Gutierrez Arranz, Jose M.
Margarita Gimenez Bon and Vickie Olsen, eds. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Vitoria-Gasteiz: Dpto. Filologæa Inglesa, 1997), 140-45.
Examines "epistolary discourse" in ClP, PrP, NPP, SqT, and PardP in terms of style, using Isidore of Seville's recommendations about decorum.
Beck, Richard K., ed.
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1964.
Edits the GP portrait of the Wife of Bath, WBP (with excisions and interspersed summaries), WBT, and a portion of FrP, with bottom-of-page textual notes, and end-of-text explanatory notes and glossary. The Introduction addresses the base-text…
Fletcher, Alan J.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11 (1989): 15-35.
PardT is not organized according to modern sermon form; rather, it follows a homiletic genre exemplified by the sermons in John Mirk's "Festial," in "Jacob's Well," and in "Speculum sacerdotale," among others. Often "themeless," with an "associative…
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…
Boyd, Beverly.
Res Publica Litterarum: Studies in the Classical Tradition 17 (1994): 147-52.
Considers Emelye's prayer in KnT in light of both Boccaccio's "Teseida" and the fertility symbolism in Chaucer's tale, concluding that the prayer should be understood in terms of Diana's various mythological powers, while the answer should be…
Ruud, Jay, and Stacey M. Jones.
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 11.2 (2009): n.p. [Electronic publication]
Uses public relations theory ("concepts of relationship management") to examine the competitiveness of the Pardoner in PardPT and the combination of competiveness in WBP with the valuing of "communal relationship" in WBT.
Jager, Katharine Woodason.
DAI A68.11 (2008): n.p.
Jager contends that medieval English poetry occupied a "hybrid" oral/written cultural space and that the poems "posit an artisanal, poetic masculinity." She uses Th, along with "Piers Plowman," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and other works,…
Tuttle, Elaine.
Mary Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds. Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Athens and London : University of Georgia Press, 1988), pp. 230-49.
In ClT, Griselda paradoxically is able to achieve power only by submissiveness to Walter. As in LGW, Chaucer is equivocal about the power of women.
Smith, Susan L.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
Examines visual and verbal representations of the sexual power of women as "a topos of exemplification within the theory and practice of ancient and medieval rhetoric," especially as it developed in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries. Focuses…
Bryant, Brantley L.
Isle: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 26 (2019): 1006-37.
Ecocritical examination of the depiction of the sea in the Ceyx and Alcyone episode of BD, focusing on its shorelessness, comparing it with analogous accounts and with the representation of water in John of Trevisa's "On the Properties of Things,"…
Knudson, Karen R.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.03 (2016): n.p.
Includes discussion of Chaucer's "two brief glimpses" of Solomon as a figure of wisdom in CT, and more extended discussion of Solomon as author in Mel, WBP, MerT, and ParsT.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Fourteen essays by various authors and an introduction by Cohen, using and critiquing postcolonial theory in discussing medieval texts. Topics include the idea of the Orient; notions of time (temporalities) in postcolonial studies; Christian…
Scala, Elizabeth, and Sylvia Federico, eds.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Nine essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors "look beyond the absolute horizon of Marxist historicism in ways that display concern with how we know, with the limits of our knowledge, and with ourselves as presumably knowing…
Examines details of the GP sketch of the Prioress and the sensibility of PrT for the ways they clash, exploring their details in light of medieval convent learning and practice. The Prioress may have learned her courtliness as a devotee of Queen Anne…
Ikegami, Masa (T.)
Keio University Kyoyo-Ronan 80 (1989): 29-59.
Gives positive evidence of final "-e" in Chaucer's rhyme, especially in thirty-two rhyme sequences in which the distinction between two successive rhymes is made only by presence in one and absence from the other of final "-e".
McCarthy, Conor.
Donald Mowbray, Rhiannon Purdie, and Ian P. Wei, eds. Authority & Community in the Middle Ages (Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1999), pp. 101-15.
Because they were not subject to fathers or husbands, widows posed a challenge to dominant views of women in late fourteenth-century England. Chaucer's Wife of Bath is portrayed as lecherous, yet she may also embody broader concerns about widowhood.
PhyT has been undervalued; it is meant to be read in conjunction with the two that precede and follow it. A comparison with Gower's version and with Chaucer's similar story of Lucrece elucidates the tale. Virginia's character is brought into focus…
Braeger, Peter C.
Susanna Greer Fein, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger, eds. Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 29 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991), pp. 223-26.
Abstract of an article unfinished because of the author's death, examining the more than thirty verbal contexts for "Fortune."
Haskell, Ann S.
Marlene Springer, ed. What Manner of Woman. Gotham Library. (New York: New York University Press, 1978), pp. 1-14.
The romance, reflecting a male dominated society, depicts heroines as stereotypically as the less popular fabliau depicts lower class women. Later literature gives more access to women's lives, particularly middle class ones. Chaucer's Wife…
Bauer, Kate A.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 3949A.
Cross-disciplinary evidence (since the publication of Phillipe Aries's "Centuries of Childhood") indicates that strong love between parents and children existed in medieval culture. Chaucer, Gower, and the "Pearl" poet represent children and family…
Stielstra, Diane.
Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1986): 3715A.
Examines psychological portrayals in TC, inner monologues, and audience response as compared to sources in Benoit, Guido, and Boccaccio. Compares Criseyde's inner monologues with Troilus's.
Burrow, J. A.
A. J. Minnis, ed. Gower's "Confessio Amantis": Responses and Reassessments (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1983), pp. 5-24.
In an analysis of Gower's combination of confession, "dits amoreux," and concern with old age in the "Confessio Amantis," observes a number of comparisons and contrasts with Chaucer: the individuation of Amans and of the lovers in TC, uses of the…
Fisher, John H.
Nancy M. Reale and Ruth E. Sternglantz, eds. Satura: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honour of Robert R. Raymo (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001), 239-47; 36 b&w illus.
Fisher comments on the series of faces or portraits depicted in the historiated initials of the Bedford Psalter, arguing that they depict members of the affinities of Richard II and Henry IV: the kings themselves and the future Henry V, Gower,…
