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Buffoni, Franco.   Milan: : Guerine, 1991.
Focuses on Mel as the central and unifying section of CT, reading it as an expression of Chaucer's preference for unvarnished moralism over poetry.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo, dir.   Produzioni Europee Associati; Les Productions Artistes Associés, 1972.
Selections from CT adapted for film, including portions or versions of GP, MerT, CkT, MilT, WBP, RvT, PardT, SumPT, and additional ribald material. Screenplay by Pasolini. Available with sub-titles and/or dubbing in various languages, including…

Veronese, Cecilia, trans.   Milan: Mondadori, 1995.
Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that this is an Italian translation of Geraldine's McCaughrean's adaptation of selections from CT (1984), designed for a juvenile audience, with illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus.

Barisone, Ermanno, trans.   Turin: UTET, 1967.
Translates CT into Italian prose. Reprinted in various editions, complete and selected.

Barton, Amanda C.   Dissertation Abstracts International A80.01 (2018): n.p.
Considers KnT and TC vis-à-vis Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" as part of a discussion of pain and love in chapter three.

Hilmo, Maidie.   Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, ed. Women and the Divine in Literature Before 1700: Essays in Memory of Margot Louis (Victoria, Canada: ELS Editions, 2009), pp. 107-35.
Hilmo explores the iconography of representations of the Prioress, the Second Nun, and their Tales, commenting on the Ellesmere illustrations of the tellers, the Vernon manuscript depiction of PrT, two manuscript depictions of Saint Cecilia, and the…

Brinton, Laurel J.   John Deely and Jonathan Evans, eds. Semiotics 1986 (Lanham, New York, and London: University Press of America, 1987), pp. 3-14.
Delimits "the notion of iconicity in syntax before examining how iconic word order patterns contribute to the 'iconic text interpretation.'" Applies theories to Mel.

Matheson, Lister M., ed.   Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood, 2012.
Surveys lives and careers of iconic medieval characters. Includes chapter on Chaucer by Louise M. Bishop, pp. 175-204.

Adanur, Evrim Doğan, ed.   Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
Includes forty-six papers presented at the fifth international IDEA conference, held at Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey in 2010. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for IDEA: Studies in English under Alternative Title.

Cunningham, J. V.   Shenandoah 19.2 (1968): 38-41.
Defines ClT as an example of "Ideal Fiction," generally unpalatable to modern taste, identifying the presence of a manipulator in the plot (Walter), the narrative "distance" achieved through its combination of "ordinariness" and fantasy, the…

Bachman, William Bryant,Jr.   Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 6696A.
By the fourteenth century Augustinian idealism had lost ground to rising confidence in the experiential world. TC, KnT, FranT, and NPT all reveal the movement towards determinism. The idealism of the ParsT forms an opposition to this movement.

Kelly, Henry Ansgar.   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Identifies classical and medieval uses and understandings of "tragedy." For Aristotle, tragedy was a serious story, although one that might end happily. The notion of "irretrievable misfortune" came to dominate the late-classical use of the term.

Williamson, John R.
Zell, Mary Jo.
Davis, Elizabeth A.  
New York: Bedford/ St. Martin's, 2023.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that Unit One of this pedagogical study guide includes a thematic section "Faith and Doubt," which features PardT (J. U. Nicolson's poetic translation), with exploratory study questions. A student workbook is…

Fleming, Carolyn Evine Mary Elizabeth.   Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Liverpool, 1987. Dissertation Abstracts International A81/1(E) and A50 (1990): 3601. Abstract available vis ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Explores ideas of selfhood evident in medieval literature and sixteenth-century printed versions of select romances. Includes discussion of how Chaucer in WBT "utilises the methods and vocabulary at his disposal to generate debate on the 'self'."

Johnson, James D.   Chaucer Review 19 (1984): 62-86.
Allusions collected since Spurgeon (1908-17; reprinted 1925). Indexes names and titles.

Johnson, James D.   Chaucer Review 29 (1994): 194-203.
An annotated list of thirty-seven items, intended as an update of Caroline Spurgeon's "Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, 1357-1900."

Johnson, James [D.]   Chaucer Review 39 (2005): 436-55
Tabulates and annotates fifty-seven studies that identify or discuss allusions to Chaucer, presented as a continuation of Caroline Spurgeon's Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion (1925). Includes a name and title index for the…

Strohm, Paul.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 14-23
Contemplates the notion that "identification" with a given author is a "frequent, if unacknowledged, component of literary appreciation." Theorizes the notion in Freudian terms and those of reader-response criticism, exploring the processes and…

Düzgün, Şebnem.   Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 6, no. 10 (2018): 113-23.
Assumes that the loathly lady in WBT is a witch, and maintains that she is "stigmatised in the poem to enforce the medieval discourse that appreciates nurture against nature, obedience against revolt, and youth and beauty against old age and…

Rigby, Stephen H.   Matthew Davies and Andrew Prescott, eds. London and the Kingdom: Essays in Honour of Caroline M. Barron. Proceedings of the 2004 Harlaxton Symposium. Harlaxton Medieval Studies, no. 16 (Donington, England: Shaun Tyas, 2008), pp. 316-34.
Orthodox notions of royal prudence and magnificence underlie the idealized figure of Theseus in KnT. Theseus embodies the traits that Richard II was accused of lacking.

Knight, Stephen.   Parergon 28 (1980): 3-31.
Identifies the "broad patterns of ideology in the text," discusses sources and onomastics, and examines the way in which the poetic working out energizes and modifies the ideology.

Besserman, Lawrence L.   Chaucer Review 36: 48-72, 2001.
Throughout the decades, Chaucer critics have argued their own biases in interpreting Chaucer's ideology--seeing Chaucer as a "Christian poet"; as a "poet first and foremost"; as an "atheist"; as a writer who was "politically incorrect." Eschewing…

Simons, Christopher E. J.   Humanities: Christianity and Culture (International Christian University) 41 (2013): 31-70.
Clarifies what kind of poems William Wordsworth criticized as "idle and extravagant stories in verse" and examines four English narrative poems before Wordsworth, including WBT. All four turn out to be more or less "idle and extravagant" by…

Pelen, Marc M.   Forum for Modern Language Studies 31 (1995): 193-214.
Chaucer's mode of composition of SNT and CYT owes much to the structure of "Roman de la Rose," in which the theme of contradictions and contraries plays a major role.

Sadlek, Gregory [M.]   Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2004.
Bakhtinian analysis of the discourse of love's labor in classical and medieval love literature, focusing on two traditions: one, rhetorical, playful, and concerned with the labor of courtship; the other, serious, philosophical, and concerned with the…
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