Moulton, Carroll.
Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Twelve chapters on British works and writers, designed for juvenile audience. Includes "Geoffrey Chaucer in Depth" (pp. 24-43), which comprises a biographical introduction, a timeline, selections from PardT and KnT (translated into modern verse by…
Augustyn, Adam.
New York: Britannica Educational Publishing. in association with Rosen Educational Services, 2014.
Describes the lives and accomplishments of some 100 international writers. The section on Chaucer (pp. 84-92) summarizes his life and career as a public servant, integrating discussion of his major works in chronological order and emphasizing CT,…
Kamath, Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs.
Cambridge: Brewer, 2012.
Chapter 2 analyzes CT briefly, and connects Chaucer's allegorical tradition with Thomas Hoccleve, John Lydgate, and earlier pilgrimage allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville. Discussion of Chaucer's "mediation" of Rom.
Watt, Caitlin G.
Dissertation Abstracts International A79.11 (2018): n.p.
Assesses Antigone and Cassandra in TC--characters who are themselves "literary creators"--to explore meta-level consideration of reader identification and authorial status.
Moon, Hi Kyung.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 14 (2006): 431-46.
Compares and contrasts the strategies and outspoken polemics of WBP with those of Speght's "A Mouzell for Melastomus" (1617). Speght exposes antagonist Joseph Swetnam in ways similar to those used by Chaucer to expose the Wife.
Gillespie, Vincent.
Marion Turner, ed. A Handbook of Middle English Studies (Chichester: Wiley, 2013), pp. 137-54.
Describes classical and medieval concerns with authorial intention and readerly control, commenting on Dante, the "Roman de la Rose," Hoccleve, and Lydgate in particular, and exploring how and where in HF Chaucer "puts in the spotlight the…
Matthews, David.
Adam Smyth, ed. A History of English Autobiography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 27-40.
Surveys the "presentation of self" in late medieval English literature, gauging the relative degree of "truth value" and describing how authors "entwine life-writing into their larger projects." Uses Ret and Chaucer's ironic "playful portrayal of…
Gerke, Robert S.
Bulletin of the West Virginia Association of College English Teachers 14 (1992): 23-33.
In plot and dominant ideas, PardT reflects the opposition between avarice and mercy common in the medieval vices-virtues tradition. The avaricious Pardoner lacks mercy, and the recurring notion of voluntary poverty in PardPT can be linked with mercy…
Cooper, Helen.
Vincent P. McCarren and Douglas Moffat, eds. A Guide to Editing Middle English (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 79-93.
Describes the problems of editing Chaucer's works (especially CT), observing that modern editions tend to ignore them.
Schotland, Sara Deutch.
Carolynn Van Dyke, ed. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 115-30.
In SqT Chaucer practices a form of anthropomorphism that acknowledges its representational limits. The relationship of Canacee and the falcon shows "a commonality among living creatures" and offers a model of female friendship. Canacee nurses the…
Analyzes the "quotidian vocality of the medieval chicken yard" in John Lydgate's and Robert Henryson's versions of the "cock and jewel" fable, focusing on how avian vocality draws attention to the pace and meaning of the rhyme-royal verse form of the…
Baughn, Gary.
English Journal 93 (Sept): 60-65, 2002.
Pedagogical approach to CT for an eleventh-grade honors survey of British literature, combining popular twentieth-century music with activities related to CT: analysis of GP descriptions, story-telling, and writing assignments.
Poteet, Daniel P., II.
Notes and Queries 217 (1972): 89-90.
Connects John's separation from Alison in the tubs of the MilT with enjoinders to remain sexually separate in the Noah mystery plays and Mirk's "Festial."
Guthrie, Steven R.
English Studies 69 (1988): 386-95.
Consideration of the phonological environments in which C. F. Babcock's oft-cited study of 1914 found apocopated '-e' in five of Chaucer's poems, from BD through FranT, considerably reduces the number of clear cases of apocope but supports her…
Fulwiler, Lavon.
CCTE [Conference of College Teachers of English] Studies 61 (1996): 93-101.
Fulwiler looks at how "Babe" and NPT use the genre of animal fable and prosopopoeia to create moral tales. Sentence and solaas combine in "Babe," as in Chaucer, to intrigue the audience into deeper exploration of the story. Via structure, setting,…
Dane, Joseph A., and Alexandra Gillespie.
Studies in Bibliography 52: 89-96, 1999.
Transcribes and comments on two handwritten copies of the tomb inscription: one very close transcription by Richard Wilbraham (d. 1612) in his copy of the ca. 1550 Workes and a looser version (apparently copied from a manuscript rather than directly…
McCormick, Betsy.
Eileen A. Joy, Myra J. Seaman, Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Ramsey, eds. Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 91-117.
McCormick compares LGW and Christine de Pisan's "Le livre de la cité des dames" with the reality TV show "Manor House," exploring how each poses a "liminal space" from which to "contemplate societal stereotypes and strictures by revisiting the…
Introduces "Social and Religious Backgrounds" to Old English and to Middle English literatures in separate chapters, along with one chapter each on developments in the medieval English language, "Popular Christian Doctrine" of the era, and the…
Beichner, Paul E.
Modern Language Quarterly 22 (1961): 367-76.
Describes how the quarrel between the Friar and Summoner in WBP sets up the vituperative exchange of FrT and SumT, commenting on audience expectations and the motives and techniques of the two narrators, but focusing particularly on the cleverness of…
Farrell, Thomas J., ed.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995.
Eleven essays by various authors including three on Chaucer. Each essay applies the critical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin to one or more works of medieval literature. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Bakhtin and Medieval Voices…
In response to William McClellan's article and drawing on an earlier article of his own, Engle sketches how Bakhtin can function as a mediating figure in the current politics of theory and interpretation, particularly with ClT.
Ganim, John M.
John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986. (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987), pp. 59-71.
Examines the appropriateness and limitations of the "anthropological" approach in Chaucer criticism, specifically the "carnivalesque"--implicit in monastic satire, popular culture and folklore, goliardic parody, and the social dynamics of Chaucer's…
Sadlek, Gregory M.
Chaucer Yearbook 3 (1996): 87-101.
Defines TC as a novel because it partakes heavily of the linguistic qualities that Bakhtin associates with novelization, including contemporaneity, fusion of genres, and open-endedness. Most important, TC is dialogic in its adaptations of…
Reading ClT in its social and historical context is reason for employing Bakhtin's theoretical framework, since Bakhtin recognizes the complexity and riches of poetic discourse as connected to the diversity and complexity of socio-ideological…
