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Essays by various hands. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval and Pseudo-Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.

Eight chapters on the genre of PF; the relationship of Chaucer to English and European traditions; metonymy in Chaucer's poetry; Chaucerian poetic; popular comic tales; NPT as story and poem; the poetry of the fabliaux; and Chaucer's rationalism. …

General, introductory work in fourteen chapters on Chaucer's schooling, courtly life, literary traditions, BD, Chaucer as diplomat, HF and PF, from Boethius to Venus, KnT, TC, LGW, GP and CT, and Chaucer's last years.

Examines first-person narrators in Machaut's "dits."

Fifteen essays and notes on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English and Scottish writings, four never before printed. For two previously unprinted essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Essays on Medieval Literature under Alternative Title.

Essays by various hands. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Late Middle Ages (Cocozzella) under the title of this volume.

Anecdotal revisitation of Harbledown, Bobbe-up-and-down, a mile from Canterbury. Chaucer himself likely traveled the Blean in official duties. As a type of Dante's "selva oscura," the Blean may have been in Chaucer mind in BD, TC, KnT, FrT, NPT,…

A diversity of critical perspectives presented by R. W. Hanning, D. Kelly, F. Goldin, J. M. Ferrante, E. Vance, W. Wetherbee, G. D. Economou, J. B. Allen, G. Olson, R. O. Payne, and L. Ebin to focus on creation of poetic works of Lydgate, Dunbar,…

Argues the moral supremacy of the Reason in Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose."

A review article.

Sequel to the author's "The Bible in Early English Literature," this volume surveys literary trends using biblical traditions: examines medieval drama, lyrics, PF, works of the "Pearl" poet, and "Piers Plowman."

Chaucer treats and reshapes myth variously (allusion, catalogue, portrait, or narrative) to suit audience and purpose. BD, LGWP, KnT, and TC illustrate varied sustained techniques.

Identification of the source, 1 Samuel 6, of "Truth, a "poeme a clef," leads to the question of how allegorical interpretations of a medieval exegete could impinge on the poet's life and work. Emphasizing medieval name lore (onomastics), the author…

The open-ended frame tale appears to have originated in Arabic literature. Arabic aesthetic can depend on the component unit.

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and Anglo-Irish analogues of FrT, with music.

Hawthorne's "The Custom House" follows the form and structure of GP, perhaps in conscious imitation.

The "Index of Middle English Prose" identifies and locates every prose text in English, 1200-1500. The initial volume in the series, Hanna's "Handlist I" describes 444 texts. Search under title for additional volumes.

While arousing authorial anxieties, the dream vision permits Chaucer to treat otherwise inaccessible psychological problems. In CT the verbal game repeatedly explores the dangers of violating "pryvetee," privacy.

Twelve essays by various hands on Chaucer's received Christian tradition, scriptural interpretation, and glossing. For individual essays, of this volume.

The underlying theme of the poems in MS Cotton Nero A.x.Art.3 is radical spiritual change.

In poetry (BD, ABC) and in prose (Bo, Mel), Chaucer as translator of French diverged early from his sources; his mature work (including MerT) shows him adapting verse and molding English prose, altering received texts.

With no notes and a brief index, the book glances at Chaucer's life, times, and work in chronological order. Exploring Chaucer's identity as poet ironically, HF concerns truth in report and poetry. As mirror for princes, PF fuses poetry and…

Chaucer and English contemporaries held similar orthodox views of heaven derived from the Bible.

Summarizes the last twenty years' scholarship on Bo, Mel, ParsT, and Astr, with bibliography and desiderata.

Chaucer explores complex psychology of love in TC and CT, juxtaposing carnal with spiritual, crude with refined, translating the ideal into the everyday, synthesizing French and Italian traditions.