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Considers the roles of apartheid and linguistic queerness in the class-based characterizations of various hobbits in Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," suggesting that Tolkien's scholarly study of Chaucer's literary dialects and his glossary for the…

Treats Boccaccio's "Famous Women," LGW, and Christine de Pizan's "The Book of the City of Ladies," reading Chaucer's "faithful women" in LGW "as metaphors [of] the relationship between authorship and readership, trying to define his own position [as]…

Compares the comic treatment of sententiousness in NPT with modern philosophical uses of aphorism. Both are "Menippean" in their contrasts of high and low discourse, and both ask us to perceive their points rather than to understand conceptually.

Explores problems in "Troilus and Cressida" in light of Shakespeare's uses of his sources, including TC.

Computer-assisted analysis of the 276 neologisms in Bo produces statistical descriptions of their source languages,their distribution in Bo, and their occurrences in other works by Chaucer. The analysis underpins surmises about the range and nature…

Describes the variety of ways Chaucer uses noun-adjective compounds to produce "strong connotations or heightened effects."

Includes discussion of "a shared six-part musical structure, hitherto unnoticed" in the pairing of KnT and MilT.

Contends that Chaucer employs music as a literary aesthetic, which creates a "structure of narrative mirroring" in KnT and MilT.

Examines music as a coequal to rhetoric and a branch of medieval philosophy to argue that Chaucer's beast fable traces and complicates three major tenets of Boethian and medieval music theory.

Challenges claims that the first-person feminine pronouns of ShT 7.11-19 indicate that the tale was originally intended to be told by the Wife of Bath, reading the lines as if they were presented in a "miming male" voice, and suggesting that the tale…

Fictional adaptation of WBP set in the frame of the CT.

WBP, belonging to the genre of the French sermon joyeux, "a parodic homily by a woman that uses biblical exegesis to endorse worldly pleasure," had a "topical resonance" for Lollards, who, "championing female literacy and lay biblical exegesis,…

Studies the ways "expressions of romantic fulfillment are disrupted by the excesses and inconsistencies that desire produces in the narrative developments and rhetorical gestures" of works about love by Chaucer, Montemayor, Sidney, and Shakespeare.

Includes sixty trans lyric poems, presented in a "transliteration of English--Chaucerian in affect, but revolutionary in effect," with spelling reminiscent of Middle English.

By skewing their narrative deployment, Chaucer simultaneously undermines the viability of heroic and courtly romance themes in FranT and reevaluates their relationship to lived human experience. He does so through narrative pacing, repression and…

Examines right relations of individuals in the medieval Christian hierarchy as shown in the writings of Chaucer, Gower, Langland, the "Pearl" poet, Julian of Norwich, and Guillaume de Deguileville.

The pagan outlook of Theseus's world contrasted to the Christian view of the pilgrim Knight.

Lists, describes, and evaluates some thirty translations and adaptations of Chaucer's works published in books and magazines between 1792 and 1841.

Item not seen; described in an online review by Joy Calderwood (http://www.reviewers-choice.com/the_insomniac_tales.htm) as thirteen "Chick Lit" short stories by various women writers in imitation of CT.

Studies obedience in Middle English literature, including discussion of the theme in LGW and Ovid's "Tristia" and comparison of ClT and "Pearl" as works which indicate that imperfect obedience "is as culturally and theologically important and perhaps…

Studies Ovid's "Tristia" and LGW and argues that "Ovid's literary autobiography" revealed in the "Tristia" is "assimilated and elaborated" by Chaucer in LGWP. This connection not only allows Chaucer "to convey . . . a sense of his own Ricardian,…

The introduction and notes include commentary on Shakespeare's debts to Chaucer in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," focusing on the characterization of Theseus, the "rite of maying"" and elements of the fairy world. Discusses KnT most extensively, but…

Eleven essays by various authors, on topics relating to Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Petrarchan tradition, Renaissance ballads and drama, and George Herbert. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Writing Over under Alternative Title.

Argues that "the vernacular literature of late medieval England contributes importantly to the theorizing of psychological subjectivity and that this theorizing is connected fundamentally with the history of shame"; focuses on selected works by…

Considers Astr and CT within a larger analysis of the formation of intra- and extra-familial kinship bonds. Such bonds are rooted in education and common experiences.