Son, Byung-Yong.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 23.1 (2015): 61-81.
Argues that Chaucer's alterations of the conventions of romance in KnT indicate the poet's political caution in giving advice to his king, advising him in the figure of Theseus to deal with political trouble by valuing Parliament. In Korean with an…
Byeong-yong, Son.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 22.2 (2014): 61-81.
Looks at the political and social context of Chaucer's life, and claims that in KnT Chaucer appropriated and transformed the conventions of romance to reflect his own political views about medieval kingship.
MacCurdy, Marian Mesrobian.
Dissertation Abstracts International 41 (1980): 2596A.
The image of woman is the focal point for the controversy regarding the good or evil nature of the physical world. Early Christian and Gnostic writings, selected troubadour lyrics, "Gawain and the Green Knight," Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur," and…
Includes the Middle English text of GP 1-42, with Lithgow's reading of the passage and his commentary on how it "grabs you" and makes you want to hear more.
Knight, Stephen
Sydney: Angus and Roberstosn, 1973.
Argues that Chaucer's "poetic powers" are consistently evident throughout CT and that the formal qualities of his poetry are as important to his high reputation as are his wit and humane sensibility. Reads CT sequentially, tale by tale, focusing on…
Close reading of three passages on Troilus's suffering (5.218-38, 540-53, 1674-1722) reveals an intensification of emotion through "rhetorical figures of compression and repetition and by cascades of rhyme sounds within the rhyme royal forms." The…
Burrow, J. A.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Burrow explores the functions and rhetoric of praise in classical, medieval, and Renaissance poetry, with commentary on its relative paucity in modern tradition. Focuses on medieval English panegyric verse, love poetry, and devotional poetry, with…
Yeager, R. F.
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 476-95.
Considering the possibility that Gower "was the foremost poet of his age," Yeager contrasts the poetic powers of Gower and Chaucer and compares Gower's poetic techniques in "In Praise of Peace" and "Confessio Amantis" with Chaucer's techniques in CT.
Bessinger, J. B., Jr., reader
New York: Caedmon, 1967. (TC 1226)
A reading in Middle English of PF, MerB, Ros, Sted, Purse, Adam, and Scogan, accompanied by a companion booklet that comprises the text, notes, and glosses based on E. T Donaldson's "Chaucer's Poetry" (1958).
Bessinger, J. B., Jr., reader.
New York: Caedmon, 1962. (TC 1151). Available at archive.org; accessed June 29, 2024.
A reading in Middle English of GP, ParsP, and Ret., accompanied by introductory liner introduction and a 12-booklet that includes the text of the poetry from F. N. Robinson's 1957 edition, withour notes or glosses.
Torti, Anna.
Marco Fazzini, ed. Alba Literaria: A History of Scottish Literature. Venice: Amos Edizioni, 2005, pp. 65-81.
Consciousness of the importance of the Scottish literary tradition characterizes Douglas's work. Although "The Palice of Honour" is grounded in Chaucer's HF, Douglas makes it clear that his aim is different, and the latter compares Fame to Honour…
Gardner, John Champlin.
Carbondale: Southern Ililinois University Press, 1977.
BD is an apprentice work whose chief interest is in rhetoric and ornamentation. PF, built on neo-platonic musical principles, shows growth in command of structure. The short poems reveal Chaucer's interest in prosodic experiment. TC is a great…
Johnson, Eleanor.
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 426-39.
Discusses the "the rise and coalescence of trespass law, both as a theory of legal relationality and a practice of litigation." Traces the effect of trespass law on other forms of English law and demonstrates the effect of this law on poetry.…
Yang, Ming-Tsang.
Studies in Language and Literature (National Taiwan University) 10: 27-49, 2001.
Yang considers several aspects of translation and the rhetoric of translation in TC: the narrator's "double role" as translator and author, Pandarus as translator, Diomede as a "force of the translation process," Criseyde as "text" that is…
Gaston, Kara.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 37 (2015): 227-56.
Examines the management of time in the "Aeson episode" of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" (Book VII), the Tale of Menedon in Boccaccio's "Filocolo,"and FranT, focusing on Medea's "carmen," Tebano's magic, Dorigen's complaint, and their parallels with poetic…
Barootes, Benjamin S. W.
Open access Ph.D. dissertation. McGill University, 2016.
Available at https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/.
Accessed February 7, 2021.
Examines "how Middle English poets deployed the dream vision genre and the elegiac mode to explore the limitations of language and interrogate the art of poetry." Includes discussion of how in BD the Black Knight's "move from the closed circle of…
Bankert, Dabney Anderson.
Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 4733A.
Considers biblical, historical, traditional, and hagiographical accounts of conversion, exploring Chaucer's appropriation of them to psychologize courtly love or "'fin'amors' as a surrogate religion" in TC.
Paxson, James J.
Cambridge: Cambridge University PRess, 1994.
Defines and analyzes personification as fundamental to literature and human consciousness. Surveys the history and theory of the device and examines its roles in works by Prudentius, Chaucer, Langland, and Spenser, applying various modern critical…
O'Connell, Brendan.
Gerald Morgan, ed. Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry (New York: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 261-78.
Traces Chaucer's and Dante's different responses to poetic "representation and authority" to Jean de Meun's "Le roman de la rose," examining the "poetics of fraud" in PardT and HF.
Explores the emergence of the modern, first-person persona as manifested in autocitation. Assessing the influence of Augustine, Anselm, Ockham, and others, Kimmelman traces the development of autocitation in the works of Guillem IX, Marcabru, and…
Kimmelman, Burt Joseph.
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1991): 1741A.
Mentions Chaucer among poets (Guillem IX, Marcabru, Dante, and especially Langland) who helped develop the distinction between history and fiction and who showed themselves to be individuals, not for self-promotion but to identify themselves…
Gaylord, Alan T.
[Provo, Utah]: Chaucer Studio; [Richmond, Ky.]: Southeastern Medieval Association, 1999. Supplement to special issue of Medieval Perspectives, no. 14
An aural history of alliterative verse in English, from Caedmon's Hymn to "traces" and imitations in modern poetry, with emphasis on medieval tradition. First delivered as a plenary address at the 1998 meeting of the Southeastern Medieval…
Argues that Gower's intention in "Confessio Amantis" is both "poetic, as well as political." Emphasizes how Chaucer and Gower are concerned with "authority and experience" in their poems. Discusses WBT in relation to Gower's "Tale of Florent."
Kumamoto, Sadahiro.
Masahiro Hori, Tomoji Tabata, and Sadahiro Kumamoto, eds. Stylistic Studies of Literature: In Honour of Professor Hiroyuki Ito (New York and Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 71-92.
Kumamoto examines eleven syntactical patterns used in conjunction with poetic enjambment. Chaucer's poetry contains more enjambment than do three anonymous romances included for comparison--and Chaucer uses enjambment more in his early poetry (BD,…
