Astell, Ann W.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991): 81-97.
Chaucer's additions to Trevet's tale of Constance consist chiefly of rhetorical additions by the narrator and prayers by Custance, converting the tale to a satire of the narrator's long-winded fatalistic views. Apostrophe and prayer, "converse"…
Julius, Patricia Ward.
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976): 3606A-07A.
BD and HF show thematic unity of conflict between appearance (attractive externals) and reality (the authority of books). Replacing reality with worship for the artificial, mutable object is error.
Howard, Ronnalie Roper.
Ball State University Forum 8.3 (1967): 40-44.
Argues that each of the major characters in FranT falls "short of an ideal standard," and that, although the Franklin "recognizes excellence," his Tale expresses an "amused recognition of human inability to live up to ideal standards."
Gathers together previously known documents concerning Cecily Chaumpaigne with newly discovered documents. Documents are transcribed and translations provided.
Steiner, Wendy.
Wendy Steiner. The Colors of Rhetoric: Problems in the Relation Between Modern Literature and Painting (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), pp. 221-26.
Congeries of word and image in FranT relate to truth, figuration, and creativity, foregrounding the polysemy of artistic language.
Bertolet, Craig E.
Anna Riehl Bertolet and Carole Levin, eds. Creating the Premodern in the Postmodern Classroom: Creativity in Early English Literature and History Courses (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018), pp. 83-93.
Describes how to use Pierre Bourdieu's notion of "habitus" and the modern idea of public relations to help students explore how and to what extent the punishments in MilT are or are not "fair"; students are grouped as PR advocates for each of the…
Moore, Stephen G.
Chaucer Review 38 : 83-97, 2003.
The narrative structure of Mel compels the reader to read backward and forward between scenes and episodes, encouraging affective involvement in the universal sentential wisdom of the Tale. The purpose is not that Melibee learn, but that the reader…
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…
