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Yvernault explores the representation of space(s) and the problem of deconstruction in HF, focusing on the poem as textual architecture.

Alliteration, not infrequent in Chaucer, fulfils several functions. It is mimetic in the description of battles (KnT) and the harmony of the spheres (TC); metrical, when binding two parts of a line or several lines together (BD); and syntactic:…

Explicates Chaucer's uses of grammatical tenses in GP, especially in the descriptions of the Knight, Squire, and Yeoman, distinguishing how various tenses and narrative points of view direct readers' reactions to the pilgrims. Considers indirect…

Though BD is highly structured, ambiguity pervades it, raising questions about the relationships between dreaming and writing, illusory experience and textual reality, and psychological emptiness and poetic fruition.

Explores whether there is a distinctive Lollard vocabulary. While the usual method is to identify words in Lollard writings that would not be used in orthodox literature, the author highlights the absence of some orthodox words and sees what words…

Greenwood studies types of friendship, plus the positive and negative values attached to friendship, in FranT, MerT, and Mel.

CT reflects the medieval philosophical debate over universals, posing traditional literature in tension with more fully actualised characterization.

Greenwood contrasts Chaucer's and Malory's uses of models and antimodels in depictions of chivalry and courtly love.

Greenwood examines the meaning of "manly" as applied to the character of Theseus in KnT.

As Greenwood has shown in a previous study, garlanding often implied criticism. In KnT and A Midsummer's Night's Dream, however, it is an acknowledgment of power.

Yvernault explores the relationships among marginal spaces, architectural frames, sense, and self-assertion.

Yvernault focuses on the narrative imbalance in MilT caused by the intrusions of the margin through description of holes and through open and broken architectural structures.

Establishes the relationship between film pictures and manuscript margins as peripheral comments on the central object.

Morrison examines textual transmission before print, referring to Chaucer as evidence of authors' concerns about deficient scribal copying.

Studies the contents, significance, and function of medieval manuscripts, commenting briefly on WBP.

Focuses on Ackroyd's use of Chaucer's "formulism" (Zumthor) and reflects on how successful the accumulation of medieval formulas and sayings really is.

Explores the type, use, and functions of formulas in Th, in relation to parody; in Mel, in dramatic form reinforcing allegory.

Posits that uncertainty and ambiguity are structuring stylistic techniques of Chaucer's descriptions in PF.

Studies Chaucer's Bo to determine which texts, versions, and commentaries Chaucer might have used and which modifications he might have introduced and to what purposes.

Focuses on Theseus in KnT as Chaucer's critique of power-holders in general.

Attributes the need to use translations of Chaucer's works in college classrooms to students' lack of "linguistic awareness," and assesses the relative virtues of eight translations or modernizations of NPT, commenting on fidelity to meaning,…

Identifies the "contrast between surface respectability and corrupt motive [as] the keenest source of the comedy" in ShT, and suggests that there is a pun on "cozen" and "cousin." Explores similar contrasts and other devices in CT that produce comic…

Identifies modern analogues to ShT and Boccaccio's "Decameron" 8.1 in Thomas Menkel's 1946 short story, "Secret Debt," and Menkel's reported source in a "Scotch joke," surmising general transmission of the tale.

Seeks to illuminate "the kind of order that Chaucer was in the process of imposing" on the CT, focusing on the "definite beginning" and "definite end" rather than the "great middle." Treats GP, where Chaucer sets his topic ("variety of the created…

Identifies and summarizes a close, modern analogue of ShT, written by Shelby Foote and published in "The Nugget" (November, 1955); comments on the oral transmission described by Foote in an interview and points outs several modern emphases.