Ohno, Hideshi, Akiyuki Jimura, Yoshiyuki Nakao, Noriyuki Kawano, and Kenichi Satoh.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 62 (2018): 1-13.
Examines linguistic features of Pynson's and de Worde's editions of KnT and discusses similarities to and difference from each other, Caxton's editions, and the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts.
Explores prosimetrum in the Arthurian "Tristan en prose" as a way to understand Palamon's actions after he overhears Arcite's "formally elegant rondeau" in KnT 1.1510ff.
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…
Hannis, Grant.
In Sue Joseph and Richard Keeble, eds. Profile Pieces: Journalism and the "Human Interest" Bias (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 17-29.
Opens a volume of essays on the journalistic practice of "painting a picture [of a person] in words," including discussion of the depiction of a "cross-section of Chaucer's contemporary English society" in CT--in GP and elsewhere--with particular…
Clark, Roy Peter.
In The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing (New York: Little, Brown, 2016), pp. 149-59.
Reads the opening of GP (lines 1–18) as a periodic sentence that "builds to a main clause near its end," describes its thematic concern with rebirth and regeneration, and explores the possibility of regarding weather as character or as a metaphor in…
Carlin, Martha.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 413–21.
Distinguishes among taverns, alehouses, and public inns, providing historical evidence that the latter were in Chaucer's day a "new institution," and maintaining that his setting of the opening of GP in an inn engages an emergent social culture,…
Williams, Tara.
University Park: Penn State University Press, 2018.
Presents a multidisciplinary "theory of the marvelous" in Middle English literature. Focuses on how fourteenth-century texts, including CT, "represent a coherent and previously unrecognized theory of the marvelous, one focused on the intersection of…
Makes the case that Boccaccio responds in the many trial scenes of the "Decameron" to contemporary concerns about verisimilitude in judicial proceedings. Claims that Boccaccio shifts in the role of judicial figures from mediators to determiners of…
Peck, Russell A.
In Craig M. Nakashian and Daniel P. Franke, eds. Prowess, Piety, and Public Order in Medieval Society: Studies in Honor of Richard W. Kaeuper (Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2017), pp. 344-67.
Analyzes imagery of worthiness in TC and CT, compared with John Gower's "Mirour de l'omme," "Piers Plowman," and Geffroi de Charny's "Book of Chivalry." Focuses on patience, penance, pilgrimage, and the "timing for one's acts," exploring uses of…
Kallas, Piotr.
In Magdalena Grabowska, Grzegorz Grzegorczyk, and Piotr Kallas, eds. Narrativity in Action (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017), pp. 77-100.
Describes (and reiterates) appreciation of Ricardian culture, exploring ways that Chaucer evokes a strong sense of contemporary London in CT and how, in "The Clerkenwell Tales," Peter Ackroyd evokes a similar sense of reality.
Halbrooks, John.
Essays in Medieval Studies 33 (2018): 1-9.
Argues that the birdsong of GP, line 9, and the silencing of the crow in ManT indicate "the permeable animal/human boundary" in CT, evidence of a mutual "soundscape" or a shared "acoustic community." Includes comments on avian and human communication…
Argues that in their ordering of Chaucer's text and in their various and dynamic forms, manuscripts of CT successfully instantiate Chaucer's dynamic idea of his text, the complex conditions for pre-print book production, and the disaggregated forms…
Fitzpatrick, Joan.
In Charlotte Boyce and Joan Fitzpatrick, A History of Food in Literature: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 15–62.
Includes discussion of food, drink, abstinence, feasting, gluttony, hunting, etc. in CT (pp. 35-52), observing Chaucer's consistent attention to moral and social implications, and comparing his depictions with those found in "Piers Plowman," "Sir…
Epstein, Robert.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2018.
Explores the "gift economy" and commercial culture of CT, and applies gift theory and economic anthropology to medieval literary criticism. Examines "gender of the gift," exchange of women, and gifts in GP. Chapter 6 focuses on the Franklin's gifts…
Barrington, Candace, Brantley L. Bryant, Richard H. Godden, Daniel T. Kline, and Myra Seaman, eds.
Website (2017). Available at https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/ (accessed March 7, 2020).
Comprises thirty-six "introductory essays for first-time, university-level readers" of CT, written by more than thirty "professional scholars," covering GP and each of the tales (two each for KnT, WBPT, and MerT), the Host and frame, Chaucer's…
Zhang, Lian.
American Notes and Queries 31.1 (2018): 9.
Examines translations of Chaucer's name in light of Chinese traditions, specifically with regard to a family's values and wishes revealed through name choice.
Considers tears in devotional contexts as a model for viewing tears "as a mode of discourse that is as potent as it is paradoxical: both outward and inward, involuntary and applied, and forming a distinctive voice between passive and active."
Friedrich, Jennie.
In James L. Smith, ed. The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2017), pp. 35-52.
Explores relations among imagery of hearts, transplanting, "bodily estrangement," and travel in TC, focusing on Criseyde, her brooch, her dream of the eagle, her departure from Troy, and how she "begins to embody foreignness by the end of the…
Schneider, Thomas R.
In James L. Smith, ed. The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2017), pp. 115-29.
Addresses "Chaucer's engagement with the concept of movement" in HF, exploring how three scenes of motion (the eagle's descent, the eagle's lecture on movement and sound, and the whirling House of Rumor) engage with William of Ockham's "Brevis summa…
Wright, Sarah Breckenridge.
In James L. Smith, ed. The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2017), pp. 93-114.
Combines ecocriticism and mobility studies to address the "medieval bridge as an icon of hybridity: a cultural artifact that commingles human/animal movement, architectural stasis, and the natural world (blood, stone, and water)." Then explores how…
Smith, James L., ed.
.[Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2017.
Offers six essays that treat medieval texts "as transit systems in which we can glimpse the mobility of objects, figures, mentalities, tropes and other 'matter' in vibrant intermediate networks." For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for…
Smilie, Ethan K., and Kipton D. Smilie.
Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought 58 (2017): 349-70.
Assesses the "merits and drawbacks" of teaching "grit" (i.e., the "ability to work hard and diligently for long-term goals") as a pedagogical goal, comparing modern notions with Thomistic "studiositas" and "curiositas" and assessing three "gritty…
Saunders, Corrine.
In Stephanie M. Hilger, ed. New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 119-41.
Identifies where "[a]cross his writings . . . Chaucer treats mind, body, and affect in sophisticated ways that go far beyond convention," focusing particularly on lovelorn knights in BD, KnT, and TC, and swooning women in ClT, MLT, and LGW. Argues…
