on memory and identity, with a preface and a cumulative index. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Memory and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World under Alternative Title.
Berensmeyer, Ingo.
Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2022.
Historical survey of the relations between literary texts in English and material presentation, from oral and dramatic performance through manuscripts and books, to audio, visual, and digital forms. Includes a section on key terms, a timeline, and an…
Beal, Jane.
Albrecht Classen, ed. Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: New Cultural-Historical and Literary Perspectives (Boston: De Gruyter, 2022), pp. 233-52.
Argues that the "Chaucerian narrator could easily and perhaps more readily be called the Chaucerian translator," observing emphasis on translation in LGWP and in Ret, assessing Chaucer's many uses of sources and approaches to translation, including…
Baker, David.
Robert Tubbs, Alice Jenkins, and Nina Engelhardt, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 23-40.
Exemplifies how Chaucer "has a great deal of fun with the coalescence of medieval arithmetic, geometry and logic into a single discipline more recognizable today as mathematics," exploring the "proto-probabilistic" dicing and poison-bottle selection…
Robertson, Michael.
Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 43 (2022): 55-93.
Accounts for seventeen words found in the glossaries of Speght's 1598 and 1602 editions of Chaucer's works that are labeled "unidentified" in Jürgen Schäfer’s "Early Modern English Lexicography" (1989), tracing them "to manuscript variants and…
Okamoto, Hiroki.
Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture 33 (2022): 658-83.
Claims that by composing his poetry in English, Chaucer participated in the European movement of promoting the vernacular literatures. Argues that Chaucer's neutral depiction of dialectal features in the two clerks’ speeches in RvT affirms the…
Nishihara, Takayuki, and Yoshiyuki Nakao.
Studies in Education (Bulletin of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University) 3 (2022): 120-28.
Draws parallels between Chaucer's tense shift and Japanese I-mode, where tense shift occurs from the past to the present. Identifies tense shifts across various units, from a single metrical line to an extended piece of discourse consisting of…
D’Anca, Christene.
Early Middle English 4 (2022): 87-95.
Clarifies the "nuanced semantic versatility" of "hende" in romances and fabliaux, with particular attention to MilT and "Dame Sirith," showing how various connotations obtain in differing contexts, and suggesting that editors "might apply distinct…
Focuses on the poetic form made famous by "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and Th, but also considers poetic form in the scorpion passage of BD and alliteration in ParsP. Discusses myths surrounding the "bob and wheel" form that are often…
Putter, Ad.
English Language Linguistics 26 (2022): 471-85.
Treats the scansion of "high" and "sly" in works by Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve--all "careful metrists"--as evidence of the demise of "inflection of monosyllabic adjectives (final -e for weak and plural adjectives)." Posits that irregularities in…
Greene, Darragh.
Garry L. Hagberg, ed. Literature and Its Language: Philosophical Aspects (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 149-71.
Explores the question of what Chaucer "holds to be the nature of reality," focusing on "the metaphysics of beauty" in PF, the "nature of the rocks" in FranT, and the "ontology of narrative itself" in NPT, and showing that "Chaucer’s sensate faith…
Utz, Richard.
Studies in Medievalism 31 (2022): 159-75.
Considers how Rudyard Kipling incorporates a Chaucer-centered medievalism in his writings, emphasizing the conservative, imperialist bent of this reception. As a point of departure, draws attention to Kipling's late short story "Dayspring…
A murder mystery in which Geoffrey Chaucer and his friend John Gower try to solve a double murder while barricaded in the Tabard Inn, defended against the rebellious peasants in 1381. Features historical and fictional characters, some of the latter…
