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Examines "epistolary discourse" in ClP, PrP, NPP, SqT, and PardP in terms of style, using Isidore of Seville's recommendations about decorum.

Connects Chaucer's views in Astr with a scientific and philosophic tradition of the "Physis" that started in ancient Greece.

Commenting on medieval literary renditions of the story of Troy, Gutiérrez Arranz identifies places where Chaucer refers or alludes to this material, focusing on Chaucer's references to specific characters.

Surveys references to Hercules in Chaucer's corpus, commenting on sources, their adaptations in Chaucerian contexts, and the merging of traditions.

Classifies approximately 220 mythological characters that appear in Chaucer's works: supernatural creatures, human beings, and other classical references. Describes and analyzes the presence of Ascalafo, Canace, and Midas in Chaucer, focusing…

Surveys classical concepts of authority and Chaucer's uses of classical authorities, arguing that although Chaucerian allusions reflect medieval continuity with Stoicism and Epicurianism, the poet uses classical authorities, especially Ovid, in…

Identifies instances in which the letters in TC follow rhetorical principles found in Cicero, medieval rhetoricians, and Ovid's Heroides.

Discusses the uses and functions of classical myth in Chaucer's works from a double perspective: Chaucer's knowledge of the different stories and his creative adaptations of this material.

Surveys Ovid's influence on medieval literature and assesses Chaucer's use of Ovidian myths.

Surveys philosophical feasts or "lunches" (symposia) in classical literature and traces the motif in Old and Middle English texts, commenting on the "metaphorical reality of Chaucer's non-existing banquet"--the Host's promised meal.

Examines Chaucer's use of classical mythology from the perspective of how it is reinterpreted, sometimes following Neoplatonism (through St Augustine), and sometimes through other allegorical and moralizing reading.

Following a discussion of classical and medieval translation, imitation, commentary, and glossing, tabulates the sources of Bo--with newly proposed titles that fuse "interpretatio" and "exercitatio."

Although some falconers were female, the activity of training (often female) falcons is highly gendered. The necessity of the falcon to be tamed is paralleled in the need for Emelye in KnT to submit to heterosexual marriage, and for Canacee in SqT to…

Argues that poetic influence can be regarded as an erotic or romantic relationship between male couples, focusing on literature of Dante, Spenser, and Hart Crane and questioning notions of literary influence promulgated by T. S. Eliot and Harold…

Reads Form Age as a "document of hope"; its lamentation of present ills recalls the Golden Age of the past but does so to provide a blueprint for a perfect and enduring future.

Assesses the politics and cultural work of British wartime cinema, including assessment of Michael Powell's and Emeric Pressburger's "A Canterbury Tale" of 1944 as "one of the first 'heritage films'," one that capitalizes on the status of CT as the…

Examines "amor hereos" as a medical phrase, identifying its roots in classical tradition and tracing its development in the humoural tradition of the Mid-East and Western Europe.

Compares the rhetoric of the passages in "Filostrato" and TC in which Criseyde first sees Troilus outside her window. Chaucer combines his own "fictional vision" with rhetorical and narrative conventions drawn from Ovid and romance to create the…

The Wife of Bath (the female counterpart of the "senex amans") stands in opposition to the Husband-Merchant in MerT. They are "mercantile figures of similar status and class," the Wife involved in production, the Merchant in export. Each sees sex…

Focuses on "recusatio" ("'refusal' to obey") as a rhetorical device used in classical tradition to justify the "poetic legitimacy of amatory subjects" and broadened in medieval tradition to enable "new types of courtly literature emphasizing private…

Haas examines Th as the "unstable center" of Fragment 7, especially in its parodies of the "problems of mercantile culture" initiated in ShT: money and sexuality.

Dorigen and Arveragus of FranT "demonstrate . . . deficiency in the cognitive skills inculcated by the medieval trivium," making them "vulnerable to the Orleans clerk's corruptions of the quadrivium." Weak critical thinking undermines their ability…

Unlike other authors of chivalric romance of his time, Chaucer manipulates medieval theories of rhetoric to reveal how the relations of authority and discourse define both the pilgrim narrators and the characters in their tales. Treats WBPT, KnT,…

Early dissertations on Chaucer by women illustrate the limitations faced by early female academics. Critical neglect of Maria Koellreutter's 1908 dissertation on Chaucer suggests little recent social progress.

Published in 1767-69, Schiebeler's thirty-six-page adaptation of John Campbell's article in Biographia Britannia is the earliest known German essay on Chaucer, a product of Enlightenment thought.