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Describes and comments on Chaucer's characteristic style, explaining how "insouciance" and "naturalness" combine with forward narrative movement, mastery of meter, formal listings, etc. to demonstrate his "great technical range." Then explores how in…

Using "several translation theories," Botelho analyzes selected passages of his own 2013 translation of CT into Portuguese, describing choices made to mediate linguistic and historical distances between Chaucer's poem and Botelho's target audience.…

Analyzes "the literary and musical tools used by Ralph Vaughan Williams to aid in an informed performance" of songs composed by Vaughan to various texts; includes discussion of MercB, accompanied by musical score and commentary.

Includes analysis the "mise-en-page" of twenty-four Chaucer manuscripts, including assessment of "borders, initials, paraphs, rubrics, running titles, speaker markers, glosses and notes," and arguing that--like Gower and Hoccleve manuscripts--they…

Chaucer in the Platonic tradition of "philosophical poetry" where "poetry is a self-reflexive epistemological practice that interrogates the conditions of art in general." Includes chapters on the Pardoner's Old Man as a neo-Platonic Tithonus figure;…

A critical edition of the "Plowman's Tale," with notes, glossary, and extensive critical commentary, including discussion of it as an example of Chaucerian apocrypha. Also includes discussion of its relation to "Piers Plowman," the "Pilgrim's Tale,"…

Traces "the afterlife of the 'Romance of the Rose' in fourteenth-century England, arguing that the RR "exercised its influence on fourteenth-century English literature in two principal ways": 1) "the development of a self-reflexive focus on how…

Summarizes medieval attitudes toward dreams and traces their roots in the Bible and classical tradition, emphasizing their prophetic qualities. Then discusses dream vision conventions and their uses in "Pearl," "Piers Plowman," and several shorter…

Spanish translation of Delany's essay entitled "Chaucer's Prioress, the Jews, and the Muslims" (see SAC 23 [2001], no. 194).

Describes the tradition of the rhetorical topos of the abandoned lover's apostrophe to the bed, considering the "gendered" fetishism of Ariadne's address in LGW, the description of Alceste in LGWP, Troilus's address to the empty house in TC, and Dido…

E-book designed as a classroom anthology, downloadable as a PDF, with Learning Outcomes and introductory backgrounds for each chronological period, and introductions to selected works and authors from "The Dream of the Rood" to Olaudah Equiano. The…

Provides "a critical text and close textual study" of BD, based on Fairfax MS 16, and accompanied by full apparatus.

Discusses garden imagery in "The Phoenix," "Roman de la Rose," "Pearl," and MerT, focusing in the latter on the theme of lust and its relation to the ideal of spiritual salvation.

Treats KnT as a traditional, conservative work, elevated in tone and style and dependent on "French and Italian traditions of eloquence." Conversely GP is the "most original of Chaucer's poems," innovative in its "mingling" of "praise and blame"…

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…

Describes the "typological" uses of time in the mystery cycles, the "biological time" of the heroes' actions in most romances, and the much more complex concern with time in TC, where "all action and characters" are placed in time and are given…

Studies Chaucer's similes and metaphors to trace the "development of imagery in each of [his] works" from BD through CT, suggesting that Chaucer shows a "progressive awareness of the image as an essential tool of his art." Results of statistical…

In TC and "several important" tales of CT, Chaucer expresses more "confidence in human nature" than do Langland or the "Pearl"-poet in their works. He indicates the human need for divine Providence and assurance that "God will not use his absolute…

A biography of Richard Stury, based on public records, with recurrent attention to his forty-year acquaintance with Chaucer as friend and associate. Touches on the "long unsolved question of Chaucer's relation to Lollardy."

Encourages separation of teller and tale in interpreting CT, reading MerT in light of its sources but not MerP. The narrator of the Tale identifies more with Justinus than with January and shows "a measure of sympathy" for May. In this way the Tale…

Examines "the relationships existing among the printed editions" of CT from Caxton through Tyrwhitt, based on comparisons of their versions of GP and considering their uses of prior texts, emendation policies, and editorial innovations.

Defines parody and surveys "all of the major literary parodies in Middle English, Old French, and Middle German," including "three little-known anti-courtly parodies by Hermann von Sachsenheim and Geoffrey Chaucer." Includes comments on ManT.

Explores Chaucer's and Lydgate's assumptions about their audience's knowledge of history, and discusses how and to what extent it may indicate irony in KnT, MkT, TC, and several works by Lydgate.

Argues that post-medieval notions of comedy obscure the relations between sense and sententiousness in Chaucer's poetry, explaining that Boethian, analogous thinking underlies Chaucer's art and that Hebraic and Graeco-Roman poetic traditions help to…

Argues that Chaucer used French versions to facilitate his translation from Latin and that he sought to produce literal translations, although his prose translations are more literal than his poetic ones. Considers, Bo, Mel, Rom, Venus, and ABC,…