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Uses Form Age and Fragment 8 of CT as part of a larger exploration of medieval attitudes toward work.

Explores the link between fear of God and literary expression, usually manifested as "overwhelming prolixity." Considers several of the tales in CT as part of this exploration.

Chapter 4 examines Chaucer's treatment of Jewishness, describing the treatment as "unparalleled and broad."

Examines illustrations as cues to engage non-professional readers of the Ellesmere manuscript and the Kelmscott Chaucer. These techniques may suggest ways of engaging present-day non-professional readers of Chaucer as well.

Examines CT structurally in the context of the fourteenth-century popular view of games and gaming. Also deals with the rules of CT, its game in action, violations of the rules, and Chaucer himself as the game's most important piece.

Clark mentions Chaucer in the context of conceptions of "drinking-house culture."

As part of larger argument that miscellanies were an "essential material condition of vernacular literature before the introduction of printing," Shuffelton considers CT as a booklet miscellany.

Focusing on literary depictions of maying activities in medieval records and the Roman de la Rose, Bezella-Bond assesses their depiction in Malory and in Chaucer's BD, PF, LGWP, KnT, MerT, and WBPT.

Considers the work of Chaucer, among others, as an example of non-hypertextual writing that nonetheless creates the user disorientation often associated with negotiations of hypertext.

Examines how women are presented in medieval satire as gossips, scolds, and cursing witches, all manifestations of women with orality. Assesses works by Chaucer, Dunbar, and Kempe and material from cycle plays.

Chaucer attempts to represent simultaneously three levels of reality in his three "confessional" characters (the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, and the Canon's Yeoman): actual life, idealized fiction, and higher truth.

A range of medieval literary portraits derive techniques from rhetorical memory devices and, in turn, shape notions of subjectivity. Mulligan considers Langland's Lady Meed, the Green Knight, Henryson's Cresseid, and various Chaucerian characters,…

Bordalejo uses traditional and electronic methods to explore the various orders of the tales in manuscripts of CT, concluding that the order was affected by accident in some cases but by scribal intervention in others.

A mythographic history of the figure of Apollo from Augustan Rome to Chaucer. Fumo focuses on the importance of Apollo to Chaucer's poetic self-conception and on Chaucer's representations of the deity in TC, in SqT and FranT, and in ManT.

To understand Chaucer as a political court poet and a philosophical poet, we must read his prose as well as his poetry. Wong considers variations between Bo and its Boethian source, Mel as a model for how Chaucer treats his sources, Astr as a source…

Considers moral casuistry in Gower and CT, arguing that Chaucer and Gower pose for the reader's discovery "practical precepts" that rely on the "rhetoric of exemplarity and the deliberation of readers," rather than relying on hard-and-fast religious…

Defines meta-humanistic criticism, offers an extended critique of "basic fallacies" in Chaucer criticism, and assesses KnT, particularly its major characters. Dissertation completed in 1971.

Considers Chesterton's literary criticism of Chaucer as a means to understanding Chesterton's conception of locality as part of his philosophy of history.

In a larger discussion of Scottish attempts to form national and literary identities, Terrell mentions William Dunbar's and Gavin Douglas's "myths of Chaucerian inheritance" as grounds for a Scots poetics.

Nachtwey argues that chivalry was "a pragmatic institution" that created a framework for understanding/controlling knightly violence. Further argues that this concept of chivalry is apparent in the works of Froissart and Chaucer (especially in TC and…

Uses Chaucer (MilT and the absent Plowman), Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Bishop Reginald Pecock to investigate changing ideas regarding "post-plague labor practice" and the traditional concept of the plowman.

DAI citation of 1973 dissertation, completed at Queen's University (Canada).

Explores relationships between heralds and poets as reflected in works by Chaucer (including HF and KnT), Malory, Skelton, and Spenser. These works "reveal complex concerns about literary and political authority, the public status of the poet, and…

Spellman compares Rembrandt's "The Monk in the Cornfield" to Chaucerian satires of clergy.

Reads the Knight and Squire (and their respective tales) as embodiments of differing philosophies toward the Crusades. The Knight is linked to the Crusades' earlier origins, while the Squire is seen as embodying a more romanticized approach to the…