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Item not seen. WorldCat record indicates that this is a "picture book adaptation of the Nun's triest's tale from Chaucer's Canterbury tales.

Reprint of Dutch verse translation of CT, with introduction and notes, first published 1930-33 (Haarlem: Tjeenk Willink) and reissued recurrently.

Chaucer teases the "magisterial" Jerome by putting material from "Adversus Jovinianum" into WBP in the "mouth of a woman he would despise."

Judging Chaucer's works, especially NPT, by modern critical and cultural-literary standards deprives us of the "ideas and customs" of Chaucer's age, which are necessary for proper appreciation.

The mother-daughter bond appearing in medieval English poetry and hagiography is analyzed from a modern sociopsychological point of view, especially the surrogate mother-daughter, in which hags and crones advise young women. Deals briefly with WBT,…

A literary exchange between Eustache Deschamps and Chaucer probably took place between 1377 and 1380. In ballad 285, Deschamps speaks of the "grant translateur" of "Roman de la Rose."

Investigates possible Chaucerian allusions to the "Aenid" in KnT.

The Wife's "botched" tale is the product of her "crippled imagination," which in turn is the product of thirty years' victimization by men.

The Clerk and his tale serve as a corrective to the Wife of Bath's philosophy by "exploiting a fictional and moral failure of nerve on the Wife's part," since it is not realism but weakness that motivates the Wife.

Deals with the interrelations between the chivalry of literature and chivalric actualities, chronicles, biographical accounts.

Identifies the "broad patterns of ideology in the text," discusses sources and onomastics, and examines the way in which the poetic working out energizes and modifies the ideology.

The motif of "fals apparences" is a unifying factor of HF. The eagle as sophist or false philosopher, in seizing the narrator as prey, is reminiscent of Satan as fowler, or Dante's Gerione, emblem of fraud.

HF seems a transitional and occasional poem but is unfinished and experimental, under contemporary Italian literary influence.

Examines Chaucer's new attempt at the development of narrative in HF and his imaginative uses of classical and contemporary Italian sources.

A bibliographical essay surveying Chaucer criticism for 1978.

An edition and translation of "Filostrato," "Teseida" (excerpts), and "Filocolo" 4.31-34 (excerpts). Includes introduction, bibliography, notes, index of personal names, and three appendices: "The Fortunes of Troilus"; Benoit de Sainte-Maure,…

The stylistic device occurs when a noun is given personification by the poet's use of a verb (or occasionally a verb phrase, adjective, or adverb). Chaucer uses few of them: the lyrics have more than do the longer narratives.

The abuse of language, which perverts man's reason and his link to the divine, is seen in the Pardoner, the Friar's summoner and the Summoner's friar.

A study of Middle English, specifically Chaucer's English; lexicography; and obsolete words. Includes bibliography and indexes, as well as an appendix, "Chaucer, 'The Plowman's Tale', and Henry VIII."

The lexical morphemes of Chaucer's poetic tales have been marked in the data base as narrative "verbs" or "adjectives" (Todorov: dynamic v. static predicate formulas). The character and percentage of formula "per lexical unit" provide a more…

Several Middle English adverbs of affirmation ("ywis," "wytterly," "sikerly," and "verayment") found in many medieval romances and in many of Chaucer's works function primarily as words of elaboration.

Treats Chaucer's use of and experimentation with conventional gesture as modified by genetic considerations in CT, TC, PF,HF, Anel, LGW, BD, Rom, and minor poems. Includes an appendix of relevant passages.

The artistic unity of Chaucer's TC seems to fall prey to the contradictory philosophical arguments present, the attractiveness of earthly love, and then the repudiation thereof.

Underlying many traditional stories is the basic structure of the individual emerging into adulthood and establishing his or her identity by destroying parent-images and finding a beloved equal. A chapter on Chaucer establishes his equivocal and…

A pattern of Chaucerian poetics emerges through four themes--courtly love, morality, order, and poetry--found in his early poetry (BD, HF, and KnT). Starting as a poet of courtly love, Chaucer overcame limitations of this theme by analyzing its…