Dinshaw, Carolyn.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 35 (2013): 3-25.
Contemplates the queer potential of parody and other forms of "engaging multiple temporalities," commenting on two nineteenth-century responses to the "Book of John Mandeville" and on a fictional incident posted on Brantley Bryant's "Chaucer Hath a…
Askins, William.
Robert M. Stein and Sandra Pierson Prior, eds. Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), pp. 271-89.
Askins reads Th for details that reflect Anglo-Flemish relations during the Hundred Years War. He identifies heraldic details, commercial concerns, and echoes of the Ghent war of 1379-84.
Rogers, Shannon L.
Westfield, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
Nearly 200 encyclopedia entries on wide-ranging topics, allusions, and sociohistorical contexts, many with illustrations and all with suggestions for further reading. Does not include entries for individual works by Chaucer but surveys them in the…
Greenspan, Charlotte L., and Lester M. Hirsch, eds.
New York: Macmillan, 1971.
An anthology of literary depictions of "overt prejudice" (p. xi) including a modern translation of PrT in rhyme royal (by Nevill Coghill) in a section called "Roots of Prejudice." The volume is designed for classroom use, with discussion questions…
Wu, Yuching.
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.07 (2019): n.p.
Aligns happy endings with the "rhetoric of bliss" in Middle English romances and includes discussion of jealousy as the crux of KnT, arguing that the "happy closure" of the narrative can only come about when the jealousy between Palamon and Arcite is…
Russell, J. Stephen, ed.
New York and London: Garland, 1988 (for 1987).
Dedicated to the memory of Judson Boyce Allen, this collection of ten articles by various hands examines medieval allegory in terms of modern critical theory. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Allegoresis under Alternative Title.
Foster, Edward E.
Ball State University Forum 11.4 (1971): 14-20.
Explores the extent to which the narrator and the dreamer, as separate psychologies, experience consolation through the progress of BD, assessing parallels between the Ceyx and Alcyone account and the dream of the knight' sorrow.
Rumble, Patrick.
Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
The films "The Decameron," "Canterbury Tales," and "The Arabian Knights" make up Pasolini's "Trilogy," here explored for how the films reflect understanding of the literary works from which they derive--in particular, how Pasolini's "Abiura," or…
Barney, Stephen A.
Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press, 1979.
Derives theory and definition from close readings of Prudentius's "Psychomachis," "Piers Plowman," "The Romance of the Rose," and "The Faerie Queene" as well as four more modern allegories.
Ramachandran, Ayesha.
Modern Language Notes 135 (2020): 1094-1107.
Explores references and allusions to Chaucer (SqT and KnT), Ariosto, and Boiardo in Spenser's "densely self-reflective meta-critical mediation" on national and international poetic influences in Book IV of his "Faerie Queene." Focuses on the…
Galloway, Andrew.
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 1513A.
Higden's Latin universal history reflects his critical and individual approach. Trevisa's translation and its continuations further this individuality. The Wife of Bath also reworks authorities in a distinctive way, bending them so that Chaucer's…
Tambling, Jeremy.
London and New York: Routledge, 2010.
Examines allegory as a mode in English and American literature (and art), surveying its roots in classical and medieval traditions, exploring its relations with other literary devices and forms (irony, personification, apostrophe, prosopopoeia,…
Gellrich, Jesse M.
Germanic Review 77: 146-59, 2002.
Modern notions of the "key role of materiality in allegory," as theorized by Walter Benjamin and echoed by Paul de Man, have clear precedents in patristic and medieval commentaries on allegory and supposition, although the sense of "material" is more…
Defines the medieval literary modes/genres of personification allegory and mirror, using them to analyze various works of Middle English literature and their models in Latin, French, and Italian. Treats HF as a personification allegory; aspects of…
Tambling, Jeremy.
Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004.
Tambling reads several late medieval and Renaissance texts in relation to Walter Benjamin's notions of melancholy and Freudian concepts of death, as well as allegory and history. Individual chapters treat "Piers Plowman," Hoccleve's "Complaint and…
Miller, Robert P.
Beryl Rowland, ed. Companion to Chaucer Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 326-51.
The much-disputed allegorical criticism of CT is a fairly recent phenomenon. Chaucer's allegories maybe either "formal" (e.g., ClT) or "informal" (e.g., KnT)--both styles deriving from "a reservoir of established menaings shared by the poet and his…
Quilligan, Maureen.
Morton W. Bloomfield, ed. Allegory, Myth, and Symbol. Harvard English Studies, no. 9 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981), pp. 163-83.
Distinguishing the process of allegory from the nature of allegoresis, Chaucer deallegorizes his sources. He addresses not a reader but an "auditor," who is not asked to judge his own interpretive procedures. Jean de Meun defends the use of slang…
Anderson, Judith H.
Zachary Lesser and Benedict S. Robinson, eds. Textual Conversations in the Renaissance: Ethics, Authors, Technologies (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 71-89.
Explores intertextual relations between Spenser's Faerie Queene and Chaucer's PardPT and FranT. Archimago and Despair from Spenser's Book 1 gain dimension in light of the Pardoner and the Old Man of PardT; in Book 3, Spenser explores the "emotional…
Explores the interplay between allegory as a "strategy for interpreting texts" and allegory as a "method for composing" in classical and medieval literature. Touches on HF, MerT, and PF.
Mason, Tom.
In Michael Edson, ed. Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2017), pp. 129–50.
Describes a kind of annotation used by eighteenth-century editors that links an edited poet to literary tradition by reference to or quotation from other poets. Focuses on the practice in Speght's 1687 edition of Chaucer; Dryden's Fables (1700); and…
Brown, Emerson Lee, Jr.
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.10 (1968): 4118A.
Investigates the "plurality of meaning" in a number of Biblical and classical allusions in MerT, comments on sources, and discusses the setting of the Tale and the names of its characters, arguing that the cultural context of the Tale is a major…
Boenig, Robert.
Notes and Queries 244: 321-26, 1999.
Discusses Chaucer's use of "Alma Redemptoris" rather than "Gaude Maria" in PrT, arguing that the choice may have influenced his characterization of the clergeon. The option was available in Chaucer's sources.
