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Elicits linguistic patterns through scansion.

Surveys recent Chaucer studies in Japan, introducing literary or philological studies of N. Ueno, M. Masui, K. Miyake, S. Ono, T. Oiji, K. Ogoshi, I. Saito, H. Nojima, and F. Kuriyagawa.

Discusses fourteenth-century social, political, military, ecclesiastical, and legal contexts for the "Gawain" poet.

Chaucer's work evolved structurally from circular (dream visions) to spiral (TC; CT), developing closure through "thematic resolution" and metaphoric symbols.

Treats rhetoric and consolation in BD, TC, KnT, FranT, and WBT.

Contains introduction and bibliography.

Essays on Anglo-Italian relationships and Chaucer's borrowings. For individual essays, of this volume.

Essays by various hands on fourteenth-century poetry, secular drama, songs, and lyrics. For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Literature in Fourteenth-Century England under Alternative Title.

From thirteenth-century sermons and confessional manuals we see attitudes toward penance and moral behavior reflected in the works of Langland, Gower, the "Pearl" poet, and Chaucer. Chaucer treats CT sinners with unusual humor and irony. Penitential…

Symposium by thirteen Chaucerians.

Chaucer was prepared for his travels to Italy by the fact that his acquaintances knew Italy well.

English culture was shaped by widespread literacy, English nationalism and political unity, a common language and traditions, schools, study of Latin, biblical commentary, knowledge of the classics, the humanistic movement, travel, and foreign…

Frame and vision are linked according to late-medieval literary expectations which establish in the dreamer a state of "need" and in the audience the expectation of that need to be "fulfilled."

Produced at a time when authors as individuals and literary structures were emerging, Chaucer's texts should be read both as an individual author's work and as the work of a "construct." The relationship appears in HF and develops through TC to the…

Reviews history and problems of translating Chaucer into French.

Twenty previously published essays, in English or German, and a bibliography (447-69) arranged by individual work. The volume opens with Erzgräber's "Chaucer-Forschung im 20. Jahrhundert: Einleitung" (pp. 1-31), an introduction to the essays…

Noting increasing sophistication of Chaucer criticism in the twentieth century, Fisher moves beyond historical criticism toward reader-response theories and the thesis that Chaucer is indeed prescient, a poet for all times as in ClT.

Working in a tradition of opposing elements, Chaucer emphasizes differences yet achieves unity in diversity.

Chaucer's dream visions reveal him as immersed in a literary quarrel of ancients and moderns. His iconoclasm is restrained in BD and HF, but he mocks the artificiality and decadence of contemporary love poetry in PF and LGWP.

A collection of essays on Chaucer; the career of Davis; "Piers Plowman;" a poem to William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester;the printing of medieval texts; Jocelin of Brakelond; ME linguistics; and clocks and dials. For six essays that pertain to…

"Nuditarian," a euphemism for "bawdy" that was applied to Chaucer in 1869, points to a "cognitive dissonance" between Chaucer's greatness and his dealing with unfit subjects.

Evidence both internal and external suggests that women were a distinct minority in Chaucer's audience.

Analyzes modern approaches to Chaucer's portrayal of women.

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On current Chaucer scholarship.