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Frisian verse translation of GP, with notes.

Provides a survey of translations and appropriations of CT. Examines four translations of CT--Afrikaans, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Mandarin Chinese--and argues how these global Chaucers enhance understanding of CT. Also examines works,…

Anthology of early English fiction including excerpts from Wace, Marie de France, Chaucer, and others.

Provides brief descriptions of the fourteenth-century history and the life of Chaucer, and introduces late fourteenth-century visual arts, including illuminated manuscripts, stained glasses, and altarpieces with notable examples. Characterizes the…

Contemplates the writing of a literary biography of Chaucer, considering the use of archival material, the "arcades" of Walter Benjamin, and psychoanalysis. Comments on the GP description of the Shipman.

Analyzes Pasolini's version of CT in the context of Eco's and Pasolini's debate about semiology and the relation of reality and art. Thus, the Italian filmmaker creates a filmic narrative reflecting Chaucer's historicity of frontier, in the topics,…

Examines Pasolini's inclusion of Italian and English dialects in "I racconti di Canterbury" / "The Canterbury Tales." Reveals how Pasolini's use of dialects reflects his own theories about the importance of "language as an instrument of . . .…

Catalogues the Chaucer collection of Raymo and Glazer-Raymo, which includes editions of the complete works of Chaucer, critical and literary histories, recordings of readings, and collections of Chaucer ephemera.

Includes a summary (pp.70–71) of Chaucer's life and his literary representations of the plague ("the word appears nine times").

A crowd-sourced online reference work described as an "Online archive and community for post-1945, non-Anglophone Chauceriana." Includes listings of translations, adaptations, and recordings of Chaucer's works (especially CT), along with various…

Continuation of SAC annual annotated bibliography (since 1975); based on contributions from an international bibliographic team, independent research, and MLA Bibliography listings. 172 items, plus listing of reviews for 28 books. Includes an author…

Includes discussion of MilT, arguing that it "participates in the scandalous discourse on the perceived problem of Richard II's deviant sexuality," reading the scene of the hot coulter as an echo of the sodomitical execution of Edward II that engages…

Assesses the paucity of names given to the pilgrims in CT and comments on those that are given; Eglyntine, John (Nun's Priest), Piers (Monk), Harry Bailly (and his wife Goodelief), Huberd, Hodge, Robin, Oswald, Alisoun, and Chaucer himself, who is…

Argues that "there is an ironically complex relationship of the speaker to what he says" in CYPT, particularly in the way that the Yeoman's simplistic understanding of alchemy leads him to abandon the evils of alchemy while the Canon's intelligent…

Comments on the fittingness and suggestiveness of a number of proper names in CT--Eglyntine, Absolon, Alisoun, Philostratus, January, May, Justinus, Placebo, and Cecilia--as part of a survey of the literary uses of names and naming in medieval Latin…

Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this is a series of songs, adapted from NPT, for "unison or 2-part children's choir accompanied by violin, recorders, percussion, piano, and guitar." Duration: approximately 20 minutes.

Reads LGW as a comic "parody . . . partially directed at sentimental readings of the Ovidian complaint" found in "Heroides," focusing on the palinode, love vision, and characters of LGWP and the "humorous inconsistencies" of the legends.

Discusses the "literary qualities" of Old French fabliaux, comparing and contrasting them with those of "higher genres" as a step toward gauging their influence on writers such as Chaucer.

Describes the aesthetic standards espoused by the pilgrims in CT and argues that the Nun's Priest "fits his tale to his audience even as he tries to alter the views of the audience" and tries to solve for himself the question of free will versus…

Comparative analysis shows that several changes and emphases Chaucer introduces into Boccaccio's "Filostrato" produce richer characterization in TC. All three major characters "think as well as feel" in Chaucer's poem: Troilus with his fatalism;…

Argues that in adapting the conventions of French love-visions Chaucer improves on his predecessors and comes close to perfecting one of major literary genres of the Middle Ages. Discusses BD, HF, PF, and LGWP.

Item not seen. The WorldCat record indicates that this score is for four unaccompanied female voices, with duration of "about 4 min. 30 sec.", with "Text by Chaucer." and difficulty appropriate to "Advanced high school-college; difficult-moderately…

Argues that for readers sensitive to literary tradition and genre expectations KnT is a "delightful satire" of courtly love and the metrical romance genre, along with the "chivalric code implicit in them."

Examines point of view, presentation, plot, and characterization in ShT, MilT, RvT, SumT, and FrT, comparing and contrasting these techniques with those found in Old French fabliaux, and arguing that Chaucer supersedes his predecessors in complexity,…

Suggests that the referent for "the philosophre" in ParsT 10.535-37 is Aristotle, following a passage in his "De Anima."