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Reproduces and assesses various eighteenth-century depictions of CT or the Canterbury pilgrims, including Thomas Stothard's illustrations for Bell's British Poets (1782-83), the set of pilgrim portraits (here associated with John Vanderbank) in John…

ManT asserts a "repressive poetics" that challenges fiction-making in CT--especially in KnT--and at the same time rejects the validity of penitential self-examination offered by the Parson.

Børch derives a poetics of reading Chaucer from Chaucer's own poetry, arguing that he frustrates "intertextual" approaches by being consistently evasive. Attention to style and content clarifies how the poetry shapes readers' responses. BD and HF…

Brawer compares infatuation with "dot.com startups" with aspects of CYPT, arguing caution in such ventures given the number of repeated failures.

Although written for the same fourteenth-century courtly audience/readership, KnT and MilT are two very different types of narrative. One of the features of Chaucer's Gothic aesthetic was to shift between high and low styles. These two Tales…

Brosamer investigates hell-mouth imagery in PardT, MLT, and LGWP, drawing upon a number of sources, especially De miseria condicionis humane by Pope Innocent III. The corruption of sin has an alimentary dimension, from ingestion to defecation.

By adjusting his source, Chaucer allows the Knight to construct a Theseus who appears noble and positively inclined toward women. Chaucer also reminds us, however, that Theseus is not always the champion of women and the exemplar of chivalry. A…

Brown discourages emendation ("dreary refinements") of Chaucer's meter, arguing that "broken-backed" or "Lydgatian" lines recorded in good manuscripts are likely to be Chaucer's own. Metrical variation within Chaucer's dominant patterns can have…

Brown approaches the loathly lady's sermon on "gentillesse" as political allegory, emphasizing "the transforming power of relinquishing control over those who work, the third estate."

CT can destabilize essentialist categories of sexuality, subjectivity, and nationality. From a queer and postcolonial perspective, CT enables or compels neither a symbolically simple London originary nor an allegorically closed ending, but rather an…

Read by Philip Thiel; edited by Troy Sales and Paul Thomas. Recorded by Ewart Shaw at Radio Adelaide. Includes ManPT.

Butterfield surveys the French literature available to Chaucer and argues that French language and literature pervade Chaucer's entire career. The French influence is a fundamental "habit of mind" that resides in the deep and surface structures of…

Ten essays by various authors and a descriptive introduction by Derek Brewer. The papers were originally delivered at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium at the University of the South in April 2000; the colloquium was devoted to Chaucer's work on the…

Exploring the relationship between gender identity and book production at the turn of the twentieth century, Benton assesses the format and typography of the Kelmscott Chaucer (1896) and Eric Gill's illustrations to The Canterbury Tales (1930). Also…

In the Middle Dutch "Wrake van Ragisel" (adapted from the Old French "Vengeance Raguisel"), "Walewein, who is transformed into a dwarf, learns what women are exclusively led by their sexual desire," a different answer to the life question than is…

Focusing on literary depictions of maying activities in medieval records and the Roman de la Rose, Bezella-Bond assesses their depiction in Malory and in Chaucer's BD, PF, LGWP, KnT, MerT, and WBPT.

In narratives of falsely accused queens, the queens frequently undergo periods of exile that refine their souls through poverty and suffering. Black compares the Constance narratives by Nicholas Trevet, Gower, and Chaucer, examining each version in…

Blake examines the spelling variants of terminal -n and -m in a variety of words in WBP to show that fro/from was relatively erratic. Similar analysis indicates that final -e was obsolescent as a plural marker and in weak adjectives. Blake suggests…

A comprehensive concordance to CT based on Blake's text from the Hengwrt manuscript. Includes an alphabetical and frequency word list; describes spellings, words, syntax, and metrics.

There is more to Pier Paolo Pasolini's film version of CT than mere adaptation, for the shift from one semiotic system to another implies some puzzling metamorphoses. Yet, paradoxically, the spirit of the original is cleverly restored on the screen.

In LGWP, PF, and HF, Chaucer absorbs several conventions and concerns from the commentaries that he used as sources, thereby suggesting that his audience was familiar not only with traditional texts but also with the commentaries on them.

Benson argues against interpreting CT in terms of dramatic theory: the pilgrims are not fully developed human characters, nor are their tales expressions of their individual psychologies. The most developed pilgrims-the Pardoner and the Wife of…

A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2001, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.

A "bodily economy of piercing men and pierced women" can be found throughout CT. Lovemaking is associated with cutting, stabbing, bleeding, and dying. The only accounts of lovemaking not connected to stabbing or bloodletting occur in the musical…

Three concerns in LGW--space in "Thisbe," rhetoric in "Lucrece," and the exchange of women in "Hypsipyle and Medea"--demonstrate that the power of apparently passive women lies in their moral superiority over men.