Delany, Sheila.
Straus, Barrie Ruth, ed. Skirting the Texts: Feminisms' Re-Readings of Medieval and Renaissance Texts. Special Issue of Exemplaria 4 (1992): 7-34.
Critics' resistence to sexual wordplay in medieval texts such as Chaucer's TC and CT stems not only from a radical difference between medieval and modern standards of good taste, but also from the critics' desire to repress unsettling textual…
Fumo, Jamie C.
Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge; D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 201-20.
Explores the "reciprocal status of antiquity and celebrity" in the reception of Chaucer, his "construction (and self-construction) as a vernacular authority," and the relations of fame and temporality in his works, especially MLP. Recurrent concerns…
Beall, Chandler B.
English Language Notes 13 (1975): 85-86.
The famous descriptive epithet of the Clerk, "And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche" (GP, 308), may have been suggested by a sentence from Seneca's epistle to Lucilius (VI,4): "Ego vero omnia in te cupio transfundere, et in hoc aliquid gaudeo…
Brent, Harry.
Phillip C. Boardman, ed., and Robert Gorrell, pref. The Legacy of Language: A Tribute to Charlton Laird (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1987), pp. 1-19.
At a memorial conference for Charlton Laird, a former student pays tribute to the late medievalist and Chaucer scholar.
Witalisz, Władysław, ed.
Kraków : Wydawnictno Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2001.
Nineteen essays on a variety of subjects, medieval to postmodern, literary and linguistic. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for And Gladly Wolde He Lerne and Gladly Teche (Goller) under Alternative Title.
Iyeiri, Yoko, and Margaret Connolly, eds.
Tokyos : Kaibunsha, 2002.
Fourteen essays by various authors, seven on Old and Middle English linguistics and seven on medieval literature, including romance and Arthurian literature, Chaucer, Malory, Caxton, devotional writing, and manuscript studies. The volume includes an…
Chickering, Howell.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 3-18.
Close reading of the GP description of the Monk shows how a "complex interaction of the reader with Chaucer's text" produces a more satisfactory reading than does the positing of a naive narrator.
Th contains a covert similarity to PrT. If, by means of the lily, the elf-queen is identified with the Virgin Mary, the structure of Th may be seen to parody that of PrT. Both protagonists have gemlike chastity, are born "in fer contree," and are…
Explores the "interstitial pattern of errors about things literary" in MLPT that characterize the teller as a "not-quite scholar" and highlight a tension between his "rhetorical excess and religious exhibitionism" and his penchant for legalisms,…
Raybin, David.
Susanna Freer 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. 189-212.
CYP offers an earthly perspective that counterbalances the heavenly perspective in SNT. Moreover, the structure of CYP/T affirms artistic striving for "something higher and more beautiful" while suggesting the "tendency to corruption that threatens…
Cox, Catherine (S.)
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 55-68.
Describes the medieval ecclesiastical hierarchy and places Chaucer's Nun's Priest in the hierarchy, identifying the training and responsibilities of medieval priests and the particular activities of priests who ministered to cloistered nuns and…
Smith, Esther M. G.
Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 256-62.
Comments on ecclesiastical reform of the late Middle Ages as background to the Parson's sketch in GP and presents ParsT as a confessional manual.
McMahon, Patrick J., and Allen J. Frantzen.
Essays in Medieval Studies 27 (2011): 133-47.
Explores some possible uses for newly developed digital technologies in the teaching of CT, presenting the data for "and," Chaucer's most used word, suggesting the types of questions that might arise from word count and word usage data. This data can…
Garbáty, Thomas Jay.
Romances Notes 9 (1968): 325-30.
Assesses the gate in PF, exploring "remarkable parallels which the inscriptions on the gate and the further description of the garden" in PF "have to certain sections of the Fifth Dialogue" of Andreas Cappellanus's "Art of Courtly Love."
Presents a theory of irony, examines various ironic interpretations of "De amore," including those by Alfred Karnein, Betsy Bowden, and D. W. Robertson, Jr., and concludes that the numerous inconsistencies in the work either were unintentional on…
In Anel, Chaucer worked out his strategy of pitting profeminist impulses (the poet assumes the voice of the betrayed woman) against antifeminist allegory "in which men's betrayal of women represents poetic language's necessary betrayal of literal…
Waters, Claire M.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Conflicted cooperation between authority and authorization is a manifestation of the fundamentally hybrid nature of the preacher's calling, one recognized in medieval handbooks as standing between earth and heaven. Significantly, women's preaching…
Lavezzo, Kathryn Marie.
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 603A., 1999.
The remoteness and insularity of England led to the belief that its people were different, both barbarian and angelic. Lavezzo discusses Aelfric, Higden, Chaucer (MLT), and the alliterative "Morte Arthure." Use of the English language contributed to…
Stevens, John.
P. L. Heyworth, ed. Medieval Studies for J. A. W. Bennett (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), 297-328.
A valuable edition based on British Library Arundel 248 with variants from other texts of the late-thirteenth-century Latin song sung by "hende Nicolas" in MilT. In addition to its sources, Stevens discusses it as a type of canto that eventually…
Mann, Jill.
Proceedings of the British Academy 76 (1990): 203-23.
Anger and glossing--linked by their common "refusal to accommodate the self either to events in the world outside, or to the autonomous meaning of the text"--are evident in SumT and throughout CT. The Marriage Group centers around patience, the…
Griffith, John Lance.
Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics 41 (2008): 13-45.
Reads KnT as a "tale of anger rather than (as is often the case) a tale of pity" which reveals Chaucer's ambivalence about anger as both "necessary and destructive" in human affairs. Explores Thomistic and Stoic notions of anger and assesses the…
Griffith, John Lance.
Dissertation Abstracts International 66 (2005): 173A.
Anger "rises to the level of a philosophical and ethical problem for Chaucer." An understanding of the role anger plays in the formation of self and community is useful in understanding the communities Chaucer creates and examines in CT.
