Argues that SNT "presents conversion as a choice stimulated by apprehension of the divine through the senses" and accomplished by a "radical act of the will, unmediated and immediate, if not inherently violent."
"Sefer Yetsira" of the ancient Jewish mystics, Chaucer's PF and Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" center on the necessary acknowledgement of the unfixed quality of language that Bakhtin describes. All three are concerned with distinct moments in the…
Henebry, Charles W. M.
Chaucer Review 32 (1997): 146-61.
Working through WBP at various points in his writing career, Chaucer conceived of changing the character "Janekyn" to make him "Jankyn," the Wife's fifth husband. Thus, the character changes from an apprentice to a scholar boarding with the Wife to…
Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo, and Javier Calle Martın, eds.
New York: Peter Lang, 2015.
Includes papers from the eighth International Conference on Middle English, University of Murcia, Spain, 2013. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Approaches to Middle English: Variation, Contact and Change under Alternative Title.
Examines two major medieval turning-points in the relationship between rich and poor: the revolution in charity of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and the era of late medieval crises when the vulnerability of the poor increased and charitable…
Travis, Peter W., and Frank Grady, eds.
New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2014.
Second edition of 1980 volume, "Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales,'" providing articles on pedagogical approaches to teaching CT and including updated section, "The Canterbury Tales in the Digital Age." Sections offer strategies for…
Gibaldi, Joseph, ed.
New York: Modern Language Associaiton, 1980.
A collection of pedagogical articles from diverse perspectives--general overviews and approaches as well as specific approaches--by well-known Chaucerians, including John Fisher, Emerson Brown, Robert M. Jordan, William Provost, and Thomas W. Ross.
Pugh, Tison, and Angela Jane Weisl, eds.
New York: Modern Language Association, 2007.
Thirty brief essays on teaching TC, BD, HF, PF, LGW, and the lyrics, divided into four groups and an appendix: (1) materials (survey of editions and teaching aids by the editors); (2) backgrounds (lyrics, William A. Quinn; French tradition, Karla…
Yeager, R. F., and Brian W. Gastle, eds.
New York: Modern Language Association, 2011.
Discusses Gower's influence on other Middle English writers and provides recommendations for teaching Gower, from community college to graduate programs. Includes several essays specific to Gower's relationship to Chaucer. Includes bibliography…
Yeager, R. F., and Brian W. Gastle, eds.
New York: Modern Language Association, 2011.
Twenty-five pedagogical essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors and a comprehensive index. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower under Alternative Title.
Petitt, Thomas.
Tatjana Silec, ed. Voix (et Voies) du Désordre au Moyen Âge. Volume Issu du Colloque du Centre d'Études Médiévales Anglaises de Paris-Sorbonne (22-23 Mars 2012). AMAES, no. 34. (Paris: Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2013), pp. 5-49.
Refers to Chaucer in connection with rebellion and violence.
Hanning, Robert W.
Karl-Ludwig Selig and Robert Somerville, eds. Florilegium Columbianum: Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller (New York: Italica Press, 1987), pp. 113-23.
Examines little-noticed instances "where allusions to classical texts, or to medieval recreations of pagan life and times," form part of Chaucer's narrative strategy in TC,MerT, and MilT.
Severs, J. Burke
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. 385-96.
Comments on how "early elaboration" of characters in MilT and MerT "renders plausible later climactic action," and argues that the "marriage passage" of FranT (5.744-805) works in similar fashion, helping to justify the thoughts and actions of…
Longo, Joseph A.
Cahiers Elisabethains 11 (1977): 1-15.
In Chaucer's TC and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," the actions focused on the lovers are remarkably alike in general contours and specific internal resonances, a resemblance which points to Chaucer as Shakespeare's source. Chaucer shows a…
Describes how Arabic writing "bridged" Hellenic tradition and medieval philosophy, how Arabic science influenced Western civilization, how Arabic literature influenced portion of CT, and how courtly love in TC may reflect the influence of Ibn Hazan's…
Examines the grove in KnT in the context of hunting and forest laws; reveals how Chaucer alters Boccaccio's "Teseida" to turn the grove first into a politicized space of human discord and then into a space of destruction, evoking warfare among men…
Munro, Lucy.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Explores the use of "archaic linguistic and poetic style" in poetry and drama, 1590–1674, analyzing how combinations of anachronism and nostalgia help to influence the idea of English "nationhood." Includes recurrent comments on lexical "Chaucerisms"…
Test, George A.
American Notes and Queries 2.5 (1964): 67-68.
Adduces the testimony of modern archer, Robert P. Elmer, corroborating that peacock feathers are high quality material for fletching, and a notion thought to underlie Chaucer's reference in the GP description of the Yeoman (1.104).
Herold, Christine.
Charlotte Spivack and Christine Herold, eds. Archetypal Readings of Medieval Literature (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2002), pp. 47-65.
Herold reads WBT as an "individuation myth" in which the knight gains "wisdom and self-empowerment" in his encounters with the anima, manifested in the "triple-aspect of the Great Mother Archetype": maiden, queen, and loathly lady.
Spivack, Charlotte, and Christine Herold, eds.
Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2002.
Nine readings by various authors of archetypal patterns in medieval works. Topics include Marie de France, Christine de Pizan, Julian of Norwich, Joan of Arc, Gottfried von Strassburg, Chrétien de Troyes, the Spanish "Shriek of the Sage Merlin,"…
Psychoanalytic analysis of WBT and ClT, reading the two as parallel transformation stories. The first "seems to commemorate the event of the separation of consciousness"; in the second, Griselda "achieved individuation by recognizing her animus."…
Lloyd-Kimbrel, Elizabeth D.
Mediaevistik 1 (1988): 115-24.
Discusses the "Gothic" aesthetics of Chaucer's work: duality, complexity, progression, juxtaposition of jarringly opposite elements, exposure of structural features, audience participation, incompleteness, ambiguity, and physicality of thought.
Braswell, Mary Flowers.
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 11 (1981): 101-12
Far from being "entirely tropological" or imaginative, the descriptions of the Temple of Venus and the House of Fame and Rumor accurately reflect the forms and details of contemporary structures. As Clerk of the Works and perhaps an acquaintance of…
Twomey, Michael W., and Scott D. Stull.
Chaucer Review 51.3 (2016): 310-37.
Analyzes the two houses in RvT and MilT and contends that Chaucer's precise description of architectural setting displays how architecture shaped medieval social life and communicated social and class satire.
