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Uses the term "narrator" as a technical term to refer to "the contours of the narratorial functions and the textual voice as these are inscribed," focusing on "expansion of narratorial functions" in fifteenth-century English hagiography. Includes…

Considers various conditions of and approaches to pronouncing--or not pronouncing--final "-e" in Chaucer's verse, arguing that "Chaucer's final "-es" are a subjective quality of his verse, a series of phonological events structured not by metrical or…

Eleven tales of macabre fiction by various authors, loosely modeled on CT.

Describes the theory and practice of a course on "Medieval Fanfiction," focusing on an adaptation of WBPT—"The Seconde Tale of the Wyf of Bath" by Beth H [sic]. Includes a sample syllabus and sample handouts. The course readings include Chaucer's…

Argues that the widow Ranter of Aphra Behn's "The Widow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon in Virginia" is "a 'reincarnation' of Chaucer's Wife of Bath in the New [W]orld." Behn's play "translates the wife . . . to colonial Virginia to negotiate both…

Offers "an imaginary conversation between myself and the texts that feature on a final-year Undergraduate Module that I teach in a UK university," a course called "ReMix: Chaucer in the Then and Now." The course readings feature TC, CT, Lavinia…

Compares the models of memory presented by the narrators of Chaucer's TC and Lavinia Greenlaw's "A Double Sorrow," her poetic adaptation of TC published in 2014. Argues that while Chaucer's narrator uses classical models of memory that involve the…

Explores how Alexander Pope's posing of his "Women ben ful of Ragerie" as a Chaucerian work reflects eighteenth-century concerns about literary history and authenticity and "provides us with new ways of understanding how Chaucer was read,…

Collects twenty-three essays by various authors in linguistic, philological, and/or medieval studies. For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for Travelling Texts--Texts Travelling under Alternative Title.

Draws on data derived from "EDD Online"--a digitization of Joseph Wright's "English Dialect Dictionary"--to investigate "the role of Chaucer's language for 18th- and 19th-century dialects: of English, summarizing Chaucer's interests in dialects,…

Describes the political and aesthetic motives that underlie the four volumes of David Herd and Anna Pincus's "Refugee Tales" (2016–21), exploring their modeling on the variety, unity, and thematic concerns of Chaucer's panoramic short fiction in…

Affiliates the success, succession, and monumentalization of Chaucer in fifteenth-century literature with Lancastrian ascendancy and status, quoting and analyzing excerpts from Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Caxton.

Surveys the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah as a cross-cultural, internationalist writer. Lists Chaucer among global writers referred to in Gurnah's novels "Memory of Departure" (1987) and "Gravel Heart" (2017), briefly describes CT, observes that…

A children's book about a tale-loving bear named Chaucer.

Surveys the "brilliantly imaginative, formally experimental, and socially self-aware" poetry of early sixteenth-century English, with emphasis on its transitions from Chaucerian tradition and to Shakespearean tradition, the importance of Ovidian…

Explores Deschamps's Ballade 285 in praise of Chaucer in the "context of late fourteenth-and early fifteenth-century humanist epistolary exchanges . . . including the polemic over 'The Romance of the Rose," and particularly . . . the exchange that…

Observes several points of similarity and difference between the marital relations depicted in WBPT and FranT on the one hand and in "The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor" on the other.

Item not seen. Young-adult, historical novel about Edward III's ascendancy to power and marriage, presented as a tale told by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of Edward's reign.

Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that this volume includes a poem titled "Opening Prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales."

Twenty-five tales in modern iambic verse, told by various travelers on a cruise ship headed to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, but beset by the COVID-19 pandemic. Modeled on CT.

Contemplative memoir of walking the Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury, highlighted with literary and historical references and commentary. Chaucerian references include, for example, lines translated from GP (1–2, 12–18), a surmise that…

Argues that Washington Irving was broadly influenced by Chaucer. Focuses on Irving's "Sketch Book" and its narrative personae in particular and, more generally, his attention to Chaucer, medieval literature, and poetic language in his process of…

Collects twenty-six critical essays about Caroline Bergvall's literary output and outlooks, accompanied by three interviews with her, a foreword by David Wallace, an afterword by Rachel Gilmore, and a comprehensive index. Several essays refer to…

Focuses on fifteenth-century writers such as Audelay, Hoccleve, Kempe, and Charles d'Orléans, and shows how these authors fashioned themselves as self-publishing and scribes in their own right. Argues that this modeling was influenced by Chaucer,…

Assesses Edmund Spenser's quotation of FranT, 764-66, in Britomart's speech in T"he Faerie Queene," Book III, arguing that the Chaucerian material and its original context carry suggestions of the "need for tolerance in social relations" and "[set] a…