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Dahlberg suggests that "Chaucer's use of first person reflects in its stylistic variations the ambiguities of love" and that "the serious third-person poet of the Boethian short poems is essentially the same as the...first-person narrator or persona…

The widely separate and influential readings of TC by E. Talbot Donaldson and D. W. Robertson, Jr., while based on diametrically opposed theoretical principles, nevertheless find themselves in areement by virtue of their attempt to effect some manner…

Medieval medical writers regarded love-sickness quite seriously as a disease, a form of madness. Chaucer's extensive use of medical terminology in TC renders his treatment of the lover's affliction more clinical, analytical, and critical than is…

Dreams in medieval literature are conventionally used for foreshadowing, rarely with psychological implications. In TC, however, Chaucer combines the prophetic "somnium coeleste" with the psychological "somnium animale" such that neither can be…

Characters within TC, like readers without, attempt to "penetrate" and "control" its various "texts." Using a deconstructive approach, Johnson treats images of containment in Chaucer's narrative.

Troilus's failure to speak up against the exchange of Criseyde underlines his timidity in society and ultimately his moral cowardice.

Drawing on the myth of Proche and Philomela, Dante uses birds to symbolize night and day, while Chaucer uses them to symbolize the love of Troilus and Criseyde. Both writers invoke images from the myth to represent love-gone-wrong.

Examines Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" and Chaucer's TC as "paradigms for the discovery of tragedy in the Middle Ages."

Surveys theories of Criseyde's betrayal in TC; maintains that her depravity results in Pandarus's deliberate actions and Troilus's passion, along with her own weaknesses; and emphasizes Chaucer's characterization of Criseyde as a complex woman.

Pandarus exhibits absolute loyalty to his lord--one of the values of Indo-European heroic philosophy--while at the same time betraying his own sister.

Following treatment of Peter Lombard, Dante, and Boccaccio, analyzes Troilus's two "cantici" (TC, bks. 1 and 5) for strategy, structure, and significance.

Treats TC and Dante's "Paradiso" with reference to the nature and structure of "feste"/"festa." The Chaucerian contiguity of "feste" with "hevene" is a vestige of Dantean affiliation, while the circumscription of "feste" as "vide" is a Chaucerian…

Reviews Chaucer's use of Benoit's "Roman de Troie," as well as romance "type-scenes," gestures, ritual, narrating voice, and motifs of secrecy.

Satire and eroticism underlie exaggerated images of the lady and the lover in Ros and Mars; Chaucer repeats these anticourtly attitudes in Purse.

Although Buk appears to be a condemnation of marriage, Chaucer may have been experimenting with the philosophy of Ockham and Williams in presenting two paths to "knowing": experimentation and trusting authority. Buk reflects Chaucer's concerns…

Focusing on Chaucer's 'Truth', Hanna examines external evidence, individual variations, and the condition of the manuscripts themselves to illustrate the difficulty of distinguishing authorial revisions from scribal errors and alterations in…

"The Letter of Dido" is one of several Chaucerian apocrypha in Pynson's volume. Translated from a French version of the "Heroides" of the 1490s, it may owe a debt to one or more of Chaucer's treatments of the Dido story, and its inclusion in an…

Definitive coverage of twelve years of Chaucer scholarship, including books, articles, dissertations, and reviews--numbered, cross-referenced, and indexed by author and subject. A continuation, with added features, of previous standard…

Chaucer's style in his poetry, though not in his prose, is a special mixture of orality and literacy. Brewer analyzes characteristics of orality (with examples): formulas and set phrases, sententiousness, repetition with variation, metonymy,…

Reviews developments in Chaucer studies 1974-85 within the context of major twentieth-century critical controversies (including modern critical theories) and notes possible trends for the future.

Addesses "Chaucer's interest in and exploration of the problem of determining value . . . . The question is central to Chaucer's own concerns with the ethical and artistic value of his poetry throughout 'The Canterbury Tales'," with particular focus…

Surveys commentary on Chaucer in Victorian critical journals, deriving three aspects of the Victorian view of Chaucer: he was a Child-Poet whose simplicity anticipated that of the nineteenth-century lower classes; he was the poet of the "green…

Chaucer's HF, an allegory, is his "one major excursion in the territory usually associated with Dante." Schembri explores Augustinian iconography in the poem, looking particularly at Chaucer's treatment of the Dido story, the Proem to HF 2, and the…

Examines Chaucer's correlation of translation and love in TC, yoking aesthetics and ethics and exploring the embedded ideas of order and gender; considers the sexuality evident in discussions of translation by Boethius, Alain de Lille, and Dante; and…

Recorded at the Fourteenth Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ANZAMRS) Conference, University of Sydney. Readers include Francis de Vries, Mary Dove, Diane Speed, Gary Simes, David May, Andrew Lynch, Tom…