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Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale: Selected Articles and Books

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AIKEN, Pauline `Arcite’s Illness and Vincent of Beauvais.’ PMLA 51 (1936): 361‑69.
ANDERSON, David `Theban Genealogy in the Knight’s Tale.’ ChauR 21 (1986-87): 311‑20.
ANDREAS, James R. `Remythologizing The Knight’s Tale and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ ShY 2 (1991): 49-67.
BACHMAN, W.B. `Mercury, Virgil, and Arcite: Canterbury Tales, 1384‑1397.’ ELN 13 (1975‑1976): 168‑73.
BARNES, G.R. `Chaucer’s Double Telling of the Knight’s Tale.’ Words and Wordsmiths: a Volume for H. L. Rogers. ed. Geraldine Barnes et al. Sydney: Department of English, U of Sydney,1989. 4‑12.
BAUM, Paull F. `Characterization in The Knight’s Tale.’ MLN (1931): 302‑04.
BAWCUTT, P. `The Lark in Chaucer and Some Later Poets.’ YES 2 (1972): 5‑12.
BENNETT, J.A.W. `Chaucer, Dante, and Boccaccio.’ P. Boitani ed. Chaucer and the Italian Trecento. Cambridge: U P, 1983. 89‑113.
BENSON, `The Knight’s Tale as History.’ ChauR 3 (1968-69): 107‑23.
BERGAN, Brooke `Surface and Secret in the Knight’s Tale.‘ ChauR 26 (1991-92): 1-16.
BISHOP, Ian `Chaucer and the Rhetoric of Consolation.’  52 (1983): 38‑50.
BLAKE, Kathleen `Order and the Noble Life in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale?’ MLQ 34 (1973): 3‑19.
BLANCH, Robert J. `White and Red in The Knight’s Tale: Chaucer’s Manipulation of a Convention.’ WASSERMANN, J. Chaucer in the Eighties. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse U P, 1986. 175-91.
BLOOMFIELD, M.W. `Chaucer’s Sense of History.’ JEGP 51 (1952): 301‑13.
BOITANI, Piero `Style, Iconography and Narrative: the Lesson of the Teseida.’ Chaucer and the Italian Trecento. ed. P. Boitani. Cambridge: U P, 1983. 185‑200.
BOITANI, Piero `The Genius to Improve and Invention: Transformations of The Knight’s Tale.’ IN Morse, Ruth and Barry Windeatt edd. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990. 185-98.
BOLTON, W.F. `The Topic of the Knight’s Tale.’ ChauR 1 (1966-67): 217‑27. 5.
BOYD, Heather `Fragment A of The Canterbury Tales: Character, Figure and Trope. ESA 26:2 (1983): 77‑98.
BREWER, D. S. `Honour in Chaucer.’ E&S ns 26 (1973): 1‑18.
BROOKS, Douglas `The Meaning of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’ 39 FOWLER, Alistair (1970): 123‑146.
BROWN, Emerson `The Knight’s Tale 2639: Guilt by Punctuation.’ ChauR 21 (1986-87): 133‑41.
BROWN, Peter `The Prison of Theseus and the Castle of Jalousie.’ ChauR 26:2 (1991): 147-62.
BURROW, John `Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and the Three Ages of Man.’ Medieval and Pseudo‑Medieval Literature. edd. Piero Boitani/Anna Torti. Gunter Narr Verlag: Tübingen/Brewer: Cambridge, 1984. 91‑108.
CHERCHI, Paola `The Knight’s Tale: Lines 1774‑81.’ MP 76 (1978‑79): 46‑49.
CHERNISS, `Anelida and Arcite: Some Conjectures.’ ChauR 5 (1970-71): 9‑21.
COOK, Albert S. `Beginning the Board in Prussia.’ JEGP 14 (1915): 375‑388.
COWGILL, Bruce `The Knight’s Tale and the Hundred Years’ War.’ PQ 54 (1975): 670‑679.
CRANE, Susan `Medieval Romance and Feminine Difference in The Knight’s Tale.SAC 12 (1990): 47-63.
CURRY, Walter `Astrologising the Gods.’ ANGLIA 47 (1925): 213‑224.
DEAN, C. `Imagery in The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale.’MS 31 (1969): 149‑63.
DELASANTA, Rodney `Uncommon Commonplaces in The Knight’s Tale.’  NM 70 (1969): 683‑690.
DONALDSON, E. Talbot `Arcite’s Injury.’ Middle English Studies:  Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of his Seventieth Birthday. eds Douglas Gray and E.G. Stanley , Oxford: Clarendon P, 1983. 65‑67.
EDWARDS, Robert `Faithful Translations: Love and the Question of Poetry in Chaucer.’IN Edwards Robert R. and Spector edd. The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship,Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World. Albany : State U of New York P, 1991. 138-53.
