Breckenridge, Jay.
Pennsylvania English 15:1 (1990): 37-48.
Breckenridge discusses his stage dramatization of Geoffrey Chaucer and the problems regarding Chaucer's life and personality engendered by life records and critical appraisal of Chaucer the man and Chaucer the persona.
Bennett, Kristen Abbott.
Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, August 10, 2015: n.p.
Includes discussion of the influence of Chaucer's Purse and Thomas Hoccleve's "La male regle" on Thomas Nashe's "Pierce Penilesse," examining the elements of comedy and "moral uncertainty" in Chaucer's poem and its "accretion of polygeneric…
A verbal/visual social history of late-fourteenth-century England, particularly London and Canterbury, organized by topics drawn from Chaucer's life and works, especially CT. Topics include various social types, pilgrimage, plague, war with France,…
Surveys the presence of Arabic culture in CT, focusing on the plots and sources of SqT and PardT, the frame-tale structure of CT, allusions to Arabic personages, and uses of words that derive from Arabic.
Considers translation as theory and inspiration in the writings of four English authors, including discussion of Chaucer’s translations of Boethius in Bo and in TC, and John Dryden’s translations of CT. Wahlen’s Ph.D. dissertation,…
Raby, Michael B.
Dissertation Abstracts International A77.03 (2015): n.p.
Considers medieval understandings of the relationship between attention and distraction or diversion, using several texts, ranging from Augustine to Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and TC.
Phillips, Helen.
Susanna Fein, ed. The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives (York: University of York, 2016), pp. 139-55.
Examines "what looking from Auchinleck to Chaucer might reveal about Chaucer." Considers how in Th Chaucer may have been influenced by the "romance formulae exemplified in Auchinleck."
Goedhals, Antony.
Studia Neophilologica 90.2 (2018): 206-24.
Highlights the "creative disruptions of Chaucerian parody" and argues that BD satirizes the language of courtly complaint to privilege more naturalistic expression of mourning. Through his conversation with the dreamer, the knight's language moves…
Luengo, Anthony E.
Chaucer Review 11 (1976): 1-10.
The form and style of the Pardoner's sermon are affected by its two audiences. The moral tale is related for the benefit of the Pilgrims; the "ensamples" (the brief Biblical stories against various sins) are for the "lewed people" in his rustic…
Mack, Peter.
In Rhetoric's Questions: Reading and Interpretation (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 7-18.
Explores questions of audience, occasion, and a writer's control in classical and early modern western rhetoric, and applies these questions in a "sample reading," examining TC, 3.1324–36 for the ways that it encourages readers "to re-experience and…
Covella, Sister Francis Dolores.
Chaucer Review 2.4 (1968): 235-45.
Considers the tone and attitude of the seventeen-stanza "Epilogue" of TC (5.1751-1869), observing a shift between the first five stanzas and the last twelve and suggesting that the latter are addressed to a reading audience rather than the original,…
Coleman, Joyce.
Marion Turner, ed. A Handbook of Middle English Studies (Chichester: Wiley, 2013), pp. 155-69. 2 b&w figs.
Outlines an "ethnography of reading" and describes "audienceship" as a field of study of "how people actually read (and heard) texts," including examples drawn from Chaucer's fiction and its reception. Closes with a brief survey of reading and…
A variety of essays, reprinted and original, by Ewald Standop, including reprinted versions of two essays that pertain to Chaucer: "Zur Allegorischen Deutung der 'Nonnes Preeste Tale'" (1961) and "Chaucers Pardoner: Das Charakterproblem und die…
Harbin, Andrea R., Tamara F. O'Callaghan, Alan B. Craig, and Ryan W. Rocha.
In Jennifer E. Boyle and Helen J. Burgess, eds. The Routledge Research Companion to Digital Medieval Literature (Florence: Taylor and Francis, 2017; New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 63-81; 8 b&w illus.
Describes augmented-reality texts for the ways they differ from both print and digital texts, and explains a project called The Augmented Palimpsest, where a digital version of GP is augmented by links to auxiliary audio and visual data, including 3D…
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
Sanford Budick and Wolgang Iser, eds. The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996), pp. 68-84.
Augustine's emphasis on charity and cupidity in "De doctrina Christiana" and his discussion of the relations among gospel narratives in "De consensu evangelistarum" suggest that he equates secular and biblical poetics. Similarly, Chaucer justifies…
Argues that in ClT Chaucer "has successfully humanized the psychological motivation of both Walter and Griselda," de-emphasizing the "supernatural" aspects of the characterizations found in analogous narratives, and depicting his protagonists with…
Knopp, Sherron E.
James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 91-107.
Explores Chaucer's radical, bookishly theoretical preoccupation with language and art and argues that the social and psychological "realism" seen by earlier critics is also present. Knopp examines the Ovidian section of BD as an example of narrative…
Cicero's ideal rhetorical style, which combined wisdom and eloquence, was redefined in Christian terms by Saint Augustine. Chaucer's Franklin, who pretends to follow Augustinian rhetorical ideals, in fact defines wisdom and eloquence in a worldly…
Examines authorial use of commonly heard sayings (e.g., proverbs) as a means of incorporating listeners into the rhetorical community formed by the audience.
Presents PrT as one of several texts that are considered as performed/heard experiences, and as instruments of "late medieval identities and communities."
Coleman, Joyce.
Paul Strohm, ed. Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 68-85.
Coleman clarifies differences between "aurality" and "orality," assessing references to reading aloud and speaking aloud in Middle English texts, especially Chaucer's works, and citing depictions of such practice in manuscript illustrations,…
Chaucer modeled the prayer for the removal of the rocks on a cluster of literary precedents, from Boccaccio to Boethius, Ovid, and Marian lyrics. Chaucer was as interested in the works' interpenetration as in the ironic tensions among them.
Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
CEA Critic 45 (1982): 16-22.
Sexual frustration during Arveragus's absence motivates Dorigen's verbal infidelity. Aurelius, however, can neither accept her from her husband nor pay the magician with whom the squire has lowered himself to deal.
Sigal, Gale.
Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1986): 3348A.
In a remarkably innovative use of received tradition, the aubades in TC reveal personalities, adumbrate the end of the story, and inspire a fresh aubade tradition in English poetry.
Lehnert, Martin, trans.
Halle (Salle): Verl. Sprache und Literatur, 1962.
Item not seen. WorldCat link to table of contents indicates that the selections (in English and in German with notes) include GP (selections), MilPT, RvPT, CkPT, WBPT, FrPT, SumPT, PardPT, and ShT, with an introduction, pp. vii-xvi.
