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Translates "Pamphilus" into modern English prose (lineated as verse) and describes its influence on late medieval literature, including discussion of Chaucer's references to it in Mel and FranT and its role as a secondary source of the first three…

Explores parallels of plot and detail found in "Pamphilus de Amore" (or "Pamphilus and Galatee"), "aspects" of the "Roman de la Rose," "parts" of Juan Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor," and the first three books of TC, demonstrating that the "'Pamphilus'…

Reviews evidence in GP that Chaucer's Summoner suffers from venereal disease rather than leprosy, using it as an example of little-known or overlooked scholarship that might be lost or ignored. Cites other examples more briefly, including the record…

Comments on previous scholarship that seeks to clarify the GP description of the Guildsmen (1.361-78) and describes the possible political, economic, and religious affiliations among individuals of such professions as Chaucer assigns to them. Shows…

Briefly surveys medieval attitudes toward destiny and suggests the difficulty of being certain what Chaucer's attitude was.

Applies modern trauma theory to medieval English texts: "Beowulf," "Dream of the Rood," "Pearl," and LGW. Addresses sexual abuse and the witnessing of such abuse in LGW, focusing on "tropes of indirection, silence, and repetition."

Item not seen; cited in World Cat, which reports that this recording in Spanish of erotic tales includes a reading of MilT.

Satiric narrative poetry in rhymed couplets, with thirty-five tales told by academics from the University of Montana on their way Silicon Valley; parodies CT and includes several references to Chaucer and his work. WorldCat records indicate that a…

Brief discussion of six Chaucerian books and twenty-five related works, with a highly selective bibliography. For an expanded version, see http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/chaucer/index.html (May 19, 2005).

Describes the narrator of the GP as "naïve but all-seeing," used variably by Chaucer to guide reader response and provoke unsettled reactions. Not wholly consistent, the narrator is a device that evokes "complex, contradictory attitudes" that seem…

Assesses the rhetorical power of PardT in light of the conventions and stylistic features of medieval sermons. The Pardoner adheres to most conventions effectively, but his "delight in his own powers of persuasion and the purpose of his preaching"…

Glenn Burger predicates a mouth-to-mouth kiss of Host and Pardoner, without evidence for such kisses between men.

Study guide to CT, with emphasis on plot, character, theme, and motif, particularly in GP, KnT, MilPT, WBPT, PardPT, and NPPT. Includes summaries, commentary on quotations, suggested essay topics, and review materials.

Item not seen; cited in MLA International Bibliography.

Includes four selections of Chaucer's verse, in Middle English: Truth, ["Love Unfeigned"] (TC 5.1835-48), ["A Wanton Merry Friar"] (GP 1.208-68), and ["A Poor Parson"] (GP 1.476-97 . . . 507-28). Published in New York by Oxford University Press as "A…

Includes selections from Chaucer's poetry, in Middle English with editorial titles: "The Complaint of Troilus" (TC 5.547-53, 561-81, 638-44, 1688-1901), "Love Unfeigned" (TC 5.1835-48), "Ballade" (LGWP F249-69), and "Madame Eglantine" (GP 1.118-62).

Surveys theories of why Chaucer altered LGWP from the F-version to the G-version, and seeks to explain "every single change" he made in creating anew a complete, "organic" poem. The revised version better accords with the poet's treatment of love in…

Chaucer's childhood was pleasant and stimulating. He was a close and lifelong friend of John of Gaunt. Alice Perrers was likewise his close friend and patron. Richard was an intelligent, sensitive ruler, more sinned against than sinning. In 1398,…

BD is an apprentice work whose chief interest is in rhetoric and ornamentation. PF, built on neo-platonic musical principles, shows growth in command of structure. The short poems reveal Chaucer's interest in prosodic experiment. TC is a great…

While "Robertsonianism" has produced scholastically defensible but totally lunatic readings, such as MilT as a "Christian meditation," it has also brilliantly illuminated BD. Its chief failure is tone deafness toward WBT, HF, etc. PF, LGW, TC,…

Explores how and in what ways the "psychological realism" of BD is established and reinforced by the verbal and structural repetitions of the poem. Considers the nature of the dream, the view of love, and the interaction of the narrator and the…

Justifies following the Ellesmere order of the CT on thematic grounds, arguing that the arrangement is "probably Chaucer's," taking note of probable stages in Chaucer's process of composition, and observing a "general coherence" of concerns with…

Characterizes the Canon's Yeoman as "a clever young man, almost too clever for his own good," a comic figure whose renunciation of the Canon and of alchemy is marked by shifting identities and ambiguities which indicate ironically the Yeoman's own…

Comparative analysis of the themes, techniques, and intertextual relationships of Ruiz's "Libro de buen amor," Boccaccio's "Decameron," and CT. Topics include world view, love and passion, nascent humanism, satire and irony, and narrative structures.…

Contrasts uses of proverbs in TC and in "Havelock the Dane." In the latter, proverbs affirm traditional wisdom and elicit the reader's trust. Chaucer uses proverbs in more complex ways, presenting them as contradictions or in striking juxtapositions…