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Attributes the lack of critical attention to John Metham's "Amoryus and Cleopes" to its "prosodic eccentricity," demonstrating that it "does not descend from, and does not participate in, the transmission or reception of Chaucer's Anglicized…

Describes Middle English metrical predecessors to "The Tale of Gamelyn" and assesses its regularities and place in the tradition of alliterative long-line verse. Also comments on its status as an example of Chaucerian apocrypha.

Argues that rhyme royal was rarely used in Middle English romances because it "mitigates against some of the aims and purposes" of the genre, creating "a self-consciousness about temporality that presses against the fairy-tale temporality of romance"…

Exemplifies the theory and practice of "evental pedagogy," describing the classroom experience of teaching WBPT in the context of a "scandal" and "media uproar" at Dalhousie University (Halifax) in 2015. Comments on rape, "restorative justice"" and…

Explores how speakers' "understanding of their world and their lives" in KnT is "encoded in language," focusing on uses of the auxiliary "moten" and connecting it with the theme of necessity in the tale. Concludes that, in the terms of cognitive…

Surveys the "presentation of self" in late medieval English literature, gauging the relative degree of "truth value" and describing how authors "entwine life-writing into their larger projects." Uses Ret and Chaucer's ironic "playful portrayal of…

Explores how the 2003 BBC adaptation of MLT and Patience Agbabi's "Telling Tales" (2004) "respond to the xenophobic and imperialist ideology of the original," challenging the relationship that MLT "posits between familial and national loyalties,"…

Traslates CT in modified Middle English (originally published in 1908), without notes or commentary, providing links to each of the tales in separate e-files. Occasional diacritical marks indicate stress. The Introduction briefly surveys "Chaucer's…

Part of Paravicini's three-volume study of the crusades against Lithuania undertaken by the Teutonic order, focusing on literary backgrounds to the chivalric imagination underlying the crusades. Includes evidence of tensions between crusading and…

Studies images of youth and adolescence in eleven major authors, including Chaucer, showing that adolescence is portrayed as a time of "turbulence, excess, and passion." Chaucer's GP Squire fits the pattern.

Dauby examines the transformations from living characters to artifacts and vice versa, the interplay between life and art. A comparative study of "Sir Degrevant," Lancelot, the Tristan legend, and poems by Chaucer leads to a typology of the…

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 LGW, Chaucer questions his two major sources--Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Heroides--to express the naked text of the myth and, simultaneously, to assert his own authority. Aeneas is selfish and irresponsible in LGW (Chaucer's third treatment after…

In BD, the omission of the transformation of Ceyx and Alcyone--included in other versions of the narrative--runs counter to the expectation of readers, thus exacerbating the anti-consolatory element in the adjacent narrator's dream.

Electronic "hypertext" versions of medieval texts often depend on the mediation of an expert reader. As an alternative, Remley outlines a system for producing electronic "reading texts" by prelemmatization, taking his electronic edition of CT as a…

The Second Nun's voice is undefined by Chaucer, yet it is intriguing since it probes the nature of "agency, voice, and reappropriation." The voice of the Nun becomes more clear as her character develops, and SNT "becomes a product of the voice."

Personal chronicle of problems in dealing with technology in teaching, including inadequate facilities, poor student preparation, and time-consuming searching and class preparation. Includes two appendices: a "Labyrinth" assignment and student…

Examines feminist and antifeminist readings Criseyde, arguing that--like Chaucer, who appropriates his sources, and like his narrator, who constantly negotiates and repositions himself in relation to Lollius--Criseyde performs, mimes, and parodies…

Demonstrates that Chaucer "occupies a more prominent place" in Samuel Johnson's "Dictionary" than has been acknowledged. Corrects some misconceptions of previous scholars and adds new data about attention to Chaucer in the "Dictionary"--quotations of…

Assesses the politics and cultural work of British wartime cinema, including assessment of Michael Powell's and Emeric Pressburger's "A Canterbury Tale" of 1944 as "one of the first 'heritage films'," one that capitalizes on the status of CT as the…

Introduces elements of the English language that are particularly useful for teaching English, following the ordinary division of the language's development into five stages: Old English, Middle English, early modern English, late modern English, and…

Ogura examines the lexicon of emotion (anger, fear, joy, pleasure, sorrow, wonder) in translations of Boethius by Jean de Meun, Chaucer, and Elizabeth I. Chaucer effectively uses three levels of word pairs: native, foreign, and combinations of…

Assesses humor and irony in MilT and RvT, with attention to satire and Bakhtinian concerns of social class. In Portuguese, with an abstract in English. Revised by Márcia Maria de Medeiros as "Figurações do Humor em Geoffrey Chaucer--Uma Leitura de…

Osborn repunctuates the "astrolabic" passages in SqT and MLP (both set in the East) and considers the operation of an astrolabe to resolve apparent problems of time and date. The steed of brass and its association with the star Alpherez in SqT…

Gray surveys the study of Middle English literature from the founding of the British Academy until the early twenty-first century, commenting on accomplishments of individual scholars up to World War II. He describes critical trends and how they…