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Treharne, Elaine.   Myra Seaman, Eileen A. Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro, eds. Dark Chaucer: An Assortment (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Punctum Books, 2012), pp. 161-71.
Reads PhyT as a deliberate inversion of hagiography, seen particularly in its failure to end with any positive consequences of the martyrdom.

Bleeth, Kenneth.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 221-24.
Argues that written texts are not the only valid sources of PhyT and acknowledges the need to consider "remembered texts, semantic fields, and pictorial images" - "intertexts" theorized by Michael Riffaterre.

Corsa, Helen Storm, ed.   Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.
Following the guidelines of the general editors, Paul G. Ruggiers, Donald C. Baker, and Daniel J. Ransom, Corsa provides "collations of those manuscripts which have attracted commentary" and "readings from the principle printed editions that have…

Robertson, D. W.,Jr.   Chaucer Review 23 (1988): 129-39.
The Physician's misunderstanding of his tale adds to the comedy of CT. He concludes the tale with a warning to forsake sin, not realizing that--like Appius, who betrays the innocence of Virginia--he betrays the innocence of those who come to him "in…

Robbins, Rossell Hope.   Mieczyslaw Brahmer, Stanislaw Helsztynski, and Julian Krzyzanowski, eds. Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of Margaret Schlauch (Warsaw: PWN--Polish Scientific Publishers, 1966), pp. 335-41.
Traces in medieval medical tradition references to the fifteen authorities cited in the GP description of the Physician (CT 1.429-434), arguing that Chaucer's "list contains just those names that an educated doctor of his day would have cited."

Baird, Lorrayne Y.   Fifteenth-Century Studies 2 (1979): 1-8.
The Host's reference to the standard emblems of the physician may be a naive-ironic insult.

Rowland, Beryl.   ELH 40 (1973): 165-78..
Argues that PhyT was designed to critique the Man of Law, an extension of the ancient "feud between law and medicine." Explores this tradition in classical and medieval sources, and identifies ways that Chaucer evoked it through adjustments to Livy…

Schiff, Randy P.   Randy P. Schiff and Joseph Taylor, eds. The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 82-103.
Argues that the narrator's comments on poachers and governesses in PhyT are not digressive, but part of a broader "biopolitical" concern that "clearly condemns the parental absolutism that leads to Virginius's murder of his daughter" and aptly…

Bordalejo, Barbara.   DAI 64: 1669A, 2003.
Bordalejo uses traditional and electronic methods to explore the various orders of the tales in manuscripts of CT, concluding that the order was affected by accident in some cases but by scribal intervention in others.

Nishide, Kimiyuki.   Tsuru Studies in English Linguistics and Literature 42 (2014): 1–13.
Focuses on Chaucer's verse lines ending as "A and B" to find out frequent combinations of the words in A and B. In Japanese.

Morse, J. Mitchell.   Modern Language Quarterly 19 (1958): 3-20.
Describes the "intellectual milieu" of the Clerk in order to characterize him as "man of essentially humanistic temper, aware of so many complexities . . . that he found it difficult to rest in dogmatic assurance of anything." Traces the "movement…

Fox, Robert C.   Modern Language Notes 75.2 (1960): 101-02.
Suggests that "Philosophre" at ParsT 10.536 refers to Seneca and his "De Ira."

Howard, Donald R.   Larry D. Benson and Siegfried Wenzel, eds. The Wisdom of Poetry (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Western Michigan University, 1982), pp. 151-75.
Explores the philosophy and modern "philosophizing" and especially Bloomfield's location of the philosophy in the actual experience of TC, as for example, in the narrator's "historical hindsight," which is compared to God's prescience.

Moorman, Charles.   South Atlantic Quarterly 64 (1965): 87-99. Reprinted in A Knyght There Was: The Evolution of the Knight in Literature (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967), pp. 76-95.
Contrasts the conventionalized courtly characterization of the knight in BD with the relatively individualized courtly characterization of Troilus in TC, and goes on to assess the Knight and Theseus of KnT as a new kind of figure found only "at the…

Lepley, Douglas Lee   Dissertation Abstracts International 38 (1978): 1539A.
Neither tedious nor ignorant, MkT teaches a "sound Boethian lesson" and can be seen as "artistically refined" in its evocation of tragic pathos. The Knight, the Host, and the critics err in castigating the Monk and his Tale.

Edden, Valerie.   Library 27 (1972): 53.
Corrects R. K. Root's listing of a TC manuscript: should be Phillips 8252 (now Huntington Library HM 114), rather than 8250.

Asay, Timoithy M.   Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon, 2014. Fully accessible at https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/18728; accessed November 22, 2022.
Argues that frame narratives make "language both a represented object and a representing agent" and "thus perfectly mimetic." Following both Dante and Boccaccio in using the device, Chaucer unsettles "easy assignations of identity" for his…

Cannon, Christopher.   Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, eds. The Sound of Writing (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), pp. 215-31.
Considers various conditions of and approaches to pronouncing--or not pronouncing--final "-e" in Chaucer's verse, arguing that "Chaucer's final "-es" are a subjective quality of his verse, a series of phonological events structured not by metrical or…

Watson, Nicholas.   SAC 32 (2010): 1-37.
Proposes that historical thinking can be productively conceived of as recombinative fantasy rather than as empirical recollection. Uses several medieval examples of imaginative fantasy as exemplary models: Chaucer's House of Rumour in HF, Dante's…

Jones, Lowanne E.   Rupert T. Pickens, ed. Studies in Honor of Hans-Erich Keller: Medieval French and Occitan Literature and Romance Linguistics (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993), pp. 419-26.
Jones explores the use of the leek as a phallic symbol in works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Boccaccio, and Rabelais.

Fumo, Jamie C.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 35 (2013): 85-136.
Various associations of sight and death indicate that KnT is a "nightmare vision of vision itself" which, in comparison with Boccaccio's "Teseida," flattens the character of Emelye, intensifies her agency, and indicts chivalry. In KnT the motifs of…

Wagenknecht, Edward.   Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968.
Offers a "psychography" of Chaucer, using biographical records, contemporaneous events, and Chaucer's works to describe his appearance, habits, personality, opinions, and attitudes. Focuses on the personae in Chaucer's literary works; on his…

Major, John M.   PMLA 75 (1960): 160-162.
Argues that "to see Chaucer the pilgrim as anyone other than a marvelously alert, ironic, facetious master of every situation is to misread" CT. Particularly in his views of churchmen and uses of superlatives, the narrator is best understood as "a…

Ormrod, W. M.   Speculum 64 (1989): 849-77.
The public evidence of Edward III's religious devotion reveals his rather conventional piety, "imbued with a strong and confident nationalism" and dedicated largely to commendation of his dynasty.

Weisl, Angela Jane.   New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Weisl explores residual traces in contemporary American popular culture of medieval narrative structures and patterns - e.g., pilgrimage, veneration of relics, conversion, heroic accomplishment, romance, fabliau - identifying such patterns in sports…
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