Chaucer's use of the interjection "Oo" in KnT (2533) is adduced as a stage in the history of "Ahoy" going back to the Anglo-French verb "oir" (to hear, listen).
Lewis, Sean Gordon.
Enarratio: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 23 (2022): 52-68.
Examines the "embodiment of language" in HF and argues that it displays epistemological "confidence in the ability of the textual word/body to communicate accurately to the reader's imagination in a synesthetic experience." Focuses on how Chaucer…
McLeod, Glenda.
Glenda McLeod, Virtue and Venom: Catalogs of Women from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Women and Culture Series. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991), pp. 81-109.
Contrary to critical tradition, Chaucer did not necessarily abandon LGW in boredom. A reading with attention to the discrepancies between LGWP and the legends, and to their ordering and their figurative language, reveals a careful and purposeful…
Spearing, A. C.
John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986 (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987), pp. 169-77.
Examines the pervasiveness of love iconography and tradition in PF. Reviews various interpretations, political and social, and sees the "center" of the poem in the central line on the treacherous lapwing, a model for Chaucer's method with its many…
Kiser, Lisa J.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996), pp. 1-14.
Assesses the depiction of female-gendered Nature in Brunetto Latini's "Il Tesoretto," Alain de Lille's "De planctu naturae," Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose," and Chaucer's PF. A modern ecofeminst approach to these depictions helps disclose the…
In playing on Alan's "theological epic" in HF, Chaucer projects a view of readerly interpretation as a key component of literary production, thus challenging the notions that poetry springs solely from inspiration and "that textual meaning could be…
Donabeita Fernandez, Maria Louisa.
Teresa Fanego Lema, ed. Papers from the IVth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1993), pp. 43-53.
A deconstructive-psychoanalytical reading of WBP that examines the gaps left in the Wife's discourse, exploring implications of rape, sexual economics, and prostitution.
Molencki, Rafał.
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 31 (1997): 163-77.
Traces the history of the phrase "al be it" from its late-medieval "heyday" through its reduction to a single-word conjunction to its current status as a marker of "concessivity" or contradiction. Most medieval instances are cited from Chaucer.
Pratt, Robert A.
Philological Quarterly 57 (1978): 267-68.
Jankyn's theories of the dissemination of sound and odor coincide precisely with those of medieval science as presented by Albertus Magnus in his "Liber de sensu et sensato." Chaucer draws upon these widely disseminated medieval views rather than…
Ackroyd discusses Chaucer within the larger context of describing and defining the distinctive qualities of English imagination, focusing on Chaucer's themes of remembrance, science, and truth as part of the process of becoming English. Considers HF,…
Carlson, Paula J.
Mediaevalia 11 (1989, for 1985): 139-50.
In LGWP, Alceste is a more complicated character than is suggested by references to her in TC: "Alceste's truth, goodness, and faithfulness are offset in the Prologue by her obstinance, petulance, and fickleness." Critical readings ignore the…
Higgins, Anne.
Teresa Tavormina and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 113-27.
One key to recognizing the parody of hagiography in LGW is the identification of Alceste as Alice de Cestre in LGWP.
Hitchcox, Kathryn Langford.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 3033A.
Most scholarly treatments of Chaucer and alchemy deal with whether Chaucer believed in alchemy or whether he condemned it, but Chaucer's primary concern with alchemy was to use it as "symbolic language," especially in SNT and CYT. This salvific…
Hadbawnik, David.
Katherine W. Jager, ed. Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages: Politics, Performativity, and Reception from Literature to Music (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 201-31.
Focuses on Norton and Gower, but closes with a comparison of Gower's "linking of alchemy and language" with Chaucer's in CYT and suggests that Gower combines Latin and English to "produce poetic truths" while Chaucer emphasizes "combinations of…
Linden, Stanton J.
Wayne H. Finke and Barry J. Luby, eds. A Confluence of Words: Studies in Honor of Robert Lima (Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta, 2011), pp. 227-62.
Traces the influence of CYPT on the "writings of late medieval alchemical works," focusing on George Ripley's "Compound of Alchemy" and discussing a variety of motifs, from alchemists' attire and associations, to the jargon and dangers of alchemy,…
Runstedler, Curtis.
Curtis Runstedler. Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), pp. 89-129.
Explores the "moral value for Chaucer's audience" of CYPT and articulates "alchemical connections" elsewhere in CT, especially SNT. Focuses on the diction and imagery of CYP, on CYT as a negative exemplum, and on the Yeoman's final rejection of…
Analyzes the literary treatment of alchemy from Chaucer's CYT through works by John Donne and Ben Jonson; presents CYT as the foundational text in the "long tradition of alchemical satire."
St. John, Michael.
Carla Dente, George Ferzoco, Miriam Gill, and Marina Spunta, eds. Proteus: The Language of Metamorphosis. Studies in European Cultural Transition, no. 26. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005, pp. 83-92.
Argues that an "individual's knowledge of history" is presented in HF in a way that is metaphorically linked to alchemical transformation--with "tydynges" either substantially transformed or flying into uncontrollable energy. CYT shows Chaucer's…
Bentick, Eoin.
Dissertation Abstracts International DAI C81.04 (2019): n.p.
Studies the portrayals of alchemy and alchemists in fourteenth-and fifteenth-century English verse, including discussion of Chaucer's negative depiction of alchemy and its practitioners in CYPT, and John Gower's positive view in "Confessio Amantis."
Schiff, Randy.
John A. Geck, Rosemary O'Neill, and Noelle Phillips, eds. Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 341-62
Assesses references to ale and wine in PardPT as they reflect the Pardoner's "submerged desire" to bond with the Host and his simultaneous attempt to compete with Harry as leader of the pilgrimage. Argues that "the metaphorical ale-stake associated…
Espie, Jeff.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 97-117.
Highlights the thematic centrality of memorialization, tombs, and inscription in the Ceyx and Alcyone story from Ovid to Chaucer to Spenser. The intertextual relations among these versions is predicated not on the principle of genealogical succession…
Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is an interview of Huxley with John Chandos, recorded July 7, 1961, and includes discussion of Chaucer and psychology. First published in 1964.
Hunter, Michael.
The Warden's Meeting: A Tribute to John Sparrow. (Oxford: Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles, 1977), 9-32.
Hunter describes a copy of the 1602 edition of Chaucer in his possession signed "A. Pope." The volume is defective, lacking the first gathering. The signature comes at the beginning of gathering B. There are no marginalia. Presumably this was a…
Hodapp, Marion F.
M. Criado de Val, ed. El Arcipreste de Hita: El Libro, El Autor, La Tierra, La Epoca (Barclona: S.E.R.E.S.A., 1973), pp. 285-308.
Tallies various similarities between Chaucer's works and that of Juan Ruiz, the Archpriest of Hita, comparing techniques and concerns of Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor" with CT, TC, and other Chaucerian works.
