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The authors critique several Korean translations of CT published since the early 1960s: those by J. Kim, B. Song, Dong-il Lee and Dongchoon Lee, and another attributed to J. Kim.

In HF, Chaucer defends poetry, indicating that despite its fictional nature and relativity, poetry is as valid as theology or philosophy.

Links between WBP and Wycliffite thought indicate that Chaucer was sympathetic to the movement.

In LGW, if the God of Love and Alceste criticize Chaucer, they do so as representatives of a text community based on Augustinian hermeneutics. Chaucer undermines the legitimacy of their view of poetry, inscribing his own presence and intent in the…

Choi explores the relationship between body and text in medieval hermeneutics. arguing that MLT represents the uncontrollable signification of the text and reveals how textual transmission becomes a process of textual transgression.

Assesses the overt or implied gender of the narrator in ABC, in PrPT, and in SNPT, exploring how each correlates with the depiction of the Virgin Mary in these works. Suggests that these depictions indicate that Chaucer was a "keen observer of the…

Chaucer self-consciously makes the reader aware of the achievement of the writer, of the reader as reader, and of the intelligent response he is asking the reader to make. All three point to Chaucer's fascination with the power of language as a key…

Presents a sketch of the development of the written trades and the connections among scriveners in the late Middle Ages.

A community of tradespeople-artisans in small shops on Paternoster Row near Saint Paul's Cathedral was engaged in book production during Chaucer's last decade and the early fifteenth century. The editor, text writer, and artists of Ellesmere may be…

By proposing aesthetic and religious inevitability, the palinode to TC relieves the reader's frustration at Chaucer's deliberately ambiguous characterization of the poem's three main characters and shows the unity underlying the seemingly diverse…

Treats Mel as a "consolatio," not an allegory, of the same genre as Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and "designed to cure an excess of wrath" and to promote "forgiveness." Identifies ways that Mel engages thematically with the other tales in…

Explores why C. S. Lewis chose not to discuss FranT in his "Allegory of Love," arguing that Lewis made the decision because he wanted to attribute the "final defeat of courtly love by the romantic conception of marriage" to Edmund Spenser in his…

Scans two lines of GP (49 and 173), "usually felt to be awkward," arguing that in light of comparable Middle English examples the syllable counts and stress patterns of these lines are consistent with the "iambic-decasyllabic theory."

A play in two acts that depicts the meeting of various women from fiction and history, including Patient Griselda, who tells her life story in a version of ClT. First produced and published in 1982; this is a fully revised, post-production edition.

Excerpts and re-titles a portion of chapter two of Chute's 1946 "Geoffrey Chaucer on England," describing the nature of Chaucer's education and the books he likely encountered in his early studies.

Appreciative criticism of CT, particularly Chaucer's realism, stylistic variety, and deft characterization, including that of his own persona. Comments on his life and language and on the appropriateness of individual tales to their tellers. Reads…

Chwast's humorous graphic novel of Chaucer's twenty-four tales depicts the pilgrims traveling to Canterbury by motorcycles.

In KnT, Chaucer presents Arcite's love sickness in scientific terms. Boccaccio reveals Arcite to be changed into a savage-looking creature, whereas Chaucer's description recreates the ideal world of chivalry.

Argues that 'Augustine's theology allows us to see providence in romance as a doubled perspective that recognizes the existential smallness of individuals and their collective participatory power in a plural world," addressing KnT, ClT, and…

Since secular narratives treat behavior, twelfth-century scholars regarded them as practical philosophy. Thus, internal debate and decision-making in both French and English romance are often based on theology and philosophy.

Critics' inability to sympathize with Troilus in TC results from their failure to recognize the "medieval practical reasoning that informs Troilus's deliberations and ultimately humanizes him." His philosophising "reflects a withdrawal from the…

In its evocations of a "locus amoenus," "fin' amors," and Aeneas, the dream chamber in BD serves as a "structural analogue" to the Man in Black's autobiography, which narrates an idyllic youth, describes falling in love, and refers to the duties of…

An edition of the two prologues and tales with notes and commentary.

The anti-Semitism of PrT is not Chaucer's, and the tale is less about it than about the divine power of Mary to destroy the enemies of the Christian faith.

Although elite cultural views, such as those of theologians, set the polarities of moral judgment as good and evil, vernacular writings in Middle English--including Lollard sermons, Piers Plowman, and CT--set up instead a dialectic of sin and evil. …