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Analysis of Bo, Mel, and ParsT reveals that preverbal "ne" unsupported by a postverbal "not" appears most often with "forms of be, will, and witen"; moreover, this construction is more likely to appear in subordinate clauses than in main clauses.

A historical examination of female sexual autonomy and medieval physicians' social and academic roles illuminates PhyT.

An anthology of "subversive," parodic, or satiric poetry, arranged in several categories pertaining to religion, authority, war, justice, etc., mostly English or translated from French. Includes RvT (pp. 104-20) in Middle English (with glosses) in…

Considers Ret in the context of texts rendered physically inscrutable, forbidden, or recanted as literary/rhetorical strategies.

Meditates fictively on Custance and her loss of identity.

Since Chaucer did not indicate any punctuation, unpuctuating Chaucer can help us read Chaucer's poetry more flexibly and vivaciously.

Prints handwritten summaries from a copy of the 1550 edition of Chaucer's works (Cambridge University Library Peterborough B.6.13) and discusses their usefulness for a history of the literary argument, documenting one reader's response to CT and…

The compiler-editor-scribe of the prose history in Trinity College, Oxford MS D 29 used ParsT and Mel as a source in six passages. The same scribe included Mel and MkT in Huntington MS HM 144. Harris describes the scribal adjustments of Chaucer's…

Ret is a well-crafted, planned conclusion to ParsT rather than the result of a deathbed religious crisis.

Compares the "displays of masculine grief" in BD, the "Alliterative Morte Arthure," and "Sir Orfeo" with "norms of chivalric masculinity," investigating them in light of theories of Judith Butler and Jacques Derrida.

Maintains that Chaucer's works indicate his reliance upon social interaction and collaboration as spurs to creativity, commenting on HF (a "poem about writer's block"), and on public space and creativity in NPT, TC, and ClP. Also describes the…

In the fourteenth century, rape was perceived as "natural," a relatively minor social infraction. In WBT, the ladies of the court do not dispute the verdict assigned the rapist-knight; they dispute only the penalty. The knight is socially…

Poses questions about the "realities and complexities of authorship and literary tradition" in Gower, the "pseudo-Chaucerian" "Plowman's Tale," Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender,: and Milton's poetry. Addresses Chaucer's reception in the sixteenth…

In Romanian.

Analyzes Chaucer's "universalizing doublets," such as "up and doun," with those appearing in the Auchinleck Manuscript to suggest that Chaucer was not simply
imitating the diction of medieval romance: his usage mirrors that of Middle English…

Reads WBPT as concerned with the "reconciliation of opposites that to human perception seem irreconcilable." WBP poses a range of oppositions dialectically (experience and authority, female and male, physical and metaphysical), resolving them through…

With the fourteenth-century philosophical division between faith and reason, or single and multiple authorities, English poetry reveals new tensions, as shown in "Pearl," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and "Piers Plowman." HF,with its many…

Reads CT as a unified, encyclopedic "symposium on what men should seek, and what they should avoid," focusing on variety in the GP, the pilgrimage motif, and the "three longest tales": KnT, Mel, and ParsT.

Examines the intersection of gender, genre, and history in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and KnT to argue that "the inversion or refusal of generic conventions, enabled by the self-conscious use of a rich tradition of courtly narratives, points…

Considers Chaucer's extensive and subtle use of "the full vocabulary of 'chance' and 'mischance'." Shows how his use of privatives and negative prefixes with these words "inflect[s] his larger concerns with Fortune (usually personified as an agent)…

In view of Chaucer's resistance to the "finality of closure," allusions to CkT in Fragment 9 suggest that CkT "may be complete for Chaucer, although not completed by the Cook." Perhaps the Tale's "unfinished business" is an interruption by one of the…

Cotton Titus A. XX, an anthology of fourteenth-century Latin poems, contains no. 19, "Proprietaties multorum animalium et aliarorum," some antimedical satires and bestiary poems. One of the latter, a poem on the sparrowhawk, may be the source of the…

The structure of the Clerk-Knight debates, based on the rivalry between a clerk and a knight, underlies most Tales in CT and can be used to reveal unsuspected meanings.

Surveys the roots of analogical thinking and late-medieval critiques of its methods and assumptions, exploring the background to understanding "Chaucer's curious neglect of the allegorical mode." As with nominalists, Chaucer is consistently concerned…

Challenges the uses and meanings of "vernacular" and "vernacularity" in literary and linguistic studies on the grounds that the terms are historically and intrinsically racist, colonialist, and/or supremacist. Using the "paradigm of metrolingualism,"…