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Fourteen essays by various authors, plus an introduction, honoring the scholarship and teaching of Alan Gaylord. The essays mirror Gaylord's work and methods, including exegetical historicism, close reading, prosodic criticism, and pedagogy. The…

Examines the history, purpose, and effects of "quick fiction." Royle draws examples from his own writings, as well as the works of past authors, noting how "quick fiction" explores themes of "lifedeath [sic], spectrality, and radical otherness,"…

Focuses on how CT influences English science fiction authors such as Margaret Atwood, James Gunn, and Dan Simmons. Also analyzes the "pilgrimage motif"; refers to HF, LGW, and TC; and discusses "Chaucerian science fiction" in South America.

Refers to Elizabeth Gaskell's footnotes to "Mary Barton" that explain unfamiliar phrasing in terms of Chaucer and Langland, identifying them as evidence for the synchronic nature of the bigamous return plot in sensation novels.

Considers Harriet and Sophia Lee's "Canterbury Tales" as an eighteenth-century re-reading of CT. The moral and didactic character of the Lees' "Tales" made possible the inclusion of three of them in Spanish anthologies of 1800 and 1808, providing…

Discusses Chaucer as the first English poet laureate in a larger argument for the political impetus behind the selection of Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Samuel Rogers, and Alfred Tennyson as laureate poets of the Victorian period.

Discusses the eremitical image of Chaucer promulgated by Shirley and Lydgate in the context of efforts to promote solitary, contemplative modes of life.

Reflects on the importance of incorporating the "professional and popular" representations of CT to enhance classroom teaching of Chaucer. Films, including Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale," Jonathan Myerson's animated "Canterbury Tales" trilogy,…

Distinguishes between academic and popular versions of Chaucer, defining and discussing various categories of popular intertextuality: adaptations, appropriations, invocations, and citations--diminishing degrees of engagement with original works.…

Refers to P.R. Stephenson's deployment of Chaucer as a descriptor for early twentieth-century Australian poetry, noting his assertion of "Chaucerian" as shorthand for "a golden age of national self-confidence in which cosmopolitan sophistication…

Based on student transcriptions of Borges' 1966 lectures. Chapters are divided into chronological class sessions; lecture topics begin with the fifth century and conclude with nineteenth-century writers. Describes the history of the English language…

Argues that the novel has a far-reaching international history, evident in early eighteenth-century works translated and published in Amsterdam and Leipzig such as "Les Mémoires de Madame la Marquise de Frêne," which shows not only proof of…

Addresses the "existence of a tradition that attributes 'Piers Plowman' to Chaucer." Surveys notes and items that contribute to Chaucer's and Langland's "reception histories."

Beginning with Gildas' depiction of England as a beautiful garden, explores metaphorical and physical gardens in medieval English cultural history, arguing that Chaucer indicates "awareness of nation as landscape" in CT. Chapters 2 and 3 emphasize…

Collection of essays on classical Persian literature. Includes an article by F. D. Lewis, "One Chaste Muslim Maiden and a Persian in a Pear Tree: Analogues of Boccaccio and Chaucer in Four Earlier Arabic and Persian Tales" that links linking Arabic…

Looks at confessional elements in works by Chaucer, Langland, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve, ultimately arguing that such practice is central to an understanding of early English vernacular literature.

Considers depictions of wilderness in GP and ManT, along with works by Gower and Langland, as metaphors for undisciplined rulers.

Suggests that Langland, Chaucer, and Gower represent political speech with the speech of animals, and argues that this device was later appropriated in anti-Ricardian discourse.

Examines influence of commerce and trade in CT, Gower's "Mirour de L'Omme" and "Confessio Amantis," and Hoccleve's "Male Regle" and "Regiment of Princes." Looks at social and cultural implications of how market economies affect literary narratives…

Enters the discussion about apparent temporal discrepancies in PF and reframes it with a reminder that the poem occurs in a dream vision, and need not correspond literally to English weather and bird behavior. Embraces contradictory references to…

Looks at Chaucer's use of "two sententiae" to explore the interplay between Chaucer's use of silences and pauses in PrT, and the reader's engagement with the story.

Discusses the relationship between the Prioress's "empty" rhetoric, audience reception, and emphatically feminine representation. The Prioress, in this reading, is a kind of false prophet, more dangerous than the Pardoner who plays a similar role.

Considers the relationship between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk, focusing on their shared approach to self-presentation through the words of other writers and their interrelationship as speakers. Highlights the Wife's use of clerical authority and…

Explores the use of the phrase "good fellow" as it is used in Martin Scorsese's film, "Goodfellas," Clanvowe's Lollard treatise, "The Two Ways," and FrT.

Notes that counterfeit and forged documents appear frequently in CT, but most frequently in exemplary and ethical tales such as MLT and ClT. This suggests Chaucer's lack of trust in this kind of writing and his preference for an ethics based on…