ELBOW, Peter H. `How Chaucer Transcends Oppositions in the Knight’s Tale.’ ChauR 7 (1972-73): 97‑112.
ETHEL, Garland `Horse or Horses: A Chaucerian Textual Problem.’ MLN 75 (1960): 97‑101.
FICHTE, Joerg O. `Man’s Free Will and the Poet’s Choice: The Creation of Artistic Order in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’ ANGLIA 93 (1975): 335‑360.
FIFELD, Merle `The Knight’s Tale: Incident, Idea, Interpretation ChauR 3 (1968‑69): 95‑106.
FINLAYSON, John `The Knight’s Tale: The Dialogue of Romance, Epic, and Philosophy.’ ChauR 27 (1992): 126-49.
FRAKES, Jerold `”Ther Nis Namoore to Seye”: Closure in the Knight’s Tale.’ ChauR 22 (1987-88): 1‑7.
FRENCH, W H. `The Lovers in The Knight’s Tale.’ JEGP 48 (1949): 320‑28.
FRENCH, W.H. `General Prologue 74: Horse or Horses?’ MLN 76 (1961): 293‑295.
FROST, William `An Interpretation of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’ RES 25 (1949): 289‑304.
GANIM, John M. `Chaucerian Ritual and Patriarchal Romance.’ Chaucer Yearbook 1 (1992): 65-86.
GAYLORD, Alan T. `The Role of Saturn in the Knight’s Tale.’ ChauR 8 (1973-74): 171‑90.
GERHARD, J. `Chaucerian “Game”‑”Ernest” and the “Argument of Herberage” in the Canterbury Tales.’ ChauR 5 (1970-71): 82‑96.
GREEN, Richard `Arcite at Court.’ ELN 18 (1981): 251‑257.
HAM, Edward B. `Knight’s Tale 38.’ ELH 17 (1950): 252‑261.
HALVERSON, John `Aspects of Order in The Knight’s Tale.’ SP 57 (1960): 606‑21.
HANNING, R.W. `The Struggle Between Noble Design and Chaos: The Literary Tradition of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’ Lit Rev 23 (1980): 519‑41.
HARRINGTON, David V.`Rhetoric and Meaning in The Knight’s Tale.’ PLL 3 supp. (1967): 71‑79.
HARRINGTON, David V. `Arcite’s Song in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale 1510‑12.’ Neophil 71 (1987): 158‑159.
HARRISON, Joseph `”Tears for Passing Things”: The Temple of Diana in the Knight’s Tale.’ PQ 63 (1984): 108‑116.
HATTON, T.J. `Chaucer’s Crusading Knight: A Slanted Ideal.’ ChauR 3 (1968-69): 77‑87.
HELTERMAN, J. `The Dehumanizing Metamorphoses of The Knight’s Tale.’ ELH 38 (1971): 493‑511.
HERBEN, S.J. `The Knight’s Tale A 1181 ff.’ MLN 53 (1938): 595.
HERZ, J.S. `Chaucer’s Elegaic Knight.’ Criticism 6 (1964): 212‑24.
HERZMAN, R.B. `The Paradox of Form: The Knight’s Tale and Chaucerian Aesthetics.’ PLL 10:4 (1974): 339‑52.
HEYNS, Michiel `”Another World Altogether”? The Knight’s Tale and The Cape Times.’ Theoria 80 (1992): 1-23.
HIGGS, Elton D. `The Old Order and “The Newe World”.’ MLQ 45 (1982): 155‑172.
HOFFMAN, Richard `Mercury, Argus, and Chaucer’s Arcite Canterbury Tales I(A): 1384‑90.’ N&Q n.s.12 (1965): 128‑129.
HOFFMAN, Richard `Ovid and Chaucer’s Myth of Theseus and Pirithoös.’ ELN 2 (1965): 252‑257.
HOFFMAN, Richard `Two Notes on Chaucer’s Arcite.’ ELN 4 (1967): 172‑175.
HULBERT, J.R. `What was Chaucer’s Aim in The Knight’s Tale?’ SP 26 (1929): 375‑85.
JENSEN, Emily `Male Competition as a Unifying Motif in Fragment A of The Canterbury Tales.’ ChauR 24 (1989-90) :320‑28.
JUSTMAN, S. `Auctoritee and The Knight’s Tale.’ MLQ (1978): 3‑14.
KASKE, R.E. `The Knight’s Interruption of the Monk’s Tale.’ ELH 24 (1957): 249‑268.
KASKE, R.E. `Causality and Miracle: Philosophical Perspectives in The Knight’s Tale and the Man of Law’s Tale.‘ IN Allen, David G. and Robert A.White edd Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Newark: U Delaware P, 1990. 11-34.
