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Lawton, David.   Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway, eds. Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013), pp. 284-306.
Studies the importance of "voice" within medieval studies; develops an "interrelation between voice and public"; and positions Chaucer as "a public poet" who is concerned with voice throughout his works. Considers voice in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and…

Zieman, Katherine.   Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway, eds. Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013), pp. 75-94.
Addresses "excesses of Chaucerian literary language" to reveal Chaucer's narrative voice within a literary and historical construct. Discusses the "complex range of intention and desire" in MLT. Also refers to HF.

Bose, Mishtooni.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Caambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 191-204.
Surveys the critical history of NPT, including the scant comments focused on the tale between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Argues that the "tale's interest in direct experience acts as means of liberations from the plethora of discourses…

Turner, Marion.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 1–20.
Emphasizes Chaucer's development of form in CT. Demonstrates that Chaucer's experiments with form in CT and other works, including TC, are traced to origins in Boccaccio's works, and argues for a connection between these formal experiments and…

Scala, Elizabeth.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 105-20.
Explains how the Wife of Bath dominates not only her own material in WBPT, but also CT as a whole. Discusses generic expectations for the Wife and her handling of biblical and classical material, to demonstrate that she represents "an irreducibly…

Coley, David K.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 121-35.
Reappraises FrT and SumT and acknowledges the professional and personal animosity at the root of the tellers' relationship to each other. Argues for a wider sense of that relationship between the tales and their tellers, contending that this…

Crocker, Holly A.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 136-50.
Argues that ClT offers a view of what it means to be human, and that Chaucer's view differs significantly from Petrarch's presentation, in his translation of Boccaccio's Griselda story in the "Decameron," of Walter's cruelty and Griselda's patience…

Travis, Peter W.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 151-65.
Discusses FranT and its inclusion of the "sursanure", the superficially healed wound that nevertheless continues to fester. Suggests that this "sursanure" is "an exemplary Jamesonian symptom, the complex layerings of which invite readers to prise…

Lavezzo, Kathy.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 166-77.
Catalogues the contours of criticism of the Pardoner in PardT, including critical praise of the tale's alleged "superiority as a tale." Argues that the pilgrims' revulsion toward the Pardoner is rooted in his homosexual identity, which is connected…

Kruger, Steven F.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 167-90.
Discusses the Prioress's antisemitism in PrT within the context of late medieval religious feeling, in order to "understand it from within so as more effectively to analyze it." Traces "the condensation of a complex set of antisemitic ideas, wrapped…

Grady, Frank.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 205-17.
Discusses the "narrowness" of modern views of Chaucer and CT, and argues that this posture hides the range of Chaucer's verse, which includes not only beast fables and fabliaux, but also saints' lives and penitential discourse.

Horobin, Simon.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 21-44
Surveys extant manuscripts of CT, including collections that include standalone tales. Discusses the difference in manuscript presentation and frequency of the tales, arguing that earlier manuscript production and circulation often privileged those…

Ingham, Patricia Clare, and Anthony Bale.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 218-31.
Discusses the many frustrated or incomplete endings in the tales of CT, and argues that "Chaucer's formal work with endings demonstrates all the many ways that things might remain unresolved." Traces endings from several different tales, including…

Matthews, David.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 233-37.
Discusses how professors can help students approach difficult texts such as CT, whether by helping students choose good translations or by sharing methods with non-medievalists, in particular modernists, who also confront hard-to-read.
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Evans, Ruth.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 238-43.
Discusses public-facing writing about Chaucer and his texts and argues that "this writing's engagement with contemporary politics speaks to our and our students' experiences, and is already changing the direction of both classroom practice and…

Raybin, David.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 244-49.
Reviews personal experiences of helping secondary teachers learn how to approach and teach Chaucer. Offers both a summary of the necessity of this kind of outreach and the results of these types of interactions.

Trigg, Stephanie.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 250-54.
Traces the problem of compensation and the rationale for dedicating funds to the study of Chaucer. Offers a case study of how a previous attempt at funding worked in 2010 in Australia when the Centre for the History of Emotions was awarded funding by…

Justice, Steven.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 45-58.
Surveys approaches to reception and interpretation of GP. Reappraises GP's incompleteness as a symbol for the incompleteness of memory, establishing the beginning of CT as a kind of machinery that "set[s] the roadside drama in motion once again."

Miller, Mark.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 59-72.
Accounts for the "strangeness" of KnT, cataloguing various theoretical and interpretative approaches, beginning with Charles Muscatine's scholarly contributions and ending with Elizabeth Scala's "Desire in the Canterbury Tales." Links each of these…

Nolan, Maura.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 73-88.
Offers a "step by step" reading of MilT "as it unfolds its argument.: Focuses on the crafting of the fabliau that refers to common elements of the genre and to Chaucer's specific context. Argues that the "artful carelessness of the Miller" is an…

Sanok, Catherine.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 89-104.
Traces several interpretative concerns raised by MLT and demonstrates how the tale "has much to teach us about the layered, multipart narrative of project" of CT. Discusses "gender and religious difference," the secular and the sacred, the…

Zauner, Erich, trans.   Frankfurt am Main : Haag & Herchen, 1992.
German verse translation of CT in iambic tetrameter.

Obst, Wolfgang, and Florian Schleburg, trans.   Frankfurt am Main : Insel, 2000.
German verse translation of TC.

Kastovsky, Dieter, and Arthur Mettinger, eds.   Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 2001.
Seventeen essays on various issues in Old and Middle English linguistic study: language contact, borrowing, code-switching, spelling, versification, etc. For four essays pertain to Chaucer, search for Language Contact in the History of English under…

Boker, Uwe, et al., eds.   Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 2004.
Twenty-one essays by various authors and a bibliography of Goller's publications. The essays focus on medieval romances and their reception in later traditions, German and English. For four essays pertain to Chaucer, search for Of Remembraunce the…
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