Professor Kenneth J. Tiller
Zehmer Hall 130
Office Hours: MWF 11-11:50, 2-3; TTH 11:00-12:15, and by appointment
Phone: 376-4587 / e-mail: k_tiller@uvawise.edu
Week 2: Aug 28-Sep 1
"The Complaint unto Pity"; "A Complaint to His Lady"; "The Complaint
of Mars"; "The Complaint of Venus"; Secondary reading: Jean de Meun, Romance
of the Rose (1-61).
Week 3: Sep 4-8
"To Rosemounde"; "Womanly Noblesse"; "Chaucers Wordes Unto
Adam, His Owne Scriveyn"; "The Former Age"; "Fortune"; "Truth"; "Gentiless";
"Lak of Stedfastnesse"; "The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse"; Secondary
reading: Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, Book II.
Week 4: Sep 11-15
The Book of the Duchess
Week 5: Sep 18-22
The Canterbury Tales , "General Prologue" Secondary Reading:
Donaldson, "Chaucer the Pilgrim," Schoeck and Taylor I (1-13); David Benson,
Week 6: Sep 25-29
.The Knight's Tale; Secondary reading: Patterson, "The Knight's
Tale and the Crisis of Chivalric Identity," Patterson (165-230)
Week 7: Oct 2-6
The Miller's Tale; The Reeve's Tale; The Cook's Tale; Secondary
reading: Patterson, "The Miller's Tale and the Politics of Laughter," Patterson
(244-79).
Week 8: Oct 9-13
The Man of Law's Tale; midterm exam.
Week 9: Oct 16-20
Mid-semester break
Week 10: Oct 23-27
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale; The Friar's and Summoner's
Tales; thesis statements due.
Week 11: Oct 30-Nov 3
The Clerk's Tale; The Merchant's Tale; Kittredge, "Chaucer and
the Idea of a Marriage Group."
Week 12: Nov Nov 6-10
The Franklin's Tale; The Physician's Tale.
Week 13: Nov 13-17
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale Secondary reading: Frese,
"Reconstructing the Pardoner's Vicious Virtuosity" (Frese ).
Week 14: Nov 20-22
The Prioress' Tale.; "Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas"
Week 15: Nov 27-Dec 1
The Nun's Priest's Tale; The Maunciple's Tale.
Week 16: Dec 4-8
The Canon's Yeoman's Tale. Secondary reading: Muscatine,
"The Canon's Yeoman's Tale," Schoeck and Taylor (259-67);.research projects
due
Week 17: Dec 11-13
TBA
Bryan, WF and Germaine Dempster, eds. Sources and Analogues
of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Chicago:
Chicago UP, 1941.
Fisher, John H. The Importance of Chaucer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992.
Patterson, Lee. Chaucer and the Subject of History. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1991
Robertson, DW. Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspective. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963.
Schoeck, Richard J and Jerome Taylor, eds. Chaucer Criticism (in two volumes). Notre Dame: U
of Notre Dame P, 1960, 1961.
Strohm, Paul. Social Chaucer. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1989.
This list does not represent an exhaustive bibliography of the
library's holdings on Chaucer. In your own research, you should consult
all holdings in the library, as well as articles in Chaucer Review and
Speculum, relevant to your subject.
Allen, Mark. The Essential Chaucer : An Annotated Bibliography
of Major Modern Studies.
London: Mansell, 1987.
Ames, Ruth M. God's Plenty: Chaucer's Christian Humanism. Chicago: Loyola UP, 1989.
Benson, C. David. Chaucer's Drama of Style: Poetic Variety and Contrast in the Canterbury Tales. Chapel Hill : U of North Carolina Press, 1986.
Bowden, Muriel. A Reader's Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer. London: Lowe and Brydone, 1965.
Brewer, Derek. Chaucer and his World. London: Eyre Methuen, 1978.---
. Tradition and innovation in Chaucer. London: Macmillan,
1982.
Crane, Susan. Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994.