KEEN, M. `Chaucer’s Knight, the English Aristocracy, and the Crusade.’ English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages. V. J. Scattergood & J.W. Sherborne. London: Duckworth, 1983. 45‑61.
KORETSKY, Allen. `The Heroes of Chaucer’s Romances.’ AnM 17 (1976): 22‑467.
LA FARGE, `Women and Chaucer’s Providence: The Clerk’s Tale and The Knight’s Tale.’ IN Simons, John ed. From Medieval to Medievalism. New York : St. Martin’s, 1992. 69-81.
LESTER, G.A. `Chaucer’s Knight and the Earl of Warwick.’ N&Q 226 (1981): 200‑202.
LESTER, G.A. `Chaucer’s Knight and the Medieval Tournament.’ Neophil 66 (1982): 460‑468.
LESTER, G.A. `Chaucer’s Unkempt Knight.’ ELN 27:1 (1989‑90): 25‑29.
LLOYD, Michael `A Defence of Arcite.’ EM 10 (1950): 11‑25.
LOOMIS, Dorothy `Saturn in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’ Chaucer und Seine Zeit.’ herausgeben Arno Esch. Tübingen: Max Neimeyer Verlag, 1968. 149‑161.
LUMIANSKY, R.M. `Chaucer’s Philosophical Knight.’ TSE 3 (1952): 47‑68.
LUXON, Thomas `”Sentence” and “Solaas”: Proverbs and Consolation in the Knight’s Tale.’ ChauR 22 (1987-88): 94‑111.
JUSTMAN, Stewart `”Auctoritee” and the Knight’s Tale.’ MLQ 39 (1978): 3‑14.
McALINDON, T. `Cosmology, Contariety, and The Knight’s Tale.‘  54 (1986): 41‑57.
MCALPINE, Monica E. Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale: An Annotated Bibliography 1900 to 1985. Chaucer Bibliographies; 4. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1991. (a full list of articles.)
McCOBB, Lilian `The English Partonope of Blois, Its French Source and Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’ ChauR 11 (1976-77): 369‑72.
McCOLLY, William `Why Chaucer’s Knight has No Coat of Arms.’ ELN 21 (1984): 1‑7.
McKENZIE, W `Chaucer’s Knight 1053′ Expl, 20:7 (1962): item 69.
MADDEN, W. A. `Some Philosophical Aspects of The Knight’s Tale: A Reply.’ CE 20 (1958): 193‑94.
MITCHELL, Charles `The Worthiness of Chaucer’s Knight.’ MLQ (1964): 66‑75.
MITCHELL, Edward R. `The Two Mayings in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’  MLN 71 (1956): 560‑64.
MUSCATINE, Charles `Form, Texture, and Meaning in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’ PMLA 65 (1950): 911‑929.
MOORE, Bruce `”Allone, Withouten any Compaignye”: The Mayings in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’ ChauR 25 (1990-91): 285-301.
NEUSE, R. `The Knight: The First Mover in Chaucer’s Human Comedy.’ UTQ (1961‑62): 299‑315.
NICHOLSON, R.H. `Theseus’s “Ordinaunce”: Justice and Ceremony in the Knight’s Tale.’ ChauR 22 (1987-88): 192‑213.
NOLAN, Barbara `The Consolation of Stoic Virtue: Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and the Tradition of the roman antique.’ Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; 15. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992. 47-84.
NORTH, J. D. `”Kalendres illumined Beën They”, Part 1′ RES 20 (1969): 149‑154.
OLSSON, K `Chaucer’s Knight and Securitas.’ SAC(1987): 123‑53.
OWEN, Charles A. `Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and the Aesthetic Design: Tales of the First Day.’ES 35(1954): 49‑56.
OWEN, Charles A. `The Problem of Free Will in Chaucer’s Narratives.’ PQ 46 (1967): 433‑56.
PARR, Johnstone `The Date and Revision of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’ PMLA 60 (1945): 307‑324.
PERRYMAN, Judith `The “False Arcite” of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’ Neophil 68 (1984): 121‑133.
PRATT, R.A. and PARR, Johnstone `Was Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale Extensively Revised After the Middle of 1390?’ PMLA 63 (1948): 726‑739.
PRATT, R. A. `”Joye” after “Wo” in The Knight’s Tale.’ JEGP 57 (1958): 416‑23.
PRATT, John H. `Was Chaucer’s Knight Really a Mercenary?’ ChauR 22 (1987-88): 8‑27.
ROBERTSON, D.W. `The Probable Date and Purpose of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’ SP 84 (1987): 418‑439.
ROWLAND, B `The Knight’s Tale A.1810 Expl 21:9 (1963): item 73.
RUDAT, Wolfgang `Chaucer’s Mercury and Arcite: The Aeneid and the World of the Knight’s Tale.’ Neophil 64 (1980): 307‑319.
