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Examines interior space in late medieval English architecture, manuscript illumination, and literature, focusing on homes, churches, and their imagery as they helped to shape feminine identity.

Classifies some thirty English medtrical romances according to several categories of friendship or love: tales of masculinefrinedship, of male/female mutual love, of marriage, and of the advances of forward fairies, heroines, or heroes. These…

Assesses Chaucer's knowledge of medieval sciences, especially astrology and medicine, arguing that CYPT and the Physician's materials indicate that Chaucer "had no expert knowledge of these sciences." Seeks nevertheless to gauge his attitude toward…

Eleven essays on Old and Middle English language and literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Comoun Peplis Language under Alternative Title.

Applies postcolonial theory to explore how Chaucer represents non-European women as Other in both gender and culture and how Chaucer reflects his own position as a poet and his career in historical context. Treats KnT, MLT, SqT, MkT, HF, and LGW.

Uses cognitive linguistics and theories of imagery as a transmitter of culture to read the use of the Middle English word "moten" in TC and KnT.

Nine essays by various authors with an introduction and epilogue that discuss literary and linguistic aspects of early standardization in English. For five essays that consider Chaucer specifically, search for Beginnings of Standardization under…

Surveys the influence of Provençal and Italian poets on the works of Ezra Pound, and examines Pound's critical commentary about Chaucer (in his "ABC of Reading"), comparing passages from the two poets and exploring the extent to which the "three…

Seventeen essays on Old and Middle language and literature. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Studies Conference Aachen 1983 under Alternative Title.

Utz's interdisciplinary study parallels the tenets of late-medieval nominalism and the main features of Chaucer's TC.

Ten essays selected from the papers presented at the Third Medieval English Studies Symposium in Poznan, Poland, in November 2004, focusing on Old and Middle English language and literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Naked…

Sixteen essays by various authors on linguistic topics in Old and Middle English, including a survey of the teaching of medieval English in Korea. The papers were presented at the first international conference of the Society of Historical English…

Galler studies the theme of death in Middle English literature and argues against the "pessimistic" dictum that the people and works of the late Middle Ages were primarily concerned with the transience of life, the dominant approach on this subject…

Reconsiders Harold Bloom's argument that Shakespeare, when creating Iago, was influenced by Chaucer's Pardoner. Goth explores the "dramatic" nature of the Pardoner's character and his relations with Vice figures from late medieval drama as well as…

Ten essays by various authors on textual concerns of late medieval English manuscripts and early printed books. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of Their Texts under Alternative Title.

Fourteen essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors and an index. For two essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for The Use and Development of Middle English under Alternative Title.

Proposes a theoretical framework, a "double prism structure," to examine ambiguity attributable to textual, interpersonal, and linguistic "domains" in TC.

Based on Nakao's earlier book, "The Structure of Chaucer's Ambiguity" (2004; in Japanese), this republished English version analyzes the "parole aspect of language" within an expanded study of ambiguity in TC. Proposes an original theoretical…

Twenty-three essays by various authors examine intellectual currents in medievalism, arranged in six categories: Text, Image, and Script; Text and Meter; Reception; Chaucer; Hagiography; and Lay Piety and Christian Diversity. For the nine essays that…

A collection of 100 essays on linguistic topics categorized as diachronic linguistics, linguistics and cultural studies, computer linguistics, varieties of English, and synchronic linguistics. For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for…

The dialogue in TC provides a good model for analysis of plots and motifs in narrative-fictional texts.

Medieval courtly literature must be seen as a reflection of the chivalric ideal. The chivalric ideal in England was less integrated than on the Continent because it was the ideal of an alien Norman aristocracy. Native English landowners were…

The lament for the dead is a literary form that critics have found difficult to appreciate, even in Chaucer. The book sketches the sociocultural background in medieval England in connection with older traditions, native, biblical, Greco-Roman,…

Edits Kynaston's 1639 Latin translation of Chaucer's TC.

Considers the body of the "Other" in various medieval romances. Chapter 1, "Ethnic Difference and Body Marvelous: the Case of Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale' and Sir Ferumbras," focuses on how SqT highlights Canace's ethnicity as a space for fantasy.…