Davenport, W. A. Chaucer: Complaint and Narrative. Woodbridge: Brewer, 1988.
David, Alfred. The Strumpet Muse: Art and Morals in Chaucer's Poetry. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1976.
Dillon, Janette. Geoffrey Chaucer. New York: St. Martin's, 1993.
Dinshaw, Carolyn. Chaucer's Sexual Poetics. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1989.
Fichter, Jeorg, ed. Chaucer's Frame Tales: The Physical and Metaphysical. Cambridge: Brewer, 1987.
Fisher, John H. The Importance of Chaucer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992.
Frantzen, Allen J. Troilus and Criseyde: The Poem and the Frame. New York : Twayne, 1993.
French, Robert Dudley. A Chaucer Handbook. New york: Appleton-Crofts, 1927.
Frese, Dolores Warwick. An Ars Legendi for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Re-Constructive
Reading. Gainseville: U of Florida P, 1991.
Gardner, John. The Poetry of Chaucer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1977.
Herman, John P. And John J. Burke Jr., eds. Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry. University: U of Alabama P, 1989.
Howard, Donald R. TH eIdea of the Canterbury Tales. Berkeley: U of California P, 1976.
Jefferson, Bernard L. Chaucer and the Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius. New York: Gordian, 1968.
Jeffrey, David Lyle, ed. Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 1979.
Kellog, Arthur. Chaucer, Langland, Arthur: Essays in Middle English Literature. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1972.
Kelly, Henry Ansgor. Love and marriage in the Age of Chaucer. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1975.
Kirby, T. A. Chaucer's Troilus: A Study in Courtly Love. Gloucester MA: Peter Smith, 1958.
Kittredge, George Lyman. Chaucer and his Poetry.: Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1915 1970.
Lawton, David. Chaucer's Narrators. Woodbridge: Brewer, 1985.
Lerer, Seth. Chaucer and his Readers: Imagining the Author in Late Medieval England. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Loomis, Roger Sherman. A Mirror of Chaucer's World. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1965.
Malone, Kemp. Chapters on Chaucer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1951.
McCall, John P. Chaucer Among the gods. University Park: Pennsylavania State UP, 1979.
Mehl, Dieter. Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction to his Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.
Miller, Robert. Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds. New York: Oxford UP, 1977.
Minnis, Alastair J. Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993.
Mitchell, Jerome and William Provost. Chaucer the Love Poet. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1973.
Morris, Lynn King. Chaucer Source and Analogue Criticism : A Cross-Referenced Guide. New York: Garland, 1985.
Morse, Ruth and Barry Wideatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.
Muscatine, Charles. Chaucer and the French Tradition: a Study in Style and Meaning. Berkeley: U of California P, 1957.
Owen, Charles A. The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales. New York: D.S. Brewer, 1991.
Patterson, Lee. Chaucer and the Subject of History. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1991.
Pearsall, Derek. The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
Richmond, Velma Bourgeois. Geoffrey Chaucer. New York: Continuum, 1992.
Robertson, DW. Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspective. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963.
Robinson, Ian. Chaucer and the English Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1972.
Rowland, Beryl, Blind Beasts: Chaucer's Animal World. Kent State UP, 1971.
Shoaf, R. A. Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word: Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry. Norman, OK: Pilgrim, 1983.
Stedman, John M. Disembodied Laughter: Troilus and the Apotheosis Tradition. Berkeley: U of California P, 1972.
Strohm, Paul. Social Chaucer. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1989.
Tatlock, John S. P. The Mind and Art of Chaucer. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1950
Vasta, Edward and Zacharias Thundy, eds. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1979.
Wagenecht, Edward Chaucer: Modern Essays in Criticism. New York: Oxford UP, 1959.
Wallace, David. Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio. Woodbridge: Brewer, 1985.
Wimsatt, James I. Chaucer and his French Contemporaries: Natural Music in the Fourteenth Century. Toronto : U of Toronto P, 1991.