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Reported by MLA International Bibliography; essay not seen.

In Russian; with English summary (p. 55): "The realistic tendencies of 'The Canterbury Tales,' a result of Chaucer's cultivating the traditions of medieval literature, are considered. According to contemporary scholars, the basis for these tendencies…

Explores how and to what extent Chaucer's experiences in trade and in civil life affected his literary concerns and style, considering his "realism" as it is depicted in passages from GP, ShT, CYT, and MilT.

Reported by MLA International Bibliography; essay not seen.

Translation of CT into Hebrew, with end-of-text notes, reproductions of the Caxton woodcuts of the pilgrims, and a postscript by Lawrence Besserman.

Selection from CT in Russian poetic translation by Ivan Kashkin and O. B. Rumer, with Introduction and notes by A. Anikst. Miniature book in 9 cm., with nine b&w illustrations of the tales and a fold-out color depiction of the pilgrims in progress.

An edition of FranPT, the description of the Franklin from the GP, and the endlink from the SqT, with notes and glosses. In his Introduction (pp. 1-47), Morgan comments on the "challenges" of reading Chaucer's poetry, the "modulation" of his poetic…

Examines the oral features in Chaucer's poetry, exploring how French clichés are evident in TC and CT. In Japanese.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of ClT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of selections from TC in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of MerT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of WBPT in Middle English and that WBP and WBT were re-issued separately in 1986 and 2010.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of FrT in Middle English.

Item not seen; the WorldCat records indicate that this is a reading by Piehler of SumT in Middle English.

Verse dialogue in iambic pentameter couplets in which the Wife of Bath recommends to a convalescent Chaucer the idea of writing CT and offers to tend him while he writes.

Assesses secular misogamy as a topos "exploited in early Western literature for two fundamental purposes: propaganda and entertainment," dividing it into four categories: Pagan, Ascetic, Philosophic, and General. Discusses WBP in the latter category…

A collation of fifteen manuscripts and two printed editions (Robinson and Brewer), with introduction and select bibliography.

Deals with Charles d'Orleans and Chaucer's use of Dante.

On Chaucer's use in GP of the adversative conjunction "but."

Considers the influence of Boethius's "Consolatione," with its medieval glosses, on Old French and Middle English literature, especially Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose" and Chaucer's MkT (Croesus, Nero), Bo, KnT, and TC.

Point of view in the structure of CT and the use of direct speech and dialogue are a consequence of Chaucer's interest in showing the contradictions in his environment without the mediating influence of an omniscient narrator. The open structure of…

The word "syde" may be used as a pun in MerT.

Chaucerians have reached no consensus on specific written sources for NPT, PardT, MilT, and RvT, similarities between which and their Ozark analogues (all reprinted here) point to a common source in Anglo-American oral folktales.

Medieval universities taught "perspectiva," or optics, important in literary realism. Chaucer's use of light, vision, and space parallels passages in optical texts and becomes thematic in CT, fragments G and A. Jean de Meun, Dante, and Boccaccio…

Applies portrait of the Physician in GP to a close reading of PhyT; the imperfect Physician is Chaucer's criticism of medical doctors.