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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.

Explores Petrarch's "modernity" through his self-images.

In her essay Gittes overemphasizes generalizations about Arabic mathematics, architecture, and literature, especially its "atomization" into component units.

Describes methodology of this index to source and analogue criticism, covering 1598-1980, with annotated bibliography of 1,300 titles, and four indexes: authors, Chaucer's works, genres, and sources of analogues.

Polarities in Chaucer's work lead the reader to nonjudgmental acceptance of opposites through involvement with characters,triangular relationships, and language.

Discusses lyric genres of Machaut, Froissart, Chaucer, and others to show that late-medieval society saw lyrics as "recreation, as conversation, as personal expression, as music." Treats TC, BD, GP, Buk, Purse, Truth, and Sted.

Relates Chaucer's references to aristocratic upbringing to contemporary social practice.

In the development of sexual codes in the Penitentials, treatment of a wide variety of sexual behavior became more and more sophisticated in reaction to actual practice.

Critiques modern approaches to irony in CT.

For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, title-search under Leeds Studies in English 14.