Chaucer

Courtly Fetish: Chaucer, Machaut and the Commodification of the Text

by Elizaveta Strakhov

Work in progress -- please do not cite without permission

Texts from Last Night: Seys and Alcyone in the Fonteinne amoureuse and the Book of the Duchess

by Elizaveta Strakhov

Presented at Kalamazoo 2012: work-in-progress, do not cite without permission

Writing Dreams to Good: Reading as Writing and Writing as Reading in Chaucer's Dream Visions

by T. S. Miller

Sexual Poetics and the Politics of Translation in the Tale of Griselda

by Emma Campbell

Comparative Literature, 55:3 (2003), 191-216

'Texts With Trowsers': Editing and the Elite Chaucer

by Noelle Phillips

Published in "The Review of English Studies," 2010.

Chaucer the Rhetorician: Criseyde and Her Family

by Marjorie Woods

Boys Will be Women: Musings on Classroom Nostalgia and the Chaucerian Audience (s)

by Marjorie Woods

"Animal Agency, the Law of Kynde, and Chaucer's Message in _The Book of the Duchess_," in Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts, ed. Carolynn Van Dyke (Palgrave Macmillan). Forthcoming.

by Ryan Judkins

The Book of the Duchess demonstrates the co-existence of anthropocentrism and animal agency as it critiques John of... more The Book of the Duchess demonstrates the co-existence of anthropocentrism and animal agency as it critiques John of Gaunt's excessive grief for his lost wife.

CHRONICLING THE FORTUNES OF KINGS: JOHN HARDYNG'S USE OF WALTON'S BOETHIUS, CHAUCER'S TROILUS AND CRISEYDE, AND LYDGATE'S 'KING …

by Sarah Peverley

In The Medieval Chronicle VII, 167-203.

The first version of John Hardyng’s Middle English verse Chronicle (c. 1457) draws on a fascinating array of sources... more The first version of John Hardyng’s Middle English verse Chronicle (c. 1457) draws on a fascinating array of sources to tell the story of Britain’s past. While much of the narrative draws upon earlier chronicles, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Bri-tanniae and Robert Mannyng’sChronicle the work is occasionally indebted to more unusual sources beyond the chronicle genre, such as the French Vulgate Cycle of Arthurian romance, hagiography, and the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer. This article addresses Hardyng’s use of Middle English poetry – namely Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Walton’s translation of Boethius’ Consolation of Phi¬losophy, and Lydgate’s ‘King Henry VI’s Triumphal Entry into London 21 February 1432’ – and considers how Hardyng’s poetic borrowings from contemporary authors contribute to his idiosyncratic presentation of the British past.

Did Chaucer Live at 177 Upper Thames Street?: The Chaucer Life-Records and the Site of Chaucer's London Home

by Thomas Bestul

Eliot's the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

by Sara Trevisan

The Written Word

by Kai-Anne Clews

"draft only"

Musings of the history and future of the written word with a focus on the evolution on the English Language. Musings of the history and future of the written word with a focus on the evolution on the English Language.

Like Two Autistic Moonbeams Piercing the Windows of My Asylum: Chaucer's Griselda and Lars von Trier's Bess McNeill

by Eileen Joy

Published in "New Critical Modes," ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Cary Howie, special issue of "postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies" 2.3 (Fall/Winter 2011): 316-328.

This essay wonders what happens when two texts and one reader happen to each other and open up a singular adventure... more This essay wonders what happens when two texts and one reader happen to each other and open up a singular adventure that is also a moment of ‘futurition’ that opens up new horizons of meaning, both human and inhuman. How can we reckon the weird realism of fictional figures which possess something like the vibrant ‘thing-power’ – a sort of quasi-force to persist in existing – that Jane Bennett argues ‘refuses to dissolve completely into the milieu of human knowledge’?

A V or not a V? Transcribing abbreviations in seventeen MSS of the “Man of Law’s Tale”

by Joanna Kopaczyk

"Forget what you have learned": The Mistick Krewe's 1914 Mardi Gras Chaucer

by Candace Barrington

American Literary History, October 2010

Retelling Chaucer’s Wife of Bath for Modern Children: Picture Books and Evolving Feminism

by Candace Barrington

_Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World_, edited by Katherine Hermes and Karen Ritzenhoff, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 26-51

“Parlement of Foules” and “New Council”: medieval assemblies of animals in an Anglo-Bohemian perspective.

by Matous Turek

BA Thesis at the English Studies Department at Charles University in Prague (2011)

The thesis compares two late 14th century animal allegories, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls on the English... more The thesis compares two late 14th century animal allegories, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls on the English side and Smil Flaška of Pardubice's The New Council on the Bohemian. After an introduction dealing with the datings and possible genetic relationship between the texts, they are approached in search of parallel structural features and of commonly shared topoi.
Chapter 1 demonstrates how the two authors use the identical devices to persuade the reader to comprehend nature as an allegory, chiefly the antrophomorphisation of animals – the beasts and birds gain human attributes, human attitudes, but also human physique; on the basis of their natural and symbolical properties, animals represent human values and social classes, while systems of natural classification and hierarchy are transposed into human social organisations.
Chapter 2 looks at how the human community is allegorised in the two poems as a body politic in practical terms, how the animals are made to deliberate, debate and take part in a sophisticated social arrangement. Each of the two imaginary assemblies mimics surprisingly closely those held by the political representatives of the two realms at the time of composition; representing real-world power structures and communicative frameworks, the allegories portray the Bohemian and English polities in striking detail – from the monarch's
position through to the decision-making process as such. Close comparison then shows that the political philosophy behind the two texts, concerning the management of human polity, is fundamentally identical.
In chapter 3, with the help of late medieval philosophical and theological concepts, a transition is made from common political ideology towards features the two poems share in the areas of cosmology and eschatology. The analysis shows how the political message is in both poems complemented with and presupposed by a spiritual one, how both poems set forth universal belief systems before the reader and attempt to aid him to make the right decisions in problems which these belief systems pose.

Bernhard ten Brink and English Studies in Lotharingia

by Richard Utz

In: Cahier Calin: Makers of the Middle Ages. Essays in Honour of William Calin, ed. Richard Utz and Elizabeth Emery. Kalamazoo, MI: Studies in Medievalism, 2011. Pp. 45-47.

Surveys the career of Bernhard/Barend ten Brink, the first Professor of English Philology in Europe, at the annexed... more Surveys the career of Bernhard/Barend ten Brink, the first Professor of English Philology in Europe, at the annexed University of Strassburg/Strasbourg after the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. Ten Brink was one of the founders of English Studies and an eminent Chaucer, Beowulf, and Shakespeare scholar.

Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: a New Research Paradigm

by Richard Utz

Nominalist perspectives on Chaucer's poetry: a bibliographical essay

by Richard Utz