Sisk, Jennifer.
Eva von Contzen and Anke Bernau, eds. Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015), pp. 116-33.
Explores how Chaucer addresses the sacred authority of hagiography, posing it in tension with the poet's own authority in LGWP, and examining authority and authorization in the "pseudo-hagiographies" of CT (MLT, ClT, and PhyT) where Chaucer…
Robertson, Kellie.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
Discusses how Aristotelian natural philosophy--physics--was debated in the Middle Ages, and its influence on the aesthetic practice of Latin and vernacular writers, including Chaucer, Jean de Meun, Guillaume de Deguileville, and John Lydgate. Argues…
Ramirez-Arlandi, Juan.
Salvador Pena and Juan Jesus Zaro, eds. De Homero a Pavese: Hacia un canon iberoamericano de clasicos universales (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2017), pp. 39-64.
Analyzes the translation techniques used in the Spanish version of MilT and RvT made between 1949 and 1956 by Chilean scholar, theater director and translator Jorge Elliott Garcia. Claims that the purpose of this verse translation was to increase the…
Pugh, Tison.
Karina F. Attar and Lynn Shutters, eds. Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 215-28.
Comments on the advantages of using new media to help students gain appreciation and expertise in studying Chaucer; includes descriptions of undergraduate classroom activities that use cinema, Chaucer blogs, YouTube videos of rap versions of…
Novacich, Sarah Elliott.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Explores how "poetic form, staging logistics, and the status of performance" contribute to our understanding of how medieval thinkers imagined the "ethics and pleasures of the archive." Includes discussion of HF, MLT, MilT, and Rom.
Nakley, Susan.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017.
Examines the views that accept Chaucer's nationalism as a given and those that focus on his international or European identity and vision. Draws on concepts of sovereignty and domesticity appearing "primarily in romantic and household contexts," and…
Moseley, C. W. R. D.
Critical Survey 29.3 (2017): 1-6.
Emphasizes the way in which Chaucer's poems engage in dialogue with his audience, changing the way we can engage with "the fundamental questions of knowledge, understanding, beauty, and pleasure."
Lavezzo, Kathy.
Eileen A. Joy, ed. Still Thriving: On the Importance of Aranye Fradenburg (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Punctum, 2013), pp. 25-31.
Considers the value of retaining the Chaucer Division of the Modern Language Association, maintaining its importance as long as "attention to [Chaucer's] corpus continues to unhinge, transform, and trouble received ideas about being in the world."…
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.
Newhauser, Richard G.
Annette Kern-Stahler, Beatrix Busse, and Wietse de Boer, eds. The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England (Boston: Brill, 2016), pp. 199-218.
Explores the "full sensory expression" in Chaucer's "construction of space," emphasizing the interconnectedness of the five senses in medieval understanding and their ethical dimensions that require proper training to engage volition correctly.…
Kern-Stahler, Annette, Beatrix Busse, and Wietse de Boer, eds.
Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2016.
Collection of essays presenting perspectives on interrelations between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. For essay on Chaucer, search for The Five Senses in Medieval and…
Describes several ways of addressing modern "experimental poems 'as' criticism," and suggests that, adumbrating such metapoetic practice, the juxtaposition of Th and Mel "constitutes a wondering literary-theoretical response to Boethius'…
Hsy, Jonathan.
David Hillman and Ulrika Maude, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 24-40.
Explores how disability studies have expanded to include consideration of relations between "embodiment and literary form," focusing on representations of deafness in the fifteenth-century Castilian "Arboleda de los enfermos" (Grove of the Infirm) of…
Hines, Jessica N.
Dissertation Abstracts International A78.09 (2017): n.p.
Considers how Chaucer (in ClT, LGW, and ParsT) develops the concept of pity from European sources, and privileges the concept in English literary discourse.
Harbin, Andrea. R., and Tamara O'Callaghan.
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 21.2 (2014): 111-26.
Considers the utilities of "hyperprint" texts for teaching medieval literature, offering an extended example of the first twenty-five lines of MilT, augmented by five "fiducial markers" (QR-coded) that enable a reader/user, without leaving the…
Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye.
Staying Alive: A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Punctum, 2013), pp. 223-61.
Contemplates and appreciates the "indisputable fact of our common aliveness," exploring various topics for evidence of cognitive and aesthetic similarities: biosemiotics, real estate advertising, human natal development, communal grooming, and the…
Fedewa, Kate.
Dissertation Abstracts International A74.11 (2014): n.p.
Explores the "means and purposes" of Latin literary education in late medieval England, examining the "subject position" imagined for school children in pedagogical materials. Also comments on how Chaucer and Langland evoke a "grammatical nostalgia"…
Argues that "postmodern literary experiments tend to enact, and embody, an unwitting return to medieval modes of textuality," observing how PF, CT as a whole, individual tales, and the multiplicity of variant manuscripts "actively resist a sense of…
Downes, Stephanie, and Rebecca F. McNamara.
Literature Compass 13.6 (2016): 444-56.
Surveys "current critical trends" in the history of emotions and in Middle English literature, considering modern and postmodern criticism of TC ("a poem of emotional extremes") and "Sir Orfeo," and suggesting future directions for the study of…
Ohno, Hideshi.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 61 (2017): 69-84.
Focuses on words and phrases collocating with "herte," "minde," and "soule" in CT and TC and analyzes how Chaucer "exerts his influence on the reader's/audience's emotion" through the use of these words.
Green, Eugene.
Michael Bilynsky, ed. Studies in Middle English: Words, Forms, Senses and Texts (New York: Peter Lang, 2014), pp. 165-83.
Explores the pragmatic linguistic devices Chaucer uses to establish a common ground of communication and "create convincing exchanges" between the Dreamer and the Eagle in HF, identifying and analyzing various concerns: "back-channel," lexicon,…
Yoshikawa, Fumiko.
Michael Bilynsky, ed. Studies in Middle English: Words, Forms, Senses and Texts (New York: Peter Lang, 2014), pp. 343-60.
Studies the generic variety, rhetorical features, and persuasive power of four works of medieval English literature, including ParsT, tabulating the relative incidences of rhetorical questions, appeals to authority or logic, poetic devices,…
