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Argues that PF "exemplifies and confronts" late fourteenth-century concern with the role of subjective perspective in considering traditional authority. Through various stylized, "thought-marked" perspectives, the poem presents the "disruptive force"…

Assesses the poetic structure of Edwin Arlington Robinson's "The Man Against the Sky," demonstrating that it "juxtaposes two dissimilar ideas forcing a new understanding of relationship" in an inorganic fashion similar to that found in Ovid, Chaucer,…

Close reading of the speech patterns of the Canterbury pilgrims in the links between the tales, focusing on level of diction (Romance vocabulary), syntax, and figurative language, and relating these features to characterization. Comments at length on…

Examines the word "sad" in ClT to show that meaning and nuance in Chaucer's poetry derive, not from patterns of similarity or metaphor, but from metonymic contiguity, which functions much as does the "creative contiguity" of Gothic juxtaposition.…

Praises the stylistic appropriateness of Astr to its youthful audience, showing how Chaucer adapts the lexicon, syntax, and rhetoric of Massahalla to be more suitable to his ten-year-old son, Lewis. Chaucer relies on native rather than Latinate…

Comments on several themes that recur in Chaucer's poetry and surmises that they may reflect something of his mindset. Discusses cosmic journey and pilgrimage, prayer, experience and authority, and love tidings.

Critiques George Lyman Kittredge's notion of a feud between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk as "aesthetically displeasing," and argues instead that their tension is essentially jocular, a result of the Wife's hope that she can entice the Clerk. The…

Tallies similarities between RvT and a section in John Barth's novel "Sot-Weed Factor" that indicate direct influence: cast of characters, setting, straying-horse motif, etc.

Reads the narrator of TC as separate from the poet Chaucer and recognizable in two roles that exist in productive tension: an inexperienced servant of love and a fallible recorder of Trojan history.

Tallies similarities between MLT and Adenes li Rois' "Berta aus Grans Pies," considering the latter to be a "remote ancestor" of Chaucer's tale.

Argues that MerT reflects delusive male infantile fantasy, reading January as ego, Placebo as id, Justinus as super-ego, and May as an idealized mother figure. The Merchant's encomnium of marriage and Damain's courtly behavior are extensions of…

Clarifies that the phrase "at chirche dore," used twice of the Wife of Bath's marriages indicates that she negotiated the financial arrangements of her dower before her marriage ceremonies, indicating shrewdness.

Comic novel featuring literary detective Thursday Next, set in a world where reality and literature are permeable. Includes references to Chaucer, to discrepancies in CT, and to many works of fiction.

Describes Maria Edgeworth's view of the education of women through her adaptation of ClT in "The Modern Griselda" (1805), intended as a warning against sensibility and defense of rational women.

Assesses the hospitality of female characters in LGW, showing that the betrayal suffered by these women is not the result of their fickleness but of a failure of the courtly code.

Analyzes Chaucer's notion of tragedy in TC against the background of classical and medieval conceptualizations of the genre and Chaucer's own rewriting of sources.

Proposes that Chaucer probably started with a provisional notion of the overall order of CT, which he experimented with, adjusted, and had not completely sorted out before he died. The scribes copied the text in stints as the best way to adapt…

Compares the aesthetic experiences of confronting two illustrated editions of Chaucer as reproduced in facsimile, arguing that the Eric Gill edition of CT provides greater pleasure to a modern user than does William Morris' edition of Chaucer.

Item not seen; cited in WorldCat, which indicates that it includes passages from GP read in modern English by John Touhey, interspersed with sung music from Chaucer's time, recorded at Dorchester Abbey (1994).

Item not seen; reported in Encomia 32-33 (2010-2011): 208, with an abstract in French by Isabel de Barros Dias.

Item not seen; reported in Encomia 32-33 (2010-2011): 201, with an abstract in French by Isabel de Barros Dias that indicates attention to MerT.

Item not seen; reported in Encomia 32-33 (2010-2011): 206, with an abstract in French by Isabel de Barros Dias.

Short story in which Chaucer, on peace mission to France, solves the mystery of a murder thereby helping Bertrand du Guesclin, who had been falsely accused.

A murder mystery that incorporates details from Chaucer's life, featuring investigations of two murders, the involvement of Philippa and John of Gaunt, and Chaucer's interests in poetry and astrology.

Story of murderous intrigue at the court of Richard involving Robert de Vere, Anne of Bohemia, John of Gaunt, and others, featuring Chaucer as sleuth.