RUGGIERS, P.G. `Some Philosophical Aspects of The Knight’s Tale.’ CE 19 (1957): 296‑302.
SALTER, E. `Chaucer and Boccaccio’ Fourteenth Century English Poetry: Contexts and Readings. ed D. Pearsall & Nicolette Zeeman. Oxford: Clarendon P,1983. 175‑79 (published posthumously).
SAVAGE, Henry `Arcite’s Maying.’ MLN 55 (1940):207‑09.
SCHMIDT, A.V.C. `The Tragedy of Arcite: A Reconsideration of The Knight’s Tale.’ EIC 19 (1969): 107‑116.
SCHWEITZER, `Fate and Freedom in The Knight’s TaleEdward C. 3 (1981): 13‑45.
SEDGWICK, W.B. `Satalye (Chaucer, C.T. Prol. 58).’ RES(1926): 346.
SIEGEL, Marsha `What the Debate is and why it founders in Fragment A of the Canterbury Tales.’ SP 82 (1985): 1‑24.
SCHLESS, Howard `Knight’s Tale: 965-67, 1462-75; Theseus’s Banner; Palemon’s Mickey.’ ChauR 25 (1990-91): 80-84.
STILLWELL, G. ,WEBB, Henry J.`Chaucer’s Knight and the Hundred Years’ War.’ MLN 59 (1944): 45‑47.
STOCK, Lorraine `The Two Mayings in Chaucer’s Knight’s TaleConvention and Invention.’ JEGP 85 (1986): 206‑221.
TATELBAUM, Linda `Venus’ Citole and the Restoration of Harmony in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’ NM 74 (1973): 649‑665.
TKCAZ, Catherine `Samson and Arcite in The Knight’s Tale.‘ ChauR 25 (1990-91): 127-37.
THUNDY, Z. `Chaucer’s Quest for Wisdom in The Knight’s Tale .’ NM 77 (1978): 592‑98.
TURNER, F `A Structuralist Analysis of The Knight’s Tale .’ ChauR 8 (1974-75): 279‑96.
UNDERWOOD, D. `The First of the Canterbury Tales.’ELH 26 (1959): 455‑69.
URBAN, William `When was Chaucer’s Knight in “Ruse”?’ ChauR 18 (1983-84): 347‑351.
VAN, Thomas A. `Imprisoning and Ensnarement in Troilus and The Knight’s Tale.’ PLL 7 (1971): 3‑12.
Van BOOHEEMEN C. `The Knight’s Tale and the Structure of Myth.’ DQR 9 (1979): 176‑90.
WALDRON, R.A. `Knight’s Tale A1037: “fressher than the May”.’ ES 46 (1965): 402‑406.
WASSERMAN, J. `Both Fixed and Free: Language and Destiny in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and Troilus and Criseyde.‘ Julian N. Wasserman and Lois Roney edd. Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse U P, 1986.
WATSON, Christopher `Chaucer’s Knight and his Tale.’ ChauR 22 (1980): 58‑64.
WEBB, Henry J. `A Reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Theseus.’ RES 23 (1947): 289‑296.
WESTLUND, J. `The Knight’s Tale as an Impetus for Pilgrimage.’ PQ 43 (1964): 526‑37.
WETHERBEE, `Romance and Epic in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’  Winthrop Exemplaria 2:1 (1990): 303-28.
WHITLARK, James `Chaucer and the Pagan Gods.’ AnM 18 (1968): 65‑75.
WIMSATT, James `Anelida and Arcite: A Narrative of Complaint and Comfort.’ ChauR 5 (1970-71): 1‑8.
WOODS, William F. `Chivalry and Nature in The Knight’s Tale.’ PQ 66 (1987): 287‑301.
WOODS, William F. `Up and Down, To and Fro: Spatial Relationships in The Knight’s Tale.’ IN Fein, Susanna Greer, David Raybin and Peter C. Braeger edd. Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales. SMC 29. Kalamazoo : Medieval Inst., 1991. 37-57.
WOODS, William F. “My Sweete Foo”: Emelye’s Role in The Knight’s Tale.’ SP 88:3 (1991): 276-306.
WORDSWORTH, `A Link Between The Knight’s Tale and the Miller’s.’ 27 (1948): 21.
WRIGHT, M.J. `Comic Perspectives in two Middle English Poems.’ Parergon 18 (1977): 3‑15.
YAMAMOTO, Dorothy `Heraldry and The Knight’s Tale.’ NM 93:2 (1992): 207-15.
ZHANG, John Z. `Writing in Lines 1303-27 of The Knight’s Tale.’ ELN 26:4 (1989): 1-5.
ZHANG, John Z. `Medieval Visual Arts and the Barred Window in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.’ ELN 28 (1991): 10-17.

 


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