Critics

Question 1

Why Chaucer calls ‘The Franklin’s Tale’ a Breton Lai

Answer 1

Kathryn Hume (1972)

Question 2

Letter and Gloss in the Friar’s and Summoner’s Tales

Answer 2

Mary Carruthers (1972)

Question 3

Why does Carruthers identity the D-fragment as being the section in which Chaucer most closely explores the glossing problem?

Answer 3

6/12 uses of the words ‘gloss’ and ‘glossing’ in the TALES occur here

Question 4

Chaucer’s Novelized, Carnivalized Exemplum: A Bakhtinian Reading of ‘The Friar’s Tale’

Answer 4

Katie Homar (2010)

Question 5

Which critic argues that the FRIAR’S is a liminal tale, echoing the liminality of the Bakhtinian carnival world?

Answer 5

Morton Bloomfield (1983)

Question 6

Which critic argues that the Friar temporarily outdoes the less educated Summoner?

Answer 6

Katie Homar (2010)

Question 7

Which critic first proposed the ‘Marriage Group’?

Answer 7

Eleanor Prescott Hammond (1908)

Question 8

Which critic argues that the tension between experience and textual authority is central to the Wife of Bath’s Prologue?

Answer 8

Helen Cooper (1996)

Question 9

Which critic developed on the idea of the ‘Marriage Group’?

Answer 9

George Lyman Kittredge (1912)

Question 10

Which critic famously characterised the Pardoner as the one lost soul on the pilgrimage?

Answer 10

George Lyman Kittredge (1893)

Question 11

The Medieval Theory of Literature for Refreshment and its Use in the Fabliau Tradition

Answer 11

Glending Olson (1974)

Question 12

The Containment of Symkyn: The Function of Space in the “Reeve’s Tale”

Answer 12

Peter Brown (1980)

Question 13

Chaucerian Game-Earnest and the Argument of Herbergage in “The Canterbury Tales”

Answer 13

Gerhard Joseph (1970)

Question 14

A Preface to Chaucer

Answer 14

Durant Waite Robertson (1962)

Question 15

Which source of The Reeve’s does Peter Brown refer to in his discussion of space?

Answer 15

“Le Meunier et les II Clers”

Question 16

Flying Chaucers, Insectile Ecclesiasts, and Pilgrims Through Space and Time: The Science Fiction Chaucer

Answer 16

T. S. Miller (2013)

Question 17

Chaucer at Large: The Poet in the Modern Imagination

Answer 17

Steve Ellis (2000)

Question 18

A SISTER, DIPPED IN BLOOD’: SATIRIC INVERSION OF THE FORMATION TECHNIQUES OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS IN MARGARET ATWOOD’S NOVEL ‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE

Answer 18

Anne Kaler (1989)

Question 19

The Handmaid’s Tale’: ‘Historical Notes’ and Documentary Subversion

Answer 19

Dominick Grace (1998)

Question 20

Which critic comments on Offred’s stresses on the failure of any single reading, the complications of textual authority and her privileging of experience over artefact?

Answer 20

Dominick Grace (1998)

Question 21

Which critic comments on how unusual it is for a daughter to betray her father in a fabliau?

Answer 21

Nicole Nolan Sidhu (2016)

Question 22

Which critic comments that the anxiety-ridden world of the REEVE’S doesn’t allow for the CAREFREE transgression conventional of th FABLIAUX?

Answer 22

Nicole Nolan Sidhu (2016)

Question 23

Which critic comments on Chaucer’s attempt to ‘restore us to the opening of the poem’ in POF and Chaucer’s use of the rondel?

Answer 23

James Dean (1986)

Question 24

Which critic discusses Chaucer’s departure from the central comfort and consolation tradition in the French DITS AMOREUX, arguing that the poet instead aligns himself w Machaut and Froissart?

Answer 24

William Calin (1994)

Question 25

Which critic argues that the Black Knight ‘is a figure of grief, not a real person’?

Answer 25

Robert Watson (2001)