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Examines the plot of PrT in relation to the patterns of the saints' legends as well as relevant historical contexts, and discusses Chaucer's intention as well as narrator's and characters' roles. Compares PrT and Marian miracles in Oxford,…

Traces Criseyde's mental and emotional movement through the plot of TC, and argues that, for Chaucer, Fortune does not have to do only with the change of external world, but also with man's interiority.

Compares Criseyde with Dido and Aeneas in the works of Ovid and Virgil to shed light on the unique characterization of Chaucer's heroine in the context of classical Trojan literature.

Examines the notions of nature and chance represented in TC in light of medieval philosophical and cosmological theories. In Japanese.

Drawing on the fact that George Eliot read BD when she faced the death of her partner, George Henry Lewes, this essay reflects on how Eliot receives the deep sorrow and "pathetic sympathy" of the knight in black in BD. In Japanese

Points to the position of ParsT as the last tale of CT, and discusses reasons for this placement by taking into account Harry Bailly's attitude toward the Parson, the meaning of evening time, and Chaucer's adoption of prose rather than verse for…

Examines connotations of words concerning oaths and mutilation of body in PardT in relation to contemporary attitudes toward the worship of relics. In Japanese.

Focuses on contrastive characterizations of the husband figures in MerT and ShT. Considers the common motif of the untruthful wife in relation to the theme of mutability. In Japanese.

Introduces the historical context of pilgrimage in both the West and Japan in order to interpret the opening lines of GP. Argues that "kejime" as represented in pilgrims in "Tokaidochu Hizakurige," written by Jippensha Ikku, can also be read in the…

Examines the meaning of the expression concerning the seating order in GP (1.52) by considering a similar expression in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Reviews contemporary illustrations and historical records related to the feast. In Japanese.

Discusses swoons or relevant scenes in Rom, BD, Anel, Mars, TC, LGW, KnT, MilT, MLT, and WBT to reveal how the swoon creates comical effects throughout Chaucer's poetry. In Japanese.

Investigates the frequency and function of "this" as a pragmatic marker in MilT, RvT, FranT, KnT, PrT, and MerT, in relation to each narrator's social class and narrative genre. In Japanese.

Examines Chaucer's notion of "gentilesse" and its importance by looking into instances of its use in KnT, SqT, FranT, WBT, ParsT, and Gent. In Japanese.

Contains twenty-five essays, five of which are written in English; the rest, including the preface and epilogue, are in Japanese. The first group of essays centers on Chaucer and his works. The second series of essays ranges from the Old English…

Not just a pun on beef and burping, "buf" derives from French "buffer," which refers to puffing up one's cheeks and, later, to being stuffed with food.

Thomas Gray's article "Metrum" "castigates John Urry's edition of Chaucer for its arbitrary insertion of words and syllables to regularize perceived defects" and discounts "George Puttenham's strictures against so-called Chaucerian 'riding rhyme'…

Argues that "from Chaucer onwards rhyme is used consistently as a prosodic device in English verse." Differentiate systematic rhyme from sporadic rhyme and notes that this fourteenth-century "era of systematization was preceded by an era of sporadic…

Combines literary history with linguistic and statistical analysis to demonstrate how Chaucer's pentameter verse is closer to the Italian "endecasillabo" than to the French "vers de dix."

Examines the influence of natural law philosophy on four of Dryden's translations of Chaucer and Boccaccio in "Fables, Ancient and Modern" (1700).

Looks at writers, including Hoccleve and Lydgate, as responding to and shaping a post-Chaucerian literary era, examining both the "end" of Chaucer's era and the "end" or purpose of their own work.

Emphasizes Chaucer's influences on Hoccleve, paying special attention to ClT as an intertext with Hoccleve's "Letter," where Hoccleve appears rather misogynist. Yet, in the "Series," harkening back to his "Letter," Hoccleve seems to ridicule his…

Reads "The Churl and the Bird" as John Lydgate's self-conscious rumination on "the poetic and philosophical implications" of willfully refusing to accept confinement. Includes comments on SqT, ManT, and Chaucer's influence on Lydgate.

Investigates character development, language, and motifs of GP, CT, and TC to establish the extent of Chaucer's influence on the sixteenth-century poem "Debate betweene Pride and Lowlines."

Refers to Jane Barker's use in an early novel of Dryden's retelling of CT to provide context for her 1723 anti-novel, "A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies."

Historical novel set in London,1383, featuring John Gower as a first-person narrator, recounting events involved in the murder of a prostitute and a book prophesying an attempt on the life of Richard II. Gower's "slippery friend," Geoffrey Chaucer,…