Osberg, Richard H.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 18 (1996): 25-54.
The naive, heavily repetitive, oratorical style of PrT appears to be influenced by late-medieval devotional prose written by men for women. Broader patterns of recurrence signal oppositions in the "Tale" that subvert its feminine voice and its…
Ando, Mitsunobu.
Hiroe Futamura, Kenichi Akishino, and Hisato Ebi, eds. A Pilgrimage Through Medieval Literature (Tokyo: Nan' Un-Do Press, 1993), pp. 383-97
Explores "gentilesse" as it relates to characterization in KnT and comments on the relationship between "earnest" and "game."
Takamiya, Toshiyuki.
Eigo Seinen 146.8: 508-11, 2000.
Comprehensive description of four paintings pertaining to The Canterbury Tales: Blake's (1810), Stothard's (1807), Corbould's (1840), and Mileham's (1924).
Biebel, Elizabeth M.
Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 63-75.
WBT reveals the Wife's idealized vision of society. The Tale answers her society's gender inequities, which victimize both men and women, by depicting a world wherein ultimately women and men are recognized as individuals.
Watson, Robert Allen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 503A.
Images of the cosmos based on the liberal arts appear in the epics of Martianus Capella, Bernard Silvestris, Alain de Lille, and Dante. Chaucer parodies and humanizes the universe in HF.
Conlan, J. P.
Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography 10: 120-47, 1999.
Reexamines the "paradoxical evidence" of Ha4, arguing that Manly and Rickert's discussion of it was distorted by their a priori assumptions and their concluding that Chaucer's foul papers "served as the exemplar" of the manuscript. The affiliations…
Christine de Pizan's version of the Griselda story emphasizes the gaze theme less than the versions by Chaucer and Petrarch do. Pizan's version is more clearly feminist than ClT, which presents a male viewpoint addressed to a community of male…
Snell, William.
Philologie im Netz, Supplement 4 (2009): 41-54.
Clarifies Edith Rickert's role in her collaborative work with John Matthews Manly--i.e., "Chaucer Life-Records" and "Text of the 'Canterbury Tales'"--arguing that people need to study the background of Rickert to see her as an important female…
Takahashi, Isamu.
Eigo Seinen 146.8: 499-501, 2000.
Surveys the transformations of the Wife of Bath in "The Wanton Wife of Bath" (1600), Johnson's "A New Sonnet of a Knight and a Faire Virgin" (1612), Fletcher's "Women Pleased" (1620), "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678), "The New Wife of Bath" (1700), Gay's…
Hayes, Alfred M., and James Laughlin, ed.
[New York]: New Directions, 1972.
A selection of poems by various authors from Virgil to the twentieth century. Includes a selection from SNP (8.36-56) and its source, i.e., a facing-page selection from Dante's "Paradiso." Illustrated by José Erasto. Selection slightly revised from…
Dor, Juliette, ed.
Liege: Universite de Liege, 1992.
A collection of twenty-six essays, fourteen of which address Chaucer and his works. Includes papers presented at a 1990 conference at the University of Liege marking the retirement of Paule Mertens-Fonck. Each essay addresses women's issues in…
Conlee, John W.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales". (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 27-37.
With the Knight and the Squire, Chaucer's Yeoman comprises the "basic English fighting unit--a unit sometimes referred to as a 'lance.'" Details of the Yeoman's GP sketch capitalize on the various connotations of "yeoman," and depict the Yeoman as a…
Huey, Peggy.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 14-26.
Explores the lexical and cultural meaning of "squire" as background to the GP sketch of the Squire. Chaucer's portrait is an idealized one, counterpointed by the lack of rhetorical skill in SqT.
Dor, Juliette.
Risto Hiltunen, Marita Gustafsson, Keith Battarbee, and Liisa Dahl, eds. English Far and Wide: A Festschrift for Inna Koskenniemi (Turku: Turun Yliopisto, 1993), pp. 167-81.
Dor explores Chaucer's punning from the vantage point of a translator of CT into French. Puns known as "traductio" and "adnominatio" during the Middle Ages are less easily translatable than are "significatio," perhaps because of the cultural and…
Gaylord, Alan.
Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 43 (1960): 341-61.
Provides historical background to the characterization of the Squire in GP 1.85-88, focusing on the economics, politics, and tactics of the so-called "Crusade of 1383" (or "Despenser's Crusade"), the implications of the word "chivachie," and ways…
Meyer-Lee, Robert J.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 35 (2013): 47-83.
Documents how editors' presentation of CT as a sequence of fragments is misguided and encourages that the description be abandoned. The term misrepresents the evidence of the manuscripts, and is misleading because Chaucer's discontinuities are…
Hagedorn, Suzanne C.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2004.
Hagedorn emphasizes the variety of versions of classical stories of abandoned women (Statius, Virgil, and Ovid) and the ways they were adapted in medieval tradition (e.g., Dante's "Inferno"; Boccaccio's "Teseida," "Fiammetta," and "Amorosa Visione";…
Hagedorn, Suzanne Christine.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1996): 2671A-72A.
Ovid undercuts epic male heroism, treating the emotional cost to the women deserted by Achilles, Theseus, Ulysses, and Aeneas and casting a shadow on these heroes in the works of Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer (KnT, LGW, TC). Bakhtin's views…
Clark, Marden J., and Soren F. Cox.
New York: Scribner, 1970.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a textbook for college composition, with samples from literature, rhetoric, and theory for discussion; includes Chaucer's "The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe" in a section on English language history.
Minnis, A. J.
Marianne Børch, ed. Text and Voice: The Rhetoric of Authority in the Middle Ages (Odense : University Press of Southern Denmark, 2004), pp. 138-67.
Considers the lack of extensive glosses and commentaries on late Middle English literature, including Chaucer, arguing that in England, unlike on the Continent, the concern with "translatio studii" (transferring the authority of the ancients to the…
Scala, Elizabeth.
Houndmills, Basingstoke; and New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002.
Scala studies absence as a structural feature of late-medieval English narratives, arguing that absence reflects the manuscript culture in which the narratives are preserved and that it is reflected in the critical and theoretical responses to these…
Scala, Elizabeth Doreen.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 187A.
Later medieval literature (as represented by Chaucer and others) demonstrates "cultural anxiety," manifested through marginal glosses, commentary, and illumination that make each manuscript unique, unlike modern printings.
Absolon's profession is reflected in his elaborate hairstyle (rather than tonsure); in his red, white, and blue clothing; and in his choice of the cultour as a tool for revenge. With cutting blade in hand, Absolon takes his "patient" by surprise,…
