Liendo, Elizabeth.
Ph.D. dissertation (Pennsylvania State University, 2019). Item not seen. Abstract available at https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/16973eah27 (accessed December 1, 2021).
Argues that Ovidian influence on "the literary fantasy of erotic and poetic mastery" draws on a "model established in Ovid's 'Amores'," tracing "a "shared heritage" ranging from Andreas Capellanus, Chrétien de Troyes, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Ronsard…
Keller, Wolfram R.
Diskursivierungen von Neuem 7 (2018): 1-23.
Argues that Chaucer's "literary re-novation" of the Trojan source material, enacted in TC and theorized in HF, "is a matter of the purification and hybridization of foregoing traditions," terms derived from Bruno Latour. Explores the relations…
Gaston, Kara.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Considers Chaucer's writings and their Italian influences, arguing for a view of Chaucer's poetry and its form over time, tracing "form as an object of discovery, rather than of recovery, and reading as a way of actively participating in the history…
Corrie, Marilyn.
Jeanette Beer, ed. A Companion to Medieval Translation (Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2019), pp. 133-42.
Explores the "difficulties" Chaucer encountered in translating Latin and continental works into English poetry and various verse forms, surveying complete works such as Bo, Rom, ClT, Mel, Ven, etc., and passages from various sources in larger works…
Benson, C. David.
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019.
Studies "ancient Rome as a major theme in the works of late medieval English poets": Chaucer, Gower, Langland, Lydgate, and the anonymous authors of "Stacions of Rome" and the interpolated "Metrical Mirabilia." Chapter 3, "Heroic (Women) in Chaucer's…
Allen-Goss, Lucy M.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020.
Discusses LGW alongside Middle English romance and an "hermeneutic tradition stretching from Jerome and Alan of Lille." Argues through these intersections for a mode of interpretation that centers on female desires, including silenced narratives of…
Rogers, Cynthia A.
Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 195-98.
Reviews how, in ten manuscript witnesses, the sixty-eight stanzas of "Letter" are misordered, in four distinct ways, three of which stem from collation errors. Though "unfortunate" for the poem, the errors "provide another few data points" regarding…
Ibrahim, Yasmin.
Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 510-12.
Confronts as an "orthographic paradox" Scribe B's uses of "Þt," arguing that the "short form is not specific to the orthography of the exemplar but generic to all variants" of the word "that."
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."
Bose, Mishtooni.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Caambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 191-204.
Surveys the critical history of NPT, including the scant comments focused on the tale between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Argues that the "tale's interest in direct experience acts as means of liberations from the plethora of discourses…
Kruger, Steven F.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 167-90.
Discusses the Prioress's antisemitism in PrT within the context of late medieval religious feeling, in order to "understand it from within so as more effectively to analyze it." Traces "the condensation of a complex set of antisemitic ideas, wrapped…
Lavezzo, Kathy.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 166-77.
Catalogues the contours of criticism of the Pardoner in PardT, including critical praise of the tale's alleged "superiority as a tale." Argues that the pilgrims' revulsion toward the Pardoner is rooted in his homosexual identity, which is connected…
Travis, Peter W.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 151-65.
Discusses FranT and its inclusion of the "sursanure", the superficially healed wound that nevertheless continues to fester. Suggests that this "sursanure" is "an exemplary Jamesonian symptom, the complex layerings of which invite readers to prise…
Crocker, Holly A.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 136-50.
Argues that ClT offers a view of what it means to be human, and that Chaucer's view differs significantly from Petrarch's presentation, in his translation of Boccaccio's Griselda story in the "Decameron," of Walter's cruelty and Griselda's patience…
Scala, Elizabeth.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 105-20.
Explains how the Wife of Bath dominates not only her own material in WBPT, but also CT as a whole. Discusses generic expectations for the Wife and her handling of biblical and classical material, to demonstrate that she represents "an irreducibly…
Sanok, Catherine.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 89-104.
Traces several interpretative concerns raised by MLT and demonstrates how the tale "has much to teach us about the layered, multipart narrative of project" of CT. Discusses "gender and religious difference," the secular and the sacred, the…
Nolan, Maura.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 73-88.
Offers a "step by step" reading of MilT "as it unfolds its argument.: Focuses on the crafting of the fabliau that refers to common elements of the genre and to Chaucer's specific context. Argues that the "artful carelessness of the Miller" is an…
Miller, Mark.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 59-72.
Accounts for the "strangeness" of KnT, cataloguing various theoretical and interpretative approaches, beginning with Charles Muscatine's scholarly contributions and ending with Elizabeth Scala's "Desire in the Canterbury Tales." Links each of these…
Justice, Steven.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 45-58.
Surveys approaches to reception and interpretation of GP. Reappraises GP's incompleteness as a symbol for the incompleteness of memory, establishing the beginning of CT as a kind of machinery that "set[s] the roadside drama in motion once again."
Turner, Marion.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 1–20.
Emphasizes Chaucer's development of form in CT. Demonstrates that Chaucer's experiments with form in CT and other works, including TC, are traced to origins in Boccaccio's works, and argues for a connection between these formal experiments and…
Raybin, David.
Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 244-49.
Reviews personal experiences of helping secondary teachers learn how to approach and teach Chaucer. Offers both a summary of the necessity of this kind of outreach and the results of these types of interactions.
